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Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
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Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarium effigies, numero octingentae, ad vivum depictae, cum earundem propriis sex linguarum videlicet graecis, latinis, gallicis, hispanicis et germanicis nomenclaturis, Bäume, Standen, Kreuter, Frucht in die achthundert eygentliche Conterfertung. Sampt der selbigen in sechserley Spraachen rechte Namen Jest von newem ganz fleissig und ordenlich zufamen gelefen und beschrieben.
Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555.Date: 1562- Books
Une effigie inconnue de Laennec à Paris / par André Finot.
Finot, AndréDate: 1974- Books
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The dying-Speeches, together with the effigies and characters of I. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. II. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. III. James Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton. IV. Henry Rich, Earl of Holland. V. Arthur Capell, Lord Capell. VI. James Grahame, Marquiss of Montrose. Vii. James Stanley, Earl of Derby. Viii. Colonel John Penruddock.
Date: 1720- Books
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Genealogia Ranzoviana Aedita Ao. 1587 : Cui nunc denuo additæ sunt aliquot Ranzoviorum effigies ac imagines nonnullæ, partim a Goltzio & Hogenbergio cupro expressæ, [Henr. Rantzau] ; [Med 2 kobberst. Vaaben, 9 Portr. og 1 Afbildning, samt Digte af Sal. Frenzel, Paul. Melissus Myrtilleti, Henn. Conradinus, Cph. Sylvius, Reusner, Heinr. Meibom, M. Rodomannus og Matth. Dress]
Rantzau, Henrik 1526-1598Date: 1587- Digital Images
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Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
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Genealogia Ranzoviana Aedita Anno Domini 1587 Cui nunc denuo additæ sunt aliquot Ranzoviorum effigies ac imagines nonnullæ, partim a Goltzio & Hogenbergio, partim ab alijs artificibus cupro expressæ [Henr. Rantzau] [Med 2 kobberst. Vaaben, 9 Portr. og 1 Afbildning, samt Digte af Sal. Frenzel, Paul. Melissus Myrtilleti, Henn. Conradinus, Cph. Sylvius, Reusner, Heinr. Meibom, M. Rodomannus og Matth. Dress]
Rantzau, Henrik 1526-1598Date: 1587- Books
Ex-libris à l'effigie des saints Côme et Damien / Jean Zuring.
Zuring, Jean.Date: 1978- Books
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Primi tomi miscellaneorum de rerum causis et successibus atque secretiori methodo ibidem expressa, effigies ac exemplar, nimirum, vaticiniorum et imaginum Joachimi abbatis Florensis Calabriae, et Anselmi episcopi Marsichani, super statu summorum pontificum Rhomanae [sic] Ecclesiae, contra falsam, iniquam ... cujusdam pseudomagi, quae nuper nomine Theophrasti Paracelsi in lucem prodiit, pseudomagicam expositionem, vera, certa et indubitata explanatio / [Paulus Scalichius].
Scalichius, Paul, 1534-1575.Date: 1570- Books
Primi tomi miscellaneorum de rerum causis et successibus atque secretiori methodo ibidem expressa, effigies ac exemplar, nimirum, vaticiniorum et imaginum Joachimi abbatis Florensis Calabriae, et Anselmi episcopi Marsichani, super statu summorum pontificum Rhomanae [sic] Ecclesiae, contra falsam, iniquam ... cujusdam pseudomagi, quae nuper nomine Theophrasti Paracelsi in lucem prodiit, pseudomagicam expositionem, vera, certa et indubitata explanatio / [Paulus Scalichius].
Scalichius, Paul, 1534-1575.Date: 1570- Books
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A View of the wax work figures in King Henry the 7th's Chapel, Westminster Abbey; Exhibited in several curious copper-plate prints, drawn on the spot by James Roberts, and accurately engraved by Henry Roberts. With an historical account of each of the great personages whose effigies are here represented. A work worthy the attention of the curious.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Numismata, a discourse of medals, ancient and modern : together with some account of heads and effigies of illustrious, and famous persons in sculps, and taille-douce, of whom we have no medals extant, and of the use to be derived from them : to which is added a digression concerning physiognomy / by J. Evelyn, Esq.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706Date: 1697- Books
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The history of England faithfully extracted from authentick records, approved manuscripts, and the most celebrated histories of this kingdom, in all languages, whether Ecclesiastical or Civil. With the effigies of all the kings and queens of England, from the Norman Race, to the present Time; Curiously Engraved on Copper-Plates from Original Medals and Pictures. In two volumes. ...
Date: 1702- Digital Images
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Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
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The inside of a long house in a morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566643i- Pictures
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The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 579281i- Digital Images
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Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
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M0002724: A Nkondi from the Congo, West Africa
Date: 04 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/22/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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A genealogical history of the kings and queens of England, and monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, anno 1066. to the year 1707. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues; with the times of their births, deaths, places of burial, and monumental inscriptions. Also, their effigies, seals, tombs, cenotaphs, devises, arms, quarterings, crests, and supporters; all curiously engraven in copper-plates. First publish'd to the beginning of King Charles the Second's reign, by Francis Sandford, Esq; Lancaster Herald of Arms: and continued to this time, with many new sculptures, additions, and annotations; as likewise the descents of divers illustrious families, now flourishing, maternally descended from the said monarchs, or from collateral branches of the royal blood of England; by Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald.
Sandford, Francis, 1630-1694.Date: M.DCC.VII. [1707]- Books
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A genealogical history of the kings and queens of England, and monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the conquest, anno 1066. to the year 1707. In seven parts or books. Containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues; with the times of their births, deaths, places of burial, and monumental inscriptions. Also, their effigies, seals, tombs, cenotaphs, devises, arms, quarterings, crests, and supporters; all curiously engraven in copper-plates. First publish'd to the beginning of King Charles the Second's reign, by Francis Sandford, Esq; Lancaster Herald of Arms: and continued to this time, with many new sculptures, additions, and annotations; as likewise the descents of divers illustrious families, now flourishing, maternally descended from the said monarchs, or from collateral branches of the royal blood of England; by Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald.
Sandford, Francis, 1630-1694.Date: M.DCC.VII. [1707]- Books
A catalogue of engraved British portraits : from Egbert the Great to the present time. Consisting of the effigies of persons in every walk of human life; as well as those whose services to their country are recorded in the annals of the English history, as others whose eccentricity of character rendered them conspicuous in their day. With an appendix, containing the portraits of such foreigners as either by alliance with the royal families of, or residence as visitors in this kindgom, or by deriving from it some title of distinction, may claim a place in the British series. Methodically disposed in classes, and interspersed with a number of notices biographical and genealogical, never before published / By Henry Bromley [pseud].
Bromley, Henry, 1750-Date: 1793- Books
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The true effigies of the German giant : now to be seen at the Swan near Charing-Cross, whose stature is nine foot and a half in height, and the span of his hand a cubit compleat. He goes from place to place with his wife, who is but of an ordinary stature, and takes money for the show of her husband.
Date: 1660- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription The tryal of Christian Krumbholtz, D.D. For Preaching several Seditious Sermons, and stirring up the people to rebellion against the magistrates and government of Hamburgh. Originally printed and publish'd by order of the High Imperia Commissioners. And now faithfully translated into English. To which will be added, the effigies of Dr. Krumbholtz. Done from the original.
Phillips, John, bookseller.Date: 1712]- Digital Images
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A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
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A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears