Title Collection (#68)

Title Page of Histoire de la maison militaire du Roi de 1814 a 1830, Volume I by Eugene Titeux, Paris, 1890

Title page of Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale by Eugene Fieffe, Paris, 1858

Title page of John Wilkins A Discourse Concerning a New World & Another Planet London 1683 (Ist edition 1640) Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler represented in bottom corners

Title page of Elias Ashmoles Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum London 1652. Isaac Newton owned a copy of this book

Title page of pamphlet by John Hill on the comet of December 1680 (Kirch). At this date comets were still considered by many people to be phenomena of ill omen and were viewed with superstitious awe

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch pioneer microscopist. Title page of Microscopium by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, third edition, (Leyden, 1708)

Title page of Galileo Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo, (Florence, 1632). Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) published his Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems in Italian rather than Latin

Title page of l Humanite, Paris, 7 March 1953 reporting on the death of Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Russian Communist dictator

Michel Ney (1769-1815) French soldier: marshal of France: after success at Borodino and Smolensk received title Prince of the Moskwa: led French centre at Waterloo

Title page of La Tres Sainte Trinosophie. 18th century cabbalistic-alchemical manuscript attributed to Comte de Sainte-Germain, showing symbols summarising Hermetism

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English scientist and mathematician. Title page of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica London 1687

Astrologers preparing a horoscope. From title page of section on casting horoscopes from Robert Fludd Utriusque cosmi... historia, Oppenheim, 1617-19. Engraving

Title page of first volume of third edition (1806) of Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population: first edition 1798. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) English cleric and economist

Porte plume Ideal Waterman l arme de la paix. A woman holding a giant fountain pen. (poster), lithograph, Paris Signed: Oge. 1896

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) French painter and sculptor Title Pool in a Harem

Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) English scientist. Title page of a 1745 edition of his work Micrographia, detailing his observations through various lenses

Benito Mussolini, (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945)Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce by 1925

Matthew Tindal ((1657-1733) English Christian Deist. Title page of his Four Discourses.... 1709, including Of the Liberty of the Press

Title page of The Tryal of Dr Henry Sacheverell, London 1710. Sacheverell (c1674-1724) Church of England High Church cleric whose sermons accusing Whig administration of neglecting interests of

Title page of Clavierstucke verschiedener Art, 1765, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) German musician and composer, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Klaviersteucke Keyboard Music

Page from a Dutch newspaper Hollandsche Mercurius of 1653, showing Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) as Lord Protector, a title he assumed on 16 December 1653

Title page of Acts of Parliament for 1585. Reign of Elizabeth I of England and Ireland

Title page of Historia de Catalanya, Barcelona 1616, by Bernardo Desclot, Catalan chronicler

Title page of Vocabulary in Castilian and Mexican Language by Alonso de Molina, Mexico, 1572, the first dictionary printed in the New World

Title page of Libro de Experiencias de Medicina, Toledo, 1544, by Luis Lobera de Avila. Born in Avila in the late 15th century

Title page of Le Tresor des Pouvres, Lyons, 1527 by Arnaldus of Villanova. Arnaldus (1235-1311), Catalan astrologer, alchemist, physician, and translator of medical texts from the Arabic

Title page of Compilacion de las Instructiones del Officio de la Sancta Inquisition, Granada, 1537, by Tomas de Torquemada. Torquemada (1420-1498) first Inquisitor General of Spain

Nicocolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557) Italian mathematician and engineer. Title page from the first part of his General trattato di numeri et misure (Venice, 1556)

Title page of The Magazine of Science (London, 4 May 1839) showing facsimiles of pictures taken by William Henry Fox Talbots (1800-1877)

Henriette Sontag (1806-1854) celebrated German soprano, born at Koblenz. Engraving of Madame Sontag published in The Illustrated London News (London)

Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) English Liberal satesman. During most of his political career, from 1858 until 1891 when he inherited the dukedom

William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), Scottish aristocrat who succeeded to the title in 1863. Hamilton playing the bagpipes

Emile Zola (1840-1902) French journalist and novelist of the Naturalistic school, addressing the conference of the Institute of Journalists in London, 1893

Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) English actress. Created the title role in the problem play The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pineros (1893) and Eliza in Pygmalion (1914)

Christian, the pilgrim of the title, in combat with Apollyon, the Destroyer, the Angel of the Bottomless Pit. Illustration by Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890)

Christian Weeps and Prays. Christian, the pilgrim of the title, reading his bible. Beside him are his pilgrims pack, his staff, and pilgrims flask

Title page of Mechanics Magazine (London, 1824). The figure in the bottom illustration
Title page of Mechanics Magazine (London, 1824).The figure in the bottom illustration is Archimedes (c287-212 BC) Greek mathematician and inventor who is reputed to have said Give me a lever

Calamnity, Calamity Peak. Near Custer City On B. & M. R y. Title Of Peak From The Most Noted Character In Black Hills, John C. H. Grabill Was An American Photographer

Louis D or, [1705], 1 Print : Etching. Print Shows Louis Xiv Sitting At A Table, Resting On His Left Elbow. He Appears To Be Asleep, But May Be Reading A Letter

A Word Of Comfort, Dent, William, Active 1783-1793, En Sanguine Engraving 1790, A British Satire On The Efforts Of Charles James Fox To Get The Test And Corporation Acts Repealed

Following The Fashion, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, Artist, Engraving 1794, Two Women, One Tall And Pretty And Slim, The Other Short And Fat, Wear Burlesqued Versions Of The New Fashions

From Gardner Photographic Art Gallery, Seventh Street, Washington. Title, Across The Continent On The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, US, USA, America

I ll Tell You What! That Such Things Are We Must Allow, But Such Things Never Were Till Now, Wigstead, Henry, Delineator, England, E. Jackson, Ca

Lord Shaftesbury
LORD SHAFTESBURY

William Shakespeares First Folio 1623

The title page of the first german edition of das kapital by karl marx (hamburg, 1867)

Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Italian poetry frontispiece. 18th-century frontispiece artwork for a book of Italian poetry. The scene shows a goddess-like muse figure advising a seated scholar or poet in front of a monkey using a

Industry labour poster, World War II C018 / 0599
Industry labour poster, World War II. This 1942 poster is titled Free Labor Will Win, and refers to the US industries that helped the Allies achieve victory in World War II

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