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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, physicist and balloonist, c1870 Unknown

Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), queen consort of Henry IV of France Franz Kellerhoven

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish born American inventor, c1880 Unknown

Little boy holding a wreath and basket of flowers, from Deuxième Livre de Figures d'…, after 1757 Pierre Francois Tardieu

St Johns Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta Anonymous

Praetor-Urbanus Anonymous

Nest of the Reed warbler Adam Ludwig Wirsing

Jean Martin Charcot demonstrating hypnosis, 1879 Anonymous

The Battle of Corunna Anonymous

Ernest Cognacq, French retailer Anonymous

The Civil War in Spain Anonymous

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

First aerial voyage by Charles and Robert, Paris, France, 1783 (1890s). Anonymous

Vignette en regard du nom de Aug. de St. Aubi Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Pierre de Rohan, Marshal of France Anonymous

The Santa Maria della Salute Church, 19th century Victor Adam

Malagasy spinetail J Huet

Scaled fruiteater and Red-headed fody J Huet

Claude Chappe demonstrating his optical telegraph (semaphore) system in 1793 (c1870) Unknown

The Monkey and the Cat, probably 1670s Abraham Hondius

New Morality; or the Promis'D Installment of the High-Priest of the Theophilanthropes Anonymous

Napoleon's troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870) Unknown

Gaston, Duc d'Orleans, commander of the armies under Louis XIII of France Anonymous

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Unknown

Maurice Trintignant Unknown

Fashions that imitate the costume of antiquity Smeeton and Tilly

A balloon in flight Anonymous

Costumes Edward May

Paris Observatory, France, 1740 Unknown

First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870) Unknown

Madeleine of Valois, Princess of Viana Anonymous

Davy's electric egg, 1883 Unknown

The Lottery Nathaniel Parr

Assasination of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Anonymous

Poster for Fête de Charité Jules Chéret

Charles VII, King of France, on horseback in full armour Gautier