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  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin in her room. Engraving by C.J. Visscher (?).
  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 2 - The Bear
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 3 - The Deer
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 4 - The Ape
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: The Yellow Emperor
  • A crucified écorché. Process print after a woodcut, 1541.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who kneels at a prie-dieu. Engraving by P. Pontius after C. Schut.
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 5 - The Bird
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 1 - The Tiger
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Portrait of Ge Hong
  • The Virgin reads her Bible as the angel appears with the Holy Spirit. Engraving by J. Collaert after J. Straet.
  • Use of the inoculation knife from 1817 Chinese casebook
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, c. 1650, after G. Lanfranco.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, First page
  • The announcing angel salutes the Virgin. Engraving.
  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • 'Human essence/semen', C16 Chinese painted book illustration
  • Aelfredi regis res gestae / [John Asser].
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who reads from the Bible. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
  • While Joseph works in his carpenter's shop, the angel steals into the house and announces the birth of Christ to Mary. Engraving by J. Sadeler, ca. 1615, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Four elderly ladies sitting around a table gossiping; another woman listens from behind a curtain and looks rather shocked. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.