Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (page 2/3)

Front Cover, Family Book

The copy of this book that i have is bound is bound in black, with gold lettering on the spine. The size i have given is approximate. [$]

Title Page, Family Book Vol 5

The title page has at least five different lettering styles, and also includes a vignette, a small illustration, a Paddle steamer on stormy seas. [more...] [$]

Paddle steamer on stormy seas

This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on the title page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in the foreground. The paddle steamer is listing heavily, so the boat in the foreground could be a lifeboat. In the background [...] [more...] [$]

Cividale: Il Ponte Del Diavolo

The Devil’s Bridge in Cividale del Friuli

This bridge over the River Natisone was built in the 1440s, supposedly by the devil, who wanted the soul of [more...] [$]

The Old Bachelor

Der alte Junggeselle — Il vecchio celibe [more...] [$]

Votivkirche, Vienna

A neo-Gothic cathedral built starting in 1856 in Vienna, in Austria. [more...] [$]

The Seranade

A flautist on the rooftops in the moonlight! He is standing on top of a wall to play outside someone’s bedroom window, watched i think by a cat. Despite the text reproduced below, i am not certain he is meant to be a young man, but perhaps his formal cap and long-tailed [...] [more...] [$]

Old Bologna (1850s)

A montage in the style of a vintage postcard. [more...] [$]

Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines

This is just the borders (internal and external) from a montage of engravings of Old Bologna. it would make a great template for a postcard with a vintage vibe, or you could use it to frame family photographs maybe. [more...] [$]

Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]

A portrait of Isaac Newton based on a painting by Enoch Seeman (credited here in its German form, E. Seemann). It was engraved by someone named only as Baumann, [...] [more...] [$]

The Importunate Visitor

Der Zudringliche – L’mportuno [more...] [$]