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  • Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates [sic] gift of healing examined, upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March the 7. 1665. at one Mr. Cressets house in Charter-House-Yard. In a letter to a Reverend-Divine, living near that place ... / [David Lloyd].
  • The treasuri of helth : contaynynge many profytable medicines / gathered out of Hipocratz, Galen & Avicen by one Petrus Hyspanus & translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyd ... W[yth] the Aphorismes of Hipocrates, and Jacobus de Partybus ... wyth an Epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus.
  • The largest, the most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, February 26th, 1819; and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.
  • Theatre Royal, Haymarket, made perfectly warm by a powerful air stove in the centre of the pit : on Friday evening, March 10, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Lloyd's dioastrodoxon, the largest and most magnificent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public.
  • The largest and most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public... : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, March 3, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.
  • Snowdon lily (Lloydia serotina): entire flowering plant. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Trial, confession, and execution of Courvoisier for the murder of Lord Wm. Russell : memoir of F. B. Courvoisier, Lord W. Russell's valet.
  • The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Scientists investigating the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A town in Manchuria just before the arrival of the plague and the Japanese invasion of 1931. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • An American soldier lying wounded; analogous to the sufferings of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A victim of the plague in Paris. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • American soldiers warlike in an Eastern land; analogous to the invasion of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The word "plague" hovers above a victim's face. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A farmer fallen victim to the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat on board a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague through countryside and towns. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • All forms of transport play their part in the transmission of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Adolf Hitler. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats fighting; the plague spreading. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats stowing away in large boxes, carrying the plague to new places. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats living in the sewers. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.