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
An account of the first ever blood transfusion involving a human in England. Six months after he successfully completed a blood transfusion between two dogs, the ex…more
A Valentine’s gift to top all Valentine’s gifts – the Petit Livre d’Amour (Little Book of Love) was an ornate bespoke book given by the 16th-century Lyon-born poe…more
The emblem book of English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist George Wither (1588 – 1667). Wither was employed by a London publisher called Henry Taunton to write Engl…more
Grotesques of Dutch artist Arent van Bolten, produced sometime in the early 17th century….more
A Royal Society paper describing a bizarre case of a man who would periodically fall into a “profound sleep” from which no-one could wake him for a months….more
