History (559 Subjects)
Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem.
Genseric. Attila ruler of the Huns. Council of Chalcedon. Saint Ursula, Saint John of Damascus and Merlin the wizard.
Alboin King of the Lombards. Cardinal Julian and Francesco Sforza. Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.
Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.
Antonio Roselli, eminent judge and jurist (1381 -1466). Sultan Mehmed II depicted in the likeness of John VIII Palaiologos on the medal by Pisanello. Istanbul during the great storm of July 1490 which caused extended fires and human losses and was seen by several Christians as sign of God's wrath against Muslims. Stone in the shape of the letter D, etched with a cross, falls from the sky on Ensisheim, Alsace on 7 November 1492.
Istanbul during the great storm of July 1490 which caused extended fires and human losses and was seen by several Christians as sign of God's wrath against Muslims.
Floor plan of Kaninë fortress, showing the positions of the Venetian army during the siege of 1690, and when Venice took the fortress from the Ottomans.
Portrait of Francesco Morosini in the style of Aeneas, based on his statue at the Palazzo dei Dogi, Venice.
Othoman emblem, taken by the Venetian army as a token of Venice's victory at the siege of Koroni in 1685.
Plain of Plataea, from Mount Cithaeron.
Cozak chief Stenka Razin throws the Russian princess he had married into the Volga, as related in the folk legend.
Frontispiece to “Relation du naufrage d'un vaiseau Hollandois nomme ter Schellingh” by Frans Janszoon van der Heiden.
The sailors of Tershelling abandon their ship.
The castaways of Tershelling approach the coast of Bengal on a raft.
The castaways of Tershelling spend the night outside, on an island in the gulf of Bengal. One of them is delirious due to exhaustion.
Adventures of Tershelling castaways.
Castaways of Tershelling kill snakes in order to eat them.
Starving, the castaways of Tershelling roast the carcass of a dead buffalo.
Castaways of Tershelling construct a dinghy.
Castaways of Tershelling argue over the skin and meat of the dead buffalo.
Tamerlane imprisons Sultan Beyazid I.
Executions by impalement and gaunching.
Prince Mustafa assassinated in the campaign tent of his father, Suleiman I, who is present (on the left), encouraging moreover the assassinators.
The Janissary corp overthrows Sultan Osman II.
Tuğra, official seal of Sultan Selim III.
Inscription from the tomb of Sir Edward Barton, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, in the late 16th century. The author argues that this inscription is found at the Monastery of Hagia Triada on Heybeliada (Halki).
Frontispiece. The SS Great Eastern laying the transatlantic cable.
Portrait of the abbot (hegoumenos) of Iviron monastery, Mount Athos.
Monument built on the site of the barrack where according to tradition Peter the Great stayed at during his visit to Derbent in modern-day Daguestan, in 1822.
Title page of the second volume of the edition. Inauguration of the Suez canal (1867).