EditorialSurgery 29, Medical aids, Signed: Benard direx, pl. 33, after p. 48, Benard (dir.), 1778, Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tierss, des arts et des m?tiers. Gen?ve: chez Pellet, MDCCLXX...
EditorialSeparating lead, gold and silver, Tools and Aids for Working with the Heater, Woodcut, p. 375, (Liber decimus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia ...
EditorialSchmelz?fen_2, Structure and function of furnaces and the required aids, woodcut, p. 288, (Liber nonus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique...
EditorialProcessing with a sieve_2, The pierced ore pieces are sifted by hand, bars and boards are used as aids, woodcut, p. 224, (Liber octavus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instru...
EditorialMan saws wood with a boy in a carpenter's workshop Who quist, who misses, carpenter, tools, AIDS, implements, crafts and industries: saw, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1689, paper, letterpress printing, h 91 mm ? w 80 mm.
EditorialThe complete cost-keeper; some original systems of shop cost-keeping or factory accounting, together with an exposition of the advantages of account keeping by means of cards instead of books, and a description of various mechanical aids to factory acc...
EditorialPass card of a portion of the coast of Brazil with the delta of the Amazon River Pass card, of the sea coasts of, Brazil, between, Cabo North, and Cabo de Cuma (title on object), Passport card of a part of the coast of Brazil with the delta of the Amaz...
EditorialPassport card from the coast of Norway in the vicinity of Trondheim Passport card from the Coast of Norway Starting from Swarten Os to Heyligerlander Leen Naaukeurigh, where 't Liet van Dronten was erected. (title on object), Passport map of the coast ...
EditorialMonk, Standing monk with a rosary in his hand, monk (s), friar (s), aids for prayer, e.g. rosary, Jacob Hoolaart, Dordrecht, 1728 - 1789, paper, etching, h 103 mm ? w 73 mm.
EditorialScissors sharpener, Scissors sharpener pushing its car. The man stands on an oval plate with an engraved zigzag line around the edge. A grindstone is mounted on the wagon, above which a water tank with a tap. The image is marked: twice mt. = Wessel Jan...
EditorialTwo seamen, Two seamen on two moveable slats with an anvil between them on the top bar. When the slats move back and forth, first one blacksmith and then the other blacksmith hits the anvil. The image is marked: stk. = Amsterdam and mt. = Pieter van So...
EditorialPassport card of a part of the southwest coast of Italy and the north coast of Sicily van 't eyland Sicilia. (title on object), Passport card of a part of the southwest coast of Italy and the north coast of Sicily, with an insert card of the Gulf of Na...
EditorialPass card of a part of the east coast of Brazil Pass card of the sea coasts of Brazil, between Cabo S. Agostino and Rio Coroipo (title on object), Pass card of a part of the east coast of Brazil, with two compass roses, the Noorder is on the right. Top...
EditorialVariarum Gentium Ornatus (Costumes of Different Nations) Couple, dressed in fashion from Rome Costume print: Rome ca. 1600-1610 Romanorvm Viri et Feminae Habitvs (title on object) Costumes from different countries (series title) Variarum Gentium O rnat...
EditorialAn outline of the history of the literature of the Old Testament with chronological tables for the history of the Israelites, and other aids to the explanation of the Old Testament : Kautzsch, Emil Friedrich, 1841-1910.
EditorialTheatrical representation of women in a pub between ropes and nets, in the background are men, inn, coffee house, public house, etc, tools, aids, implements, crafts and industries: rope, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic pap...
EditorialAmor with an ax by a tree Emblemes d'Amour (title on object), Amor patiently cuts down a tree. Just as many blows of an ax can fell a tree and many water drops can hollow out a piece of marble, so steadfastness in love will conquer everything. Thirty-t...
EditorialTwo blacksmiths, Two blacksmiths on two movable slats with an anvil between them on the top bar. When the slats move back and forth, first one blacksmith and then the other blacksmith hits the anvil. The forging hammers are missing. The image is not ma...
EditorialKnife maker De Messemaaker (title on object) The Menselyk Bedryf (series title), handicrafts, craftsman at work, tools, aids, implements, crafts and industries: knife, Caspar Luyken, Amsterdam, 1694, paper, etching, h 140 mm ? w 79 mm.
EditorialUniversal Cambist, a ready reckoner of the world's foreign and colonial exchanges of seven monetary and currency intermediaries with the aid of less than 60,000 figures, whereby 756 tables of exchange, consisting of from 13,800 to 200,000 figures each,...
EditorialBlacksmith, Blacksmith behind an anvil. In his raised right hand he has a hammer and in his left hand a rod that he has placed on the anvil. The blacksmith is wearing a round hat and a skirt. The image is not marked, tools, aids, implements, crafts and...
EditorialTailor's workshop, In a tailor's workshop there is a woman with a copper bucket and a tailor with his two young servants who are sewing on a table by the window. On the wall hang a painting (river landscape), a pincushion and a birdcage and on the tabl...
EditorialAnastomus oscitans, Print, The Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. This distinctive stork is found mainly in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is greyish or whi...
EditorialAnastomus oscitans, Print, The Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. This distinctive stork is found mainly in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is greyish or whi...
EditorialFrancesco I d'Este Aids the Duke of Mantua After his Territories were Devastated by the German Armies, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [... ].
EditorialHow I swam the channel.' By Capt.Webb. Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 – 24 July 1883) was the first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids for sport purpose. On 25 August 1875, Webb swam from Dover to C...
EditorialSigns on side of building in run-down urban environment. Halifax, 1986. Halifax, 1986. One of the signs : 'Aids, don't die of ignorence'. Colour photograph. Source: FG199-69-4.
EditorialFrancesco I d'Este Aids the Duke of Mantua After his Territories were Devastated by the German Armies, from L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [... ].
Editorial?? ??????, Handle-Shaped Blade, Western Zhou dynasty (1046?771 B.C.), 10th?9th century B.C., China, Jade (nephrite), L. 10 15/16 in. (26.1 cm), Jade, Throughout the Shang and Zhou dynasties, jade continued to be used in the creation of ritualistic obje...
Editorial[Angel of the Passion, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris], 1852?53, Salted paper print from paper negative, 32.9 x 20.3 cm (12 15/16 x 8 in.), Photographs, Auguste Mestral (French, Rans 1812?1884 Rans), Serendipity occasionally aids the muses, as here, where a wo...
Editorial31 / 03 / 2006; Kawasaki shi; Kanamara Festival, or the fertility festival its held at Kanamara shrine every march created in the Edo period to pray for sexual safety (specially against syphillis among Kawasakis prostitutes) now helps raise money for H...