http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog Books behind pictures Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:30:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2007/04/25/about/ 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 http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/07/10/jasmine/ 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 ... http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/07/07/his-vague-glance-hovered-for-a-long-time-over-the-sea/ 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 http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/07/02/hebron/ 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 http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/06/30/manometer/ 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 ... http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/06/26/obituary-christian-rauch/ 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 http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/06/16/ischia/ ROOK s. bird that looks very similar to the crow. — Rooks (corvus fruqilegus, Linn.) are smaller than crows, their bill is longer and sharper. Males are 50 cm (20 in) long ; females, smaller and not quite as http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/blog/2008/06/15/rook/