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  • A yellow heart within a black triangle within a purple and yellow square representing an advertisement for the Israel Tour of The Names Project International Memorial AIDS quilt. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Painted tablet for fortune telling, inscribed with the names of different angels. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Astronomy: a star map of the night sky in the southern hemisphere, with names of the constellations. Coloured engraving.
  • List of the Lectures at the University of Padua for 1693. The names include Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Galileo.
  • A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.
  • Astronomy: a star map of the night sky in the northern hemisphere, with the names of the constellations. Coloured engraving.
  • Opened packets of condoms with the names of women sex partners; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Lithograph.
  • Astronomy: a star map of the night sky in the northern hemisphere, with the names of the constellations. Coloured engraving.
  • A lit candle stiched together representing an advertisement for an exhibition of The Names Project to commemorate those who have died from AIDS between 20 and 23 November 1990 in Mexico. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Painted seal of Mughal Emperor Awrangzib ibn Shah Djahan I, Abul Muzzaffar Muhammad Alamgir surrounded by the names of his predecessors.
  • The hierarchie of the blessed angells. Their names, orders and offices / The fall of Lucifer with his angells. Written by Tho. Heywood.
  • Hygieia stands before a pyramid engraved with the names of famous figures in the history of medicine. Etching by B. Hübner, 1777.
  • Ghosts of bishops appearing to a young man; their names are given to him by a wizard. Engraving by B. Winkles after J. Salmon.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut after Hans Wechtlin, 1517.
  • Stones bearing the names of AIDS victims; advertising World AIDS Day 1992 in Berlin. Colour lithograph by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher AIDS-Stiftungen and Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe.
  • Seven figures with names laid out in the form of a family tree joined by pink hearts; promotion for safe sex and use of condoms. Colour lithograph.
  • A black and white flame against a red background, with a list of artists' names; advertising the exhibition "Imágenes contra el SIDA". Colour lithograph by Peret, 199-.
  • Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder general, with two supposed witches calling out the names of their demons, some of which are represented by animals. Etching, 1792, after an earlier woodcut.
  • An art gallery with paintings featuring condoms and the names of men; advertising an art exhibition on AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph after L. Nitka for Landstinget förebygger AIDS, 1993.
  • Three squares of red, green and yellow representing panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt with figures in silhouette; advertising an exhibition of sections of the quilt. Colour lithograph, 1989.
  • Rows of coloured condoms with a variety of different nick-names; advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the SUNY Purchase college in New York. Colour lithograph by Christie Salomon.
  • Two motorbike helmets with the names Lachlan and Lorna next to a packet of Mates condoms; representing the price of protection against AIDS by the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • Numerous death crosses in black against a white background with the names of people who have died of AIDS; a warning issued by Abraco. Colour lithograph by McCann/JM, ca. 1996.
  • Numerous death crosses in black against a white background with the names of people who have died of AIDS; a warning issued by Abraco. Colour lithograph by McCann/JM, ca. 1990's.
  • Black and white flames against a red background with a list of names representing an advertisement for 'exposicion de 36', a fair showing an exhibition of AIDS posters by Artis Association . Colour lithograph.
  • The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London : comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals. Vol. I, 1518 to 1700 / by William Munk.
  • A tree with a red heart pinned to the trunk and a piece of string attached to a needle pinned to the paper; with a border littered with numerous signatures; an advertisement for the Navneprojektet [The Names Project] in Århus, a project in memory of AIDS victims in Denmark. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Map of Huoqing zhou, in Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Provonce. The Poyi live in the Huoqing area. The pictorial map shows the walled city in the centre. The places in the surroundings are tagged by their Chinese names.
  • 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.