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BL3300337: A poster for Dr. Cramer's Illusions at Berner's Hall, the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington. The marvellous automatic whist player & conjuror, mental arithmetician, orthographer and clairvoyant. Acetos, the great dynamic mystery. An automatic figure, 26 inches high, seated on a box, and insulated on a glass pedestal. / Bridgeman Images
BL3300533: King Philip II of France presides at the burning of the heretical followers of Amaury of Chartres. In 1209 ten of his followers were burnt before the gates of Paris, and Amalric's own body was exhumed and burnt and the ashes given to the winds. Amaury de Chartres or Amaury de Bene or Amalric of Bena, was a philosopher and theologian of the French twelfth century. / Bridgeman Images