A set of plates by Antoine Jacquard representing designs in blackwork for sword handles, dagger hilts and pommels, decorated with abstracted foliage, grotesques, chimeric figures and drolleries. Produced between about 1610 and...

The Fugger family dynasty began in the mid-14th century with a modest textile business in the Swabian town of Augsburg. Over the next two hundred years the family amassed one of the greatest fortunes of all time. Through banking and mining interests...

Sketches from the John Fischetti Manuscript Collection at Columbia College Chicago "Main Street St Laurent Brittanny" France, 1945 New York, 1948 "American shoes proved to be much more interesting to the Danes than the American wearing...

Richard Verstegan (aka Richard Rowlands) (?1548-?1636) was a Catholic Anglo-Dutch antiquarian, goldsmith and book publisher. The first half of his life was spent in England, but his religion prevented him from obtaining a degree from Oxford University,...

Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms 'Histoire Naturelle des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux' There are a few more in the set. Other versions of this book are available (but I think the BNF copy has the best quality illustrations) from the Biodiversity...