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  Publications, Illustrations

  Daisies

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of daisies from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to young readers,…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Daisies, Flowers, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  Garden Spider. Garden Spider Spinning Her Web

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustrations of a garden spider and web from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Spiders, Arachnida, Insects, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  The House Spider and Web

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of a house spider and web from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Spiders, Arachnida, Insects, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  Various Forms of Snow-crystals

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration depicting various forms of snow-crystals from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Snowflakes, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  Daffodil

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of a daffodil from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to young readers,…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Daffodils, Flowers
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  Publications, Illustrations

  Wallflower

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of a wallflower from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to young readers,…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Flowers, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  Caterpillar of Cabbage Butterfly

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of a caterpillar of a white cabbage butterfly from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Caterpillars, Scientific illustration
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  Publications, Illustrations

  White Cabbage Butterfly

  • Part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature

  • 1899

  Illustration of a white cabbage butterfly from the 1899 volume Princess & Fairy, or The Wonders of Nature. Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, the volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to…

  • Author Martyn, Lily
  • Publisher W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
  • Subject Natural history, Children's literature, Science, Science--Study and teaching, Butterflies, Scientific illustration
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Detail view of tessellated pavement

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Detail view of a portion of tessellated pavement, one of a series of Roman antiquities excavated from the Gloucestershire village of Woodchester in England.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Great Britain, Britannia (Camden, William), England, Classical antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology), England--Woodchester
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  Rare books, Engravings

  View of Stonehenge and ground plans by Wood, Jones, Smith, and Stukeley

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Engraving by Francis Cary (active 18th century) depicting a view of Stonehenge and several ground plans meant to convey speculative representations of the original arrangement of Stonehenge as it once was, rather than…

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Engraver Cary, Francis
  • Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Maps, Britannia (Camden, William), England, England--Stonehenge
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Cerne Abbas Giant and Maiden Castle ground plan

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Engraving by Francis Cary (active 18th century) depicting the Cerne Abbas Giant (Figure 2) and ground plan of Maiden Castle (Figure 3). The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure outlined by shallow trenches cut in the turf…

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Engraver Cary, Francis
  • Subject Great Britain, Travel, Maps, England, Britannia (Camden, William), Cerne Giant (England), England--Maiden Castle, Fortification, Prehistoric, England--Dorset
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plan & Elevations of Old Sarum

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Engraving by James Basire (1769-1822) depicting the plan and elevations of Old Sarum, the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Engraver Basire, James, 1769-1822
  • Subject Maps, Britannia (Camden, William), England, England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plan of the Roman Bath, Discovered in the City of Bath, 1755

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Maps, Ruined buildings, Britannia (Camden, William), England, Baths, Roman, England--Bath
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Ground Plot of the Roman Bath, Discovered in the City of Bath, 1755

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Maps, Ruined buildings, Britannia (Camden, William), England, Baths, Roman, England--Bath
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate of Celts

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Engraving depicting 16 celts (prehistoric stones or metal implements with a beveled cutting edge) excavated from locations throughout Great Britain.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Britannia (Camden, William), Celts, Excavations (Archaeology), Tools, Prehistoric
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate of Urns

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Engraving by English cartographer and engraver John Cary (c. 1754-1835) depicting 24 urns excavated from locations throughout Great Britain.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Engraver Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835
  • Subject Britannia (Camden, William), Urns, Excavations (Archaeology)
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Saxon Coins (Plate 1)

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Great Britain, Coins, Britannia (Camden, William), Numismatics, Coins, Anglo-Saxon
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  Rare books, Engravings, Maps

  Saxon England According to the Saxon Chronicle

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Map of Saxon England based upon descriptions in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Great Britain, Maps, Britannia (Camden, William), England, Islands, Anglo-Saxon chronicle
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  Rare books, Maps, Engravings

  Britannia Romana Collected from Ptolemy, Antonine's Itinerary, the Notitia, and Inscriptions

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  Map of Britain in Roman times drawn from several sources, including the works of Ptolemy and The Itinerary of the Emperor Antoninus, a register of the stations and distances along the various roads of the Roman empire.

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Maps, Britannia (Camden, William), England, Islands
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Roman Coins

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Coins, Coins, Roman, Britannia (Camden, William), Numismatics
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  Rare books, Engravings

  British Coins

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1806

  • Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Subject Great Britain, Coins, Britannia (Camden, William), Numismatics
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Portrait of William Camden (1551-1623)

  • Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 1

  • 1789 (Date of engraving)
  • 1806 (Date of publication)

  Portrait of English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald William Camden (1551-1623). Camden is best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland,…

  • Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  • Printer J. Nichols and Son
  • Engraver Basire, James, 1769-1822
  • After Gheeraerts, Marcus, 1561-1635 or 1636, Lodder, W.P.J.
  • Subject Britannia (Camden, William), Camden, William, 1551-1623, Portraits, Historians, Antiquarians
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938)

  • 1920s

  Portrait of chemist and industrial consultant Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938) best known for his contributions to the turpentine and pulp industries in the United States.

  Charles Holmes Herty was born on December 4,…

  • Photographer Alman & Co.
  • Subject Chemists, Portraits, Chemistry, Herty, Charles H. (Charles Holmes), 1867-1938, Turpentine industry and trade
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  Portraits, Photographs

  Portrait of Carleton Ellis (1876-1941)

  • Circa 1938

  Portrait of chemist and prolific inventor Carleton Ellis (1876-1941) best known for his involvement in the development of margarine, polyester, anti-knock gasoline, and paint and varnish remover.

  Carleton Ellis was…

  • Photographer Winburn, Jay Te
  • Subject Portraits, Chemists, Inventors, Ellis, Carleton, 1876-1941, Chemistry, Organic, Chemistry, Paint industry and trade
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  Photographs

  Portrait of Charles Stine (1882-1954)

  • 1940s

  Portrait of industrial chemist and long-time Du Pont executive Charles Stine (1882-1954).

  Charles Milton Altland Stine was born on October 18, 1882 in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of author and clergyman Milton Henry…

  • Subject Chemists, Chemistry, Portraits, Stine, Charles M. A. (Charles Milton Altland), 1882-1954, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Explosives industry, Nylon