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  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, before Europe's monarchs. Wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • A lit corridor in sharp perspective leading to a city nightscape representing an advertisement for information on AIDS in the workplace by the Confederal Department of Social Services. Colour lithograph by Sewifar [?].
  • A historical survey of the great generals of Japan. Colour woodcut by Masahisa, 1883.
  • A historical survey of the great generals of Japan. Colour woodcut by Masahisa, 1883.
  • A historical survey of the great generals of Japan. Colour woodcut by Masahisa, 1883.
  • Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa. Aquatint by G.A. Lehmann after Baron Gros.
  • The word 'AIDS' in the colours of the West German flag, advertising the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher AIDS-Stiftungen. Colour lithograph by General Idea, ca. 1989 (?).
  • A series of black vertical lines within a white box, similar to a barcode, with the label 'Dia Mundial del SIDA. No dejes que te etiqueten' [World AIDS Day. Do not let you label]; with a list of 10 points below; an advertisement for a poster the 2nd poster competition to mark World AIDS Day within held within Spanish prisons. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and the masts of ships. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1776, after B. West, the elder, 1770.
  • King Charles II landing in Dover in 1660. Engraving by W. Sharp after B. West.
  • Uganda: two Ankole medicine men in ceremonial costume. Photograph by John Roscoe, 1919/1920.
  • Ankole, Uganda: two medicine men kneeling over the corpse of a small animal. Photograph by John Roscoe, 1919/1920.
  • Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665. Etching, 18--.
  • General Gordon. Photographic postcard by Chalkley Gould & Co., 190-.
  • General Gordon. Photographic postcard by Chalkley Gould & Co., 190-.
  • World War I: 2nd Scottish General Hospital Craigleith, the Central Buildings. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1919.
  • The amateur actor Robert Coates dreaming about his success on the stage in the role of Romeo. Aquatint attributed to "The Caricaturist General", 1812.
  • Two women sleeping. Drawing by F.S. Hewett, 18--.
  • Two women sleeping. Drawing by F.S. Hewett, 18--.
  • Dr Forrest Loveland's journal
  • Mount Vesuvius in quiescence by night, 1757, with the Bay of Naples and fishermen. Etching by R. Benard after Delarue.
  • The guinea worm and insects of central America. Pencil drawing by Thomas Malie, c. 1730.
  • A cassava plant at Barranquilla, Colombia. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1726.
  • An American castor-bean plant (Ricinus americanus). Drawing by Thomas Malie, ca. 1730.
  • Fruit of a tree called "Marmalade dooses boom". Drawing by Thomas Malie, 17--.
  • Transverse sections of the wood and stem anatomy of sugar cane, common cane, hazel, Althaea frutex, lime and bamboo.
  • Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
  • Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation: (left to right) a man hitting his head with a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a man with his head stuck in a block. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
  • Thalia cannaformis: flowering stem with separate flowers and floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.