Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.

A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.

An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

World trade since 1431 : geography, technology, and capitalism / Peter J. Hugill.

2 volumes : frontispiece (folded map) ; (8vo)

Two years in New South Wales; comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history / by P. Cunningham.

1 print : etching ; platemark 29.5 x 43.8 cm

Memorie, leggi, ed osservazioni sulle campagne e sull' annona di Roma / Opera di Nicola Maria Nicolaj.

x, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India / Edward Luce.

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World trade since 1431 : geography, technology, and capitalism / Peter J. Hugill.

Two years in New South Wales; comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history / by P. Cunningham.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

Memorie, leggi, ed osservazioni sulle campagne e sull' annona di Roma / Opera di Nicola Maria Nicolaj.

In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India / Edward Luce.

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World trade since 1431 : geography, technology, and capitalism / Peter J. Hugill.

Two years in New South Wales; comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history / by P. Cunningham.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

Memorie, leggi, ed osservazioni sulle campagne e sull' annona di Roma / Opera di Nicola Maria Nicolaj.

In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India / Edward Luce.

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