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  • Prince Vessantara leaves the life of a hermit and returns to the city. Watercolour.
  • "I've been taking AZT, 3TC and NVP for almost 4 years. I'm healthy and happy." / City of Cape Town, Medicins sans frontiers.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: part of the city with Table Mountain and Lion's Head. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • "I've been taking ARVs since 2002, I'm taking AZT, Kaletra & DDi and I'm healthy." / City of Cape Town, Medicins sans frontiers.
  • "I started ARVs in December 2002. My combination consist of AZT, 3TC & Efavirenz. I'm healthy and strong." / City of Cape Town, Medicins sans frontiers.
  • Frankfurt am Main: the town hall (Rathaus, Römer) with the shield of the city, the railway and the river Main. Etching by B. Mannfeld with letterpress, 1901.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022572C. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres) under snow. The climate in the Khumbu can be harsh and unpredictable. The tents in the foreground belong to a European mountaineering expedition. The yaks are unperturbed.
  • Solidified wine 2,000 years old : glimpses of life in the ancient city of Pompeii. Dr. Louis Sambon on wines and foods: an interesting interview / by J.V. Morton.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. A street in Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres). Men relax outside a store. In the mid-1980s, Nepal was rigidly patriarchical although Sherpa women had more autonomy than other groups. Women generally had limited access to markets, education, health care and local government. Malnutrition and poverty hit them the hardest, and female children were usually given less food than male children, especially during food shortages.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc. With an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most noted cities, countries, towns and other remarkable things, all drawn to the life / By Corneille le Brunyn. Done into English, by W.F.
  • A complete system of geography. Being a description of all thecountries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, &c. of the known world. Shewing the situation, extent, and boundaries of the several empires, kingdoms, republics, principalities, provinces, &c. their climate, soil, and produce ... and the distance and bearing of all the principal towns from one another. Including the most material revolutions and changes that have happen'd in every state ... / The whole llustrated with seventy maps by Emanuel Bowen.
  • Free confidential voluntary counselling & testing (VCT) / City of Cape Town.
  • A street scene in a European city, prior to the arrival of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
  • An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
  • The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
  • The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Oxford: twelve views of the city as seen from the surrounding countryside or river. Aquatint.
  • The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.