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  • Cabinet-making: design for a glass-fronted bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: design for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • The god Jupiter flanked by two scholars with winged heads and glasses. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Radcliffe Camera, Oxford: interior of the library showing study areas. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Mackenzie.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Bani Suef, Egypt: a midife holding a kulleh (pottery water jar) at the naming ceremony of a baby. Photograph by W.S. Blackman, 192-.
  • Opera Vergiliana docte et familiariter exposita: docte quidem Bucolica et Georgica a Servio, Donato, Mancinello et Probo nuper addito / cum adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis vero ab iisdem praeter Mancinellum et Probum et ab Augustino Datho in ejus principio: opusculorum praeterea quaedam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter vero omnia ... ab Jodoco Badio Ascensio ... Omnia ... et Aeneis: quoque tertius decimus a Mapheo Vegio liber: expolitissimis figuris et imaginibus illustrata.
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this ... being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick... / by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The viscount sits despondent in a chair, his wife indicates tiredness by stretching her arms, while a disapproving steward exits carrying a handful of bills. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • Andreae Alciati Emblematum fontes quatuor : namely, an account of the original collection made at Milan, 1522, and photo-lith fac-similes of the editions, Augsburg 1531, Paris 1534, and Venice 1546 / edited by Henry Green ; with a sketch of Alciat's life and bibliograpical observations respecting the early reprints.
  • Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura libri dece / traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati: co[m]mentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • The third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso (1543-1588) and his entourage. Distemper painting.
  • Aelfredi regis res gestae / [John Asser].
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
  • The three Buddhist deities Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.