Main and Subsidiary Panels


01 an engraving of the celebrated Matthias Buchinger, born without hands and legs. The smaller images show him performing ordinary tasks. 25 x 13.5 cms, and about 1730.

02 This is the magnificent titlepage to Greenvile Collins, Great Britain's Coasting Pilot , Collins for Mount, London 1603, and a general celebration of the nation's supposed association with the Sea, ratified by a gang of Tritons and other symbolic figures.

03 Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick in twenty volumes, Young and Speed London 1658, title page engraved by Robert Gaywood, with images Art, Nature and the Four Elements with cartouche and portrait with Sun and Flaming Heart.