Topsell’s History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)
Totalling more than 1000 pages this brilliantly illustrated treatise on zoology, explores ancient and fantastic legends about existing animals, as well as those at …more
Totalling more than 1000 pages this brilliantly illustrated treatise on zoology, explores ancient and fantastic legends about existing animals, as well as those at …more
The centre of love: discovered through various emblems, gallant and facetious — a delightfully illustrated emblem book exploring all corners of seventeenth-centur…more
Our selection of highlights from an afternoon’s browsing of the NYPL’s massive new public domain release — a selection which we hope shows the breadth and depth o…more
A chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour: from simple wheels to multi-layered pyramids, from s…more
Illustrations from a seventeenth-century Italian book of proverbs made by the engraver and painter Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718)….more
Compendium relating to the 1665 Great Plague of London, consisting of official regulations put in place as well as accounts of the symptoms and cures related to the…more
On how the Earth might seem to those living in the moon, observing how our landscape not only changes and varies because of the seasons but also because of the alte…more
A selection of plates from Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l’Enfance (1657) – – a series of fifty engravings depicting children playing various games, many familiar and bu…more
A compendium of various artworks in which dreams are depicted, including works by Blake, Grandville, Hokusai, Redon and Dürer….more
This excellently sub-titled love emblem book is a reworking of emblems originally found in the earlier Thronus Cupidinis. Each of the forty-four cupid-centred emble…more
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium – in chronological order – of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars….more
A stunning series of letterforms designed in the mid-17th century, writhing forms which hover somewhere between the monstrous and floral…more
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