Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
20th February 2020
No catalogue on Anglo-German cultural relations would be complete without at least one mention of Prince Albert and the Great Exhibition. One of our favourite things in the catalogue is item 191, a very rare and attractive Great Exhibition souvenir. Taking inspiration from the popular nursery rhyme ‘The House that Jack built’, the large cotton […]
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22nd October 2015
As I have written before, the 1780s saw a craze for all things ballooning. Above is a coloured engraving of an ascent made by the famous French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard in Nuremberg on 12 November 1787. As one can imagine, such ascents were exceedingly popular with the public, but there was also an element of danger involved. A broadside […]
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