Manuscript on paper of a miscellany of alchemical texts including corrupt copies (which are typical of the compiler) of traditional Latin alchemies with practical procedures and vernacular poems on alchemy. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along ...
Description:
In Latin, Italian, and Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Drawing, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Holograph manuscript on parchment and paper of Caspar Harttung vom Hoff of Gastein, Das Vade mecum, a commonplace book of alchemical and medicinal materials, consisting of mostly shorter prose and verse sections, often with excellent drawings, thirty-...
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Harttung vom Hoff.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Drawing, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine
"Syntax seated on the horse Grizzle, sketching the overcast Lake District scene in front of him, Grizzle grazing precipitously at the water's edge, a fisherman with dog, rod and basket standing behind him at right, trying to attract his attention, a p...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 1, 1815, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Trade card for the Italian-born printmaker James Anthony Minasi (1776-1865), who was born in Calabria and became a Bartolozzi pupil after coming to England. Illustrated with an angelic winged putto concentratiing on a print book
Alternative Title:
Drawing taught by J. Minasi, in the style of F. Bartolozzi ...
Joseph Heger's pencil sketches were made during an 1858 army march from Camp Scott, Fort Bridger, to Salt Lake City and from Camp Floyd to Fort Union. The drawings depict towns, camps, and scenes from Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico
Description:
Joseph Heger, born in Hesse, immigrated to America as a child. He enlisted in the army in 1855 and served as a private in Co. K. of the 1st Regiment of Mounted Riflemen under Lt. Dubois on the Utah Expedition in 1858 and on the Arizona-New Mexico camp...
First leaf with caption title and index in letterpress on recto; verso blank. Other 61 leaves printed with etchings, some etchings mounted two to a page.
Publisher:
Publie par Jean Boydell, graveur, rue de Cheapside, a Londres
