ISSN: 0308-5694
E-ISSN: 1479-7801
DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2016.1107370 | Herman Moll's The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain's Global and Imperial Interests
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Description:Herman Moll's The World Described (1720), the pre-eminent folio atlas of Hanoverian Britain, departs from the usual Ortelian model in the selection and ordering of its contents. It placed Britain at the centre of the atlas so that the first half provided a cartographic description of Britain's...
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MSU 1073/1/3/2/14 | An American in Powis poster, 2003 | | |
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MSU 1073/1/5/4 | Northern Lights poster, 1929 | | |
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| ABDUA 63211 | spade | | |
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Description:Wooden spade-shaped implement, used for beating clothes when washing. Kosovo work.
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| LEMUR 1000418 | map | | Map of the Nile |
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| MSU 1073/1/1/38 | 'Alma Mania' programme | | Programme for the 1959 Aberdeen University Student Show "Alma Mania". Dated 20th - 25th April 1959. |
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Subject:Programme for the 1959 Aberdeen University Student Show "Alma Mania". Dated 20th - 25th April 1959. |
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| <a href="ABDUA%2063297">ABDUA 63297</a> | statuette | | Buddhist priest |
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Subject:Buddhist priest |
Description:Image of a Buddhist priest, in contemplative attitude, in bronze.
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Subject:James 8 Stuart,James.Francis.Edward |
Description:Oil painting, portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender. The original of this portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is attributed to Alexis Belle. This is one of many contemporary copies which were produced for prominent Jacobites. [show more]
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Description:Arrow-head decoration: carved (anthropomorphic) & painted (black & white). Bamboo shaft, red twine.
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Subject:prize medal |
Description:Presented to Alexander Thomson Esq of Banchory, by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for a report on the cultivation of chicory and flax in Belgium, 1837. Inscription: SEMPER ARMIS NUNC ET INDUSTRIA Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Inst MDCCLXXXIV report on the cultivation of chicory and flax in Belgium [show more]
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