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Halifax Bomber Halifax Bomber
Halifax Bomber - Handley Page Long-range Bomber. One of the most formidable in the World. Four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines. Four-gun Bolton Paul Rear Turret. Date: circa 1940s

Mushrooms
A large number of mushroom varieties. Date: 1913

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

Avro Vulcan BMk1, Vickers Valiant BMk1, XD869, and Handley Page Victor BMk1, XA931

Handley Page Victor B1 XA930 taking off from Hatfield
Handley Page Victor B1, XA930, taking off from Hatfield on 14 July 1960 at 190, 000lb all-up weight assisted by de Havilland Spectre rockets. Date: 1960

Handley Page Victor K1 refuels 2 RAF McDonnell F-4 Phantoms
Handley Page Victor K1 refuels two RAF McDonnell F-4 Phantoms

Ms - Lindisfarne Gospel
Illumination from the Lindisfarne Gospels or Gospels of Saint Cuthbert (page facing the Gospel of Saint John)

Sunday Sport - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon
Front cover of the Sunday Sport Newspaper - April 24th 1988 - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon *Note usage restrictions as outlined below* 1988

Handley Page HP67 Hastings C2 WD493 of No114 Squadron
Handley Page HP67 Hastings C2, WD493, of No114 Squadron

Oliver Twist / Title Page
Title page

Oiseaux - birds
Page of birds including birds of prey and tropical birds. Date: 1930

A large variety of mushrooms, 1913. Date: 1913

Sherlock Holmes / Strand
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LADY FRANCES CARFAX Title page of the Strand Magazine

Religio Medici
RELIGIO MEDICI Title page from the first edition of Thomas Brownes book

Algues - algae
Illustration of many varieties of algae. Date: 1930

Poissons - fish
A variety of fish. Date: 1930

Stephen Wards sketches of celebrities, 1960
Through a doctors eyes: a page of celebrities drawn by osteopath and gifted amateur artist Doctor Stephen Ward(1912-1963), as featured in The Illustrated London News in 1960

RAF Hastings T Mk. 5 - RAF Finningley
Royal Air Force Handley Page Hastings T Mk.5 TG553, of the Strike Command Bombing School from RAF Lindholme, at RAF Finningley Date: 1971

Coronation Procession, 1953
Double page spread artists impression of the Coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II showing the various military and ceremonial representatives of the UK and Commonwealth

Machine gun diagrams
Full page diagrams and illustration showing the workings of the Hotchkiss and Lewis machine-guns, used widely by the British army during World War I

Advertisement for the Flying Standard Twenty car
Full page photographic advertisement for the Flying Standard Twenty car, showing two photos of the car in front of large houses, a typically aspirational car advert of the 1930s period

Papillons - butterflies
Variety of butterflies and moths. Date: 1930

Handley Page HP 42 flight deck

Imperial Airways Poster, four types of plane
Imperial Airways Poster, showing four types of plane, with cutaway drawings of interiors of each class -- Heracles and Hannibal, Scylla, Atalanta, and Scipio. 20th century

Page from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
A page from a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, narrating events of the years 772 to 794. It was written in Old English in the 9th century by a Wessex scribe

Royal Wedding 1947
A page from The Tatler entitled, Happiness was the Keynote with two photographs of the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip)

A Young Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) photographed in 1906 at the age of 32, while he held the post of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

Advertisement for a book about flying saucers
An advertisement for a book by Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, suggesting cover-ups, conspiracy and paranoia surrounding UFO sightings

Illuminated Wenzelbibel manuscript
A page from the illuminated manuscript known as the Wenzelbibel (or Wenzelsbibel), named after King Wenzel (Wenceslaus) IV of Bohemia

Izvestia announcing the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
Izvestia Newspaper announcing the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II - March, 1917. Date: 1917

Peasants dancing round linden tree (full page). Illustration from Hieronymus Bock, Kreuterbuch. Date: 1560

Page from a poem book by Hafez-e Shirazi illustrated depicting a banquet. Persian art. Safavid period. Miniature Painting

Handley Page Harrow K6962 aeroplane in camouflage colours. 1940s

Typesetter at work
A compositor at a the Lund Humphries print works places a small type glyph on a forme rack, finishing a page of imposing surface text prior to inking and printing. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Leonardo Sketches
LEONARDO DA VINCI A page of sketches of flying machines

Gutenbergs printing press
Gutenberg inspects the first sheet of his Bible, which has just come off the press

Cymbeline - title page - Iachimo emerges from the trunk as Imogen sleeps. 1862

Horace Shorts notebook - sketches of Wright Flyer at Pau
A page from Horace Shorts notebook containing his detailed sketches of the Wright Flyer made at Pau, France, in February 1909. Date: 1909

Poster advertising Rambles in Somerset

Ms - C14 Italian Bible
page from a 14th century Italian Bible

Reformation in England
Title-page of a history of the Reformation in England : Henry VIII defies the pope, Edward VI prays, Mary burns Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer; Elizabeth sets all right

Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform, WW1
Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform. She was War Treasurer and Secretary to the Ware Division of the British Red Cross until 1919. By Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922)

Prototype Handley Page Victor B2 XH668
Prototype Handley Page Victor B2, XH668

Doyle Fairy Article
The title page of Arthur Conan Doyles article discussing the evidence for the existence of fairies

Aeneid Title Page
Title-page for the second part of Virgils Aeneid, in a French edition of 1662, featuring gods above, battles below, and some of the protagonists

Diderot / Title Page / 1751
The title page

First issue of Blast magazine, 1914
The title page of the first issue of Blast: Review Of The Great English Vortex, dated 20th June 1914. Edited by Wyndham Lewis

Old Church Music 1500
Specimen page of church music, with notation for singing, hand written on vellum

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