New general collection of voyages and travels: consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language: comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, with respect to the several empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their situation, extent,
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A collection of curious travels & voyages in two tomes: the first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern Countries, as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea & c., translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst and the second
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Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: undertaken by order of the old government of France; illustrated with forty engravings; consisting of portraits, views, plans, a geographical chart, antiquities, plants, animals, &c. drawn on the spot, under the author’s inspection. C.S. Sonnini, translated from the French
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The Trust lent a group of books to Hogarth’s House in Chiswick as part of an exhibition which ran until 1 November 2015. It celebrated the award of funding from HLF towards a major project which will create an “exhibition garden” presenting 300 years of
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Atlas Chinensis: An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China, being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company Ogilby collaborated with Dutch publisher Jacob van
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Guido Fawkes and his associates, engraving published by G Smeeton of St Martin’s Lane, London. Collection no 5286a This image shows the conspirators who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605. It includes not only Guy Fawkes, but also Thomas Winter, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy,
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Inquiry into the proposal to acquire a Middlesex smallpox hospital, 20 September 1906. This poster has survived amongst Layton collection and may well have been part of his working papers. It symbolises the ambition of local authorities in the Victorian and Edwardian to provide public
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Auction catalogue for a sale held by Hodgson & Co in 1914, with lots including books, maps and prints from Thomas Layton’s collection.
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Auctioneer’s catalogue for a sale at Layton’s home on 26 May 1914 arranged by Allan Booth and Dampney. The lots include furnishing and household items, but also oil paintings, watercolours and some antiquities. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
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Cover of one of the sale catalogues which included objects rejected when Fred Turner, the Brentford Librarian, made his selection from Layton’s collection. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
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5,200 archaeological and ethnographic artifacts including items from UK, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Peru and N. America.
A remarkable collection of 3,500 coins, tokens and medals - Roman, Greek, Indian, American and British.
4,000 maps and prints and 150 framed prints, maps and paintings.
8,000 from the 16th century to 19th century, remain in the collection, together with a small collection of manuscripts and some of Layton's personal papers.
Thomas Layton lived in Brentford, Middlesex between 1826 and 1911... read more
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