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  • Barbados snowdrop (Zephyranthes tubispatha): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Barbados aloe plant (Aloe vera): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
  • A monument positioned near the military hospital in Barbados, with passers-by. Lithograph by J. M. Carter, c. 1837.
  • Barbados aloe plant (Aloe vera): flowering plant and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1842, after P. Turpin.
  • A yellow pill next to a jar bearing the label 'Partners Recommended dosage - one only' with a male and female figure; a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS from a concept by Dahlia Phillips with assistance from Unicef and Life of Barbados. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • 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 figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • 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 figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • Physic ball : for horses : containing drachms of barbadoes aloes and aromatics / prepared by Richard Hine.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes, proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes, proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • Above, two butterflies; below, a small double-headed snake from Barbabos. Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.
  • H. Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, B
  • H. Sloane, Catalogus plantarum quae in insul
  • H. Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, B
  • Portrait of Dr Christopher James Davis
  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).