![[Holstengate, Lubeck, Germany]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1890/01/01/holstengate-lubeck-germany-640.jpg "[Holstengate, Lubeck, Germany]")
[Holstengate, Lubeck, Germany]
Historic Sites
Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. ...
Jerome's preface to Pentateuch.
![[Earth, the sun, and moon carried on dragon's back below title in decorative border]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1472/01/01/earth-the-sun-and-moon-carried-on-dragons-back-below-title-in-decorative-border-640.jpg "[Earth, the sun, and moon carried on dragon's back below title in decorative border]")
![Praeceptorium divinae legis.[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1479]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1479/01/01/praeceptorium-divinae-legisreutlingen-michael-greyff-not-after-1479-640.jpg "Praeceptorium divinae legis.[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1479]")
![[Medieval universe, with heaven above, bands containing stars, and earth below]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1481/01/01/medieval-universe-with-heaven-above-bands-containing-stars-and-earth-below-640.jpg "[Medieval universe, with heaven above, bands containing stars, and earth below]")
![[Trees with medicinal virtues, growing naturally and cultivated in pots]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1481/01/01/trees-with-medicinal-virtues-growing-naturally-and-cultivated-in-pots-640.jpg "[Trees with medicinal virtues, growing naturally and cultivated in pots]")
![[Sigismund, emperor of Germany, on his death bed, 1437]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1484/01/01/sigismund-emperor-of-germany-on-his-death-bed-1437-640.jpg "[Sigismund, emperor of Germany, on his death bed, 1437]")
![[Un officier allemand portant un drapeau, accompagné d'un tambour, d'un fifre et de deux soldats] / DH.](https://cdn2.picryl.com/photo/1490/01/01/un-officier-allemand-portant-un-drapeau-accompagne-dun-tambour-dun-fifre-et-640.jpg "[Un officier allemand portant un drapeau, accompagné d'un tambour, d'un fifre et de deux soldats] / DH.")
[Un officier allemand portant un drapeau, accompagné d'un tambour, d'u...
Five German soldiers, one carrying a sword, one playing the fife, a drummer whose drum bears Hopfer's initials, one carrying a flag, and one carrying a halberd.
![[Cursus per totam septimanam. German. [from old catalog]]Dye siben Curs[us] auf ainen yeglichen Tag der Wochen ain, mit seyn siben Zeiten vn[d] sel Vesper gar loblich geordiniert.Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut, 1491.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1491/01/01/cursus-per-totam-septimanam-german-from-old-catalogdye-siben-cursus-auf-ainen-640.jpg "[Cursus per totam septimanam. German. [from old catalog]]Dye siben Curs[us] auf ainen yeglichen Tag der Wochen ain, mit seyn siben Zeiten vn[d] sel Vesper gar loblich geordiniert.Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut, 1491.")
![Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi [from old catalog][Magdeburg, Moritz Brandis ca. 1500?]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1500/01/01/meditationes-iordani-de-vita-et-passione-ihesu-christimeditationes-de-vita-640.jpg "Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi [from old catalog][Magdeburg, Moritz Brandis ca. 1500?]")
![[Hroswitha (10th Century nun, poet, and chronicler) presenting her works to Otto I (912-973), King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1501/01/01/hroswitha-10th-century-nun-poet-and-chronicler-presenting-her-works-to-otto-640.jpg "[Hroswitha (10th Century nun, poet, and chronicler) presenting her works to Otto I (912-973), King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor]")
Typus gramatic
Grammar represented as a woman with alphabet board and a key showing a youth the entrance to university building filled with students.
![[The elaborate device of Franz Birckmann, a Cologne bookseller, showing 3 seperate scenes: The Adoration, St. Ursula with the 11,000 virgins, and a boiling cauldron containing 7 Maccabean youths and their mother. In upper corners are 2 shields containing Cologne arms and Birckmann trademark]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1520/01/01/the-elaborate-device-of-franz-birckmann-a-cologne-bookseller-showing-3-seperate-640.jpg "[The elaborate device of Franz Birckmann, a Cologne bookseller, showing 3 seperate scenes: The Adoration, St. Ursula with the 11,000 virgins, and a boiling cauldron containing 7 Maccabean youths and their mother. In upper corners are 2 shields containing Cologne arms and Birckmann trademark]")
![[Architectural title page of Commentaria ... super anatomia mudini bordered in columns with scene of seated teacher lecturing as assistant dissects cadaver]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1521/01/01/architectural-title-page-of-commentaria-super-anatomia-mudini-bordered-in-columns-640.jpg "[Architectural title page of Commentaria ... super anatomia mudini bordered in columns with scene of seated teacher lecturing as assistant dissects cadaver]")
![Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m] &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1524/01/01/praeclara-ferdinandi-cortesii-de-noua-maris-oceani-hyspania-narratio-sacratissimo-640.jpg "Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m] &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa")
![[Design by Albrecht Dürer for 16th century fortification]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1527/01/01/design-by-albrecht-durer-for-16th-century-fortification-640.jpg "[Design by Albrecht Dürer for 16th century fortification]")
![[German cupeling furnace with a brick dome and a cupeling hearth with iron hood, both used to separate metals from ores]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1540/01/01/german-cupeling-furnace-with-a-brick-dome-and-a-cupeling-hearth-with-iron-hood-640.jpg "[German cupeling furnace with a brick dome and a cupeling hearth with iron hood, both used to separate metals from ores]")
![[Solar system diagram with seven planets in circular orbits, the earth as number V, Telluris; and surrounding text]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1543/01/01/solar-system-diagram-with-seven-planets-in-circular-orbits-the-earth-as-number-640.jpg "[Solar system diagram with seven planets in circular orbits, the earth as number V, Telluris; and surrounding text]")
![[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1583/01/01/person-with-crossed-eyes-head-and-shoulders-view-640.jpg "[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]")
![[Person with crossed eyes wearing corrective mask, head-and-shoulders view]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1583/01/01/person-with-crossed-eyes-wearing-corrective-mask-head-and-shoulders-view-640.jpg "[Person with crossed eyes wearing corrective mask, head-and-shoulders view]")
![[Manfred seated and pointing to two knelling men with falcons]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1596/01/01/manfred-seated-and-pointing-to-two-knelling-men-with-falcons-640.jpg "[Manfred seated and pointing to two knelling men with falcons]")
![[Title page of Alchymia, with figures of Galen and Aristotle, and scenes depicting alchemy]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1606/01/01/title-page-of-alchymia-with-figures-of-galen-and-aristotle-and-scenes-depicting-640.jpg "[Title page of Alchymia, with figures of Galen and Aristotle, and scenes depicting alchemy]")
Hic est draco caudum suam devorans
Dragon or ouroboros devouring itself by the tail, and text of epigram in alchemical emblem book.
Warhafftiger und Natürlicher
People standing before the city walls of Nuremberg, viewing the image of a lion, which miraculously appeared on the wall; text below image.
Abbildung der zwar hoch betrübten ...
Mock funeral procession for the heavy imperial taxes levied on the Protestants but lost after the Protestant victory at Breitenfeld.
Ein Kurtz--Jedoch nachdenktlich Bespräch--eines Fuches und Katzen
A fox tied to a tree, a cat, lying as if dead, with a rat in its mouth, an open rat cage and rats; across the river, Magdeburg burns; text below image.
Der Warner
Anti-Catholic lampoon, in which a messenger warns of Jesuit schemes after the Catholic defeats on the field.
Abbildung der prächtigen - und zwar trawrigen Leichbestattung - gehalt...
A mock funeral procession for the heavy imperial taxes levied on the Protestants but lost after the Protestant victory at Breitenfeld. The procession begins in the lower right corner and advances across the bot... more
De Nova stella, anni 1572
New star discovered in 1572 by Tycho Brahe in the constellation Cassopeia.
![[Cassiopeia constellation depicted as Cassiopeia in chair, with key to stars' names at left and new star or nova at right]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1648/01/01/cassiopeia-constellation-depicted-as-cassiopeia-in-chair-with-key-to-stars-640.jpg "[Cassiopeia constellation depicted as Cassiopeia in chair, with key to stars' names at left and new star or nova at right]")
![[Moon as solid body with irregular surface features in first telescopic drawings of moon to be published]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1655/01/01/moon-as-solid-body-with-irregular-surface-features-in-first-telescopic-drawings-640.jpg "[Moon as solid body with irregular surface features in first telescopic drawings of moon to be published]")
![[Teams of horses trying unsuccessfully to pull apart vacuum-filled copper spheres, also depicted in detail above, in Magdeburg demonstration for Emperor Ferdinand III]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1672/01/01/teams-of-horses-trying-unsuccessfully-to-pull-apart-vacuum-filled-copper-spheres-640.jpg "[Teams of horses trying unsuccessfully to pull apart vacuum-filled copper spheres, also depicted in detail above, in Magdeburg demonstration for Emperor Ferdinand III]")
![[Johannes Hevelius and assistant using six-foot sextant to measure angular distances between pairs of stars]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1673/01/01/johannes-hevelius-and-assistant-using-six-foot-sextant-to-measure-angular-distances-640.jpg "[Johannes Hevelius and assistant using six-foot sextant to measure angular distances between pairs of stars]")
Der kayserlichen residenz - stadt Wien / von Leonhard Loschge, buchhæn...
Print shows the battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683, with numerous engagements among various forces in the near and middle distance, and Vienna in the background separated from the fighting by "the Vienna Rive... more
![[Siege and relief of Vienna in 1683, with portraits of Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, Emperor Leopold I, Sultan Mehmed IV, Kara Mustafa, Count of Waldeck, Elector of Saxony, John III Sobieski, Elector of Bavaria, Charles V Duke of Lorraine]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1685/01/01/siege-and-relief-of-vienna-in-1683-with-portraits-of-ernst-rudiger-von-starhemberg-640.jpg "[Siege and relief of Vienna in 1683, with portraits of Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, Emperor Leopold I, Sultan Mehmed IV, Kara Mustafa, Count of Waldeck, Elector of Saxony, John III Sobieski, Elector of Bavaria, Charles V Duke of Lorraine]")
![Mouvements der Allÿrten und Frantz Sösischen Armée zvischen Donawert und Höchstedt nebst der Retraite welche die Allÿrte Armée machete [?] 21 September an 1703 nacher Nörlinge Sig [?] bedeutet die Allÿrten [?] bedeitet die Frantz Sosen.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1703/01/01/mouvements-der-allyrten-und-frantz-sosischen-armee-zvischen-donawert-und-hochstedt-640.jpg "Mouvements der Allÿrten und Frantz Sösischen Armée zvischen Donawert und Höchstedt nebst der Retraite welche die Allÿrte Armée machete [?] 21 September an 1703 nacher Nörlinge Sig [?] bedeutet die Allÿrten [?] bedeitet die Frantz Sosen.")
![[Map showing battle lines in vicinity of Donauwörth, Germany].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1704/01/01/map-showing-battle-lines-in-vicinity-of-donauworth-germany-640.jpg "[Map showing battle lines in vicinity of Donauwörth, Germany].")
![[Plan of New Ebenezer, Ga., 1742, which was settled in 1736 by the persecuted Salzburgers of Bavaria at invitation of trustees of the Georgia colony; text in German]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1741/01/01/plan-of-new-ebenezer-ga-1742-which-was-settled-in-1736-by-the-persecuted-salzburgers-640.jpg "[Plan of New Ebenezer, Ga., 1742, which was settled in 1736 by the persecuted Salzburgers of Bavaria at invitation of trustees of the Georgia colony; text in German]")
Cabinet d'un peintre / gravé par D. Chodowiecki à Berlin.
Image of an artist working at a small table while looking at a woman and group of children at another table in the room.
![Jerome de La Lande, de l'Aca. rle. des sciences de Paris, de celles de Londres, de Berlin, de Petersb., &c. Né ... 1732 / A. Pujas, [i.e. Pujos] del., 1773 ; B. Vlam, excudit ; C.F. Fritschius, sculp.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1773/01/01/jerome-de-la-lande-de-laca-rle-des-sciences-de-paris-de-celles-de-londres-de-640.jpg "Jerome de La Lande, de l'Aca. rle. des sciences de Paris, de celles de Londres, de Berlin, de Petersb., &c. Né ... 1732 / A. Pujas, [i.e. Pujos] del., 1773 ; B. Vlam, excudit ; C.F. Fritschius, sculp.")
Jerome de La Lande, de l'Aca. rle. des sciences de Paris, de celles de...
Half-length portrait of French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande.
![[The surprise attack on Maestreicht(?)] / H.B.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1775/01/01/the-surprise-attack-on-maestreicht-hb-640.jpg "[The surprise attack on Maestreicht(?)] / H.B.")
[The surprise attack on Maestreicht(?)] / H.B.
Troops of the White King advancing on the fortress Marxreich(?).
Friedrich der grosse könig von Preussen &c. Frédéric le grand roi de P...
Print showing Frederick II, King of Prussia, on horseback, facing left.
![Hamburgh in red, the city in green : [Washington D.C.].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1790/01/01/hamburgh-in-red-the-city-in-green-washington-dc-1-640.jpg "Hamburgh in red, the city in green : [Washington D.C.].")
![[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / Wm. Wadsworth(?).](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1798/01/01/french-atrocities-in-germany-during-napoleonic-war-1796-wm-wadsworth-640.jpg "[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / Wm. Wadsworth(?).")
![Hamburgh in red, the city in green : [Washington D.C.].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/hamburgh-in-red-the-city-in-green-washington-dc-640.jpg "Hamburgh in red, the city in green : [Washington D.C.].")
Dees Nederlandsche Koe, altoos door Waereld-grooten ...
Dutch political cartoon about the partitioning of the Netherlands shows the shorning and dismembering of the "Nederlandsche" cow. The "Neêrlands" lion, an enraged Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (with sword dr... more
![[Head-and-shoulders portraits of Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Peter Schöffer, Melanchton, Johann Fust, and Lucas Cranach] / Stahlstich v. Carl Mayer's Kunst-Anstalt in Nürnberg.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/head-and-shoulders-portraits-of-johann-gutenberg-martin-luther-peter-schoffer-640.jpg "[Head-and-shoulders portraits of Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Peter Schöffer, Melanchton, Johann Fust, and Lucas Cranach] / Stahlstich v. Carl Mayer's Kunst-Anstalt in Nürnberg.")
Les dames de la Halle partant pour aller chercher le Roi a Versailles,...
Print shows a large procession of women and some members of the National Guard, with a carriage and a covered wagon, marching to Versailles.
Luftfahrt des Herrn Professors Bourguet ; zu Berlin den 23 May Ao 1804...
Bust portrait of Professor Bourguet. Surrounding portrait are illustrations of items related to ballooning including barrels of gas, books and a compass, a balloon, and a parachute.
Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batc...
Print shows Napoleon standing before a large "New French Oven for Imperial Gingerbread" drawing out a freshly baked kings labeled "Bavaria, Wirtembg, [and] Baden." On the left, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pér... more
Friedrich I Barbarossa, Emperor of Germany, 1121-1190
Head and shoulders, facing slightly right.
Cascade du Rio de Vinagre, près du volcan de Puracé / dessiné par Koch...
Illustration showing a waterfall on the Vinagre River near the Puracé volcano in Colombia.
![[Maximilian I] J. Stieler pinx ; B. Rausch del.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1810/01/01/maximilian-i-j-stieler-pinx-b-rausch-del-640.jpg "[Maximilian I] J. Stieler pinx ; B. Rausch del.")
[Maximilian I] J. Stieler pinx ; B. Rausch del.
Print shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Maximilian I., King of Bavaria, after a painting by Joseph K. Stieler, made around 1810.
Frederick William the third, King of Prussia
Frederick William III, King of Prussia, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.
Luther verbrennt die päpstliche Bulle und das canonishe Recht vor Witt...
Print shows a small crowd gathered to watch Martin Luther burn the papal bull Exsurge Domine from Leo X (condemning Luther's ideas and threatening him with excommunication) and the canon law in front of a churc... more
A new map of South Carolina with its canals, roads & distances from pl...
The earliest general map to show the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company's line which began in Charleston, S.C. It was completed to Hamburg, S.C., in 1833. Its 136 miles of track were then the longest in... more
Der Gärtner
Print shows a man, the gardner, holding a basket of produce, standing next to many baskets of various fruits and vegetables, with watering can, rake, shovel, and a view of orchard on the right, in the background.
Der Buchbinder
Print shows two men working at a bookbindery.
Der Gärber
Print shows men working in a shop tanning leather.
Der Uhrmacher
Print shows a man making a small clock in a clock making shop.
Der Webstuhl
Print shows a man weaving on a loom.
Papier
Print shows three men making paper; one standing at a vat with a screen, one working a press, and in the background, the third appears to be sizing the hand-made paper in a small vat before drying.
Der Schneider. Der Knopfmacher
Print shows a tailor cutting cloth and two female(?) assistants sewing; on the right is a man making buttons.
Der Wagenbauer
Print shows two men working in a shop making a carriage.
Die Kunst Häringe einzusalzen
Print shows men salting herring and packing in barrels on a wharf or the shore near a large sailing ship.
Der Böttcher
Print shows a cooper making a barrel.
Seife, Kerzen, Lichte
Print shows four men working in a shop making soap and candles.
Der Schumacher
Print shows two men working in a shoe shop.
Der Hutmacher
Print shows three men working in a haberdashery or hat makers shop.
Das Oel
Print shows two men working a screw press for extracting oil and a man with a horse working a stone press in the background.
Der Kürschner
Print shows two men working at a furrier's shop making fur coats and other garments.
Der Sattler
Print shows a man working in a shop making saddles and bridles.
A bivouack in safety or Florida troops preventing a surprise
Another parody of Van Buren administration efforts to end the long and costly Second Seminole War in Florida. The War Department was regularly subjected to public and congressional attacks for cruelty, waste, a... more
Die Fischerei
Print shows a fisherman holding oars, standing on the shore next to a lobster, eel, fish, and shellfish, with a man fishing from the opposite shore, a man with net in a boat, and large fishing boats in the background.
![[Front page of the Illustrated London news, illustrated with view of London from waterfront, and view of the destruction of the city of Hamburg by fire]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1842/01/01/front-page-of-the-illustrated-london-news-illustrated-with-view-of-london-from-640.jpg "[Front page of the Illustrated London news, illustrated with view of London from waterfront, and view of the destruction of the city of Hamburg by fire]")
Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the...
Compiled by a publisher and small enough to fit into a pocket, this manual gives directions for polka quadrilles, mazurka quadrilles, and "The New Redowa," all "as taught by Mr. Durang and daughter." Other danc... more
Strassenbilder / bei F.G. Schulz in Stuttgart.
Print shows six scenes of people engaged in various occupations: a milk maid; a fishmonger; figurine seller; a coachman with coach; an organ grinder; and a fruit seller. Captions under the images are in English... more
Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg b...
Portrait of a "cholera-preservative woman". Text below describes the clothing and devices she and her dog use to ward off the disease.