Academic and Historical Texts

Various historical texts and dissertations ranging from medical to philosophical works, reflecting educational discourse in early modern Europe.

Alciphron or, The Minute Philosopher, Title page, 1732., 1732., London. Publisher, Printed for J. Tonson. Free thought, Apologetics, Optics

Gammelbo Brokology.ur Carl Sahlin's mountain historical collection.

Title page of Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de somno

Booklet with a printed description of the flight of Hugo de Groot in bricklaying clothing, 1621; Image of Hugo de Groot, in the robe of a 'Metzelaar (...) as well as a special image and description of the wamboo, to that occasion. Booklet of eight pages with a printed description of the flight from Hugo de Groot in bricklaying clothing from Slot Loevestein to Gorinchem, Waalwijk and Antwerp, March 22, 1621. Inside signed by the publisher P.H. Staircase. The accompanying plates belong to this booklet.

. Sparkers on the Duke of Brunswijk, in the form of a letter that would be written in Amersfoort. Following his departure from the Netherlands in 1784.

Alciphron or, The Minute Philosopher, Title page, 1732., 1732., London. Publisher, Printed for J. Tonson. Free thought, Apologetics, Optics

Caption at the memorial for Johan Diederich Deiman, Horace, 1797 paper letterpress printing

A course of lectures on midwifery / Christopher Kelly

Title page for the bruyley van den Heere Johannes van Coevenhoven and Jongkvrouwe Maria Hoos, Amsterdam, 1723. A young couple give each other the hand above a fire pit. Hercules stands behind the groom, behind the bride a woman with palm branch and book. On a banderole a short verse about love.

Auction notice Tools Walvaarders, Jacobus Stanhoffius, 1767 document One -sided printing sheet of paper, above and woodcut representing a whale catch, including text in large letters (see inscription), bottom half in three columns the material to be auctioned. Inscription; Above: 'An extraordinary well-offspring whale-catchers, for sale to Amsterdam, on Monday being the 12. October, 1767. Exactly in the evening at 6 hours. Tamme Beth Ysbrandsz Anthony van der Glint, Anthony Jacob Danckerts, and Gerret Jarman, real estate agents ...... '. Place Verv.: AMS. In the Nes at Naarder Steeg Amsterdam paper letterpress printing poster. auction sale, public sale. whale fishery, whaling

Nice image of the lust garden, and 't Hof building, from his kooninglyke majesty from Great Britain, etc. etc. Law on' t Loo in Gelderland (...) / Representation au Naturel de Loo and Gueldre . Maison de Plaisance de Sa Majesté Britannique (...). Title page for a series of prints with representations of Palace Het Loo. Title page is part of an album.

Text at the portrait of Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen. .

The funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik (Tekstblad 16), 1647, 1651 text sheet Tekstblad No. 16 At the press series of the funeral procession of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik in The Hague on 10 May 1647. Part of a series of 30 plates and 20 texts, intended to be stuck to each other. The Hatepublishher: The Hatepublisher: Ambsterdamprter: Amsterdam paper letterpress printing The Hague

A nurse () presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.

A second letter to Dr. Smelle sic, and an answer to his pupil, confirming the impropriety of his wooden forceps ; as also of his method of teaching and practising midwifery / William Douglas

Madame de Maintenon and Philip V Kneeling for Louis XIV, 1706, 1706 print Madame de Maintenon and Philip V hand over a request to Louis XIV. At the top left of the solar eclipse on 12 May 1706 during the loss of Barcelona. Verses in Dutch and French in the record. In the plate 2 columns in Dutch and French. Page no. 8 (numbered top right) in the series of 25 magazines entitled: By joint to the Koninglyke Almanach, called the Golde Year of the allies, 1706. Part of the print work published under the collection title: 't Lust-Hof of Momus, with The bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the Spanish Succession War. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching political caricatures and satires. solar eclipse

Fourth letter about the deception of the wind trade, 1720, 1720 Pamphlet with a fourth printed letter from ten pages in which the deception of the wind trade is demonstrated, 1720. Pamphlet in the back of the bound first edition (304 B 10) of the large scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or camping trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing Pamphlet with a fourth printed letter from ten pages in which the deception of the wind trade is demonstrated, 1720. Pamphlet in the back of the bound first edition (304 B 10) of the large scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or camping trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing

The surgion's directorie, for young ...

Leaf over the murder of the De Witt brothers, 1672; Image and story of 't Schriklik die from Mr. Johan de Wit, Guess-guardian of Holland and West-Vrieslandt, and his brother Mr. Cornelis de Wit, Oudt-Civilmaster of Stadt Dordrecht, and Ruward van Putten. Leaf over the murder of the Johan and Cornelis de Witt brothers on August 20, 1672. Upper portraits of Johan and Cornelis de Witt on either side of a representation of the mutilated bodies hanging on the gallows. Below a description of the events about two columns.

Benefit of the auncient bathes of Buckstones.

Several laws and orders made at the General Court, the 8th of October i672 sic : as also several laws and orders made at the General Courts, holden at Boston the 7th of May and 15th of October, 1673 : and printed by their order. Edward Rawson Secr. , Law, Massachusetts, Early works to 1800

Newspaper with the news about the wedding of Princess Louise of Oranje-Nassau with Karel van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel, 1790; Gravenhaag's extraordinary Courant Ao. 1790 No. 123; DAMRY OF THE PLIGHTS (...) by the Hooge Huwelyk van Z.D.H. Mr. Carel George August, Erf-Prins van Brunswyk (...) with her door. Hoogh., Mrs. Frederika Louisa Wilhelmina, Erf-Princess of Orange and Nassau (...). Episode No 123 of the Hague Gravenhaag's extraordinary Courant of October 13, 1790. Description of the ceremonies that will take place during the marriage of Princess Louise of Oranje-Nassau and Karel van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel on October 14, 1790 in The Hague. Text within a decorative framework of filets, at the top of a vignette with the city arm of The Hague.

Declaration at the memorial plate on the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary of Pieter van Loon and Agneta Graswinckel, 1722, 1722 text sheet Declaration at the memorial plate on the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary of Pieter van Loon and Agneta Graswinckel, December 14, 1722. Text in two columns in the form of a consultation between the viewer and the improver. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing golden anniversary

Song at the cartoon of Princess Wilhelmina fired as a cleaning lady, 1795; Willemnytje the cleaning lady. Text sheet with the five verses of a song belonging to the cartoon in which Princess Wilhelmina van Prussen as a cleaning lady is fired and thrown away by a patriot, 1795.

An answer to a late pamphlet intituled A letter to Dr. Smellie; shewing the impropriety of his new invented wooden forceps / William Smellie

Titelpagina voor: S. van Emdre, Bybels Huis Boek, 1786.Six medallions with Christian performances, with four images with Christian annotations in the four corners. Left-minded mowing and harvesting figures, at the bottom right of a ram pulling his own tail on a cart behind him. Above two images of temple complexes.

An account of the rise, progress and present state

Page 1, Dedicated to William Hunter, M.D.

Elinour Rummin, the famous Tudor ale-wife of England. Title page to John Skelton's poem, 1624. Copperplate engraving from William Richardson's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 17921812. James Granger (17231776) was an English clergyman, biographer, and print collector.

Title page for: Krauss, J.C. 'Images of the most beautiful, most exotic trees and shrubs', 1802, Reinier Vinkeles (I), 1802 print Title page with a vignette with working two gardeners and a dog. Amsterdam paper etching garden

Åkers stuffbruk's chronology.ur Carl Sahlin's mountain historical collection.

Text sheet at the print about the use of a new type of wooden fire sprayer, 1667, 1667 text sheet Text sheet at the print about the use of a new type of wooden fire sprayer is illustrated, 1667. Leaf with a description of the device, the prices and the sales addresses in Dutch and French. At the bottom of a praise on the fire sprayer in 4 columns. Belongs to the incentives at the fire spray book by Jan van der Heyden. Northern Netherlands paper letterpress printing

Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, a la chronologie and a la geographie ancienne and moderne: representee dans de nouvelles cartes, ou l'on remarque l'etablissement des etats and empires du monde, leur duree, leur chute, and leurs differens gouvernemens: la chronologie des consuls romains, des Papes, de empereurs, des rois and des princes, andc. qui ont ete depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu'a present: et la genealogie des maisons souveraines de l'Europe, Chatelain, Henri Abraham, 1720-1739

A vindication of man-midwifery, being the answer of Dr. Pocus, Dr. Maulus, and Dr. Barebones and others, their brethren, who, like legion, are many, to the Petition of the unborn babes, etc. In a letter to the President and Censors, and the elect of the College of Physicians, London

The grieving promotionists, 1720; The grieving promotionists, in the mourning, about the relies of her money and goods; The large scene of foolishness (extra pieces). The grieving promotions. Leaf with a sparkler on the promoters who have lost their money and goods when speculating in the wind trade. At the top four four figures supposedly in mourning clothing. Belongs to the group of prprans added to the scene of scene of foolishness with cartrents at the 1820 wind trade.

Text sheet with mourning edges with a sparkler on the edition and alleged end of the Orangistic magazine on December 31, 1781 for a short time entitled the 'Vegetable Nederlandsche Patriot'. The fresh serves as an explanation for the print. Fresh in two columns, at the bottom of a burial in two square verses.

Text sheet with a verse on the flight of the Rijngraaf van Salm from Utrecht, when approaching the Prussian troops, October 1787.

Title page to volume 1 with calligraphic title and vignette or armour and weapons. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.

Antwerp, Nutius, Martinus (III), Rubens, Peter Paul, Southern Netherlands, Galle, Cornelis (I), Title page for C. van der Steen, Commentaria duodecim prophetas minores. Antwerp, 1625, verso - stamped, The twelve minor prophets are gathered around a table with the title of the book. They write text on stones tables. In heaven God with Christ on the cross and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Around it a choir of cherubim., print, title page, prints, height 325 mm, width 196 mm, 1576 - 1650-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1625 - 1625, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1577-06-28 - 1640-05-30, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1594 - 1638, publisher

An act titled 'An act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa,' issued in 1799. The document was published in London by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. It pertains to topics such as slavery, the slave trade, African Americans, Blacks, and enslaved people in Great Britain and Africa. The extent of the document is 8 pages, measuring 19x31 cm, and is disbound

Declaration of a medal beaten in the funeral of Willem IV, 1752; Explanation of a torture medal, to Hoogloflyker Memorial and sad lykstate (...) Willem-Carel-Henrik-Friso (...) kept within Delft, the 4. Febr. 1752 .. Text sheet with the description of the performances on the two sides of a medal or torture medal beaten on the occasion of the funeral of Stadholder Willem IV on 4 February 1752 in Delft. Among the silver medal of Nicolaas van Swinderen, probably distributed to the members of the Delft Schutterij.

J. Vaucanson "Account of mechanism...", 1742; title page

A course of lectures on midwifery / Christopher Kelly

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755. Artist: Unknown

Teaching of the visitators to the parishes in the Kurfürstenthum Saxony. Title page

Fresh in the print with the opened grave of Pallas, ca. 1707-1708; Here the wysliness puts her punishment, the proud Pallas in the grave; The steadfast monarchye of death / 't Lusthof from MoMus. Text sheet with a freshly belonging to the print with the allegory in which bystanders view the framework in the opened grave of God Pallas (Minerva) on both pages, ca. 1707-1708. Part of: The steadfast monarchye of death, a series of 8 old plates with verses adapted for use as cartoon prints on the French in the context of the Spanish Succession War. Part of the printing work under the collective title 't Lust Court of Momus with the bundled series of cartooning during the 1901-1713 of the Spanish Succession War.

Amsterdam, Description of the large Onyx which will be sold by the Brokers Anthony Lesturgeon, Abraham Rutgers and Alex: Anth: Lesturgeon. To Amsterdam, in the Mint, on Wednesday 11 September, 1765., Text sheet with the print of the onyx with a Roman triumphal chariot drawn by two centaurs, Text sheet with a description of the onyx with the image of a Roman triumphal chariot drawn by two centaurs. The onyx was to be sold at the Mint in Amsterdam on 11 September 1765. Folded sheet printed on all four sides., text sheet, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 243 mm, width 191 mm, printer, drukker, 1765 - 1765, paper, papier, letterpress printing, boekdruk

The last trumpet or the resurrection of the dead (dl. 5 and 6), 1720, 1720 Leaf with two prints with text. In the Last Judgment, the dead from their graves, an angel with Bazuin in the clouds. Fijde and sixth print in a series of eight prints entitled: the last trumpet or the rise of the dead, about the consequences of the action trade placed in a Christian context. On the leaf under each plate a printed text with a verse in which the performance is explained. Belongs to the group of imprints in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of the scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or action trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper etching / letterpress printing Leaf with two prints with text. In the Last Judgment, the dead from their graves, an angel with Bazuin in the clouds. Fijde and sixth print in a series of eight prints entitled: the last trumpet or the rise of the dead, about the consequences of the action trade placed in a Christian context. On the leaf under each plat

A letter to Dr. Smelle sic shewing the impropriety of his new-invented wooden forceps; as also the absurdity of his method of teaching and practising midwifry / By William Douglas ...

Amsterdam, Allard, Carel, Hollands Lustpark concluding his British majesty's court building at Honslaardyk, Title page for Hollands Lustpark by Carel Allard, verso bottom center - stamped, Title of the work in Dutch and French, print, title page, prints, height 173 mm, width 210 mm, Dutch, 1648-01-19 - 1709-02-01, print maker, printmaker, 1673 - 1709, third quarter 17th century, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

The surgion's directorie, for young ...

Shakespeare a reprint of his collected works as put forth in 1623, William Shakespeare, 1862 book London paper. cardboard. linen (material). photographic support printing / albumen print

A New Book of Ornaments. Author: Thomas Johnson (British, 1714-1778). Published in: London. Date: April 23, 1758. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Frontis and title page from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; shows author dreaming and pilgrims progressing from a copy published: 1684.

Alphabet: G-M. text. 1727. Rare Book Division. Juvenile literature , 1727

. Orangist cartoon on any Rotterdam shooters, members of the company the Union, who submitted a fierce address at the middle of December 1786 at the martial chamber to force the breath to choose a larger number of members. Five shooters in a room for a cupboard whose door can open through which the devil standing behind it becomes visible. On the leaf under the plate a statement of the show. This also includes the names of five men: J.PH. Hildebrand, J.J. Raaff, F. Brussels residents, A. Vander Hart and J. Buysen.

Title page of De Cometis by John Gadbury. John Gadbury (1627-1704) an English astrologer, and prolific writer of almanacs and other subjects. Dated 17th Century

Genises II: ver. 8, 16, 17, page 13. American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress). text. Illustrations. 1788. Rare Book Division. Hieroglyphic Bibles

Raging actionists in the blind world of Quincampoix, 1720; The rasing promotions in the blind wareld of Quinquampoix; The large scene of foolishness (extra pieces). Raging promotiatists in the blind world of Quincampoix. Leaf with a sparkler on the promoters. At the top of a representation with six men with large noses. With a fresh in two columns. Belongs to the group of prprans added to the scene of scene of foolishness with cartrents at the 1820 wind trade.

The Holy Bible, containing Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, c. 1862 book London paper. photographic support. leather. metal albumen print / snail marbled paper / printing

Title page of Bentley's 'A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris...'

On the use of condoms...against syphilis

A course of lectures on midwifery / Christopher Kelly

Invitation to the funeral of Martina van der Hulst, Anonymous, in or after 1680 paper. ink letterpress printing / writing (processes) / pen Sint-Bavokerk

'Title Page of The Vicar of Wakefield', 1766. Artist: Unknown.

Zotvers on Pieter Gosse, 1781, Anonymous, 1781 text sheet Text sheet with a spotlight on the publisher Pieter Gosse, following the edition, and alleged end of the Orangist magazine on December 31, 1781, entitled the 'Old -Futing Nederlandsche Patriot'. Northern Netherlands paper letterpress printing

. Text sheet with a sparkler on the publisher Pieter Gosse, following the edition and alleged end of the Orangistic magazine on December 31, 1781 for a short time entitled the 'Vegetable Nederlandsche Patriot'.

Thomas Burnet. Letterpress titlepage.

Title page: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607-1677 London). Author: Richard Allestree (British, Uppington, Shropshire 1621/2-1681 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.3 × 10.6 cm). Date: 1667.Vignette on the title-page of Richard Allestree, 'The Causes of Decay of Christian Piety', London, 1667. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Waesberge, Hendrik van, Extract holding ordinance on the chimney sweeping, old printing book information form paper, printed Extract from the general decrees and ordinances of the city of Rotterdam laying down ordinances on the chimney sweep Until Rotterdam printed by Hendrik van Waesberge ordinaris printer of the pros: city 1776 Rotterdam chimney sweeps

Title page, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax" 1822 Thomas Rowlandson. Title page, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1822. Letterpress. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Bound Print (England)

The birth-day ode* - as it was preformed before his M , on the 4th of June, by the Royal Band. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 747. Sandwich, John Montagu,Earl of,1718-1792. , North, Frederick,Lord,1732-1792. , Sackville, George Germain,Viscount,1716-1785. , Musicians,England,1770-1780. , Politics & government,England,1770-1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

Weapon trophies, Anonymous, 1629 print Frame of weapon trophies and at the bottom a dog, a lamb and a bowl with a heart with an arrow. paper engraving 'tropaion', i.e. decorative ornament ~ weapons. ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)

Booklet about the Jan Rodenpoortstoren in Amsterdam, 1829; Brief description of the Jan Rooden-Poorten, from the Self Category Under Self-demolition, in October 1829. Booklet about the history of the Jan Rodenpoortstoren in Amsterdam, following the intended demolition, October 1829. Inspressed is' the most painful oils, der Jan Jan Rooden-Poorten. At his demolition, in October 1829. " Two double-folded leaves printed with text on all eight numbered pages.

Genealogy of Claudius Civilis; Sexyles of Claudius Civilis. Printed genealogy from Claudius Civilis.

Anthony Benezet, Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes... 1759.

Explanation of the print of the flowering American Aloe, 1757, Izaak Enschedé, 1757 text sheet Text magazine with an explanation of the plate of the American Aloe or Agave that bloomed in the summer of 1757 with the Leiden flower nurser Jacobus Schuurmans Stekhoven. Haarlem paper letterpress printing

Old bible in French, 1669. Old and new testaments.

Titlepage, 1824, Smith, Peter C., 1824, New York, Publisher, W. & P.C. Smith

Bound Print, Title Page; Written by Thomas Gray (British, 1716 - 1771); Richard Bentley (British, 1708 - 1782); Published by James Dodlsey (British, 1724 - 1797); Print Maker: Johann Sebastian Müller (German, ca. 1715 - 1792); England; letterpress and etching on laid paper

A man with a whip standing over another man who is on his knees. The image is related to the theme of slavery in the United States. It was published in 1837 by R.G. Williams for the American Anti-Slavery Society and is part of juvenile literature on the subject

Title page of 'Opticks ....' by Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. Fourth edition ' corrected by the author's own hand in 1730

Trade card of Mary & Ann Hogarth, the old Frock Shop ca. 1730 William Hogarth Trade card for Mary & Ann Hogarth, the old Frock Shop. Mary and Ann were the sisters of William Hogarth, the well-known painter. Hogarth designed a whole array of trade cards and other ephemeral prints, such as receipts for his subscribers. This trade card is characterized by a view of a shop interior above, and inscribed text mostly in italics, below.. Trade card of Mary & Ann Hogarth, the old Frock Shop. William Hogarth (British, London 1697-1764 London). ca. 1730. Etching

Title page 'Two Treatises of Government: ' John Locke, 2nd edition 1694, First, attack on Divine Right of Kings; Second, dealing with Rights of Man. Locke, English philosopher, Father of Liberalism and influential Enlightenment thinker.

Five-and-twenty-year anniversary of the Government of Willem I, by the editors of the Dagblad Den Avondbode (...) 1838. Special edition of the Dagblad 'Den Avondbode' Following the twenty-five-year government anniversary of King Willem I, November 21, 1838. Double-folded top with the title within an ornamental frame with crown and scepter. Inside one side printed with text and a portrait of the king.

The Kitchen Companion and House-keeper's Own Book ... Cover. Prints, Book covers. 1844. General Research Division. Cookery, Kitchen utensils, Kitchens , United States , 1840-1849

Franconi's Hippodrome. .programme. .. Eno, Amos F., 1836-1915. Prints. 1854. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Franconis Travelling Hippodrome

Read all about it Description: Front page of London's Intelligencer weekly newspaper during the height of the English Civil War. Date: October 1643 news, london, moustache, civilwar, 1643, intelligencer, statepapers, londonsintelligencer

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

Title page of a calculation book, Jacques Bureau, 1705 print Title page of the first part of Willem Bartjens 'Cyfferinge'. The print contains an edge with a flower motif and curled animals. In the middle of the print the title and an image of the sea with three ships in the foreground. There are all kinds of figures on the ships. paper engraving ships (in general). numerals. title-page

. Leaf with a verse on the beheading of Johannes Bartholomeus Ferdinandus van Gogh in Amsterdam on April 4, 1778. Van Gogh was sentenced to death for the murder of his loved one, the prostitute Anna Smitshuizen. Text in four columns forms an acrostichon of the names of the convicted person and his loved one.

Lieutaud, Proposals for publishing by subscription, A synopsis of the general practice of physick ...

Editor's Table. Illustrations. 1852. General Research Division. Mental institutions

Condolence of state, majestyt from Great Brittiene, & c. Because of the falling of her majesty, syne incomparable gemalinne; The death and corporation of Maria II Stuart, Queen of England. Sheet with text in 4 columns written by Romeyn de Hooghe and dedicated to Willem Fabricius, mayor of Haarlem. The text provides a description and explanation of the representation of the queen on her deathbed (FM 2905/6). The leaf was used in Samuel Gruterus, Funeralia Mariae II Britanniarum, Haarlem 1695.

Historical print from the 19th Century, title of Poor Richard's Almanack from 1758 by Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790, a North American printer, publisher, writer, scientist, inventor and statesman

Fresh on the execution of J.B.F. Van Gogh, 1778, Unknown, 1778 print Leaf with a verse on the beheading of Johannes Bartholomeus Ferdinandus van Gogh in Amsterdam on April 4, 1778. Van Gogh was sentenced to death for the murder of his beloved, the Prostitué Anna Smitshuizen. Text in four columns forms an acrostichon of the names of the convicted person and his loved one. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing Amsterdam

Noordelijke Nederlanden, Sluyter, A., Grafschrift op de hoog welgeboore heere Wolter Jan Baron Bentinck, Grafschrift bij het doden van Wolter Jan Gerrit baron Bentinck, 1781, Northern Netherlands, verso - gestempeld, Epitaph on the death of Wolter Jan Gerrit baron Bentinck on 23, 24 August from his wounds sustained in the naval battle at Dogger Bank and his funeral in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on 28 August 1781. Title with six-line verse. In edge of fillets., text sheet, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 260 mm, width 207 mm, Dutch, writer, 1781 - 1781, paper, letterpress printing, letterpress

Title page of mortality bill for London for 1664/5, covering part of the period of the Great Plague. John Graunt (1620-1674) based his statistical analysis on these weekly and yearly tables.

New Year's wish from the mustard man in The Hague, 1740; Not and not, on the first day of the Jaermer MDCCXL by Den Mostertman, and all the Lords, Madriens, citizens and inhabitants of the Gravenhage. New Year's wish for the year 1740 of the mustard man to all residents of The Hague. At the top of a magic of a mustard man with his keg and a New Year's singing. On the leaf under the plate a song in twelve verses in two columns.

Bills of mortality bill for London, covering part of the period of the Great Plague, 1664-1665. Artist: Unknown

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