mapmonger:

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Supplément turc 215, f. 19v. Traité de géographie générale, par Katib Čelebi Moustafa Khalifa, dit Haği Khalifa, compilé d’après un certain nombre de traités occidentaux et orientaux, que l’auteur énumère dans sa préface (folios 11 verso et suiv.), du mois de Safar 1065 (11 décembre 1654-8 janvier 1655) à sa mort, qui survint en 1068 (1658). This edition is 1729.

geisterseher:

Élémens de botanique, ou Méthode pour connoître les plantes, by M. Pitton Tournefort (1694)

michaelmoonsbookshop:

18th century detailed wood engravings c1770

tru-vue:

18th century dollhouses.

mapmonger:

Rapport sur les sépultures : présenté à l’administration centrale du département de la Seine / par le c[itoy]en Cambry,… (1797-1798)

michaelmoonsbookshop:

beautiful detailed wood engraved tail pieces from an 18th century book (removed many years ago..)

eighteenthcenturyfiction:

Eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments, especially from the rococo school (second and third ornaments here) can be extremely elaborate and beautiful. These space-fillers also helped mark the end or beginning of a chapter or a book and definitely enhanced the aesthetic quality of the printed word. Printers’ ornaments carry on the embellishment tradition of monastic scribes who illuminated manuscripts prior the arrival of the printing press.

The study of print culture is a vibrant branch in 18th-century scholarship. See more about this topic in the special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction: “Fiction and Print Culture.” All articles are free to read on the journal’s archive at Digital Commons

mapmonger:

Daniel Defoe, A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before. : Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders. Illustrated with copper plates (1725)

fripperiesandfobs:

Robe a l’anglaise ca. 1790

From the RISD Museum

mapmonger:

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, ‘Carte particulière du débouquement de Krooked Island’ (1732)