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Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.

Pompeii: the Stabian baths. Photograph by Alinari, 1931.

Russell Institution, Great Coram Street, London: the facade, with passers-by. Coloured aquatint, 1811.

Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: panoramic view. Tinted lithograph by G. Rowe.

The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Open air baths in Budapest; two large pools separated by railings in which people are swimming. Photograph.

A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.

Supplément à l'ordre du jour, du 27 thermidor an 8 : avis sur la santé de l'armée / R. Desgenettes.

Ancient Roman women bathing in a public bath in London. Coloured drawing by F. Matania, 1922.

<p>Full colour prostitute card from London (24 January 2001). It shows a photograph of a woman wearing a white shirt and skirt.</p>

Sex ephemera : sex worker phonebox cards. Box 14

"New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

The Turkish bath in health and disease : being the substance of a lecture delivered at Sheffield on the 16th of December, 1858 / by John le Gay Brereton.

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Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

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Sex ephemera : sex worker phonebox cards. Box 13

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"New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

The Turkish bath in health and disease : being the substance of a lecture delivered at Sheffield on the 16th of December, 1858 / by John le Gay Brereton.

Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

Gorgeous black masseuse, 24 hrs-40DD-big bum : domination, water sports, bubble bath...

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Baths

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"New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

The Turkish bath in health and disease : being the substance of a lecture delivered at Sheffield on the 16th of December, 1858 / by John le Gay Brereton.

Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

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