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  • A camel lifting its tail to urinate while walking with its Turkish drover. Etching by M. E. Ridinger after J. E. Ridinger.
  • A camel carrying two large watermelons is lead along by a man dressed in yellow. Gouache painting by a Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • A small mosque resting on a camel's back with a man standing before it with folded hands. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Above, two zebras; below, a man in a uniform holding a camel and a dromedary by their reins. Coloured lithograph by B. Hummel after Jemima Blackburn.
  • A woman sitting on a howdah being carried by a camel whose body is formed by a variety of animals and humans. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back: used to transport injured soldiers during World War I. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
  • A man carrying a ceremonial object stands next to a tableau of rocks, a camel, decorated headgear and other animals set on an ornate base. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • A naked woman removing a pack of condoms from the canvas 'camel' jeans of a man she is embracing; a safe-sex advertisement in the form of a calendar for the year 1995 sponsored by Sico Condoms. Colour lithograph by C. (?), 1995.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: women are playing cards at a table, a man has a bottle stuck on the end of his nose, jockeys ride on rocking horses and a camel looks over pyramid. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1872, after John Gordon Thomson.
  • Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].
  • Historia plantarum species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas et descriptas complectens. In qua agitur primò de plantis in genere, earúmque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infirmas, notis suis certis & characteristicis definita, methodo naturæ vestigiis insistente disponuntur ... / Auctore, Joanne Raio.
  • Encampment at the site of ancient Jericho. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Sun setting over landscape with Cana in the distance, Israel. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
  • Ruins of Semua. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Sidon, looking towards Lebanon. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Encampment at the site of ancient Jericho. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • People outside the Damascus gate, Jerusalem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
  • Valley with the city of Nablus. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
  • Travellers at the wells of Moses, or Eyun Musa, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Suez. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Ascent of the lower ranges of Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • The island known as Graia, in the Gulf of Akabah, at sunset. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Ancient rock-cut watch-tower overlooking the valleys of El Ghor and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Ascent of the lower ranges of Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Crowds outside the mosque of Sultan Hassan, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Victoria Hospital, Suez, Egypt: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by Pearson, 1868, after Colonel Collyer.
  • Entrance to the temple at Luxor, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • The island known as Graia, in the Gulf of Akabah, at sunset. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.