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  • A woman is listening to her lover who is down on one knee. Process print after L.M. Bonnet after J.B. Huet (?).
  • A young couple are on a couch and she is holding the broken fan away from her lover. Process print after J.B. Huet (?}).
  • A man dressed in white with a blue turban holding a white sack greets a woman in a blue sari and her child on a rural road next to her hut; his horse and cart with further white sacks wait idle nearby; with a message about the dangers of having unprotected sex with foreign women; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • L'experience et approbation Vlrich qe Hutem ... Touchant la medecine du boys dit guaiacum pour circonuenir et dechasser la maladie de Neaples / traduicte et interpretée par maistre Jehan Cheradame ... Nouvellement imprimée à Paris.
  • L'experience et approbation Vlrich qe Hutem ... Touchant la medecine du boys dit guaiacum pour circonuenir et dechasser la maladie de Neaples / traduicte et interpretée par maistre Jehan Cheradame ... Nouvellement imprimée à Paris.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • Mountain seen across the White Nile. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Two hills and some trees by a lake over which stretches a high bridge. Watercolour.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.