"A Dutch soldier (left) and his wife (right), joining hands, dance round a tree of Liberty to music supplied by a foppish French soldier on the extreme left who beats a drum and blows a trumpet, and by a stout Dutchman on the extreme right who plays b...
"The Convention, a creature with the body of a stout woman and with seven monstrous and demoniac heads, sits full-face in an accoucheur's chair. A little demon on the ground holds up a pitchfork. A French surgeon, smiling (right), with shirt-sleeves r...
Incoming and outgoing letters from 1960-1962 regarding the Internationale situationniste, Gruppe SPUR, and the fourth situationist conference in London. Accompanied by a copy of a 1964 letter from Luc de Heusch to Pierre Alechinsky.
Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of En...
Description:
In Dutch and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments
