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  • Above, the martyrs Cicely Ormes and Margaret Thurston are burnt back to back at the stake in Colchester and the burning at a stake in Islington of the martyrs Ralph Alderton, Margery Austoo and R. Roth; below the burning of the martyr Cicely Ormes in Norwich. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Above, two martyrs, Dirick Carver and Margery Polley are burnt at the stake: below, two martyrs, John Denley and Thomas Iveson are burnt alive at the stake. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Above, martyrs Woodman, Steves, Mainard, Hosman, Wood, Morris, Burges, Ashdon and Groves are burnt together at the stake in Lewes; below, the hand of Rose Allins is held over a flaming torch by Edmund Tyrill. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Above, four martyrs are chained to a post and burnt at the stake in Canterbury; below, a procession of twenty-two prisoners tied together and brought from Colchester to London, presumably for trial. Etching with engraving by G. Terry.
  • A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Pontius Pilate prepares to kill himself in remorse. Engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.
  • Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, Saint Andrew, Saint Peter and Saint John. Engraving.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • GANGRENE: Hospital gangrene of an arm stump
  • A systematic treatise, historical, etiological and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population / by Daniel Drake.
  • A systematic treatise, historical, etiological and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population / by Daniel Drake.
  • A systematic treatise, historical, etiological and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population / by Daniel Drake.
  • Tom Jones and Sophia Western are seated together on a sofa as Squire Western enters the room with a riding whip. Stipple engraving by Peter Simon after J. Downman.
  • Nicholas-Joseph Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin (1718-1791): oval head and shoulders portrait. Crayon manner print by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1779.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated in centre and his assistants to left and right. Oil painting attributed to M. van Helmont, 16--.
  • An Inca man requests a goddess of the Incas to hand over coca, but she refuses, holding a bottle of coca wine for herself. Colour lithograph by A. Mucha, 189-.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.
  • The physician of the dance of death : a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art / by Aldred Scott Warthin ... with 92 illustrations.