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  • The professed cook: or, the modern art of cookery, pastry, and confectionary, made plain and easy. Consisting of the most approved methods in the French as well as English cookery. In which the French names of all the different dishes are given and explained, whereby every bill of fare becomes intelligible and familiar. Containing I. Of soups, gravy, cullis and broths ... XXII. Ratafias, and other cordials, &c. Including a translation of Les soupers de la cour [by Menon]; with the addition of the best receipts which have ever appeared in the French or English languages, and adapted to the London markets / [B Clermont].
  • Saint Aquilinus of Milan intercedes before the Holy Trinity for people praying to him for protection against plague. Engraving by B. Kenckel, 17--.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis praying before an altar. Engraving by G. Petroschi.
  • Balthasar Hebenstreit. Line engraving by J. C. Dehne, 1723.
  • Rudolf Jacob Camerarius. Line engraving by J. C. Dehne.
  • William Cumberland Cruikshank. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1787, after himself.
  • The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.
  • Christ trampling the head of the serpent; Moses lifting up the serpent on a cross-shaped pole (Num. 21.8-9). Etching by P. Rothwell.
  • Jean Chappé d'Auteroche. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1791.
  • Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by J. Fougeron.
  • A man with a balloon and rudders strapped to him. Engraving by P. Rothwell after De Bruyn.
  • Avis au peuple, sur les asphyxies, ou morts apparentes et subites, contenant les moyens de les prévenir et d'y remédier. Avec la description d'une nouvelle boëte fumigatoire portative / [Joseph Jacques de Gardane].
  • The Blessed Bernard of Offida. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1795, after L. Cremasco.
  • Avis au peuple, sur les asphyxies, ou morts apparentes et subites, contenant les moyens de les prévenir et d'y remédier. Avec la description d'une nouvelle boëte fumigatoire portative / [Joseph Jacques de Gardane].
  • Saint Mary Magdalen in penitence, contemplating a skull. Etching by T. Vercruys after C. Sacconi after a painting attributed to M. Merisi da Caravaggio.
  • Charles Patin. Line engraving by J. F. Schmidt.
  • Johann Nicolaus Raab. Mezzotint by J. F. Schmidt, 1761.
  • Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
  • A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin, : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same / gathered and made by Wylliam Turner.
  • John Howard visiting a prison: a group of inmates sitting or lying on the floor. Etching by J. Hogg after F. Wheatley, 1787.
  • The ecstasy of Saint William of Vercelli. Engraving by Giuseppe Magliar after F. Solimena.
  • A lavishly dressed lady is having her fortune told by a woman with cards. Etching by West, 17--, after J.E. Schenau.
  • Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1794, after P. Savart.
  • A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: south view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Coloured engraving by T. Medland, after G. Samuel, 1817.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: south view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Engraving by T. Medland, after G. Samuel, 1792.
  • John Wolcot [Peter Pindar]. Line engraving by J. Corner after J. Opie.
  • Albrecht Dürer with a reversed copy of Dürer's print of a knight, death and the devil beneath. Engraving by J. Corner, 1825, after A. Dürer.
  • A man clinging to a rock on the shore during a storm. Engraving by T. Medland, 1790, after T. Stothard.
  • King Charles I imprisoned in Carisbrooke castle. Engraving by G. Noble, 1800, after R. Smirke.