EditorialChicory, Cichorium intybus 1, and peppermint, Mentha piperita 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialVenditore di Cicorie (Chicory Vendor), Angelo Leone, Terracotta, Striding male figure on circular based. Bearded. Carries sack of chicory on right shoulder. Cap and bandana cover head and neck. Shirt and jerkin open at neck. Coat unbuttoned. Bag on rig...
EditorialCommon chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin,...
EditorialVarieties of wild chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with caption...
EditorialWild succory or chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill,...
EditorialBlue succory or common chicory, Cichorium intybus, Polygamia aequalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis' Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth...
EditorialRear-loading rifle with drawer and detachable skeleton flask, The rear mechanism of the lock is mounted in an iron case and attached to an elongated iron plate that forms an extension of the lock case. The pan is in a rectangular box that is screwed to...
EditorialFlint gun, Part of a couple. The castle is engraved with animals that are part of the hunt, there is a signature on the lock plate. The barrel has a trumpet engraved with hymnwork, is stamped with the arms of Utrecht and bears the signature. The flask ...
EditorialCucumber anguinus, Chicory, Illustration of a cucumber and a chicory from the 16th century, Fig. 104, p. 141v, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotati...
EditorialBitter herbs, endive and Chicory, Parallel Title: White Horehound, Syriac Cabbage Herb, Signed: G. D. He?man sculps, copperplate engraving, plate CXXXIX (Vol. 1), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Heumann, Georg Daniel (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: ...
EditorialFlint gun, Part of a couple. The castle is engraved with animals that are part of the hunt, there is a signature on the lock plate. The barrel has a trumpet engraved with hymnwork, is stamped with the arms of Utrecht and bears the signature. The flask ...
EditorialPair of flintlock pistols Flintlock pistol, The decoration of this gun is of high quality. Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with leaf scrolls and a signature, a groove runs over the tail plate tail, internally blued. The breech of the barrel is a...
EditorialPair of flintlock pistols, Flintlock pistol, The decoration of this gun is of high quality. Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with leaf scrolls and a signature, a groove runs over the tail plate tail, internally blued. The breech of the barrel is ...
EditorialHalf Model of a Screw Steamer, Stacking Model (starboard) of a three-mast propeller steamship. Closed deck and small campaign deck. Klippersteven with curl as figurehead. Elliptical gate with chicory, screw frame for screw light unit and rudder with ro...
EditorialHartsvanger, Hartsvanger or hunting sword called. The asymmetric hilt has a green ivory handle in the shape of the handle of a knife with three decorative knobs as if it were rivets, and is studded with silver, including a baffle plate, sawn and engrav...
EditorialIdentification chicory, more Helenlum, Illustration of a chicory and a plant called Helenium maius from the 16th century, Fig. 105, p. 142r, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Va...
EditorialCommon chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin,...
EditorialVarieties of wild chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with caption...
EditorialAn advertisement for Barber & Company, French Coffee . A luxury unknown in England French coffee as used in Paris ... Ten pence per pound … Roasted on the French principle and mixed with the finest bruges chicory. Barber & Co. 274 Regent Circus, Oxfo...
EditorialCommon chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin,...
EditorialVarieties of wild chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with caption...
EditorialChicory, Cichorium intybus 1, and peppermint, Mentha piperita 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialWild succory or chicory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill,...
EditorialChicory or succory, Cichorium intybus. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was...