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  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Telegraph stations in Britain and Europe. Engraving (?).
  • The maid bringing in the breakfast finds the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert in a dishevelled state on the morning after their marriage. Wood engraving after "Plenipo Georgy" (James Gillray?).
  • Letter from Daniel Hanbury to Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • Letter from Daniel Hanbury to Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • A Methodist minister attempting to choose between two women who pull him in different directions. Mezzotint after J. Collet.
  • James Graham Marquess of Montrose on the way to his execution in the marketplace of Edinburgh. Process print after E. M. Ward.
  • James Graham Marquess of Montrose about to mount the ladder to the gibbet in the marketplace of Edinburgh. Wood engraving by C. Roberts.
  • Three English conversations about tourist destinations: Paris is praised as a centre of fashion, Margate is deprecated as being a place for the English working classes. Coloured etching by J. Phillips, 1835.
  • A large man is sitting on a chair by a table while a woman pours tea out of the teapot, seeming to miss the cups as they and the young woman standing behind the chair are engaged in conversation. Etching by Phillips.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A larkspur (Consolida species) (?): flowering plant, leaf and floral segments. Woodcut.
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Hieronymi // Mercurialis De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca modi, facultates et quidquid denique ad corporis humani eaxercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
  • The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.
  • Three diagrams illustrating how to bleed an arm. Stipple engraving.
  • A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him; two erotes depicted on the shoulder of the vessel. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, ca. 1937.
  • James M'Gillivray, a man shot in the shoulder in the siege of Nijmegen (1794): the shot developed into an ulcer which was cured by John Bell. Coloured stipple etching by J. Stewart after J. Bell, ca. 1826.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
  • Women on an island in the Strait of Magellan resisting capture or death at the hands of Dutch pirates under Olivier van Noort, 1598. Engraving by T. Bonnor, 1768.
  • Three coopers working to repair barrels in a German monastery cellar are served with tankards of beer. Etching by Carl Vaditz after Eduard Grützner.