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Jean Le Pautre (Lepautre or Lepaultre) (1618-1682) has been described as the most important ornament engraver of the 17th century. His prodigious output extended to more than 2000 prints, mostly from his own original designs.He was not only the originator of the grandiose Louis XIV style but was al

‘Angling in Troubled Waters’, 1899 by Fred Rosesee this CatholicGauze post for details [via]1920 print by Aleksei Radakov(Maybe I’ve posted this image before? Oh well.)’Painting depicts aerial battle with airplanes and airships.Text underneath describes modern aerial warfare’ - 1914 lithograph

Zoologist, Johann Baptist von Spix, and botanist, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius were sent as part of an official Austrian scientific expedition to Brazil to coincide with a marriage between a Bavarian princess and Portuguese Prince who would later become the King of Brazil.”From 1817 to 1820,

This book, owned by Simon Haendel, is at once both a stammbuch (friend’s book) and a wappenbuch (armorial). The entries appear to have been compiled in the 1590s and the handwritten greetings that I read from a quick review (I’ve had these images for ages) are all in latin. The thing I remember tha

“Paradise, purgatory, and hell (frozen over) make a dramatic appearance in a major new exhibition, ‘Dante Rediscovered: From Blake To Rodin’, at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere.”Read this article.

Rare and antique book collecting is a hobby that any person can easily learn, it is fascinating and can turn your hard earned pounds or dollars into hundreds (sometimes thousands) literally overnight. The skeptics out there will be thinking surely this is not the case.