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  • A landscape with Austrian pilgrims gathering around a sculpture. Engraving by J.B. Allen after G.R. Lewis.
  • Ace of points : [better from every angle : the diamond star stainless veterinary needles] / [S. & R.J. Everett & Co. ; obtainable from Allen & Hanburys Ltd.]
  • Ace of points : [better from every angle : the diamond star stainless veterinary needles] / [S. & R.J. Everett & Co. ; obtainable from Allen & Hanburys Ltd.]
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • "Gladding's New Remedy" : a sure cure for all summer complaints, Chas. A. Gladding, Pharmacist, 223 Greenwich St., Prov., R.I.
  • Navajo sand-painting, negative made from postcard, "All publication rights reserved. Apply to J.R. Willis, Gallup, N.M. Kodaks-Art Goods" (U.S.A.)
  • A horse (top) showing all the fashionable tack, and details of the locking mechanism for the tack (below). Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].
  • A medicinal dictionary; including ... chymistry, and botany ... Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / [R. James].
  • A cross-section of the wax model of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV: showing the core all surrounded by broken bricks, with an illustration of the whole model encased in a plaster mould, covered with an iron net. Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • The idea of practical physick in twelve books ... These ... They contain the marrow of all the works of Daniel Sennertus, and Fernelius, and twenty five physitians more / ... Written in Latin by John Johnston ... And Englished by Nich. Culpeper ... And W.R. [Wm. Rowland or Wm. Rand].
  • The idea of practical physick in twelve books ... These ... They contain the marrow of all the works of Daniel Sennertus, and Fernelius, and twenty five physitians more / ... Written in Latin by John Johnston ... And Englished by Nich. Culpeper ... And W.R. [Wm. Rowland or Wm. Rand].
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S.
  • Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S.
  • A chart of the histories of Rome, France, and Britain, with historical notices and dates of the other States of Europe / by Edward Ward Foster, 61, King William Street (City), London.
  • Anatomy improv'd and illustrated with regard to the uses thereof in designing: not only laid down from an examen of the bones and muscles of the human body, but also demonstrated and exemplified from the most celebrated antique statues in Rome. Exhibited in a great number of copper plates, with all the figures in various views / Intended originally for y use of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture. And carried on under the care and inspection of Charles Errard director of the same in Rome. The dissections made by Doc[to]r Ber[nardin]o Genga ... The explanations and indexes added by ... John Maria Lancissi ... First published at Rome by Dom di Rossi and now reengraven ... And republish'd by John Senex. A work of great use to painters, sculptors, statuaries and all others studious in the noble art of designing.
  • Nuova selva di cirugia, divisa in tre parti. Nella prima sono gli avvertimenti del manual, & artificioso modo di curare molte, e gravi infirmità del corpo humano. Nella seconda sono molti medicamenti esquisiti, con le figure de' ferri, ò instrumenti necessarii per essercitar l'arte della cirugia. Nella terza parimente si contengono molti rari medicamenti per distillationi, con le figure in ultimo de' vasi, e fornelli appartenenti all'arte distillatoria / Del R.P.F. Gabriele Ferrara ... Di nuovo in questa ultima impressione ampliato, et accresciuto di molti secreti dall'istesso autore et aggiuntovi la quarte parte, che tratta delle qualità et rimedii della peste.
  • Nuova selva di cirugia, divisa in tre parti. Nella prima sono gli avvertimenti del manual, & artificioso modo di curare molte, e gravi infirmità del corpo humano. Nella seconda sono molti medicamenti esquisiti, con le figure de' ferri, ò instrumenti necessarii per essercitar l'arte della cirugia. Nella terza parimente si contengono molti rari medicamenti per distillationi, con le figure in ultimo de' vasi, e fornelli appartenenti all'arte distillatoria / Del R.P.F. Gabriele Ferrara ... Di nuovo in questa ultima impressione ampliato, et accresciuto di molti secreti dall'istesso autore et aggiuntovi la quarte parte, che tratta delle qualità et rimedii della peste.
  • Nuova selva di cirugia, divisa in tre parti. Nella prima sono gli avvertimenti del manual, & artificioso modo di curare molte, e gravi infirmità del corpo humano. Nella seconda sono molti medicamenti esquisiti, con le figure de' ferri, ò instrumenti necessarii per essercitar l'arte della cirugia. Nella terza parimente si contengono molti rari medicamenti per distillationi, con le figure in ultimo de' vasi, e fornelli appartenenti all'arte distillatoria / Del R.P.F. Gabriele Ferrara ... Di nuovo in questa ultima impressione ampliato, et accresciuto di molti secreti dall'istesso autore et aggiuntovi la quarte parte, che tratta delle qualità et rimedii della peste.
  • Nuova selva di cirugia, divisa in tre parti. Nella prima sono gli avvertimenti del manual, & artificioso modo di curare molte, e gravi infirmità del corpo humano. Nella seconda sono molti medicamenti esquisiti, con le figure de' ferri, ò instrumenti necessarii per essercitar l'arte della cirugia. Nella terza parimente si contengono molti rari medicamenti per distillationi, con le figure in ultimo de' vasi, e fornelli appartenenti all'arte distillatoria / Del R.P.F. Gabriele Ferrara ... Di nuovo in questa ultima impressione ampliato, et accresciuto di molti secreti dall'istesso autore et aggiuntovi la quarte parte, che tratta delle qualità et rimedii della peste.
  • A man dressed in bondage gear, dark glasses and cap holding his penis; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of HIV by the Core Program. Lithograph by Charles R. Moniz.
  • Famous chemists, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Shapper after J.E. Mayall, 1850.
  • Men performing oral sex; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of HIV by the Core Program. Lithograph by Charles R. Moniz.
  • Two groups of men performing oral sex in booths; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of HIV by the Core Program. Lithograph by Charles R. Moniz.
  • The semi-naked Lady Godiva sitting on a horse having slippers put on her feet by another woman. Engraving by J.B. Allen after G. Jones.