159 results
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The books of Venice / Lisa Pon and Craig Kallendorf, editors = Il libro veneziano / a cura di Lisa Pon e Craig Kallendorf.
Date: [2009?]- Books
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Histoire des principales découvertes faites dans les arts et les sciences, sur-tout dans les branches importantes du commerce, de la navigation & des plantations dans toutes les parties du monde / traduite de l'anglois par M. E[idous] [Anon].
M. E. (Marc Eidous)Date: 1767- Pictures
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A physician examining a urine flask of a scantily dressed attractive woman who is in bed surrounded by her mother, lover and servant. Engraving by A.F. David after J.B. Leprince.
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.Date: [1776]Reference: 20366i- Books
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Dissertation physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les différences réelles que présentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de différents pays et de différents âges, sur le beau qui caractèrise les statues antiques et les pierres gravées : suivie de la proposition d'une nouvelle méthode pour déssiner toutes sortes de têtes humaines avec la plus grande sûreté / publiée après le décès de l'auteur par son fils Adrien Gilles Camper ; traduite du hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval.
Date: MDCCXCI [1791]- Books
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.
Date: 1831-1848- Archives and manuscripts
French army
Argenson, Marc-Pierre de Voyer, comte d', 1696-1764Date: 1744-1846Reference: MS.9244- Archives and manuscripts
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) and Buffon, Georges-Louis-Marie Leclerc, Comte de (1764-1794)
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788)Date: 1739-1866Reference: MS.8202- Pictures
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Pope Pius VII on the Saône near Lyons. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu.
Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de, 1736-1810Date: 1809Reference: 30435i- Books
Les problèmes d'Aristote : oeuvre fort agreable & utile aux chirurgiens; & à tous ceux qui veulent aprendre les admirables secrets de la nature.
Date: [between 1681 and 1689]- Archives and manuscripts
Nuñez de Haro y Peralta, Alonso (1729-1800)
Nuñez de Haro y Peralta, Alonso, 1729-1800, Archbishop of MexicoDate: 1777Reference: WMS/Amer.120- Archives and manuscripts
French miscellany
La Rochefoucaud, Paul Auguste Gaston de, comte de Jarnac, 1675-1714Date: 1711-1851Reference: MS.9245- Pictures
A rocky coast by a port, with four fishing folk in the foreground, and two ships on the water. Engraving by F. Aveline, 1770, after C.J. Vernet.
Vernet, Joseph, 1714-1789.Date: [1770?]Reference: 3010819i- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890- Pictures
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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Line engraving by J. Daullé and J.G. Wille, 1741, after R. Levrac-Tournières, 1737.
Levrac-Tournières, Robert, 1667-1752.Date: 1741Reference: 9964i- Pictures
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The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of general Oudinot at the battle of Wagram, 1809. Watercolour by F. Pils.
Pils, François, 1785-1867.Reference: 25011i- Pictures
Demonstrations against cuts in the French social security budget on grounds of their bad effect on the nation's health. Colour lithograph, 1987.
Date: [1987]Reference: 674918i- Pictures
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Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.Date: [1876?]Reference: 799213i- Archives and manuscripts
French armies of the Alps and Italy
Pelletier, Bertrand, 1761-1797Date: 1793-1805Reference: MS.9234- Archives and manuscripts
French Revolution and Empire
Palloy, Pierre François, fl. 1788-1795Date: 1795-1811Reference: MS.9241- Pictures
A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35974i- Archives and manuscripts
Durante, Castor ( -1590)
Durante, Castor ( -1590)Date: Middle 17th centuryReference: MS.252- Pictures
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Seneca preparing his own death: he begs his wife to temper her grief. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773.
Peyron, Pierre, 1744-1814.Date: 1773Reference: 43723i- Pictures
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The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.
Date: 1781Reference: 43469i- Pictures
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Plague victims in Rome receiving the Eucharist from a cardinal in procession. Etching by A. Legros.
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911.Reference: 4541i- Archives and manuscripts
Napoleonic miscellany
Bonaparte, Joséphine, Empress, Consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1815Date: 1799-1891Reference: MS.7917