Wednesday, December 18, 2013

British Library Flickr Page

The British Library recently updated a million images to their Flickr page. Is it a good thing or just a mass dump of useless crap? Who knows? I found some interesting images.

Jerusalem, from a book published in 1852.
Image taken from page 507 of 'Das heilige Land nach seiner ehemaligen und jetzigen geographischen Beschaffenheit, nebst kritischen Blicker in das C. v. Raumer'sche “Palästina” ... Deutsch bearbeitet [from the Hebrew] von Dr. Israel Schwarz'

Scrooge waking up happy to know he hasn't missed Christmas. From 1869.
Image taken from page 145 of 'A Christmas Carol ... With illustrations [from drawings by S. Eytinge.]'

The hunter and his two wives from the Richard Francis Burton book Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo published in 1876.
Image taken from page 59 of 'Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. [With illustrations and a map.]'

Robin Hood's last shot. This is where he a dying Robin Hood shoots an arrow out the window and asks that he be buried wherever the arrow lands. This is from 1884.
Image taken from page 433 of '[Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads ... Edited by Joseph Ritson.]'

The crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers from another Richard Francis Burton book Unexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safā, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the Aláh, 1872.
Image taken from page 173 of 'Unexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safā, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the Aláh. By R. F. Burton and Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake. [With contributions by Isabel Lady Burton and others.]'

And whatever the hell this is.
Image taken from page 259 of '[The voiage and travaile of Sir J. Maundevile, which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of marvayles of Inde, with other ilands and countryes. Now publish'd entire from an original MS. in the Cotton Library.]'
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