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  • Dr. Scott's electric corset : health, strength, comfort, elegance : a great boon to delicate ladies : a beautiful invention ... / the Pall Mall Electric Association.
  • Abraham's servant is impressed by the beautiful Rebecca, who stands in white amid the women around the well. Engraving by P.-I. Drevet after N. Coypel.
  • Lotus Foods Ltd. : be an artist in your kitchen. Create beautiful dishes for your family with Lotus foods : available at most health food stores.
  • Lotus Foods Ltd. : be an artist in your kitchen. Create beautiful dishes for your family with Lotus foods : available at most health food stores.
  • Beautiful wonder of nature! : General Tom Thumb the celebrated American dwarf : exhibiting every day and evening, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, previous to his departure to Paris.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
  • An anatomist meditates on the corpse of a beautiful young woman, laid out on a table next to his desk. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. C. von Max, 1869.
  • An anatomist meditates on the corpse of a beautiful young woman, laid out on a table next to his desk. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. C. von Max, 1869.
  • The painter Zeuxis, preparing to paint a picture for Juno, selects as his model the most beautiful parts of five virgins of Croton. Etching by J. Goupy after F. Solimena.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • A naked man and woman making love with the message 'Sex er deligt' (sex is beautiful); an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-sekretariatet, Sundhedsstyrelsen. Colour lithograph by Freddy Pedersen, ca. 1995.
  • Wonderful phenomen of nature : just arrived, and to be seen every day at the Lyceum, Strand, the three wonders of the age!!! : Miss Crawley, the beautiful albiness, and her two brothers.
  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • A naked woman making love with a man in jeans near a sun-lit window with the message 'Sex is beautiful'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for The AIDS Secretariat Danish National Board of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Free trade represented as a woman: the left half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed and starving British workers; the right half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.
  • Positively one day only! Wednesday, April 3rd : Two performances - afternoon at 3, evening at 8. Sylvester Bleeker, manager. General Tom Thumb, his beautiful wife, Commodore Nutt, and Miss Minnie Warren on this, their positively farewell visit ... / Horn's Assembly Rooms, Kennington.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Nottinghamia vetus et nova. Or an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham / Gather'd from the remains of antiquity and collected from authentic manuscripts and ancient as well as modern historians. Adorn'd with beautiful copper-plates; with an appendix, containing besides extracts of wills and deeds relating to charities, diverse other curious papers. By Charles Deering, M.D.
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
  • BWC policy position on animal testing and ingredients / Joseph Piccioni.
  • BWC policy position on animal testing and ingredients / Joseph Piccioni.
  • Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.