BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Clothing and dress, and Description and travel
The sudden entrance, through the window, of Napoleon Bonaparte startles tailors assembled in their shop, i.e., the European rulers at the Congress of Vienna, busy "cutting out" portions of Europe for themselves. With a blood-dripping sabre in his hand...
Alternative Title:
Devil among the tailors
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd April 21st, 1815 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825., William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843., Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840., Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823., Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844., Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819., and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Congress of Vienna, Tailor shops, Clothing and dress, Scissors & shears, Hats, and Crowns
The first two or three paragraphs of the preface, and possibly the chapter "Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese" were written by Samuel Johnson. Cf. Fleeman.
Publisher:
Published for the author, and sold by him next door to Tom's Coffee-house, Russel-Street, Convent-Garden; also by Mess. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; Mess. Wilson and Durham; Mr. A. Millar, in the Strand, and Mr. R. Willock, in Cornhill
Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates ...
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
