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Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mr. Bumble is a character from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Though he preaches high mo...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Samuel Pickwick, a character from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charle...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Samuel Pickwick, a character from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens, is a well-inte...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Alfred Jingle is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. He works as a st...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Alfred Jingle is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles ...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sarah Gamp, from ‘Martin Chuzzlewit,’ was based on a real-life nurse known to Charles Dick...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sarah Gamp, from ‘Martin Chuzzlewit,’ was based on a real-life nu...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mrs. Bardell is a character from the Charles Dickens novel The Pi...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mrs. Bardell is a character from the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers. A misunder...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. The Marchioness is from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. The Marchioness is from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. She starts out as Miss ...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sam Weller is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. A bootblack with a ...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sam Weller is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dic...

Text on the reverse side:Engraving from “London, A Pilgrimage,” a collaborative project between French artist Gustave Doré and British journalist B...

Engraving from “London, A Pilgrimage,” a collaborative project between French artist Gustave Doré and British journalist Blanchard Jerrold. The two...

Illustration by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, featuring ‘hedgehog’ in various languages. The word 'hedgehog' was first used in 1450 and is derived fro...

Illustration from the Ex Libris page of an 1875 edition of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe thought to be inspired by Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Gri...

Text on the reverse side:A silhouette of Charles Dickens sold from The Old Curiosity Shop in London. His novel The Old Curiosity Shop was published...

A silhouette of Charles Dickens sold from The Old Curiosity Shop in London. His novel The Old Curiosity Shop was published as a weekly series. Read...

Text on the reverse side:Les boussoles sont des outils utiles dans la navigation terrestre et maritime. On utilise une boussole dite d’arpenteur po...

Les boussoles sont des outils utiles dans la navigation terrestre et maritime. On utilise une boussole dite d’arpenteur pour cartographier les terr...

Text on the reverse side: Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 t...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia dis...

Text on the reverse side: Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend ...

Text on the reverse side: The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration...

Text on the reverse side: Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the Fr...

Text on the reverse side: Les sphères armillaires, dont les premiers modèles remontent au IIème siècle, sont des représentations en laiton de la s...

With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with either the earth or sun at t...

Text on the reverse side:With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with eit...

Cette carte a été créée en 1660, par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais, Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale de cartographie Danckerts, était u...

Text on the reverse side: Cette carte a été créée en 1660, par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais, Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale de cart...

This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family business was a major map and...

Text on the reverse side: This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family b...

Datant de l’Antiquité, l’art du matelotage est une compétence importante pour la voile et les activités maritimes. Il existe plus de 3800 types de ...

Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 types of knots in the world,...

Compasses are useful tools in both land-based and maritime navigation, employing a magnetised needle to identify true north. This is a surveyor’s c...