EditorialA circular map or diagram showing the elements: fire as a crescent at the top, air a zone beneath it, then earth divided by water (in the shape of a T) into the three continents, with an explanatory note below. A Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronic...
Editorial[Detail] Marginal drawing of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (known as Llywelyn the last), Prince of Wales, killed by Adam de Frankton in Wales, 11 December 1282. He was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England. . Chronic...
EditorialSixpence, ca. 1667?ca. 1682, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Silver, 3/4 in., 2.5 Grams (1.9 cm, 1 dwt), Silver, John Hull (1624?1683), Robert Sanderson Sr. (ca. 1608?1693), In 1652 John Hull and Robert Sanderson were appointed ...
EditorialShilling, 1652, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Silver, 1 1/8 in., 4.52 Grams (2.8 cm, 2 dwt), Silver, John Hull (1624?1683), Robert Sanderson Sr. (ca. 1608?1693), In 1652 John Hull and Robert Sanderson were appointed mint maste...
EditorialThomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, meets Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, in exile in Paris to persuade him to take the crown from King Richard II, 1399. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's "Chronic...
EditorialSycosis barbae and Sycosis capilli, chronic inflammation of the hair follicles, especially of the beard and head. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by John Pass from John Wilkes' "Encyclopedia Londinensis," J. Adlard, London, 1822.