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  • Bunchflower (Melanthium virginicum L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Itea virginica L.: flowering stem with separate, labelled floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A blinding light descends on Eden in the creation of man and the animals. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Cedar (Cedrus sp.): tree with separate segments of cones and leaves. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.
  • Plantain banana (Musa x paradisiaca L.): nine sections of flower and fruit. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A plant (Cotyledon africana): flowering stem, with coat of arms of the dedicatee. Colour mezzotint by E. Kirkall, c.1728, after J. van Huysum.
  • Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Two fishermen are out in their boat, one is rowing and the other is looking at a lobster caught in the creel. Wood engraving by E. Bure after J.C. Hook.
  • A plant (Sophora tinctoria) related to the pagoda tree: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Huru (Hura crepitans L.) and bull bay (Magnolia grandiflora L.): detailed flower and fruit segments with description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Lycium sp.: two flowering stems of different species of Lycium with their floral segments, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • 'Aunt Lucy' (Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments and a detailed description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Fig (Ficus carica L.): 57 segments of flowers and fruits at different stages of maturity with detailed description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A philosopher and virtuoso seated in an armchair: dissatisfied with his accomplishments, he points to the need for charity to the poor. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1774, after J.E. Schenau, 1773.
  • A plant (Laurus sp.) related to laurel: flowering, fruiting and leafy stems with detailed segments of flower and fruit. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Russo-Turkish War: a wounded Turkish soldiers is brought to two doctors wearing the Red Crescent; a nurse is giving some water to another wounded man; a makeshift hospital in the background. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts after J.E. Hodgson, ca. 1877.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (10th Session) group portrait including Sir Patric Manson, M.C. Blair, R.F. de Boissiere, C.W. Daniels, A.H. Davies, J.T. Hancock O. Galgey, and E. Da Cunha, G. Hungerford, Sir Francis Lovell, J. Lunn, G. Lecesne, W.S. Milne, T. Hood, M. Sandeman, D. Steel, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Charles and Robert the lab assistants
  • A woman cooking pancakes is passing food on a plate through the window to people outside: one of them counts out his coins. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 13th sessionGroup Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, H.F. Conyngham, Dr. Crombie, M. F. Ellis, L. Clifford, W.F. Holmes, A.D. Humphry, Dr. G.C. Low , G. Loader, J.E. Mitchell, J.F.G. Mayer, Dr. Ross, D. Steel, P. Rees, E.H. Read, G.R. Ruata, Major Wilson, W.J. Radford, G. Warren, and Robert (lab assistant).
  • A decrepit Louis-Philippe is made ready for an enema by François Guizot; symbolising Guizot's domination of the French government towards the end of the July monarchy. Lithograph by J.E. Deshayes, c. 1848.
  • Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum; id est E. Blackwell collectio stirpium quae in pharmacopoliis ad medicum usum asservantur, quarum descriptio et vires ex Anglico idiomate in Latinum conversae sistuntur ... / Centuria I[-V] cum praefatione C.J. Trew.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 7th Session group portrait, including Sir Patrick Manson, J.T. Bradley, B.G. Brock, J. Ritchie Brown, C.W. Daniels, D. M. Ford, A.L.N. MacLean, R.N. Moffatt, A. Terzi, Rev. A.P. Tjellstrom, J.P. Tullock, P. Michelli, T.E. Rice, P.T. Manson (different from Sir Patrick Manson), Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Robert (lab assistant.
  • In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.
  • The face of a young gay man with the words in French "Boys between them" and "desire, love and sexuality" representing an advertisment for the Association des Jeunes Contre le SIDA (A.J.C.S.) and S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay (Paris, France)]. Lithograph.
  • The horticulturist; or an attempt to teach the science and practice of the culture and management of the kitchen, fruit, and forcing garden to those who have had no previous knowledge or practice. In these departments of gardening / [New ed. of 'The suburban horticulturist' revised by J.W.L. i.e. Mrs. Jane Webb Loudon. By J.C. Loudon] ; illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.
  • Lucas von Schröck. Mezzotint by E. C. Heiss, 1698, after I. Fisches, junior.
  • Lucas von Schröck. Mezzotint by E. C. Heiss, 1698, after I. Fisches, junior.