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  • A gathering of many different animals with a large walled classical Italian-style garden behind and a banner bearing the book title above. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • A group of figures in negative representing an advertisement for a benefit concert/dance to support the Smart Sex Campaign by the AIDS Network of Edmonton Society on Friday, March 8, 1996. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • A griffin facing left surrounded by various flowers, fruits and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • Moth wing scale, SEM
  • A bunch of flowering sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus var.). Chromolithograph, c. 1878, after H. Moon.
  • Children are playing a game with one child curled up on the floor with a rope around his neck and the others running past hitting him with their hats. Stipple engraving.
  • Four-eyed fish and butterly fish swimming in the sea above a coral reef. Colour line block after H. Murayama.
  • Advert for Pears' Soap
  • Franz Joseph Gall. Line engraving by A. C. Reindel, 1841, after Baron C. J. W. K. J. Haller de Hallerstein.
  • Swatow, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A precarious figure on a tightrope, representing statistics of mental illness in the Netherlands for 1980-1996. Colour lithograph for the Trimbos-instituut, 1999.
  • Asthma: the struggle against the house mite. Colour lithograph after W. Dolk for the Nederlands Astma Fonds, 1996.
  • Johann Caspar Lavater: allegorical mourners at his tomb. Etching by J.H. Lips, ca. 1801.
  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures sick headache & biliousness: small doses, prompt effect.
  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures sick headache & biliousness: small doses, prompt effect.
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales.
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales
  • A huge solitary tree (lime?) at dawn; representing the beginning of the year 1995 for health organizations in the Czech Republic. Colour lithograph after V. Rytina, 1994.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: a woman with prominent coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: a woman with prominent coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Moth wing scales
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
  • Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.