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  • A surgeon extracting a tooth. Oil painting after G. Dou.
  • A hurdy-gurdy player standing by the door to a house; the man in the house smokes a pipe at the door, and two children look on. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • A young man and woman sitting together on a park bench, with a warning against the danger of sexually transmitted disease due to sex with unfamiliar partners. Colour lithograph by G.C. Schulz, ca. 1946.
  • Saint Paul. Line engraving by N. Rÿckemans after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Peter. Line engraving by N. Ryckmans after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • John Stow and Thomas Gresham. Line engraving by A.W. Warren, 1808.
  • Danae. Engraving by G. Duchange after P. de' Pietri after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • A man approaching a woman in the street, with a warning against the danger of sexually transmitted disease due to sex with unfamiliar partners. Colour lithograph attributed to G.C. Schulz, ca. 1947.
  • King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Engraving by C.G., 161-.
  • A skeleton seen from the front, resting the bones of the right forearm on a spade and holding a skull aloft in its left hand. On the left is an illustration of the sacrum and on the right, a skull in profile, with further bones to be seen at the skeleton's feet. Photograph of a woodcut, c. 1590.
  • A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493.
  • Pagans worshipping a statue of Latona in preference to Niobe. Etching by G.B. Galestruzzi, 1656, after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
  • John Taunton. Photograph after a painting.
  • Adam and Eve conceal their nakedness; in the distance they receive clothes from God. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
  • Surrounded by animals in the Garden of Eden, Eve ascends from Adam's side. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is strapped to a chair in a dilapidated room, his worried wife looks on. Etching.
  • A reclining sleeping male nude. Soft ground etching by G. Demarteau, after C. Vanloo.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
  • A woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
  • Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.
  • A seated female figure with a dissected abdomen. Photograph after a woodcut, ca. 1525-1530.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by J. Boulanger after Raphael.
  • A man and a woman with a herd of goats sit under a tree holding hands; the man places a garland of flowers on the woman's head. Engraving by C. van Dalen the younger after C. Casteleyn.
  • Saint Michael the Archangel. Engraving by A. Melar after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Charles Patin. Line engraving by C. Lefebvre, 1663, after himself.
  • Charles Patin. Line engraving by C. Lefebure, 1662, after himself.
  • Vitus Riedlin the elder. Line engraving attributed to J.G. Bodenehr.
  • Aufgang der Artzney-Kunst, das ist: noch nie erhörte Grund-Lehren von der Natur, zu einer neuen Beförderung der Artzney-Sachen, so wol die Kranckheiten zu vertreiben, als ein langes Leben zu erlangen / Geschrieben von Johann Baptista von Helmont ... ; Anitzo auf Beyrahten dessen Herrn Sohnes ... Francisci Mercurii Freyherrn von Helmont, in die hochteutsche Sprache übersetzet, in seine rechte Ordnung gebracht, mit Beyfügung dessen, was in der ersten auf Niederländisch gedruckten Edition, gennant Die Morgen-Röhte ... ; wie auch mit einem ehmals ausgelassenen Tractat von der grossen Krafft der Worte und Dinge, aus dem geschriebenen vermehret ... von allen ... Fehlern gereiniget, und mit deutlichen Anmerckungen ... erläutert. Samt einer neuen Vorrede, darinnen ein kurtzer Entwurff aller Helmontischen Kranckheiten und Artzneyen.