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Material culture

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01/12/11, CSG: Restructured heading typeface size



THIS ENTRY IS AT AN EARLY STAGE

This page is a provisional page addressing potential sources on the material culture of merchants and of related occupations, with the focus on illuminating the material culture of George Oxenden, Elizabeth Dalyson, and their commercial, family, and social circles.






Copyright


Copyright acknowledgement

Wikipedia Commons provides a useful anatomy of copyright status for images which are out of copyright in various jurisdictions. See wikipedia commons entry on - Copyright Tags



Engravings

Engraving sources: Brasil


Barlaues (Van Baerle), Casparis, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis, ex typographico Ioannis Blaeu (Amsterdam, 1647)
- Full-page engraved portrait, and 56 finely engraved double-page maps, plans and views on 58 sheets
- See Antiquariaat Forum: Rare books: recent acquisitions



Engraving sources: East Indies



Engraving sources: Caribbean islands



Engraving sources: England


Beverell, James, Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne (Leiden, XXXX)

- Published by Pieter van der Aa, Leiden
- See 'Mercers Chappel'; an early uncoloured engraving of Mercers' Hall on Cheapside. Uncoloured. Good condition. This was the first home of Bank Of England in 1694 and the Head Office of the East India Company in 1702. 6 1/4 x 5 inches

Brewer, J. Norris, Introduction to the Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Intituled the Beauties of England and Wales (London, 1818)

Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 1, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)]
- Deals with places within twenty miles from London

Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 2, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)
- Deals with places in England further than twenty miles from London

An Italian manuscript published by Mawman as the Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, during the Reign of King Charles the Second (1669) (but published in this form London 1821)
- The text contains a number of views "as delineated at that period by artists in the suite of Cosmo"

Morden, Robert, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704)
- Fifty-three copper plates
- Availavle as Google Free-Eook

Spencer, Nathaniel, The complete English traveller, (London, 1771)

The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands [London: J. Cooke] [1779]




Engraving sources: France


d’Alquie, Francois Savinien, Les Delices de la France, ou Description des Provinces & Villes Capitalles d’icelle: Comme Aussi La Description des Chateaux & Maisons Royalles. Plus Celle des nouvelles Conquetes, avec leurs Figures au naturel, printed in duodecimo by Jaques Moukee, 49 plates (Leiden, 1685)

- See offline out of copyright images (Map of France, Bordeaux, Brest, Dieppe, Geneve, La Rochelle, Lions (Lyons), Marseilles, Nantes, Orleans, Paris, Rouen, Saumur & Tour (others in original text, but not downloaded)

Dallington, Robert, A method for travel. Shewed by taking the view of France as it stoode in the yeare of our Lord 1598 (London, 1606)

Sanson, Nicholas, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683)



Engraving sources: Ottoman Empire




Online sellers of engravings


UK BASED

- Heatons of Tisbury