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The antiquities of heraldry : collected from the literature, coins, gems, vases, and other monuments of pre-Christian and mediæval times / with a catalogue of early armorial seals: tending to show that modern heraldry embodies, or is derived from the religious symbols, the military devices, and the emblems of the heathen deities of antiquity. By William Smith Ellis.
Ellis, William Smith, 1817-1890.Date: 1869- Books
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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology : explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, & c, with their derivations / By J.W. Mollett.
Mollett, John W. (John William)Date: 1883- Books
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A new dictionary of heraldry, explaining the terms us'd in that science, with their Etymology, and different Versions into Latin. Containing all the Rules of Blazon, with Reasons for the same. The Original Signification of Bearings. And a concise account of the most noted orders of knighthood that are, or have been; and of Honours and Dignities Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military. Illustrated with 196 devices on copper. The whole design'd to make that Science familiar. Revis'd and corrected with a recommendatory epistle. By Mr. James Coats.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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A new dictionary of heraldry, explaining the terms us'd in that science, with their Etymology, and different Versions into Latin. Containing all the Rules of Blazon, with Reasons for the same. The Original Signification of Bearings. And a concise account of the most noted orders of knighthood that are, or have been; and of Honours and Dignities Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military. Illustrated with 196 devices on copper The whole design'd to make that Science familiar. Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coats.
Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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An essay on additional figures and marks of cadency. Shewing, the ancient & modern practice of differencing descendents in this and other nations. More Fully and Exactly, than any Thing hitherto Published upon this Part of Herauldry. Written by Alexr. Nisbet Gent.
Nisbet, Alexander, 1657-1725.Date: 1702- Books
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The arms of the nobility, of England, Scotland & Ireland, brought down to the year 1778. Engraved, by Hugh Clark, & Thomas Wormull, with the mottos translated into English.
Clark, Hugh.Date: 1778- Books
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The arms of the English baronets and the Knights of the Bath, with the dates of their creations brought down to the present time.
Date: [1779]- Books
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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus. First written in French by Henry Estienne, Lord of Fossez, interpreter to the French King for the Latine and Greek tongues: and translated into English by Tho. Blount of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Estienne, Henry, sieur des FossezDate: 1646- Books
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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus. First written in French by Henry Estienne, Lord of Fossez, interpreter to the French King for the Latine and Greek tongues: and translated into English by Tho: Blount of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Estienne, Henry, sieur des FossezDate: 1646- Pictures
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Christ's Hospital, London: a quatrefoil window with the armorial device of Richard Whittington. Etching by E. B. Price.
Price, E. B., active 1845.Reference: 22724i- Pictures
St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London, with a map of Cripplegate Ward and the armorial device of John Blachford. Engraving by B. Cole, 1755.
Date: 1755Reference: 25965i- Books
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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, reverses of medals, anagrams, cyphres and rebus. With a catalogue of the cornet-devises on both sides in the late warres, and those of the Scots taken at the great battails of Dunbar and Preston. The second edition with additions, embellished with divers brasse-figures. By T.B. Gent.
Estienne, Henry, sieur des FossezDate: 1655- Pictures
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The Royal Exchange, London: view from roof height, with various men at business in the courtyard, emblematic devices in the sky area. Etching by B. Howlett, 1808, after F. Hogenburg, 1570.
Hogenburg, Francis, 1540-1590.Date: 1828Reference: 23368i- Pictures
A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
Date: publish'd as the Act directs April 6 1798Reference: 12185i- Pictures
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King George III and Queen Charlotte, seated at a latrine, receive with agitation news from William Pitt the younger, who tells them that the King of Sweden had been assassinated. Etching by J. Gillray, 1792.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 April 1792Reference: 12180i