Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
The Author in the Circassian costume
Description:
In ink on title page: Friedrich Howard Vyse / Sepr 1854[?]. and Printed on frontispiece: Drawn by A.L. Molinari, from a sketch by the author.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Sea --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia), Circassia (Russia) --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia) --Social life and customs, Danube River --Description and travel, and Turkey --Socia
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Treatise of statues, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Elements of architecture
Subject (Topic):
Architecture --Orders
Collection Created:
London : Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay,
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
The paintings are on mica, and under each is a manuscript caption.
Description:
All versos blank., Manuscript title, occupying two leaves, "written by T. Vardapillay, writing master in the two English schools established by the American missionaries in Madura City"., and The name "Daniel Poor" is in a different hand, presumably that of the donor himself.
Subject (Name):
Poor, Daniel, Twining, William, Rev., and Vardapillay, T