Ephemera Collection

Vintage Map of the World
Vintage map of the world from 1837

Vintage map of the West India Islands 1860s

Botallack Copper Mine, Cornwall - 1833 woodcut
Woodcut illustration from The Saturday Magazine, Volume 87, November 9th, 1833, an educational magazine under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature

Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer as a pilgrim on horseback
Geoffrey Chaucer depicted as a pilgrim on horseback. He was the writer of " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written at the end of the 14th century

Victorian Blacksmith Farriers
Vintage 19th century engraving showing two boys playing in a blacksmiths (Farriers) forge while the blacksmith looks on

Canterbury Tales - The Canons Yeoman
The Canons Yeoman, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Shipman
The Shipman, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Manciple
The Manciple, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Nuns Priest
The Nuns Priest, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Squire
The Squire, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Clerk
The Clerk, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Canterbury Tales - The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

People on a horse drawn omnibus (1843 engraving)
The conductor, the driver and a press of passengers aboard a horse drawn omnibus. Woodcut engraving in sepia on aged paper

Map of Australasia (1898 engraving)
Old map of Australasia from 1898

Queen Elizabeth I knighting Sir Francis Drake (1859 engraving)
Sir Francis Drake being knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1581. An engraving from The Heroes of England: Stories of the Lives of Englands Warriors by Land and Sea edited by John G

Map of Australasia (1882 engraving)
Old map of Australasia from Royal Geographical Readers no. 5 of Asia, Africa, America and Oceania, publ. T Nelson & Sons, London in 1883

Antique map of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland
Wonderful hand coloured antique map, circa 1780 - 1800

Battle of Blenheim (Hoechstedt) - map drawn in 1880
Map of the Battle of Blenheim (Hoechstedt) which took place on 13 August 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The English commander was John Churchill

Three blind mice with a carving knife
Three blind mice sitting on a carving knife. Are they mad? From the nursery rhyme as depicted in "The Diverting History of Three Blind Mice" illustrated by Edmund G Caldwell

Old, Black and White Illustration of Ship Construction, From 1800's
Old black and white illustration of construction of a ship, from 1800's

Blanchards balloon and apparatus
The French balloonist Jean Pierre Blanchard in his balloon, which had flapping wings. From aAThe Leisure HouraA, a British aJournal of Instruction and RecreationaA

Queen Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII
Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife - and ultimately widow - of King Henry VIII of England. From " Portraits

Ruins of the Chapter House, Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, England
Originally founded as an Abbey around 680AD, Much Wenlock Priory is on the outskirts of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England

West Front of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales
Tintern Abbey, in Monmouthshire, Wales, was founded in 1131 beside the River Wye - the boundary between Wales and England

Tomb of the Howard family at Arundel Church, Sussex
The tomb of the Howard family of Arundel, Sesssex, in the parish church of St Nicholas. This church is interesting because it is physically divided between Roman Catholic and Church of England

Illuminated Manuscript
Vintage engraving by Albrecht DArer c.1526 showing a pagfe from the Emperor Maximilians prayer book

Holborn Valley Viaduct, London (1871 engraving)
The Holborn Valley Viaduct in the City of London - an engraving from " Collins Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood", price one shilling; published by William Collins

Rome and surroundings
Antique illustration of Rome and surroundings

Ancient Rome
Antique illustration Map of Ancient Rome from 1898

Ira D. Sankey, composer and evangelist
An illustration from " The Family Friend" published by S.W. Partridge & Co. (London, 1875). Ira D. Sankey, the composer in the partnership of Moody and Sankey

The Norman Staircase, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent. Illustration from " Picturesque Europe - The British Isles" published by Cassell Petter & Galpin in 1875 (price 2/6d)

The Cathedral Precinct Gate, Canterbury, Kent. Illustration from " Picturesque Europe - The British Isles" published by Cassell Petter & Galpin in 1875 (price 2/6d)

The Baptistry, Canterbury Cathedral
The Baptistery (sic) at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, the burial place of many of the early Archbishops of Canterbury

Canterbury Tales - The Cook
The Cook, a character in " The Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century

Mary Somerville, mathematician (1875 illustration)
An illustration from " The Family Friend" published by S.W. Partridge & Co. (London, 1875). Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville, mathematician, scientist and astronomer

Antique illustration - The Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Dublin
Woodcut illustration from " The Saturday Magazine", Volume 81, 5th October, 1833, an educational magazine " under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature

Outraged
It is difficult to know who is the more outraged here - the gentleman with the beard, the servant, or the group of people at this social gathering

Antique map of France in Provinces, 1831
France in Provinces by Daniel Lizars, Edinburgh 1831 The Edinburgh geographical and historical atlas, Engraved on copperplate and compiled from materials drawn from the newest

Old, Map of Eastern and Western Hemispheres, From 1875
Old black and white illustration of the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, from the 1800 s

Antquie Map of South America
Vintage map of South America from 1837

Map of Ancient Rome
Vintage engraving showing a plan of Ancient Rome

Old, Black and White Illustration of Eastern Hemisphere, From 1800 s
Old black and white illustration of the Old World (Eastern Hemisphere), from 1875

Map of Kensington museums area, London
A rough sketch map of the area used for the then Royal Horticultural Gardens and museums in the Kensington area, London, including the proposed Natural History Museum

Vintage Map of New York at the beginning of the 18th Century. from 1880

London after the Great Fire
Plan of London of the Great fire of 1666 showing which parts had been burnt down. The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of

Vintage Map of New England at the beginning of the 18th century

Mountain locomotive
Antique illustration of a Mountain locomotive

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