Catalogue of stereopticons, dissolving view apparatus, magic lanterns : and list of over 3000 carefully selected views for the illustration of subjects of popular interest. (1867)

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40 McAllister, Optician, 49 Nassau St., New York. 46 Adam and Eve perceive the approach of Michael, sent to expel them from P.ira iia«—B. XI, 203-210. (Relation of Raphael from No. 47 to 4!).) 47 Noah beings to build a vessel of great bulk. B. XI, 729. 48 The Flood—B. XI, 717-749. 49 Moses brings down the tables of the law from Mount Sinai—B. XII, 236-2X3. 50 Adam and Eve expelled—B. XII, 641-644. ILLUSTRATIONS TO DANTE'S INFERNO. By Gustave Dorb. Finely Colored Photographs.— $2 75 per Slide. 1 Portrait of Dante Aligheri, born 1265. 2 The author finds himself in a gloomy wood, astray—Canto I, lines 1-3. 3 Is hindered by a panter from ascending a mountain—Can. I, 29-32. 4 A Lion puts himself in his path in another direction—Can. I, 43 44. 5 Dante meets the poet Virgil, who shows him the way to avoid a pursuing she-wolf—Can. I, 88-90. 6 Virgil proposes to show to Dante Hell, and they depart thence—Can. I, 132. 7 They proceed at Nightfall—Can. II, 1-3. 8 The apparition of his Breatrice bids him forth on hi3 errand—Can. II, 70-71. 9 Dante, following Virgil, comes to the Gate of Hell. They read the inscription: "All hope abandon, all ye who enter here."—Ca i. Ill, 9. 10 Charon meets them to ferry them over Styx—Can. ni, 76-78. 11 Charon compelling ungodly souls to enter his vessel—Can. Ill, 101-104. 12 They see 'he unbaptised, who live desiring without hope—Can. IV, 38, 39. 13 They meet the poets Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lu an—Can. IV, 83-85. 14 Entering the second circle they see Minos, judging—Can. V, 4. 15 Here they see the punishment of carnal sinners— Can. V, 20. 16 The author accosts Francesca de Rimini—Can. V, 72. 17 She tells him how she fell in love with her bro her-in-law—Can. IV, 123-125. 18 The surprise of the lovers and their murder by her husband—Can. V, 123-135. 19 The author, through pity of this sad tale, falls fainting to the ground—Can. V, 137-133. 20 Entering the third circle, where gluttons are punished, they encounter Cerberus—Can. VI, 24-26. 21 They pass a group lying in mire, drenched by constant hail, snow and discolored water, Cerberus rendering them piecemeal. One of the group, Ciacco, fortells the fate of Florence—Can. VI, 64. 22 Descent into the fodrth circle. Virgil appeases PIutus—Can. VI, 64. 23 Here one like doom awaits the prodigal and the avaricious —Can. VII, 65-67. 24 Descent to ihe fifth circle, where the wrathfull and gloomy are tormented in the Stygian Lake—Can. VII, 112-120. 25 Arr ved at the base of a great tower, Phegyas ferries them over—Can. VIII, 27-29. 26 On their passage they meet Pnillippo Argenti, whose fury and orraent is described—Can. VIII, 39-48. 27 Arrival at the city of Dis (sixth circle), the entrance whereto is denied by many demons. —Can. VIII, 110-113. 28 They encounter the hellish furies—Can. IX, 46. 29 An Angel opens the Gates of Dis to them—Can. IX, 87-89. 30 Here they find that heretics are punished in Tombs burninc; with intense Fire—Can. IX, 124-126. 31 Dante, by permission of his guide, holds discourse with Farinata degli Ubertiand Cavalcanti. The former predicts the poets exile from Florence—Can. X, 40-42. 32 Dante arrives at the verge of a rocky precipice enclosing the seventh circ'e. Here he sees the Sepulchre of Pope Anastasius, ihe Heretic—Can. XI, 8-10. 33 The seventh circle is guarded by the Minotaur—Can. XII, 11-14. 34 In the seventh circle the violent are punished in a river of blood. The centaurs guard tho border of the river and oppose Dante's passage—Can. XII, 55-60. 35 The poets approach them—Can. XIl, 73, 74. 36 They enter the second compartmeet of the seventh circle, which contains 9elf-destroyera, changed into knotty trees, whereon Harpies build their nests—Can. XIII, 11. 37 They converse with Pierro delle Vigne, chancellor to Emperor Frederic II—Can. XIII, 34. 38 The second compartment contains also those who have violently consumod their good9, changed similarly; but chased by black female mastiffs—Can. X1I1, 126-128. 89 Arrival at the third compartment of the seventh circle, a plain of dry hot sand where the violent against God, Nature and Art are punished by showers of eternal fire— Can. XIV, 27-39.