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According to Le François, an event at the Château de Gaillon in 1562, involving a priest named Pierre de Gondi, while the cardinal de Bourbon was entertaining Cathérine de Medicis and her son, the future Charles IX. Two courtiers, Louise de la Beraudière and Madame de Sauve, tried to seduce the abbé. The former succeeded, but the latter was jealous and as a trick told the abbot of the local Charterhouse that a possessed man was in the castle. Two Carthusians came to Louise's bedroom and exorcised de Gondi. He later became the Cardinal de Retz (Le François pp. 31-37)

The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.

A practical joke reported to have been played on a parson who had made an assignation with one of the servant-girls at Petworth, Sussex, the seat of Lord Egremont. In the foreground is the Prince Regent, though, as the British Museum catalogue points out, no visit by him to Petworth is recorded at this period

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 18.8 x 50.5 cm

A parson being put into bed with an ass dressed in a frilled nightgown, as a practical joke. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.

Merrie conceited iests of George Peele, gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life. How he lived, a man very well knowne in the city of London and elsewhere.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 23.2 x 33 cm

Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 35.1 x 46 cm

A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.

4 unnumbered pages, 365 (i.e. 363) pages, 5 unnumbered leaves, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : engr. title page, illustrations (engravings) ; (4to)

Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].

The vehicles are similar to Rowbikes; also to railroad handcars, which were popular in Japan, except that the vehicles shown here are raced on roads, not on rails

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; sheet 20.3 x 14.8 cm

Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.

In Paul Scarron's novel Ragotin is a 'comic little lawyer' on whom other characters play tricks. One night friends instruct a tailor to sew his clothes tightly together, so that when he wakes up and tries to get dressed he believes his body has swelled up during the night

1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 36.9 x 29.2 cm

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

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The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.

A parson being put into bed with an ass dressed in a frilled nightgown, as a practical joke. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.

Merrie conceited iests of George Peele, gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life. How he lived, a man very well knowne in the city of London and elsewhere.

Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.

A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.

Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].

Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

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The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.

A parson being put into bed with an ass dressed in a frilled nightgown, as a practical joke. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.

Merrie conceited iests of George Peele, gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life. How he lived, a man very well knowne in the city of London and elsewhere.

Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.

A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.

Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].

Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

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