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  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • A monumental stone skeleton. Engraving with etching by William Deeble, 1815.
  • Mars lies in his monumental tomb and is surrounded by soldiers. Etching.
  • Monumental stone figure from St. Mary Overies Church: an emaciated figure partially wrapped in a shroud, front view. Engraving with etching by William Deeble, 1815.
  • Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London: participants standing on a monumental staircase with a statue of Queen Victoria in a niche at the top. Photograph by Barrauds, 1891.
  • Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London: participants standing on a monumental staircase with a statue of Queen Victoria in a niche at the top. Photograph by Barrauds, 1891.
  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation. Made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres / diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island, and of the northren seas and lands situate that way; as also the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno 1588. The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east ... By Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
  • A congregation going to a baptism in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Lithograph.
  • Page 262, The Brandenburg Gate.
  • Breton Clavery, Plougouven
  • A Roman tomb at Igel, Luxemburg; people in the foreground, a church in the background. Engraving by E. Rooker after W. Pars, 1774.
  • A Roman tomb at Igel, Luxemburg; people in the foreground, a church in the background. Engraving by E. Rooker after W. Pars, 1774.
  • Crests and coats-of-arms of several doctors from a bas-relief in the Beauchamp tower. Etching by J. Pye the younger, 1821, after F. Nash.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • Two men in a graveyard, one of them pointing to an ornate stone tomb, possibly to indicate the whereabouts of a third man to the second one. Etching attributed to J.W. Meil, 17--.
  • An ornate sepulchre bearing an inscribed epitaph to Mr. Jacob Boreel. Etching with engraving by J. Goeree, c. 1697, after S. Schynvoet.
  • The crypt of Bow church, containing coffins of London fever victims. Wood engraving by Laing after J. Brown.
  • Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire. Line engraving by E. Albutt after J.C. Armytage.
  • Hong Kong: the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Hong Kong: the Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • The discovery of the tomb of King Arthur. Stipple engraving by J. Ogborne after J.H. Mortimer.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • India: the tombstone of Brigadier General Nicholson in a cemetery near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark. Etching by J. C. Buckler.
  • Auxerre, France: tomb of Paul Bert, covered with wreaths of flowers. Photograph.