BL3290844: Last month merchants in Shanghai received a letter from Lin Chaodong who is in Taizhong / Bridgeman Images

BL3290846: Letter makers. The luminor sign co'. A shop front. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290857: A plate showing a penny farthing and various implements such as saws and cutlery. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290865: Women also joined the army. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290872: Parsee, Butler / Bridgeman Images

BL3290874: After repeated defeats, the Japanese fear Liu Yongfu as if he were a tiger. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290875: Full border with Cupid in a large historiated initial 'V'(oi), medallions of leopard heads and, in the lower margin, two crowned leopards salient or supporting a medallion with the arms of the Mussolini / Bridgeman Images

BL3290881: Sardinia / Bridgeman Images

BL3290889: Full panel borders in colour and gold with foliate decoration, flowers, candelabras, dolphins, etc, and including the salamander, emblem of Francis I, his monogram, and his crowned coat of arms with the collar of the Order of St Michael, at the beginning of Suetonius' Vite / Bridgeman Images

BL3290893: Bhut. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290896: A soldier is arrested / Bridgeman Images

BL3290897: Gentoo woman. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290905: Miniature of the enthroned pope receiving a copy of a law book from a kneeling cleric, with a decorated initial 'I'(ohannes) and a historiated initial 'I'(ohannes) of a lawyer reading / Bridgeman Images

BL3290911: A Bheshtee, i.e. Water-man. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290914: Miniature of the imprisoned Margaret receiving food from a maid / Bridgeman Images

BL3290919: Decorated initials and full bar border with quatrefoils, a few acanthus leaves, small red masks and foliate decoration at the beginning of the vigil of the Ascension / Bridgeman Images

BL3290921: Hookah 'Bdarr. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290929: His Majesty in his travelling Chariot returning to Town from Windsor, with a View of the Castle / Bridgeman Images

BL3290932: Arab. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290933: A view of the Earl of Burlingtons House at Chiswick. Palladian architecture. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290938: Naval victory in Korea. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290939: Bhorah, Pedlar. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290941: Map of the walled city of Jiujiang and environs. Topographical map of Jiangxi province, China / Bridgeman Images

BL3290945: (Awaiting full caption). / Bridgeman Images

BL3290951: Persian's. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290953: The soldiers of general Nie Shicheng fight on land and at sea. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290959: Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) / Bridgeman Images

BL3290977: (Awaiting full caption). / Bridgeman Images

BL3290981: Serang, or Cockswain of a Bombay Pilot Boat. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290986: Volvelle for calculating Easter, other movable feasts, Sunday letters, the Golden Number and the leap year, with a figure (a woman?) in the centre / Bridgeman Images

BL3290992: Victory at Asan / Japanese slaves in the Korean capital. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290993: Historiated initial 'I'(n) with standing male and female figures in front of a building and full foliate bar border / Bridgeman Images

BL3290999: (Awaiting full caption). / Bridgeman Images

BL3291002: Portrait of Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529-1584). French jurist and poet / Bridgeman Images

BL3290217: A full-page framed miniature of Christ in Majesty, in colours on a gold background; at the corners, the symbols of the four Evangelists, holding scrolls. / Bridgeman Images

BL3290230: The text suggests the re-building of the public library established during the reign of King James I. In A Proposal for Building a Royal Library, Richard Bentley pointed out the advantages of 'a free library' with funds to acquire collections, but the necessary legislation could not be introduced. Bentley, Richard (1662-1742), was a philologist and classical scholar. / Bridgeman Images