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A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.

Sarawak: interior of the Baram Fort. Photograph.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Men sitting to smoke by the citadel of Jerusalem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1841.

The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.F. Gudin (?).

Island of Deshima, Dutch East India Company

The young Samson excels on the battlefield. Etching by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.

<p>Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city</p>

1 print : wood engraving ; image 44.7 x 74.5 cm

Eighteenth Century collections online

The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With all the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. ... In two volumes. By J. Robertson, ...

Compendio (or Discorso) dell' arte militare. [Incomplete.] Written by different contemporary hands. Illustrated with rough pen-drawn marginal and other figures and diagrams. Parts 1-8 Discorso del arte militare. [Incomplete, Part 5 Missing.] 9 Compendio del arte militare. By a different hand. 10 Epitome of the 'Discorso' by a third hand, and made from a different version.

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

1 volume 10 parts. folio. 281/2 x 201/2 cm. Unbound.

Dell' arte militare

The first principles of field-fortification: containing concise and familiar precepts for the construction, attack, and defence of field-works; With a Preliminary Introduction to the Science of Fortification in General. By Charles Augustus Struensee. Translated from the German by William Nicolay, Captain-Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers.

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With all the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. ... In two volumes. By J. Robertson, ...

Dell' arte militare

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Fortification

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With all the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. ... In two volumes. By J. Robertson, ...

Dell' arte militare

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