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  • Cesare Lombroso, l'Uomo Delinquente, 1889
  • Mallevs maleficarvm, maleficas et earvm hæresim frameā conterens, ex variis avctoribvs compilatvs. Et in quatuor tomos iusté distributus, qvorvm dvo priores vanas dæmonvm versutias, præstigiosas eorum delusiones, superstitiosas strigimagarum cæremonias, horrendos etiam cum illis congressus; exactam denique tam pestiferæ sectæ disquisitionem, & punitionem complectuntur. Tertius praxim exorcistarum ad dæmonum, & strigimagarum maleficia de Christi fidelibus pellenda; quartus verò artem doctrinalem, benedictionalem, & exorcismalem continent ... / [Heinrich Institoris].
  • Malleus maleficarum / [Heinrich Institoris].
  • Tattoos on the chest
  • Tattoos on the body
  • The female offender / by Cæsar Lombroso and William Ferrero.
  • The female offender / by Cæsar Lombroso and William Ferrero.
  • The female offender / by Cæsar Lombroso and William Ferrero.
  • The female offender / by Cæsar Lombroso and William Ferrero.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Tattoos on the body
  • Jack Sheppard in prison. Etching, ca. 1724.
  • Execution of the William Burke
  • Mary (Molly) Blandy, before her execution for poisoning her father. Etching, 1752.
  • Hanoi, Vietnam: four seated men restrained by the cangue round their necks are being tried for violent crimes by the tribunal of the French resident; armed guards standing by. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.
  • Opere di Cesare Beccaria. Volume unico / [Cesare Beccaria].
  • Maimed, diseased and dying former soldiers lie by the roadside with a priest attending to them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Maimed soldiers dragging themselves to a hospital. Etching, 1730, after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The infant Oedipus is tied to a tree by the shepherd to whom he was entrusted by his parents. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Christ's body is carried to its tomb. Engraving by L. Kilian after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.