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  • A penis in the shape of a gun bearing the words: "pense, capote, à la, merci" [think condoms please] with red dots either side; an advertisement for an exhibition of images about the fight against AIDS by Artis. Colour lithograph by Gérard Paris-Clavel.
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).
  • Six vignettes (with capital letters T or O): an open book with closed books (T); bunch of wild flowers (O); a seated Zouave holding a gun (O); two soldiers (T); a messenger on horseback (T); a boy asleep on the grass (T). Wood engraving by H. Linton.
  • A man with a gun and a bag on his shoulder is holding a black and white rabbit up by its hind legs and showing it to another man in the street, who tells him he is shooting pet rabbits instead of wild ones. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.
  • A red heart broken in two with two speech bubbles: "l'amour?" and "Parlons-en!" with scattered fragments of random images below including a mouth and a man holding a gun; a reminder for the young to talk about love [to prevent the spread of AIDS] by the Office Municipal de la Jeunesse Aubervilliers. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A battle: an army wearing metal armour, and firing guns, meets an army wearing hats and breastplates, wielding swords and guns. Line engraving.
  • Armaments: a variety of sporting guns. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Armaments: a variety of sporting guns. Engraving, c.1861.
  • The execution of mutineers in Peshawar: men being hanged and blown from guns. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Two men with guns about to shoot a duck on a pond without authorisation. Coloured etching.
  • Three exact pieces of Leonard Phioravant viz. His rationall secrets, and chirurgery, reviewed and revived / Together with a book of excellent experiments and secrets, collected out of the practises of severall expert men in both faculties [by John Hester] Whereunto is annexed Paracelsus his one hundred and fourteen experiments: with certain excellent works of B.G. [Penotus] à Portu Aquitano [i.e. B.G. Penot] Also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets concerning his vegetall and animall work. With Quercetanus [i.e. J. Duchesne] his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot.
  • People in a forest being attacked by robbers with guns and swords. Etching by J.B.C. Chatelain after Marco Ricci.
  • Three young enslaved women in Africa, chained together at the neck, escorted along a road by two slave traders with guns. Watercolour.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • Beijing, China: Chinese army guns on the city wall, after capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • A procession of animals carrying guns and playing music is following a standard-bearing wolf on to a market place. Colour lithograph attributed to J.F.L. Dreier.
  • Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.