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  • Portrait of Erasmus Darwin
  • Ovarian disease
  • The death of Lord Viscount Nelson onboard the Victory
  • Hydatis of the kidney
  • Portrait of John Brown, smiling, in oval
  • A couple whose marriage appears to be blessed by heaven with cherubs in attendance. Engraving by Heath after T. Stothard.
  • Ace of points : [better from every angle : the diamond star stainless veterinary needles] / [S. & R.J. Everett & Co. ; obtainable from Allen & Hanburys Ltd.]
  • Ace of points : [better from every angle : the diamond star stainless veterinary needles] / [S. & R.J. Everett & Co. ; obtainable from Allen & Hanburys Ltd.]
  • A putto writing with pen and ink on a lithographic stone. Lithograph, 30 April 1803.
  • Beer Street by William Hogarth
  • A reptile (aboina guana). Etching by James Heath after G. Shaw.
  • Seven flowering plants, all named types of rush (Juncus species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • A woman school teacher sits at a table with a book in her hand and a basket of needlework on the floor. Engraving by Charles Heath, 1844, after Richard Redgrave, 1843.
  • Two men crossing a stream by night, representing Common sense and Genius. Etching by C. Heath after T. Stothard.
  • A shipwrecked woman holds on to the remains of a ship-mast waving for help in the stormy sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Warren.
  • King James I and VI, with four Scottish writers: Robert Burns, John (?) Home, Allan Ramsay, and James Beattie. Engraving.
  • Elijah prays to resuscitate the widow's son. Line engraving by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall.
  • Above, a jackall, a fox, a wolf and two dogs; below, a bulldog, a Coach dog, a greyhound, a chamois goat and an ibex. Etching by Heath.
  • Above, three deer, a fish, a golden plover (wading bird), a hermit crab and two molluscs; below, three crabs and a fish. Etching by Heath.
  • Above, an insect, a musk rat, a siren (eel-shaped taile amphibian), and two hawk moths; below, a shark, a sponge, a vertebrate, an owl, a noddy (a tropical sea bird) and a stapelia. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, two dendrites with treelike and mosslike markings, a nine banded armadillo, a beetle, four marsupials and two teleostean fishes (diodons). Etching by Heath.
  • Above, a dodo, a venus flytrap, two plants, a shell, a flying dragon and a beetle; below, an elephant and three buntings. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, a musk rat, a lemming, three birds and a weasel (mustela); below, three insects, a stoat, a bird, a sprig and fruits of myrtle, and an ant eater on a tree trunk. Engraving by Heath.
  • Viscera, heart, brain and blood vessels: six figures, including two views of a dissected torso. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.
  • Above, two tortoises, a sand piper, a heath cock, a scambroidean fish and a sprig of a tea plant; below, a fish, a branch of a theobroma tree, a morse (walrus), a nematode worm and a scombroidean fish. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, two reef building corals (millepora), a diving bird, a narwhal (monodon), a mollusc and a musk deer; below, a small warbler (whitethroat), two fish, a sea serpent, a conger eel, two molluscs (murices) and a mureana. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, a flamingo, two pheasants, a seal, a rock manakin, and a sea calf; below, a parakeet, a manakin, a macao, a trumpeter (pigeon), and the sprig and fruit of the pistachio tree. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, three insects, a shrike, a mineral, a gull, a sprig of a camphor tree and a sprig and berry of a lantana shrub; below, two hares, a duck bernade, two dragon flies and a lemur. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, a bird, a cricket, an insect, a branch and fruit of the guaiacum tree, an eel and a sea-pie; below, a sprig of a flower, three molluscs, two insects and a piece of a ferric oxide ore. Engraving by Heath.
  • Above, a domestic bull, a domestic cow, a wild bull and a wild cow; below, an urus, a bison, a zebu (humped ox) and a cape. Engraving by Heath.