Old book illustrations wordshop

Welcome to Old book illustrations wordshop, the blog we have intended to complement our main site, Old book illustrations.
While we all like pictures and a lot of people will be fully satisfied to just look at them, download them and use them any way they want, it occured to us that some visitors might feel somewhat frustrated not to know anything about them or the books from which they were taken. So we decided to grant our illustrations some extra room to put them into context and quote one or two of the paragraphs which relate to them. In the case of the Trousset encyclopedia, we chose to reproduce the full article every time, with the secret hope that in the long run, entry after entry, it would build up to something our most benevolent visitors would think worth refering to.
This blog is also the place where we’ll add a general description of each book and a short note about its author and illustrator(s), that is if we know anything about them…
Please feel free to comment and to send us feedback and suggestions.

JASMINE s. (Ar. iasmin). Bot. genus in the family Jasmineae which includes some forty species of climbing shrubs that produce fragrant flowers: Spanish jasmine.
— Flowers of this plant: double jasmine … Read more »

Aramis bit his lips. “Nothing! nothing! Your pardon, I meant to say…”
“What?”
“That if we were inclined - if we took a fancy to make an excursion by
sea, we could not.”
“Very good! and why should that vex you? A fine pleasure, ma foi! For my part, I don’t regret it at all. What I regret is certainly not the more or less amusement we can find at Belle-Isle; what I regret, Aramis, is Pierrefonds; is Bracieux; is le Valon; is my beautiful France! Here weare not in France, my dear friend; we are - I know not where. Oh! I tell you … Read more »

HEBR0N (originally Kirjath-Arba, Arabic El Khulil) city of Palestine, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) South of Jerusalem; approximately 5 000 inhabitants. It is located partly on the slopes of two hills and partly in the valley of Mamre. At the Southern end of … Read more »

MANOMETER S. (gr. manos, rare; metron measure.) Phys. Instrument used to measure the stress of gas or vapor: the manometer of a steam engine.
— The force of fluids contained in a closed space is usually expressed in units of atmospheric pressure, called atmosphere, which are equal … Read more »

Christian Rauch, the greatest sculptor in Germany, the artist with grandiose ideas who could have made the gigantic dream of Dinocrates come true, has just died in Dresden, laden with years and glory.
setting out from the lower ranks of society, he rose, through hard work and genius, to the highest dignities. He was professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and knight of the Order of the Prussian Red Eagle when death overtook him. … Read more »

ISCHIA (formerly Oenaria and Pithecusa), island in Italy, in the Mediterranean, North of the entrance to the Bay of Naples, 69 square kilometers (43 sq. miles). Pop. 24.500. Near its center stands the Epomeo volcano, 800 m above sea level. The latest eruption … Read more »