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  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1822, after T. Stothard.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1804, after C. R. Ryley.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1804, after C. R. Ryley.
  • A young widow has had the door of her cottage sealed against her and sits on a stone outside with a few belongings and a child on her lap. Lithograph by M. Estelle de Barescut after Franquelin.
  • Novi profectus in historia electricitatis, post obitum auctoris ... ex Msto. ejus editi. Praemissa est commentatiuncula de vita et scriptis viri, de solidiori doctrina optime meriti / [by J.C. Gottsched, with dedicatory epistle by H.'s widow, Friderica Juliana].
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • Fanny Grimaldi, widowed, is aroused by love for her late husband's younger brother. Engraving by P. Bettelini, 1806, after P. Ermini after F.-X. Fabre, 1804.
  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • A young widowed woman sits and weeps, while one barefoot child looks on and a baby sleeps in the cradle. Wood engraving by M. Klinricht after Frank Holl.
  • Principes logiques, ou recueil de faits relatifs à l'intelligence humaine / [Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy].
  • Two young children comfort their mother as she mourns at the tomb of her dead husband. Engraving by F. Bacon after Miss L. Sharpe.
  • Two young children comfort their mother as she mourns at the tomb of her dead husband. Engraving by F. Bacon after Miss L. Sharpe.
  • Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, gründlich abgehandelt, und in vielen Kuppffer-Tafeln die neu-erfundene und dienlichste Instrumente, nebst den bequemsten Handgriffen der chirurgischen Operationen und Bandagen deutlich vorgestellet werden / [Lorenz Heister].
  • Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, gründlich abgehandelt, und in vielen Kuppffer-Tafeln die neu-erfundene und dienlichste Instrumente, nebst den bequemsten Handgriffen der chirurgischen Operationen und Bandagen deutlich vorgestellet werden / [Lorenz Heister].
  • Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis tum medicae tum manualis in usus discentium / [Johann Zacharias Platner].
  • Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis tum medicae tum manualis in usus discentium / [Johann Zacharias Platner].
  • Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis tum medicae tum manualis in usus discentium / [Johann Zacharias Platner].
  • Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, gründlich abgehandelt, und in vielen Kuppffer-Tafeln die neu-erfundene und dienlichste Instrumente, nebst den bequemsten Handgriffen der chirurgischen Operationen und Bandagen deutlich vorgestellet werden / [Lorenz Heister].
  • Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams ... / uitgebeeld, naar het leeven ... door G. de Lairesse.
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].
  • Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams ... / uitgebeeld, naar het leeven ... door G. de Lairesse.
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].
  • La maniere de traicter les playes faictes tant par hacquebutes, que par fleches: et les accidentz d'icelles, comme fractures et caries des os, gangrene et mortificatoin: avec les pourtraictz des instrumentz necessaires pour leur curation: Et la methode de curer les combustions principalement faictes par la pouldre à canon / [Ambroise Paré].
  • Quatro libros de la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan recevidos en el uso de medicina en la Nueva España ... / Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curativos.
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].
  • Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams ... / uitgebeeld, naar het leeven ... door G. de Lairesse.
  • Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams ... / uitgebeeld, naar het leeven ... door G. de Lairesse.
  • Hyaena odorifera / [Pietro Castelli].