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The Magi

Długosz, Jan (1415-1480), Catalogus archiepiscoporum Gnesnensium, Kraków 1531-1535

#the magi #kings #gif #medieval #medieval art #16th century #manuscript

Jackfruit

De Alwis, George, Artocarpus integrifolia. Le jaquier, ca. 1893

#jackfruit #watercolor #botany #natural history #19th Century

Electrotherapy

Trzciński, Andrzej Jan Kanty (1749-1823), Dyssertacya o wzroście nauk wyzwolonych i mechanicznych..., Kraków 1787

#science #vintage #history #elecricity #medecine #Polona #18th Century

Tennis players

Iwonicz-Zdrój health resort, photoghraphy: Leon Starża Majewski, 1898.

#tennis #vintage #vintage photo #history #spa #19th Century #photography #Poland

Family on a walk

A bit haunting photo of Zofia Grodzicka and her children, ca. 1900-1909

#vintage photo #photography #Poland #20th Century #Polona

Polona/Typo

The Polona Typo project, based on the new Polona API, makes it possible to type, share and print your own sentences using thousands of letters from the books, posters and maps created over more than six centuries. Enjoy!

#typography #application #Polona #library #art #design

Elephants

Jonston, Jan (1603-1675), Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri cum aeneis figuris, Frankfurt ca. 1652

Engravings by Matthäus Merian.

#elephant #animals #art #Jonston #Merian #17th century #Polona #natural history

Ptolemaic world map

Ptolemaeus, Claudius (ca. 100-ca. 168), Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini Mathematicorum Principis, Seculo secundo, scilicet circa Annum à Nativitate Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Centesimum Trigesimum octavum, sub Antonio Pio, Imperatore Romano florentis manu Donni Nicolai Germani Presbyteri secularis descripta..., Florence (?) before 1467 (Warszawa, BN, Rps BOZ 2, tabl. I)

#medieval #medieval map #medieval art #old maps #Ptolemy #ptolemaic #world #Polona #art #history

Gesner’s cat

Gesner, Conrad (1516-1565), Historiae animalium lib. I de quadrupedibus uiuiparis. Opus philosophis, medicis, grammaticis, philologis, poetis et omnibus rerum linguarumq[ue] uariarum studiosis, vtilissimum simul iucundissimumq[ue] futurum..., Zurich 1551

#Gesner #cat #vintage cat #history #natural history #16th century #animals #Polona #scientific illustration

Human arteries

Drake, James (1667-1707), Anthropologia nova; or, a new system of anatomy : describing the animal oecomony, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies..., London 1707

#anatomy #Drake #18th century #print #arteries #dissection #science #history #Polona

Red Demons

‘Démons rouges’ – tandem cyclists Lamberjack and Gougoltz. Le cyclisme, Paris 1912

#cyclist #bicycle #vintage #photography #Polona #20th century #tandem

Unicorn

Przywiley okolo uniei za odjazdem Litt. (Polish parliament acts), after 1569

#unicorn #marginalia #manuscript #art #16th century #Polona

Time and Death

Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827), Time & Death their Thoughts impart on Works of Learning & of Art, London 1814

#death #allegory #Rowlandson #art #etching #19th century

Obeliscus Pamphilius

Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680), Obeliscvs Pamphilivs. Hoc est, interpretatio noua et hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici quem non ita pridem ex veteri hippodromo Antonini Caracallae Caesaris..., Rome 1650

#Kircher #obelisk #egyptian art #hieroglyphs #Polona #17th century #history

Bahar-i Danish

Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh (1608-1671), Abhār-i dānĭs (Spring of Knowledge), 1784

#Persian art #Indian art #manuscript #18th century #Polona #illuminated manuscript

Hippica

Dorohostajski, Krzysztof Mikołaj (1562-1615), Hippica to iest o koniach xięgi, Poznań 1620

#horses #bit #etchings #17th century #Polona #equestrianism

Lory parrot

Albin, Eleazar (fl. 1690 - ca.1742), Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, ornée de 306 estampes..., The Hague 1750

#parrot #animals #birds #etching #18th century #natural history #Albin #Polona

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