King Welsh Recueil de toutes les observations

Recueil de toutes les observations astronomiques faites par ordre du Roy

The Wellington Arch viewed from the north-east with St George's Hospital and Knightsbridge in the background

Japanese folk toys

On the table is a volume with 'Opticks' [presumably denoting Sir Isaac Newton's work] written on the top edge

France's first woman racing driver

King Welsh Recueil de toutes les observationsKing and knight, late 12th century, (1843). The king wears a long dalmatica (tunic) ornamented with fleur de lys, and mantle thrown back to show his jewelled collar and girdle. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).