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[The Buffalo]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[The Buffalo]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a buffalo, a pelican, and a possum, hanging from a tree, in a forest Title devised by library staff. Illus. in: A new discovery of a vast country in America / Louis Hennepin. London : Printed for M.... More

The Indians marching upon a visit, onto a feast. Lacenta, his lady, [and] attendants

The Indians marching upon a visit, onto a feast. Lacenta, his lady, [a...

Engraving by I. Savage. Illus. in: Lionel Wafer, A New Voyage ... the Isthmus of America, 1699, p. 140. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Indians.

[Christ standing above views of the earth showing its formation and predicting a final conflagration]

[Christ standing above views of the earth showing its formation and pr...

Frontispiece in: Telluris theoria sacra / Thomas Burnet. Amstelaedami : Apud J. Wolters, 1699. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 205.

[The miner's friend, a pump using steam to create a vacuum to draw water from flooded mines; known as "Mr. Savery's engine for raising water by the help of fire"]

[The miner's friend, a pump using steam to create a vacuum to draw wat...

Illus. in: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world. London : C. Davis, Printer to the Royal S... More