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Trade label: Jacob Kops in Hamburgh bij der mueren.
All kinds of East Indian cottons and Dutch linen cambric, linen goods [or linen drapery], calico [or muslin] and white-linen tape for sale: in Hamburg by the wall, at Jacob Kops. [Woodcut prospect of...
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Monkey Island, Illustrated •1839
“This beautiful and romantic islet is situated in the most picturesque part of the Thames, between the Willows and Maidenhead Bridge; it is the favored resort of aquatic parties in the vicinity of...
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Vandermaelen Atlas (1827) • First atlas of the world with all maps on the...
With funding from the Rare Book Division, the Friends of the Library, and the Historic Maps Collection, in March 2009, the Library acquired a copy of the Philippe Vandermaelen, Atlas universel de...
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Rowlandson illustrates Tom Jones
Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson for Tom Jones published in Edinburgh by James Sibbald in 1791, volume 1, page 55: Caption: Partridge cruelly accused and maltreated by his Wife & co. [Alternate...
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Berthold’s Political Handkerchief • 1831
Berthold’s Political Handkerchief. No. 1. London, Monday, September 5, 1831. Henry Berthold led the National Union of Working Classes, aiming at universal male suffrage. He printed his newspaper on...
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Virgil • 1529
Bucolica Virgilij cum commento familiari. (This title above a woodcut of Virgil, his patron Pollio, and his patron’s son Saloninus. This scene is framed by four rectangular ornaments in the lower one...
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Fore-edge painting • Ravensworth Castle • Gateshead-on-Tyne
Now in ruins, Ravensworth Castle in County Durham was for several centuries the seat of the Liddell family. ❧ This painting decorates the fore-edge of a 32 cm tall copy of the Carmina of Horace...
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‘Maidenly Writings’ • Parthenicon libri iii • ca. 1606
“The writings of the Anglo-Latin poet best known on the Continent in the early seventeenth century were never printed in England. Elizabeth Jane Weston is nowadays completely ignored by literary...
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Convicted in the Fualdès affair
Baptiste Colard, ex-soldat du train, un des prévenus de l’assassinat de Mr. Fualdès. Rouen : Imprimerie de C. Bloquel … , [1817]. 5, [3] p. : port. (woodcut) ; 21 cm. (8vo) Internal caption title:...
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Publishers catalogues • 19th century Britain
Exemplars from the 1,800 recently acquired 19th Century British Publishers’ Catalogues, a collection arranged alphabetically by name of publisher in 31 boxes. These exceptional color-printed covers...
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Popular Entertainment • 1891
Front cover Back cover Cooper’s Yankee, Hebrew and Italian Dialect Readings and Recitations. Compiled and Arranged by George Cooper. New York: Wehman Bros., © 1891. Call number: (Ex) 2006-2272N. Gift...
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Binds & Sells all sorts of Stationary Wares
John Dean Book-binder & Stationer at the Sign of Dean Swift in Front Street between Walnut & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Binds & Sells all sorts of Stationary Wares. Journal,...
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The Reviewers Cave • 1768
The Reviewers Cave. [Etched by P. J. De Loutherbourg (1740-1812)]. The frontispiece to The Powers of the Pen by Evan Lloyd (1734-1776). Second edition published London, Printed for the Author, … 1768....
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‘At the Commencement of our Civil War on that Continent’
The anonymous author of these Poetical Excursions in the Isle of Wight (London, 1777) seasons his ‘animated and poetical’ topographical work with political notes. He praises Wilkes: “But on This I...
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The Compleat Troller: Original (1682) vs. Type-facsimile (ca. 1772-1790)
Robert Nobbes (1652-1706?). The Compleat Troller. London, 1682. ESTC R17278. Title page. Call number: (ExKa) Special 1682 Nobbes. Robert Nobbes (1652-1706?). The Compleat Troller. [London, 1790?]....
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Books sold by Nath. Crouch: Histories, Admirable Curiosities, Extraordinary...
Admirable curiosities rarities, & wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or, An account of many remarkable persons and places, and likewise of the battels, seiges, prodigious earthquakes,...
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Boston bookseller’s shopfront • 1827
Depictions of shopfronts usually have the front door closed. Here’s an uncommon glimpse through the doorway — How many figures? One? (The bookseller?) Two? (Customer and child?) Wood engraving on back...
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“Fifteen Thousand copies of this Poem were sold in the City of London…”
Charles H. Wharton. A Poetical Epistle to His Excellency GeorgeWashington, Esquire, Commander in Chief (London reprinted for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; J. Almon, Piccadilly; W. Tesseyman, York; T. and...
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Sultan Sham
Frontispiece by J. Lewis Marks (c. 1796-1855) for the pseudonymous satirical pamphlet: Sultan Sham, and his seven wives : an historical, romantic, heroic poem, in three cantos by Hudibras, the younger....
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“The part of this pamphlet which is best executed is the little engraving...
Sir Amorous Whimsy; or, The Disappointed Macaroni. A Poetical Tale. London, Sold by T. Evans, No. 54, Pater Noster, Row, 1772. Call number: (EX) 3598.999 v.58 no. 1 Not in ESTC. Only one copy recorded...
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