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  • Printing: section and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production (above), steam-engine (below). Engraving by J. Pass.
  • Hydraulics: section and details of the Bramah hydrostatic press. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Printing: section and three-quarter view of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey.
  • A Greek barber shaving a man. Coloured aquatint by I. Clark after A.N.
  • The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.
  • Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms, below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth, 1739.
  • A comparison chart of various ciphers for encoding messages. Engraving by Suffield, 1807.
  • Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms, below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth, 1739.
  • A funeral procession entering a church. Etching by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Seven birds: water rail, toucan, skimmer, avocet, woodcock, redshank and lesser tern. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • A common toad, frog, tortoise and eel-shaped siren. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • Pyrotechny: fireworks. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a wire mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after Farey the younger.
  • Elevation of a stocking machine and various details of its components. Engraving by Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a paper mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1816, after J. Farey the younger.
  • Paper mill: (top) section and plan of an engine, (bottom) elevations of a press. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after Farey the younger.
  • Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom , with a selection from his correspondence / by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • Figures gathered at the central spring, Epetan, Java. Coloured aquatint by T. Fielding, 1817.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi held by two angels; angel playing the violin on a cloud. Etching by C. Heath after W.M. Craig after L. Carracci, 1 December 1815.
  • Three Welsh harps. Engraving by J. Lee.
  • Three Welsh harps. Engraving by J. Lee.
  • Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Hydraulics: diagrams of water pressure and capillary action. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1806.
  • Impression of fishes on black schistose slate found at Isleben in Germany. Line engraving by Milton.
  • Impression of a stone lily (encrinus) on black schistose slate and transverse sections of the lily's head. Line engraving by Milton after Donovan.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A labelled plan and a cross-section of an iron forge. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.