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  • Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Psychiatric hospital (Het dol huys), Amsterdam, Netherlands. Etching, 17th century.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Le Goitre et le Cretinisme; Jules Gabriel Francois Baillarger
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and tissues of stonewort (Chara and Nitella species). Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • The stolen Host; first episode: a Jewish merchant asks a young woman to give him the Host as payment for the cloth she requires. Etching by F. Ragot.
  • An orchid (Catasetum bungerothi N.E.Brown): flowering plant. Chromolithograph.
  • Eight different specimen of seals sitting on ice floes in the Arctic sea. Coloured etching by J. Bower after J. Stewart.
  • A festive crowd in a marketplace near a harbour in France in the 2nd. Republic in 1848. Lithograph by M. C. Goldsmid.
  • Œuvres. De Condillac / Revues, corrigées par l'auteur, imprimées sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentées de la Langue des calculs. Ouvrage posthume.
  • Œuvres. De Condillac / Revues, corrigées par l'auteur, imprimées sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentées de la Langue des calculs. Ouvrage posthume.
  • The legacy of Rome / essays by C. Foligno [and others] ; edited by Cyril Bailey ; with and introduction by the Right Hon. H.H. Asquith.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: a fabric sample mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1813.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1812.
  • Textiles: three fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1815.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • The yearly Ommegang pageant in Antwerp, 1685. Engraving by G. Bouttats.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of the chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Port of Latakia (Latachia), Syria. Coloured aquatint by L. Mayer, 1810.