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Pausanias's Description of Greece (1485 manuscript)
Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.
Excerpt and photograph from Ella C. Sykes 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'
This is a photograph and excerpt from British travel writer Ella Constance Sykes's 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'
Letter of Marque, 1809
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.
A drawing of the entrance to the Kipling Room
The item is a drawing of the entrance to the Kipling Room, featured as part of an article for the the Dalhousie Review Vol. 26 No. 2
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Ballard 1 (The Garth Scrapbook)
Scrapbook contains Rudyard Kipling’s early works in the Pioneer Mail. Compiled by Sir William Garth (1854-1923), a British lawyer and advocate serving in Kolkata, India from 1885-1913, then acquired by Kipling collector Ellis Ames Ballard…
An Example of the Picturesque by William Gilpin
This image is a watercolour print taken from William Gilpin's 1782 book Observations on the River Wye.
Title page of William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye
This is an image of the title page to William Gilpin's book Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales, published in 1782.
Abraham Ortelius's map Thomas More's Utopia
This image shows Abraham Ortelius's rendering of the imagined nation in Thomas More's Utopia.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
This is a 1750 painting of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews painted by Thomas Gainsborough, showing the recently married landed gentry couple standing before their newly acquired picturesque property.
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