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  • A woman wearing a traditional burqua or Muslim veil. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • The meeting of Khusrau and Shirīn on the hunting field. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • An ideal landscape of the Miocene period, with elephants rummaging through a forest. Wood engraving by Riou after Cazat.
  • Animals and plants of Dorset in the Liassic period.. Lithograph by G. Scharf after H.T. de la Bèche..
  • Animals and plants of Dorset in the Liassic period. Lithograph by G. Scharf after H.T. de la Bèche.
  • An ideal landscape of the upper oolitic period with reptiles and birds. Wood engraving by F. Trichon after A. Faguet.
  • Fateh 'Ali Shāh, in the guise of Rustam, fighting the white Div. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • Fateh 'Ali Shāh in the guise of Rustam, slaying the White Div. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. I, The evolution of modesty : The phenomena of sexual periodicity / by Havelock Ellis.
  • An unidentified Qajar monarch in ceremonial dress with sword, seated on a gold chair. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • Period of loan : current journals - 14 days, all other material - 1 month... / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ... Library.
  • An ideal landscape of the muschelkalk sub period with retiles sitting on stones in a stream. Wood engraving by E. Riou after Marand.
  • An ideal scene in the lower cretaceous period in which an iguanodon bites a megalosaurus. Wood engraving by E. Ferington after E. Riou.
  • Chemistry: a chemical laboratory with many workers (above), symbols of elements arranged in a proto-periodic table (?) (below). Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • Greek pouring vessel decorated with stylised foliage and geometric patterns (protocorinthian period 720-620 B.C. ?). Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Don Francisco, the little man from Madrid will hold his levees every day for a short period, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 200, Regent-street.
  • A Qajar woman wearing a European, hooped dress and bodice, carrying a yellow, oval object, possibly a mirror. Gouache painting by an Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • Voedingsmiddelen voor houders van inlegeven GA 401 : 11e en 12e periode 1944 (1 October - 25 November) : Bonkaart KD 411-412 : Land.
  • History of Chinese medicine : being a chronicle of medical happenings in China from ancient times to the present period / by K. Chimin Wong and Wu Lien-Teh.
  • White ground Greek pouring vessel (protocorinthian period ca. 650 B.C.) decorated with foliage and a stylised dog in the black-figure technique. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Hazrat Sulaymān (King Solomon) enthoned with Bilquīs and with earthly rulers, divs, peris and the animals kingdom, including the simurgh, paying homage). Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • An Indian labourer encounters a old man with a stick and a fan, a dog sits down in the space between them. Gouache preparatory painting by an Indian artist, Mughal period.
  • A Scotsman protests to his doctor that he should not have to pay for his presence during the period in which he was delirious. Reproduction of a drawing by P. Fraser, 1920.
  • Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.
  • Above, Greek pouring vessel of the geometric period (ca. 770 B.C.); below, black ground Greek bowl (lekane ?) decorated with a frieze of palms and sphynxes. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Horse foetuses: five figures showing the foetus of a horse during the gestation period, with dissections of its abdomen and stomach demonstrating the foetal circulation system. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
  • Embryo of the American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis at 33 days of development (approximately 50% of the entire embryonic period). All of the external structures, including characteristic jaws and limbs, are already in place and clearly visible.
  • A table of conceded years of Indulgence for the period of the Passion, surrounding the monogram of Jesus and surrounded by little angels, one of whom carries the attributes of the papacy. Engraving by A. Schmutzer and J. Schmutzer.
  • Temple offering of ducks, geese and wild fowl. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.
  • "Here's your bonus- I'm glad it's a good one this time" : as usual we are giving a special bonus of 5% on all Oxo purchases (cubes and bottles) during the Autumn bonus period ... September /October 1954 ... / Oxo Limited.