Ralph Thoresby was an antiquarian, who was born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. Besides being a merchant, he was a nonconformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, and museum keeper.
Artist/Engraver George Vertue 1712
Size 19 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
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Italian priest & writer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Francois
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Anne “Ninon” de l’Enclos also Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts.
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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German writer, linguist, educator and publisher. He was a major representative of philanthropinism and the German Enlightenment.
Size 11 x 12 cms
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Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory
Artist: J.Bacon(statuary)
Date:
Size 10 x 19 cms
Price £14.00
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German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day
Size 10.5 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was “the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced.” His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation
Artist: Poubus
Date:
Size 105 x 13 cms
Price £38.00
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German writer of the Enlightenment and is considered the founder of the German detective story
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Jurist of the Holy Roman Empire. Lawyer and theologian.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Bruhl
Date:1570
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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German critic and dramatic poet. Müllner was a nephew of Gottfried August Burger, and was born at Langendorf near Weissenfels.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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