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The images below are Japanese posters from ~the first quarter of the 20th century. "The Taishō period^ (大正時代 Taishō jidai?), or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō". Some of the posters carry over to the early Shōwa era: Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito)^ reigned from 1926 to 1989. Title: Puraton ma
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. Of my blood and water I wish Plenty in all the World there is It runneth in every place Who it findeth he hath grace In the World it runneth over all And goeth round as a ball But thou understand well this Of the worke thou shalt miss Therefore know ere thou begin What he is and all his kin Many a name he hath full s
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. 'Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen' (calligraphic writing styles) was produced in the 1620s in Germany by the scribe, Johann Hering. Johann Hering (?1580-1647) compiled his album of elaborate calligraphic letterforms, innovative type arrangements and traditional alphabets over a ten year period in the 1620s and 1630s i
Title pages, headings and letterforms clipped, cropped and isolated from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920. "D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. 'Nansō Satomi Hakkenden' is a truly epic novel (100+ volumes) that was published in Japan over a thirty year period in the first half of the 19th century. Its author, Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848), was blind towards the end and his daughter-in-law had to transcribe his dictation. Bakin was the first person to make a liv
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. In 1898, the steamship Valdivia left Hamburg for a nine month scientific voyage to the Atlantic, Indian and Great Southern oceans [map]. Known as the German Deep-Sea Expedition, the mission was led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun and investigated chemical, zoological and physical characteristics
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart.
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. 'The Binder' [H Haas] Sheep and goat skin parchment Bound by P Schrijen, 1983 'Das Unheimliche Buch' Morocco leather Bound by Karl Ebert, 1914 'Contes de Perrault' Beige calf and black morocco leather Bound by Henri Creuzevault, 1950 'Book of Ruth' Morocco leather Bound by Michel Marius, 1880 'The Song of Solomon' Si
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. A time table indicating the difference in time between the principal cities of the World and also showing their air-line distance from Washington. IN: 'Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. "The Ainu are generally considered to be the indigenous population of Japan. But, like all cultures on earth, the history of the Ainu is much more complex than any one label. The 20,000 to 60,000 people who presently identify themselves as Ainu are concentrated on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, but the Ainu cul
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. "The feeling for and love of nature always strike a chord sooner or later with people who take an interest in art. The duty of the painter is to study nature in depth and to use all his intelligence, to put his feelings into his work so that it becomes comprehensible to others. But working with an eye to saleability
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. "Fashionable" hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts. Chronicling the rise and fa
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. Industrial Anatomy Microgeology Atlas de Trudaine The Cherry Blossom Book Secret Rosicrucian Symbols Graphic Mercenary French Geology Maps Erik Nitsche Graphic Design Gero Codex Armour to Paper - On the Origins of Etching Remarkable Persons Aztec Mexico Pantagruel I Zoomorphic Calligraphy The Visual Context of Music
[Wenzel Jamnitzer]: "Goldsmith, designer, etcher and inventor of scientific instruments.. Born Vienna 1508, died Nuremberg 1585. Stems from a long line of goldsmiths. Wenzel, with his brother Albrecht (d. 1555), was trained by their father, Hans the Elder. He became a citizen of Nuremberg and master in the goldsmiths' guild in 1534, and lived and worked for the next fifty years in the house in the
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer depicts specific aspects of the tonalpohualli the 260-day Mesoamerican augural cycle. The painted manuscript divides the world into five parts. T-shaped trees delineate compass points: east at the top, west on the bottom, north on the left, and south on the right. The four directions are dis
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. I presume this is Nagasaki (there were a number of groups of martyrs in Japan). In November 2008, 187 Japanese Christian martyrs were Beatified in a step towards Sainthood. "Early modern travel writing was unquestionably the most diverse genre of literature. Newly discovered ethnographic, navigational, commercial, bi
"This original illustration is reproduced on page 159 of Winnie-the-Pooh and comprises a full-page illustration in the published volume. It represents one of the iconic images of Winnie-the-Pooh and comes from the final chapter in which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh party, and we say good-bye.
Etching/engraving made by Mario Cartaro in Venice in 1588. The game squares, numbering up to 63, lead to the ships sailing in the centre of the board on the 'sea of suffering'.
Hark! hark! the dogs do bark! The beggars are coming to town Some in rags and some in jags And one in a velvet gown [Trad.]1,2,3 "The Dogs of War are loose in Europe, and a nice noise they are making! It was started by a Dachshund that is thought to have gone made -- though there was so much method in his madness that this is doubtful. [NOTE FOR THE IGNORANT: The German for Dog is Hund. The Englis
'The Illustration of The Great European War No.16 - A humoros Atlas of the World' It's tempting, finding this caricature map among a collection of propaganda prints relating to the Chinese Revolution of 1911/1912, to overstate the possible subtextual commentary on contemporary events in China. The map was actually published in Japan in 1914 and the Japanese script is faithfully - apart from some m
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) was an influential French architect, particularly noted for his central role in the Gothic Revival* movement. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, he carried out a number of significant restoration projects on prominent buildings, including Notre Dame. In addition to his practi
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database has more than 100 albums of late 19th/early 20th century watercolour sketches of toy designs. By turns scary and intriguing (much like Japanese game shows and the garbled translations below) the selection of images above comes from the sixty albums in the Kyosen Guangucho section of the w
The Weaker Sex Charles Dana Gibson, 1903 [from the Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws caricature/cartoon exhibition site at the Library of Congress] By way of response to any and all past and future blog memes and as an exercise in associative psychology, I've gathered together the links I have floating around the traps. No doubt there are more that I've misplaced or forgotten which will be added a
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. After beginning his working life as a printer's apprentice, Louis Crucius (or Crusius) completed the necessary requirements to graduate as a pharmacist in 1882 and a doctor in 1890 in St Louis, Missouri. While he was studying he worked in a pharmacy and made humorous sketches that were placed in the window of the sto
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. Between 1968 and 1977 Mingering Mike produced more than 50 albums and a similar number of 45rpm singles on his own record labels. He performed for sellout audiences and wrote and starred in 9 films. This was the stuff of legends ... and fertile imaginations. The real Mike, from Washington DC, did in fact record some
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. "Necessarium est autem veteres ortus cometarum habere collectos. Deprehendi enim propter raritatem eorum cursus adhuc non potest, nec explorari an vices servent et illos ad suum diem certus ordo producat" [It is essential that we have a record of all the appearances of comets in former times. For, on account of their
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. The images above and in the previous post come from the 1838 book by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg called 'Die Infusionsthierchen als Vollkomene Organismen'. There is also another, earlier post - Microgeology - which has more of an outline about the extraordinary contributions to microbiology and paleontology made by
Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart. 1. Sternotomis Imperialis. Guinée; 2. Sternotomis cornutus. Madagascar; 3. Callipogon Lemoinei. Perou; 4. Palimna annulata. Cochinchine; 5. Sternodonta pulchra. Sénégal 1. Tacua speciosa. Indes; 2. Polyneura ducalis. Indes Or.; 3. Cicada saccata. Australie; 4. Cicada fascialis. Siam; 5. Tozena melanoptera. Indes Or.
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