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The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.

Sir Hans Sloane. Line engraving by Wray, 1795, after T. Murray, 1725.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by J.B. Bird after S. Slaughter, 1736.

The natural history of the pachydermes. Or, thick-skinned quadrupeds; consisting of the elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, tapir, hog, &c / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, with memoir and portrait of Sir Hans Sloane.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.

Sir Hans Sloane. Lithograph, 1829, after M. Rysbrack.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving after S. Slaughter, 1736.

Sir Hans Sloane. Line engraving after Sir G. Kneller, 1716.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by T. Prescott.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by W. Holl.

Collecting the world : the life and curiosity of Hans Sloane / James Delbourgo.

Useful transactions in philosophy, and other sorts of learning, for the months of.

From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, and Michael Hunter.

The coats of arms of Frederick and Augusta, Princess and Princess of Wales, presented to Cromwell Mortimer after he elucidated for them the rarities of nature and art in Sir Hans Sloane's museum. Engraving, 1748.

Natural history, natural philosophy and the nature of medicine : the experiences and rationale of the colonial doctor, 1670-1730 / Oliver Tann.

Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.

De affectionibus cordis libri tres / Hannibalis Albertinii.

Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.

Cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia; exinde, quid, lapis sophorum antiquissimus, rei sit, qui triplex, & tamen simplex lapis existit : Omnia hactenus ex variis etiam scriptis paucis observata, singulis laboriosis amatoribus artis honoris ergò, deo annuente, tam perspicuè ac lucidissimo speculo, proposita, et quatuor aeneis laminis incisis picturis exhibita / Per ignotum, attamen notum, sicuti insignia prima figurae insculpta testantur, nunc è Germanico, Latnio [sic] versa à strenuo sapientiae cultore, et unâ cum praestantissimi cujusdam philosophi diagraphe hujus ipsius argumenti, Roseae Crusis Fraternitati dicata edita. Quò hac in materia amplius nil desideretur.

L'ordre et regime qu'on doit garder et tenir en la cure des fièvres: avec ung chapitre singulier contenant les causes & remedes des fievres pestilentielles. Plus, ung dialogue contenant les causes, jugemens, couleurs et hypostases des urines, lesquelles adviennent le plus souvent a ceus qui ont la fièvre. / Compose par M. Sebastien Colin medecin a Fontenay le Comte en Poitou.

Hydrophilacium novum, seu discursus de aquis salubribus mineralibus vere novus : in quo aquae minerales tam potabiles quam balneabiles omnes cujuscunque sine indolis tam theoretice quam practice methodo hactenus nunquam tradita enucleantur, ususque earum verus assignatur; opusculum, uti medicis hactenus multum desideratum, ita & necessarium ac summe utile  / authore Jo. Jacobo Francisco Vicario.

De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

Dissertatio epistolica ... in qua crystallizationem salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem, ex observationibus etiam suis, contra medicos et chymicos hodiernos, evincitur / [Ralph Dring].

Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex / Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium historiis, ad naturae aemulationem expressis imaginibus ... Additis etiam annotationibus sive scholis brevissimis quidem, quæ tamen de medicinali materia omnem controversiam facile tollant per Gualtherum H. Ryff, Argentinum. Omnia ex doctissimorum virorum lucubrationibus jamprimum concinnata et in lucem aedita ... Accessere in eundem autorem schola nova, cum nomenclaturis græcis, latinis hebraicis et germanicis, Ioanne Lonicero autore.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the natural history of the Herbs and Trees, Four-Footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved; In large Copper-Plates as big as the Life. By Hans Sloane, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians and Secretary of the Royal-Society. In two volumes. Vol. I.

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Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753

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De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

Dissertatio epistolica ... in qua crystallizationem salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem, ex observationibus etiam suis, contra medicos et chymicos hodiernos, evincitur / [Ralph Dring].