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...
EditorialDesign for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Graphite on paper, Elevation of a wall. A large central panel of large flowering plants and containers with flowers is flanked by two narrow panels of birds and plants. These are enc...
EditorialVase, Edward Lycett, American, born England, 1833 - 1909, porcelain, Small ovoid vase with circular base, slender neck with outcurved lip, and two quadrant handles attached to shoulder of neck. Banded decoration about shoulder of gilding and color, enc...
EditorialBorder, Block-printed on handmade paper, Yellow bamboo shaded with brown. A series of coupled strips connected to one another at right angles by smaller widely spaced bamboo strips. Two complete borders to the width. Excise stamp on back has legend enc...
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...
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...
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...
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)...