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Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting in garden Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Boy swearing in front of girl Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, then home again - Make the most of it (in English and French) Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little girl with letter on the beach (in English and French) Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Performing couple taking a bow on stage Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man swearing in front of parrot Date: 20th century
He: "I seed some of these ere Belguims to-day. They re a funny speakin peopleHe: " I seed some of these ere Belguims to-day. They re a funny speakin people; some on em yer can t understand what thay say." Date: 1914
Cartoon, Customs & Manners of ye Englyshe People - Sea Bathing. 19th century
Venerable Bede finishing his translation of St Johns Gospel into Anglo-Saxon, not long before he died. Date: 735
George Hoellering at the Academy CinemaGeorge Hoellering (1897-1980), Austrian film director, editor and producer, pictured outside the Academy Cinema at the junction of Poland Street and Oxford Street in London
Specimens of the Umin and Uchen characters in the language of Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis from Captain Samuel Turners Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in
The slender and globose Fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, Taste. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora
The racemose Passionflower, Religious superstitionThe racemose Passionflower, Passiflora racemosa, Religious superstition. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora
The beautiful Cactus, Horror. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations
The noble Ladys Slipper, ResemblanceThe noble Ladys Slipper, Cypripedium reginae, Resemblance. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora
Calligraphic title page with vignetteCalligraphic title page with botanical vignette. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after Eliza Eve Gleadall from her self-published The Beauties of Flora
Box lid, Le Petit Compositeur, gameBox lid, Le Petit Compositeur (The Little Compositor) game
Cartoon, Souvenir of the Trip to Annapolis of the Anti-Anderson League, Baltimore, 27 February 1908. A satire on the prohibition of alcohol movement. Date: 1908
New Year card in the shape of an ornate box, open to reveal essential information on the Language of Flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Trainee Signalmen use semaphore to spell their regimentcirca 1910s
The Language of Hairstyles - what one can glean from the state or choice of hairtsyle! On this card the different styles include: The Joan of Arc - The Permanent (wave) - After the Melee
Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581, by TorquatTorquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581. Epic poem. Chant I. Printed in Venice, 1788
Llull, Ramon (1233 / 1235-1315 / 1316). Majorcan writer and phiLlull, Ramon (1233/1235-1315/1316). Majorcan writer and philosopher. Engraving of Arbor Scientiae (Tree of Science) published in Leiden in 1635
DEAF / DUMB LANGUAGEThe sign language for the hands, devised by the Abbe lEpee for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. Date: circa 1770
DEAF-DUMB SIGN LANGUAGEThe Dumb Alphabet - a girl demonstrates the art of communicating with the deaf and dumb. Date: 1801
FOREIGNER ORDERS FOODA foreigner struggles to order a meal in a restaurant. Date: 1849
GRANDMOTHERS STORY Date: 1877
Language of HandshakeManners and Modes - the Language of the handshake
BABEL / CONSEQUENCESConsequences of the Tower of Babel An unfortunate dinner party seating arrangement. Date: 1879
DOROTHY JEFFREY / CORNISHDorothy Jeffrey (nee Pentreath) Allegedly the last speaker of Cornish. Date: 1685 - 1777
EPEE TEACHING DEAF MUTESLABBE DE LEPEE instructing deaf-mutes in the sign language he invented to enable them to communicate Date: 1712 - 1789
Ludwig L ZamenhofDr LUDWIG L ZAMENHOF German linguist, inventor of ESPERANTO which he hopes will become an international auxiliary language Date: 1859 - 1917
Storytelling - Tom SawyerTom Sawyer: Tom and Joe tell their adventures
View of the monument to the Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) in Moscow, Russia. It was erected in 1909 on Prechistensky Boulevard
Shakespeare Book Shop, Paris - 02Proprietor George Whitman in his Shakespeare and Company Book shop, on the Left Bank in Paris. First published in The Sunday Times. George Whitman 1913-2011
Shakespeare Book Shop, Paris - 01Proprietor George Whitman in his Shakespeare and Company Book shop, on the Left Bank in Paris. First published in The Sunday Times. George Whitman 1913-2011
Shakespeare quotes illustrated - the language of her bodyShakespeare quotes illustrated: " Theres language in her eye, her cheek, her lip - nay, her foot speaks" (" And this is the woman I have married" )
Helsingeland runic alphabetScandinavia. Helsingeland runic alphabet
Government bond, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, ChinaGovernment bond of the Chinese Republic, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, China, value 20. A 5% gold loan for 10M sterling. Date: 1913
Hittite art. Stele of King Bar-Rakib (744-727 BC) sitting oHittite art. Orthostat or stele of King Bar-Rakib (Barrakit 744-727 BC) sitting on the throne.750 BC. Zone of Sma al /Zincirli (Turkey) to South of Turkey. Detail. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island
Illyrian writing engraved on stone. 2nd century BC. From DuIllyrians, group of Indo-European tribes who inhabited part of the western Balkans in antiquity. Illyrian writing engraved on stone. 2nd century BC. From Durres. Archaeological Museum. Tirana. Albania
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC
Papyriform column. EgyptPapyriform column of grey granite. The abacus has the name of King Amenhotep III and the axis shows the name of Merneptah of the 19th Dynasty
Relief depicting Hatshepsut and hieroglyph on the walls. Temple of Hatshepsut. Egypt. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt
Glossary on a trench map of NW France, WW1Glossary on the back of a trench map of NW France, for the Peronne area, including Bouchavesnes, sheet 62c NW, dated 20 November 1916
Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto GoldminesShare certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944
Queen Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-TademaQueen [Princess] Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema, receiving a lesson in the English language from her Nurse before meeting King Henry V of England (from Henry V). 1888
Pere Serafi (1510-1567). Catalan painter and poet. Poetical Works. Barcelona, Edited by engraver Joseph Torner, 1840. Engraving. Colored