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  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The melancholic figure of a poet leaning on an inscribed block of stone. Engraving by A.B., 16--, after J. de Ribera, ca. 1620.
  • The philosopher and poet Lucretius pointing up at the revolving globe of Chance in the sky. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1682, after T. Creech.
  • A monkey poet, in arrears with his rent, is embarrassed when his landlady opens the door to present him with bills. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.
  • An uncle visiting Majnun and Layla in the desert, from the story Layla and Majnun by Nizami, a 12th century Iranian poet. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Left, a man (the poet Gonchūnagon Atsutada?) is seated on a verandah; centre, a willow tree; right, a mad woman with unbound hair and disevelled dress is dancing, mocked by three children. Woodcut by Keigi, 1822.
  • American colonial black pot with head attached to handle, view of pot
  • Pewter infusion pot.
  • Women carrying water pots
  • The poet P.J. Béranger at the age of twenty sits on the bed in his garret while his girfriend Lisette covers the window with a shawl in the lack of a curtain. Engraving by C.L.V. Mauduit, 1847, after H. Pauquet.
  • Specimen of curare from pot.
  • Chinese 'Kepler' pot and carton.
  • Histidine phosphocarrier protein surface pot
  • Histidine phosphocarrier protein,surface pot
  • Pot containing curare. South America.
  • Posset pot. English delftware, circa 1730.
  • Trimeric G protein/adenylate cycl. surf.pot.
  • Pewter chamber pot, marked SUR 22.
  • Example of "pot-lid fracture" in flint.
  • Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
  • Ancient Egyptian Kohl pot minature pestle and mortar
  • Posset pot, Lambeth delftware, blue and white, 1651
  • Posset pot, delftware, Bristol, early 18th C.
  • Water supply: carrying wate in an earthenware pot
  • Two Roman (?) pots excavated at Newgate Street
  • Photo of pot of Hazeline Snow (Chinese text)
  • A carved pot (from New Zealand?). Albumen print.