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  • Chinese woodcut, dietetic longevity techniques. Chinese
  • GGraphic from Ming Chinese longevity text, woodcut
  • Beijing, Pechili province, China: ruins of the sculptured terrace, Longevity Hill, the Garden of Clear Ripples. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Beijing, Pechili province, China: ruins of the sculptured terrace, Longevity Hill, the Garden of Clear Ripples. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Wanshou, the astral god of longevity . Watercolour and embroidery by a Chinese artist or artists.
  • Wanshou, the astral god of longevity . Watercolour and embroidery by a Chinese artist or artists.
  • Six of the seven gods of good fortune look on as one of their number writes the character for longevity with a brush tied to his elongated, bald head. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1870s.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Japanese and Chinese legends: (top) a monkey blowing on a hair to conjure up a legion of monkey warriors; (bottom) an aged Japanese couple, the symbol of marital harmony and longevity, watching the sunset under a pine tree. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1880s.
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.
  • An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.
  • Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio ... Historia vitae et mortis / Cum annotatioinb. [sic] Barthol. Moseri. Nouiter in lucem data omnibus longioris vitæ cupidis, et secretioris philosophiæ ac medicinæ studiosis perutilis, litteratis deniq[ue] universis lectu iucunda.
  • The art of living long : a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Louis Cornaro, with essays / by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple.
  • Hermippus redivivus, or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well-attested relations / [Anon].
  • Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, a treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated ... Whereunto is annexed ... a treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer ... Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified / [Tobias Venner].
  • John Graves, aged 102. Engraving by G. Vertue.
  • The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Johann Heinrich Hampe. Mezzotint by T. Burke after A. Kauffmann and letterpress.
  • Yiheyuan (New Imperial Summer Palace), Peking: Zhihuihai temple, at Wanshoushan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Peter Garden aged 131. Engraving.
  • Yiheyuan (New Imperial Summer Palace), Peking: Zhihuihai temple, at Wanshoushan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Yiheyuan (New Imperial Summer Palace), Peking: Zhihuihai temple, at Wanshoushan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Chinese 15th century Daoist image of internal topography
  • Yao Shang, Chinese sage, wearing traditional costume and holding a medicine container (?). Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.