Plans and drawings (1040 Subjects)
A curious jet d'eau at Ioannina. It consists of a small castle built of marble surmounted by cannon, and surrounded by regular lines which play upon each other in imitation of a bombardment: between the cannon, on the parapet, stand figures of parrots, lions, and other birds or beasts, who spout water also out of their mouths as if in mockery at what is going forward.
View and plan of Nilometer, device to measure the height of the waters of the river Nile, on Rhoda island in Cairo.
Plan of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. From Historia byzantina by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1680).
Plan of Hagioi Apostoloi church, on the site of which the Mosque of Sultan Fatih Mehmet was built. From Historia Byzantina by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1680).
Island, bearing W. & by S. called by the Turks Hellika, by the Greeks Telo, or Delo, & laid down in the Charts under the Name of Piscopi, between Rhodes & Stanchio. Point of Rhodes & Table Mountain with the small Isle of Sicklia, lying at the S.E. of the Island of Symi. Carpathos, now Scarpanto, bearing West & by North, from Lat. 35.55. 25 miles from E. Coast of the island or Rhodes.
The disposition of the Russian and Ottoman troops in the battle of Stănileşt during the Pruth campaign (1711). Ottoman officials conferring in their tent.
The disposition of the Russian army in the battle of Stănileşt during the Pruth campaign (1711). Portrait of the commanders of the troops, Peter I the Great of Russia and Vizier Baltacı Mehmet Pasha. Roman coins discovered in the area,
