Language Collection (page 4)

Sign Language Card
DACTYLOLOGIE - manual alphabet for deaf-mutes. Date: late 19th century

Fuchsia / Language of Flowers
Fuchsia personified

Heligoland Island
Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

Language of Flowers Card
The red rose says I am burning for you ! but the roses thorny stem says No !

Heraldry / Blazon
Blazon: showing elements from which coats of arms are composed including badge shape, colours, patterns & devices & how the badge is sub-divided and named

Woman in smart summer suit pushing a perambulator
Woman in smart summer suit pushing her baby in a very fine perambulator. Date: circa 1930s

Plastic card, Dollar Savings Bank, New York City, USA
Plastic card, Dollar Savings Bank, Third Avenue near 148th Street, New York City, USA -- one one side a calendar for the year, on the reverse details of opening times and services offered. Date: 1916

Lyc饠Franco-Libanais in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon
Grand Lyc饠 Franco-Libanais (GLFL) on the left, founded in 1909 by the Mission laﱵ e fran硩 se (French lay (or secular) mission) in Rue de Damas in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon

Tour of the Colonies - Quebec Illuminations - Royal Party watching illuminations at sea. Part of Box 246 Boswell collection - Tour of the Colonies. Quebec is a province in east-central Canada

The Channel Islands - St Peters pont - St Peters Port from Harbour. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port

Joan Rois de Corella (1435-1497). Valencian poet and humanist. Engraving that belongs to his work Psalter, printed in Venice in 1490 by Johan Bertezog. Colored

Practical exercises in fencing. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Body language -- a group of Italian boys. Date: circa 1970s

Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - Language Lesson
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - a language lesson accompanies a childrens tea party. Date: early 1900s

Culture Thrace. Marble funerary relief depicting a hracian h
Culture Thrace. Marble funerary relief depicting a thracian horseman. Dated in the second and third centuries A.D. It comes from Macedonia. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Funerary stele with inscription. Egypt
Egyptian Art. Late Period. Funerary stele with inscription. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Egyptian art. Stele with inscriptions
Egyptian art. Middle Kingdom. Stele with inscriptions. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Israel. Jerusalem. Cathedral of Saint James, 12th century, headquarters of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Armenian Quarter. Exterior

Canticles of Holy Mary. Reign of Alfonso X. 13th century. Miniature. Detail. Spanish reconquest. Christian castle siege

Canticles of Holy Mary. Codice of El Escorial. Written in Galician-Portuguese. Reign of Alfonso X. 13th century Miniature. Detail. Spanish reconquest. Christian castle siege

Ausias March (1400-1459). Medieval Valencian poet and knight
Ausias March (1400-1459). Medieval Valencian poet. Golden Century of catalan literature. Engraving. Colored

Teodoro Llorente Olivares (1836-1911). Spanish writer. Engr
Teodoro Llorente Olivares (1836-1911). Spanish writer. Colored engraving by P. Ross. La Ilustration Catalana, 1893. Colored

Syria. Maloula. Mar Tecla Monastery. Near East
Syria. Maloula. Town built into the rugged mountainside. Mar Tecla Monastery, pupil of St. Paul. Near East. Photo before Syrian Civil War

Quran. Kufic script. Archaeological Museum of Lahore. Pakistan

Joanot Martorell (1413-1468). Tirant lo Blanch. Initial Lett
Joanot Martorell (1413-1468). Valencian knight and writer. Tirant lo Blanch (Tirant the White). Initial letter of the inscription belonging to the print edition in Valencia in 1490 by Nicolau

Aristophanes (c. 446 BC c. 386 BC). Cover of his comedies
Aristophanes (c. 446 BC c. 386 BC). Comic playwright of ancient Athens. Cover of his comedies. Edition in Leiden (Lugdunum Batavorum), 1624. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Aguilo Tomas Cortes (1812-1882). Poet, novelist and pianist
Catalan literature. XIX. Aguilo Tomas Cortes (1812-1882). Poet, novelist and pianist Majorcan Spanish. Fables Book Cover

Funerary headstone with Greek inscription. Second half of the 1st century AD. Detail. Kerch Historical and Archaeological Museum. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine

Kufic scripture. Detail. Marble
Marble plaque with kufic scripture. 10th-11th centuries. Detail. Fatimid Period, Egypt. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Hieroglyphic writing. Relief detail from the tomb of Princes
Offering-bearers. Detail of the hieroglyphic writing. Limestone. From the tomb of Princess Nofert at Medum. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. C. 2550 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Treasury of the Athenians. 5th century BC. Inscription. Delp
Treasury of the Athenians. Temple built around 5th century BC. Detail of a hymn to Delphi, in ancient Greek, engraved in a wall. Apollo also appears with the zither. Delphi. Greece

Monumental inscription about Hadrian Emperor. 128-138 AD. St
Monumental inscription. Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, father of this country, the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix. Emperor Hadrian period. Stone. 128-138 AD

Tablet of terracotta with inscription in Cypriot syllabic script. Possibily a religious text or a commercial or administrative document. 410-375 BC. From Akanthou. British Museum. London. England

Limestone grave stele with greek epitaph of Theudaisios of E
Limestone grave stele with greek inscription, epitaph of Theudaisios of Euesperides. 300-50 BC. From Amathus, Cyprus. British Museum. London. England, United Kingdom

Troubadours singing and reciting a poem, written in Occitan. 12th and 13th centuries. Colored engraving

The Rosetta Stone. Greek scripture
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. Greek scripture. Detail. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC

The Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphical and demotic scripture
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. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC

The Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphical scripture
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. Detail

The Rosetta Stone. Demotic and Greek scripture
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. Demotic and Greek scripture

Meroitic stela
Sandstone Meroitic stela with one of the longest known texts in meroitic language. Are recognisable the names of the Queen Amanirenas

Amarna Letters. 14th century BC. Clay tablets with cuneiform script, mostly written in Akkadian. Designate a file of correspondence, mostly diplomatic

Frederic Mistral (1830-1914). French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Nobel Prize in literature in 1904. Portrait. Drawing, 1867. Colored

Llull, Ramon (1233 / 1235-1315 / 1316). Majorcan writer and phi
Llull, Ramon (1233/1235-1315/1316). Majorcan writer and philosopher. Colored engraving of Arbor Scientiae published in Barcelona in 1505. Episcopal Public Library. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Quran. Manuscript written by the scribe Hamail Sharif. Dated between 7th and 13th centuries. Archaeological Museum. Lahore. Pakistan

Iberian art. Inscription on lead. It comes from the Castle of La Fosca. Archaeological Museum of Girona. Catalonia. Spain

Bartolome de Torres Naharro (c. 1485- c. 1530). Spanish dramatist and Leonese language writer. Aquilana comedy. Home. Edition, 1517

Paris and Viana. 15th century
Catalan literature. Fifteenth century. Paris and Viana. Edition printed in Barcelona in 1494 by Diego Gumiel. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Paris and Viana. 15th century. Viana and Isabel
Catalan literature. Fifteenth century. Paris and Viana. Engraving depicting Viana and Isabel. Edition printed in Barcelona in 1494 by Diego Gumiel. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping