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  • University of Oxford: the Vice Chancellor of Oxford (1852) and the two former ones walking towards a ceremony. Coloured etching, 1852.
  • A furious cuckold rushes at his rival with a sword; representing vice as its own punishment. Engraving after O. van Veen (Vaenius), 1612.
  • Rev. Pat Robertson converses with Vice-President Dan Quayle with numerous speech bubbles; a protest against their policies including those relating to AIDS. Lithograph.
  • The lottery: the allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a show on stage; various allegorical figures in the foreground. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth, 1724.
  • The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Dedication page by G.J.Guthrie in 'Lectures on the Operative Surgery of the eye...' He dedicates th ebook to the Duke of Wellington and the vice-presidents of the Royal Westminster Infirmary.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
  • 'Vic' (or Vi?) in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • 'Vic' (or Vi?) in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470.
  • Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470.
  • If you have a dick this big there's no need to use a condom this big (or vice versa) : standard thickness condoms are available in a range of sizes and can protect you and your partner from HIV / GMFA, London's Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership.
  • The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.
  • Delaun reviv'd, viz. a plain ... discourse of that famous doctor's pills. ... With choice receipts for the cure of the scurvy, dropsy, jaundies, venereal and other diseases / [N. L].
  • Delaun reviv'd, viz. a plain ... discourse of that famous doctor's pills. ... With choice receipts for the cure of the scurvy, dropsy, jaundies, venereal and other diseases / [N. L].
  • Zachariah Carleton, cutler, at the Case of Knives in New Street, Covent Garden, London : sells London, Birmingham & Sheffield cutlery wares : viz table knives & forks, clasp knives, razors, scissars.
  • Mr. Culpepper's Treatise of Aurum potabile. Being a description of the three-fold world, viz. elementary, celestial, intellectual. Containing the knowledge necessary to the study of hermetick philosophy ... / published by his wife.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A new digester or engine for softening bones, containing the description of its make and use in these particulars: viz, cookery, voyages at sea, confectionary, making of drinks, chymistry, and dying. With an account of the price a good big engine will cost, and of the profit it will afford / [Denis Papin].
  • Two books of physick: viz. I. Medicaments for poor; or, physick for the common people .... / First written in Latin by ... John Prevotius .... Translated into English, and somthing [sic] added, by Nich. Culpeper .... II. Health for the rich and poor, by diet without physick. By Nich. Culpeper .... Also Culpepers Ghost [by Peter Cole?]. [Before which prefixed, Mris. Culpepers Epistle in vindication of her husbands reputation].
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.