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  • A hand holding saving account book from the Wise People's Bank: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council , ca. 1990.
  • Memoirs of the celebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish gentelman, containing a faithful and curious account of his birth, education, marriage, travels and voyages / Written by himself; translated from the French by Mr. Des Carrieres.
  • A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • A boy found in the forests of Aveyron, France, who had been living 'wild' since a small child as he was unable to speak. Coloured engraving, 1805.
  • Two people walking towards each other with their arms outstretched; representing solidarity with AIDS victims on World AIDS day. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • An abstract white-washed figure with a red dot at its centre; a painting by Christian P. c/o the Bavarian AIDS Foundation; an appeal for donations to help those affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • An Indian man reaches out to touch his young bride who wears a red sari that covers her face; a woman raising her arms in terror as flames envelop her and all her belongings, a man setting off to earn his fortune abroad with a blue sack over his shoulder and a woman (his wife?) staying at home stirring a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement within a decorative border by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.