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This is an illustration taken from the 1894 edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

This image shows Carl Spitzweg's painting Engländer in der Campagna (Englishmen in the Campagna

This is a portrait by Pompeo Batoni of Francis Basset (1715–1769), an an English nobleman and politician, who embarked on a Grand Tour of Italy in 1777. The image shows Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the background.

This item shows the title page for Jérôme Lalande's 'Travels in France, Italy and the Isle of the Archipelago; or The Writings of Several Places of Europe and the East' from 1763.

This image shows Abraham Ortelius's rendering of the imagined nation in Thomas More's Utopia.

Item shows the first page of the Treaty of Tordesillas from

This image shows a clipping from Rudyard Kipling's thirteenth installment in the "Letters of Marque" series published in the Pioneer Mail.

This image shows the title of the Garth Scrapbook containing Rudyard Kipling's "Letters of Marque" from the Pioneer Mail.

This item shows the cover of the Garth Scrapbook containing Rudyard Kipling's "Letters of Marque" from the Pioneer Mail

This item is a lettter of marque from Captain Antoine Bollo, conceded on February 27, 1809 by Mr. Dominique Malfino of Gênes, owner of the ship "Furet", a corsair (pirate ship) weighing fifteen 15 tons.