Essay Collection

Insects of Surinam
Plate 7 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

Insects of Surinam
Plate 9 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

Insects of Surinam
Plate 4 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

Hylobates sp. Pongo pygmaeus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gori
Gibbon, orangutan, chimpanzee, gorilla and human. Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature. Illustration published in Mans Place in Nature, Vol. 7 from a collection of essays by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1863

Constance Edith Vaughan (1904 - c. 1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore - a
Constance Edith Vaughan (1904 - c.1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore - a modernist English writer best known for three well-esteemed novels: Celestial Seraglio (1929), Spleen (1930)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592). Writer of the French Renaissance. Portrait. Colored engraving

GRESSET WRITES
There was a French poet named Gresset, who was trying to write an essay, but the ink from his quill would splutter and spill, making poor Gressets essay so messy ! Date: circa 1750

Ricardo Palma (1833-1919). Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Portrait. Engraving. Colored

Library of Michel de Montaigne. Detail. Montaigne Castle. Fr
Library of writer and french humanist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). Detail of inscriptions in the roof-beam. Montaigne Castle. France

Booklet cover, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Are We Heading For War? published by the Labour Party in 1934. Date: circa 1933

Spain. Altar server singing. Essay. Engraving, 1886. Colored
Spain. Altar server singing. Essay. Engraving by Perez. Painting by Arcadio Mas y Fondevilla. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. 1886. Colored

Mark Twain (1835-1910). American writer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885. Engraving by M. Klinkicht. Colored

Essay of a Opera. Versailles. Engraving. Colored
Essay of a Opera. Versailles. Painting of Luis Jimenez Aranda (1845-1928). Spanish painter. Engraved by R. Brend Amour. The Artistic Illustration, 1887. Colored

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592). Writer of the French Renaissance. Portrait. Colored engraving

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867). French poet. Image colored

Washington Irving (1783-1859). American author, essayist, biographer and historian. Colored engraving

Walt Whitman (1819-1892). American poet. essayist and journalist. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881). British writer. Colored engraving

LOWELL, James (1819-1891). Poet, essayist and American diplomat. Colored engraving

Vi?ctor Hugo (1802-1885). French writer, exponent of the Romantic movement in France. Colored engraving

HEINE, Heinrich (1797- 1856). German writer
HEINE, Heinrich (Du?sseldorf, 1797-Paris, 1856). German writer. Engraving by Weger and Singer, 1885. Coloured

Feijoo, Benito Jeronimo (1673-1764), Spanish essayist
Feijoo, Benito Jeronimo (Casdemiro, 1673-Oviedo, 1764), Spanish essayist. Colored engraving

Archibald Cockburn
ARCHIBALD COCKBURN of St Kitts, churchman, author of Essay on the intermediate state of Blessed Souls which sounds quite interesting. Date: circa 1722

Insects of Surinam
Plate 14 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

Henry Thoreau with signature
1817-1862. American author, poet, naturalist, philosopher, abolitionist, tax resister, development critic, historian, surveyor and leading transcendentalist

Hutchinsons Essay
Title-page of the ESSAY CONCERNING WITCHCRAFT by the Rev Francis HUTCHINSON, a splendidly sceptical view of the subject

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