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[Aeneas' ship landing on an island]

Illus. in: French ed. of Virgil's Aeneid, publ. in Lyon in 1483 by Guillaume Le Roy. Reference copy may be in LOT 4714. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regio...

Frontspiece in: Epytoma in Almagestum / Regiomontus. Venice : J. Hammam, 1496. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 29.

[Title page of Witelo, De Natura, illus. with composite of various phe...

Illus. in: Witelo, De Natura, 1535. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rainbow; Light; Natural phenomena; Science; BI Works; RBD; Shelf.

[Man's head, showing anatomy of brain; and surrounding text]

Illus. and text in: De humani corporis fabrica / Andreas Vesalius. Basileae :[Ex Officina I. Oporini], 1543, p. 605 Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congr... More

[Exercises of youth]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōniere ... anno MDLXIIII. Qvae est secvnda pars Americae ... / Auctore Iac... More

Ceremonies used when killing enemies and eating these. Methods of kill...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 83. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Of the unicorne [sic] - Public domain dedication image

Unicorn facing right with one leg in air. Illus. and text in: The historie of foure-footed beastes / Edward Topsell. London : W. Laggard, 1607, p. 711. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno.... More

[Title page of Nova Brittania: offering most excellent fruits by plant...

Illus. in: Nova Brittania: offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia (London, 1609) Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1628, supposed author. File print on back of VA. HISTORY COLONIAL PERIOD card. This rec... More

Il [mondo] e [per] lo piu [gabbia] di [matti] / Giuseppe Ma. Mitelli i...

Print shows a large cage containing all manner of men, from scientists and musicians to the dregs of society. Sitting outside on the top of the cage are Fortune, whom all desire to reach, and the artist, busily... More

Wenceslaus Hollar - [Horse, rose, narcissus, etc.]

Animalium, ferarum et bestiarum, florum, etc., no. 12. LeBlanc 2 (101-112) Parthey 2075.

[Murder of the missionaries by the Indians]

Illus. in: Historiae Canadensis - New France. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Canada; Relig. Missionaries; Indians & w.; Shelf.

Umbständliche Relation und Vorstellung des durch die tapfere Venetiani...

Print shows two birds-eye views. The upper image shows a view of the walled city of Patras, Greece, the gulf of Lepanto beyond, and two smaller fortifications on either side of the Dardanelle straits further in... More

Wonders of the invisible world: being an account of the trials of seve...

Title page; no illus. No ref. copy. Illus. in: Wonders of the invisible world: being an account of the trials of several witches, lately executed in New England...by Cotton Mather. This record contains unverifi... More

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

El almirante Christoral Colon descubre la Isla Españ̃ola, iy haze pone...

Etching shows Christopher Columbus being greeted by native people upon his landing on the island of Hispanola. In the background, soldiers plant a cross and native women flee from the arriving sailors. Illus. i... More

[Socrates] standing before seated group in temple portico; large crowd...

Engraving by L.P. Boitard. Illus. in: Cooper, The Life of Socrates, London, 1750, p. 115. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Sir Isaac Newton, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Mezzotint by James McArdell after Enoch Seeman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Orig. in Hubbard Coll. 5415-11 "A".

Paul Revere - [The coffin of Patrick Carr]

Print shows section of newspaper column with illustration of the coffin bearing skull and crossbones and the initials of Patrick Carr, who died from wounds received during the Boston Massacre. Illus. in: The B... More

[Title page of An argument in the case of James Sommersett ...]

Text in: Hargrave, Francis. An argument in the case of James Sommersett,... London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Otridge ..., 1772, title page. Published in: Slavery in the courtroom : an annotated bi... More

Blessed are the peacemakers, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two men representing Spain and France leading George III by a rope attached to his neck and Lord Shelburne through a gateway formed by spears, from the crossbar of which are tumbling the British lio... More

Abolition of the slave trade, or the man the master, British Cartoon P...

Illustration shows the reversal of roles for slaves and slave masters, with former slaves now in the role of the slave master. No known restrictions on publication. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collect... More

New York from Brooklyn - Public domain book illustration, Library of C...

Bird's-eye view with Brooklyn Bridge on right. Copyright by Irving Underhill. No. D-420.

Enterprise and Boxer. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the American warship Enterprise engaged in battle with HMS Boxer. In decorative border with anchors, American flags, ship rigging, an eagle, and cameo portraits of two ships.

Mystery of Babylon. Book illustration from Library of Congress

An anti-religious satire attacking most of the major denominations of the nineteenth century, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Calvinists, Universalists, Methodists, Baptists, and Quakers. The artist parodi... More

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More

Der Schumacher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two men working in a shoe shop. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

Luftschiffahrt. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Caricature of early commercial airship travel; elevated airship platform station in Vienna. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. ... More

Port of Galveston [Texas] - Public domain book illustration, Library o...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1845 Jan. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Title page and last page of Strange Phenomena of New England in the 1...

Title page. Illus. in: Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the "Salem Witchcraft, 1692", from the writing of Cotton Mather, New York, 1846, title page. This record contains unverified... More

[Animal and plant cells drawn to show their similar nature and origin]...

Illus. in: Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Theodor Schwann. London : Sydenham Society, 1847. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. ... More

[The chief's daughter] / J. G. Chapman, del. ; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch...

Native woman standing in stream, clutching her clothes to her breast. Illus. in: The Evergreen. Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1847, title page. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for th... More

Entrance to Kanesville or Council Bluffs; Iowa, 1847?

Engraving by Chas. B. Hall. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Iowa, Council Bluffs; Mormons; Shelf.

"Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn out of the breasts of both T...

Questions & answers. Illus. in: The New England Primer Improved, 1773. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Alphabets; Primers; Shelf.

[Library of Congress Catalog, no. 5; invoice of 1800]

Shows pages 2 and 3 with lists of books and prices. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Broadside concerning repeal of Stamp Act, printed in Boston, May 16, ...

Reference copy may be in 4412 AB. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist.; Shelf.

St. Jerome interrupting his work of translating the Hebrew and Greek t...

Woodcut by Durer. Illus. in: St. Jerome's Letters (Rare Book Division - Thatcher Collection). Ref. copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

General Burgoyne / Pollard sc., Head and Shoulders Portrait

General John Burgoyne, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in medallion. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present war in America; containing an acc... More

The Virgin and Child on a grassy bench

Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 31; Hollstein 31; Bartsch 34; Panofsky 141. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. mark on vereso: Hubbard (Lugt. suppl. 1267b). Hubbard Collection. This re... More

[Title page of Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, ..., by In...

Illus. in: Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, ..., 1693, title page. LC-USZ62-8905 is neg. of title page and frontispiece portrait. This record contains unverified, old data from capt... More

Pope Gregory XIII. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Engraving by Domenico Pellegrino Tibaldi. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists wks.; BI; Shelf.

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More

The Battle of New Orleans January 8th 1815 / drawn by O. Pelton ; engd...

Print shows General Andrew Jackson, American soldiers, African Americans, and irregulars firing on the advancing British forces from behind bales of cotton at the Battle of New Orleans. Engraved expressly for ... More

[Two large ducks with chicks] - Public domain book illustration

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1938:0056, DLC/PP-1938:0066, DLC/PP-1938:0071, or DLC/PP-1938:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

How did your husband find out? asked the head faintly

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Telegram" by Robert Livingston Beecher, Collier's weekly (July 1, 1905), p. 17.

Das Zeitalter der Reformation - Public domain book illustration

Allegorical composite group of eighty men and one woman (Elizabeth I of England) prominent in the Protestant Reformation.

[Troops on the march, Spanish American War]

Title devised by cataloger. Illustration for McClure's magazine; not published. No accession number. Pencil sketch of uniformed figure at upper right. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

Das alte Rom mit dem Triumphzuge Kaiser Constantin's im Jahre 312 n. C...

Photographs of the painted panorama designed by J. Bühlmann and executed in collaboration with A. Wagner. "New York: Franz Hanfstaengl Fine Art Publishing House ; London W.: J. Gerson." Photographs are mounted ... More

John Singleton Copley - William Sharp - The seige and relief of Gibral...

Engraving by William Sharp after painting by J.S. Copley. Copyright by J.S. Copley.

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis. or - The vessel of the Constitut...

Pitt steering small boat, The Constitution, which also carries Britannia, towards a castle with a flag inscribed "Haven of Public Happiness". They are pursued by Sheridan, Fox, and Priestley, who are sharks, do... More

Christmas Eve - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hoover, J.

The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stan...

A satire touching on some of the major issues in Connecticut politics on the eve of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The two rival factions shown are the "Federals," who represented the trading inter... More

The issue joined. Book illustration from Library of Congress

An indignant James K. Polk takes issue with Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster's public attacks on his Texas policy. In 1844 Webster had been opposed to the annexation of Texas and in 1846 he criticized atta... More

The honble. John Hancock of Boston in New-England, president of the Am...

Print shows John Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval frame. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / ... More

Jim Crow - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows African American man in tattered clothes walking or dancing as a couple of animals dressed as humans stroll alongside a river with a steamboat and sailboat. Mounted with another print of Jim Crow s... More

Caucus on the Surplus Bill - Public domain book illustration, Library ...

A derisive view of Andrew Jackson's reluctant, politically-minded endorsement of the Distribution Act, or "Surplus Bill," a measure authorizing distribution of surplus federal funds among the states. Facing the... More

View of Romney, Va. Hampshire County

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed in black ink below image. Inscribed above image No. 1. West Va. Inscribed below image: 4 Ohio Connel [sic] Masons Camp; West view of Romney Va. Hampshire County Co... More

[Leone Battista Alberti, 1404-1472, bust portrait, facing right, witho...

Illus. in: Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de piv eccellenti pitteri..., 1568; part 2, vol. 1, p. 366. Reference copy may be in Biog File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

[Geometric figure of earth, sun, and moon calculated by Aristarchus to...

Illus. in: De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae / Aristarchus of Samos. Pisauri : Apud. C. Francischinum, 1572, p. 30. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : L... More

Navigational charts & designs: Astrolab [to take the altitude of the s...

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 70. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

Far che con un dracone ... - Public domain dedication image

An automatic theater run by a water siphon system, moving Hercules, with club, a dragon, and a fountain; surrounding text and decorated initial V. Illus. and text in: Gli artifitiosi et curiosi moti spiritali d... More

Captain Teach, alias Blackbeard

Illus. in: The History and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews. London, 1725. Reference copy may be in LOT 4248. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More

Jonathan's Coffee House or An analysis of change alley with a group of...

"An engraving by the hand which produced "Dr. Squintum's Exaltation", No. 4005, showing the interior of "Jonathan's Coffee House", Change Alley, Cornhill, London, a place frequented by dealers in stocks, public... More

A Plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666;...

Engraving by Sparrow after Ch. Wren. Illus. in: John Knox, A New Collection of Voyages..., London, 1676, v. 7. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI WORKS; Arch.... More

Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the followin...

Title page from Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Caption continues: I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession... More

[Illus. of 3 constellations: "Le Bouvier" (Bootes - the Ploughman), "L...

Illus. in: Atlas Celeste, Paris, 1776. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dogs; Agriculture; Astornomy; RBD; Shelf.

"The rights of man; or Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking...

"Tom Paine, lean, and grotesquely caricatured, crouches, kneeling on one knee, to apply his tape-measure to a gigantic crown standing on the ground, the greater part of which is cut off by the right margin of t... More

Title page, with no illus., of Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, Liberté E...

Illus. in: Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, Liberté Egalité, n.p., 1793, title page. No reference copy . This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; France Hist. 1793; ... More

[Potter Jackson, a free black man who worked as a seaman, tied to rigg...

Illus. in: The remarkable case of Potter Jackson, 1807 .... Published in: Slavery in the courtroom : an annotated bibliography of American cases / Paul Finkelman. Washington : Library of Congress, 1985, p. 270.

A Lady going to visit - Public domain portrait engraving

Illustration showing slaves carrying woman in sedan chair across street. Illus. in: Travels in Brazil / Henry Koster. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, pl. opposite p. 188.

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 - Public domain portrait engraving

Head and shoulders, facing left. Engraving by G. Rouen? after F. Benvenuti. Illus. in: Memoire e leffre ... Galileo Galilei, 1821, frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified d... More

Capitol of the United States, Washington / drawn by H. Brown ; engrave...

Engraving showing Capitol building in background; people walking, riding horses, riding in carriages on road leading to the Capitol. On verso: John Hinton, History Topography of the U.S. 1830-32.

Jinnoowine [i.e. "genuine"] Johnson ticket. "Carrying the war into Afr...

An illustrated election ticket for the presidential campaign of 1836. Oddly, the ticket lists Ohio's Democratic electors for Van Buren while making a vicious and obscene slur on the wife of his running-mate Ri... More

[Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.]

Illus. in: The Book of Common Prayer, London: William Pickering. 1844. Ref. copy may be in SSF - RELIGION. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Religion; Title pages.

[Title page of The Holy Bible (printed at London by Robert Barker, 163...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4444. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; Bible; Rare Bk. Div.; Shelf.

Illumination of Solomon and Sheba - Old Testament I

Kings, X, "Giant Bible of Mainz." Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. Illus. in: "Giant Bible of Mainz." Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. N... More

Johannes Staden of Hessen fights with French ship at Buttugaris, Brazi...

Battle between 3 ships and Indians. Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, page 7. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ca... More

[Benito Juárez, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, upper left.

[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar y...

Illus. in: 1st ed. of Regiomontanus' Calendarium, Nuremburg, 1474. See: QJ, Jan. 1965. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cale... More

[List of archaic names and new scientific names to standardize nomencl...

Text in: Methode de nomenclature chimique / Louis Berard, baron Guyton de Morveau. Paris : Cuchet, 1787, pp. 124-125. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Con... More

[Florentine banker-merchant. 16th century], engraving, Library of Cong...

Illus. in: Jacobus de Cessolis, Volgarizzamento del libro de' costumi e degli offiziide' nobili..., 1829. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397 T. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

[A tarred and feathered man standing on hands and feet with a rope att...

Possibly from series published by Carrington Bowles; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5232. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prin... More

Johann Theodor de Bry - Hic est draco caudum suam devorans

Dragon or ouroboros devouring itself by the tail, and text of epigram in alchemical emblem book. Illus. and text in: Atalanta fugiens / Michael Maier. Oppenheimii : Es typographia H. Galleri, sumptibus J.T. de ... More

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Diptych of Adam & Eve with snake and priest celebrating Mass separated by Jesus on Cross. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505) p. ccxxix - verso, v. 2. Ref. cop... More

[Bird's-eye view of a Native American deer hunt in New France (Canada)...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, opp. p. 52.

Steamer PASSPORT - Public domain image of a steam boat

Advertisement for Canadian steamer service between Montreal and Milwaukee, 1857. Reference copy may be in LOT 4426 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Capt... More

The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill

Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two p... More

Attack at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. - Public domain portrait engraving

Soldiers on ridge and scaling ridge during the Civil War. Engraving after painting by Chappel. Copyright by Johnson, Fry & Co.

The Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866

A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the conventi... More

Leaders of the Democratic Party, Confederate States of America.

A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is... More

Huckleberry Finn / E.W. Kemble.

Illustration showing Huckleberry Finn, full-length portrait, holding gun and rabbit. Frontispiece in: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) / by Mark Twain. New York : Charles L. Webster and Co.... More

Three gardens. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's second reader. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1888, p. 104.

Some of the boys going a 'grailing

(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 113.

[Sea lion and fish] - Public domain book illustration

[Two Coo-coo birds] - Public domain book illustration

Tom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911) and incidents in the building of the th...

Portrait of Johnson as Mayor of Cleveland writing at desk, framed by 8 photos. J153755 U.S. Copyright Office Composite of repro. of photoprints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with... More

The federal pillars. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A series of prints published over several months showing columns, each labeled after a state, being placed upright by a hand extending from a cloud. The first print, published January 16, 1788, labeled "United ... More

[Florida Indians planting seeds of beans or maize]

Timucua men cultivating a field and Timucua women planting corn or beans. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōn... More