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Images about Literature

9 images from works
  • Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century / by A. Barbeau ; with a preface by Austin Dobson.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century / by A. Barbeau ; with a preface by Austin Dobson.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Apollo, god of literature, plays his harp; a town goes about its rituals. Engraving by J. Sadeler after J. van der Straet, 1594.
  • The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • A man in leggings sits looking at a book on the floor advertising L'Androgyne, an organisation dedicated to gay and lesbian literature in Montréal, Quebec. Lithograph.

Works from the collections

1,330 works

    • Books

    La higiene municipal en la obra de Francisco Mendez Alvaro (1806-1883) / José Luis Fresquet Febrer.

    Fresquet Febrer, José Luis. | Date: 1994
    • Books

    The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

    Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962. | Date: 1948
    • Books

    Weep not for me : women, ballads, and infanticide in early modern Scotland / Deborah A. Symonds.

    Symonds, Deborah A., 1951- | Date: [1997], ©1997
    • Books

    The Latin-Arabic glossary of the Leiden University Library : a contribution to the study of Mozarabic manuscripts and literature / P. Sj. van Koningsveld.

    Koningsveld, P. Sj. van, 1943- | Date: 1977
    • Books

    La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

    Barras, Vincent. | Date: 1994
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Ancient
History, 19th Century
United Kingdom
History, 18th Century
History of Medicine
Medicine in Literature
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Medicine, Greek and Roman

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