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  • Armed men riding on camels in the desert during a sand storm. Watercolour by A.O. Lamplough, 19--.
  • Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: first world war (?) front line trenches; a machine gun with three (British ?) soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Encampment in the desert, with Mount Seir in the distance, Wady Arabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: first world war front line trenches; a machine gun emplacement surrounded by sandbags, with two soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • India: the Bikanir Camel Corps conservancy area ferry post: incinerators in the desert with Indian men. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1900/1910.
  • Desert-dwelling reptile from Egypt: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Normand after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • Third Carlist War: deserters from the Spanish army imprisoned in the Alhambra, Granada, supervised in a yard by armed guards. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A jerboa standing in the desert next to an inscribed stone with pyramids in the background. Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.
  • A man in the desert carrying a rifle in one hand and a water pouch over his shoulder. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Episodes in the Zulu wars, including a Zulu ceremony, the flogging of a deserter and a Zulu warrior giving himself up to English soldiers. Wood engraving.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • A rhinoceros stands in the midst of a herd of stampeding animals in the desert. Line engraving by H. Adlard after J. Wolf after C. J. Anderson.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.
  • An elephant wearing a condom on its raised trunk runs across a desert; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by M. Westrup for Wizard & Genius-Idealdecor AG, 1993.
  • An uncle visiting Majnun and Layla in the desert, from the story Layla and Majnun by Nizami, a 12th century Iranian poet. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.
  • Slaves in the Sudan with their hands manacled in planks forced to walk across the desert by their captors and guards who are mounted on camels. Wood engraving after G. Montbard.
  • Egypt (?): a military desert camp with tents, a horseman with a device for sweeping the camp attached to the horse, and a colonial soldier. Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • A naked man and a naked woman sitting on a desert island, kissing under a palm tree with colourful condoms instead of fronds; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after S. Theurer, 1994.
  • Christ with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin), angels, Saint Bruno and companions praying in the desert at Grande Chartreuse. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1657, after P. de Champaigne, 1656.
  • Four figures: the Great Emir of the Arabs of the desert; a criminal manacled at the neck in Persia; an itinerant dervish; a monk of the order of Edemites. Engraving by J. Folkema, 17--.
  • Four figures: the Great Emir of the Arabs of the desert; a criminal manacled at the neck in Persia; an itinerant dervish; a monk of the order of Edemites. Engraving by J. Folkema, 17--.
  • A house set amidst trees within a condom situated in a barren desert setting with the word 'preservation' suggesting condoms are as safe as houses; an illustration by T. F. Barbier from 1987 representing an advertisement for safe sex by the GSG, Groupe SIDA Genève. Colour lithograph.
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].