PCT4261014: Engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Prodiges (1573) - Text: “” This present monster depicted here was found in an egg with the face and face of a man, all the hair of small snakes all alive, and the beard is fashionable and in the way of three snakes coming out of the chin: and was found on the fifteenth day of March last passed 1569 with a lawyer named Baucheron, in Authun in Burgundy, by a chambriere who broke eggs to put them in butter, between which he was: who was broken by her, saw the said monster come out, having human face, hair and beard of snakes, of which she was wonderfully frightened.” / Bridgeman Images
PCT4266999: Don Quixote and Sancho Panca (Panza) in the sky, between the moon and the stars, riding the wooden horse Clavilegne. Engraving by Gustave Dore illustrating the 1869 Hachette edition of the book “” L'ingenieux hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”” (Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translation by Louis Viardot, 370 compositions engraved on wood by H. Pisan., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267229: Burial in a village cemetery in the Vosges Mountains. The priest gives his blessing above the pit surrounded by the villagers. Illustration by Riou of a short story by Erckmann-Chatrian (Erckmann Chatrian), “The invasion”, edition Hetzel 1873., Riou, Edouard (1833-1900) / Bridgeman Images