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Letters from Rosemary Hunt to Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting
1965-1966
Two letters from the archaeologist Rosemary Hunt to Maurice de Sausmarez. The first is a handwritten airmail letter from the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem to Byam Shaw School of Drawing a...
[29 documents, letters, and other ephemera pertaining to Anglo-Jewish history (especially the newspaper The Voice of Jacob), 1659–1938 (bulk 1826–1868) (originals)].
1659–1938
Title supplied by cataloguer. Summary: The collection contains 29 separate items, the majority of which are foliated in pencil in upper right recto as if bound together; the items are primarily in ...
Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies : containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries...to which is added an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject
Bruyn, Cornelis de (1652-7)
1737
The work was originally written in Dutch, and translated into French. Frontispiece dated 1711.
Sir Anthony Sherley his relation of his travels into Persia : the dangers and distresses which befell him in his passage both by sea and land and his strange and unexpected deliverances
Shirley, Sir Anthony (1565-1635?)
1613
Indexed in: STC 22424.
Safavid prayer rug design
Churchill, Sidney John Alexander (1862-1921)
16th-19th Century
Two pieces of cloth-backed squared paper with a design or cartoon for a silk prayer rug. The design depicts a mihrab shape decorated with arabesques and lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and magnolia flowe...