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Ephemera including broadsides about trade : John Shaw Norton Falgate, London, brush maker, salt tax, (France 1760), Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies (1696), advert for the Camera Lucida, Surrey, Kent, and Sussex Joint Stock Banking Company (1866), Union Office (insurance, Norwich 1817), trade (Tratta) of 5th and 30th August 1743 (Firenze), building materials (by order of the Windsor, Staines, and Richmond Railway Company, 1849), transport: Hotel Dessin (Calais, 1824), routes from Calais to Paris (1814), sale of bankrupt William Moore's horse and coaching business (Richmond, 1800), certificate stating that John Peddie, Thomas Campbell and surgeon William Cowdry have been employed to follow the river Niger through Senegal to its source (1817), plan for a trade voyage from Calcutta to Kamschatska, trade in Graubünden (1822), descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena (1815), and disasters: riot at Maghera (1823), destructive torrent from Sudbury Moor, Keighley (1824), a snake entering the belly of a sleeping child (Swanscombe, Kent), Fire and hurricane (Miramichi, America, 1825), rowing boat collision and drowning (Lea Bridge), Charles II's commiserations on the Great Fire of London (1666), explosion in a mine pit (Washington, Co. Durham 1825), collapse of a mine-shaft in Walker Colliery (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1823), Fire in Bristol, four dead (1826), Lady Mary Fitzgerald who died in a fire in 1815, The tragical history of the merry wake (Dublin), 'John E. Stafford, 166, 63 & 168, Western Road, Brighton ... knick-knacks, fancy & oriental goods' (2 rabbits playing a drum and flying a kite, illustrated in a traditional Chinese style, printed on tissue : 1920s?)

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Early Indonesian commerce : a study of the origins of Śrīvijaya / O.W. Walters.

A river god representing the River Thames sits on a chariot, centre, accompanied by nereids in the water. Also standing in the water at the front of the chariot is Captain Cook, behind him are Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh, and to right is a man identified in the British Museum catalogue (and elsewhere) as Dr Charles Burney, the scholar and composer of music. Cook, Raleigh and Burney are clothed. Left, figures representing Europe, Africa, America and Asia (but not Australia). Above, Hermes or Mercury holding the caduceus in his right hand and trumpeting the fame of the Thames with a Roman tuba (or similar) held in his left hand
Wood, loc. cit., identifies the figures in the water as Drake, Raleigh, Sebastian Cabot, Captain Cook and Burney, the last being included as a representative of music; Burney's inclusion is described in the Microcosm of London (1809) as "a whim equally absurd and incomprehensible"
Hudson and Luckhurst, loc. cit., call the painting "Commerce, or the triumph of the Thames", and quote an unattributed comment on Burney's depiction in the water: "It irks me to see my good friend Dr Burney paddling in a horse pond with a bevy of naked wenches" (a sightly different wording is given in In Elysium, op. cit., p. 23)

1 print : etching ; platemark approximately 42 x 51 cm

The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.

A derrick on the Danube lifts a bale of wool over the river at Bratislava. The bale is inscribed with the names of the capital cities of Europe in their vernacular forms, emphasizing the role of the Danube as a link between them

1 print : lithograph, printed in blue and red ; sheet 93.6 x 63 cm

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Bratislava: the International Danube trade show, 1924. Lithograph by Ant. Chlebeček, 1924.

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