EditorialBaldwin IV and William of Tyre. History of the Crusades. France; between 1250 and 1259. [Miniature only] Book XXI. Initial 'M'. Baldwin [later Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem], in dark robe, fighting with another boy; both have bleeding arms, and are enc...
EditorialConquest of the Inca Empire. Francisco Pizarro y Gonzalez, 1st Marquess of los Atabillos ( c.1471 or 1476-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima. Peru. The Spanish expedition arrives from Puna Island to Tumbes in 1532. They enc...
EditorialConquest of the Inca Empire. Francisco Pizarro y Gonzalez, 1st Marquess of los Atabillos ( c.1471 or 1476-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima. Peru. The Spanish expedition arrives from Puna Island to Tumbes in 1532. They enc...
EditorialArabian man on horseback, seated woman from Jeddah, and Berber man with long tobacco pipe at top. Wolof woman holding a pumpkin, and family from Loango (Congo) with fish catch, yarn, children. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Enc...
EditorialSmooth vetch, Vicia tetraspermum 133, crown vetch, Securigera varia 134 and yellow sweet clover, Melilotus officinalis 135. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Enc...
EditorialPAULO VI (Concesio, 1897-Roma, 1978). Papa italiano de nombre Giovanni Batista Montini. Elegido papa en 1963. Continu? y dio fin al II Concilio Vaticano. Autor de las enc?clicas Ecclesiam suam (1964), Populorum progressio (1967), Mysterium fidei (1965)...