Barbary Collection

Barbary lion in the New York Zoological Park
Postcard showing " Sultan" the barbary lion in the New York Zoological Park. Date: circa 1920

Blasting Limpets by William Heath Robinson
Heath Robinsons Encyclopaedia of Sport - X. Blasting limpets on the Barbary Coast. Another unusual sport suggested by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Events / Africa / Libya
The U.S. wages war on Algerian pirates : Stephen Decaturs life is saved when Reuben James interposes his head between a pirate sword and his commander

Barbary macaque or magot, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Copperplate engraving by P.F. Tardieu after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffons Histoire Naturelle

Dick Whittington by Arthur Rackham
Dick Whittington arrives on the coast of Barbary, and everyone from the ship is entertained by the Moors. When they are invaded by rats and mice

Eastern prickly pear, Opuntia ficus-indica (Opuntia vulgaris). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L

Map of Africa, 1820. Showing Morocco, Barbary and the Sahara in the north, Soudan and Guinea in the west, Khoikhoi (Hottentots) and Bantu (Caffres) in the south, and Abyssinia and Sennaar in the east

Tunis, Coast of Barbary

Sudan, Sahara and Barbary

New Additions to Zoological Gardens, London
Sketches of the new additions to the Zoological Gardens, London. These include Catfish, Black Eyebrowed Albatross, Pleasant Antelope, Black-faced Chimpanzee, American Moose, and Wild Sheep

Brown Bears and Barbary Sheep on Mappin Terrace - London Zoo
Brown Bears and Barbary Sheep on Mappin Terrace at London Zoo by Charles Howard

Cinema showing Barbary Coast, West End of London
A West End of London cinema at night with passing taxi, and news vendor. The film is Barbary Coast, starring Miriam Hopkins and Edward G Robinson. Date: 1935

Title page with vignette of enslaved man with chain around his neck under a palm tree. Copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes in Africa for the Amusement

Scenes from Tripoli in the Barbary States, 1820
Hunting lions in the Barbary States 10, camels and drivers sleeping in the desert 11, and Arabs inviting travellers to dine 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Scenes of the Eastern Cape (Kaffraria), South Africa, 1820
Nguni or Bantu (Kaffir) warrior hunting antelope with spears 55, forsaking a woman drowning in a river 56, and worshipping an anchor from an East India ship 57

Scenes from the Barbary coast of Africa, 1820
Barbary corsair pirates boarding a ship 1, audience with the Emperor of Morocco 2, and Christian enslaved persons harnessed to a wagon 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Mahuwa tree, Madhuca longifolia. (Bassia longifolia, Bassia di lunghe foglie.) Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Reis of Barbary, Ottoman naval captain. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805

Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus, endangered. Barbary ape or magot. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Barlow after an illustration by Johann Jakob Ihle from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of

Barbary ape or macaque, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Simia silvanus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by C.D. Henning after an illustration drawn from nature by C. J. G

Barbary lion, female, Panthera leo barbaricus, extinct
Barbary lion, female, Panthera leo barbaricus (Felis leoena barbarica) extinct. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836

Yak, musk ox, wild barbary sheep (extinct) and red sheep
Yak, Bos grunniens (vulnerable), musk ox, Ovibos moschatus, wild barbary sheep, Ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus (extinct), and red sheep, Ovis aries

Sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata (Callitris quadrivalvis). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants

Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. Vulnerable
Barbary breed of wild sheep, Ammotragus lervia. Vulnerable. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Barbary sheep or aoudad, Ammotragus lervia. Vulnerable. (Bearded argali.) Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library

Barbary ape, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered
Barbary ape or Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus (Inuus sylvanus). Endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Argali, sheep, Racka sheep and Barbary sheep
Argali, Ovis ammon 1, sheep, Ovis aries 2, Racka sheep, Ovis aries strepsiceros hungaricus 3, and Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia 4

Chiffa, Blida, Algeria - Chef feeds an Old Barbary Macaque
Chiffa, Blida, Algeria - a town and gorge in the Tell Atlas Mountains of northern Algeria. This gorge is one of the few habitat areas in Algeria that supports a sub-population of the Barbary Macaque

TUNISIA. GABES. Matmata. Berber troglodyte architecture

Map / Nw Africa 1719
North-west Africa, showing portions of Barbary, land of the Berbers, known to Europeans as barbarians (today Morocco, Tunisia &c)

International Settlement (Old Barbary Coast), San Francisco, California, USA. The red light district - disappeared around the 1950s

Animals at a French Zoo - Barbary sheep - Sepia - mother and lamb. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide (3 or 7)

Animals at a French Zoo - Barbary deer - Col. Male stag - large horns - inside railed paddock. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Date: circa 1900

Thomas Cumming, Quaker
THOMAS CUMMING Merchant in Africa, led an expedition against the French in Barbary, earning the nickname The Fighting Quaker. Date: ? - 1774

Chalet Hotel, Chiffa Gorges, Blida, Algeria, North Africa
Chalet Hotel, Chiffa Gorges, Monkey Creek, a Barbary apes colony near Blida, Algeria, North Africa. Date: circa 1910

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Barbary Sheep. Date: 1933

Magot or Barbary ape, Macaca sylvanus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Poppy-leaved vipers grass, native of Tangier on the Barbary coast, Scorzonera tingitana, . Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

The Red-legged Partridge from Barbary. Dixon, Samuel fl.1748 - 1769

Falco pelegrinoides, barbary falcon
Three barbary falcon egg specimens

Barbary Ape and Young
A proud mother Barbary Ape and her baby ape on the Rock of Gibraltar. Date: late 1960s

Barbary Spider
The FASCIATA or BARBARY spider in its web with some flies it caught earlier. Date: 1795

Little girl with a Gibraltar Barbary Macaque
A little girl sitting next to a Gibraltar Barbary Macaque (Macaca Sylvanus), trying to imitate its mannerisms. These animals are found on the Upper Rock of Gibraltar

Barbary Ape or Macaque. Despite its name it is a monkey, not an ape

A man and woman of Tunis, Algiers or Tripoli
A man and woman of Tunis, Tunisia - Algiers, Algeria or Tripoli, Libya. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Lear / Nonsense / The Cape
There was an Old Man of the Cape, who possessed a large Barbary ape, Till the ape one dark night, set the house all alight, which burned that Old Man of the Cape

View of Tunis
A general view of Tunis, a celebrated town in Barbary

Khayr Ad-Din / Barbarossa
KHAYR AD-DIN known as Barbarossa II Ottoman admiral and Barbary pirate

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