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  • Liber de proprietatibus rerum / Bartholomei anglici.
  • Building: plan and elevations showing a way of supporting rotten joists. Etching by Mutlow.
  • Bridges: a double drawbridge for ships to pass through. Engraving.
  • Workmen installing prefabricated steel sections of a canal. Process print.
  • Carpentry: a dredger. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
  • A plan of the Thames Embankment, from Blackfriars Bridge to Westminster Bridge, with sections at three points. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after Sir J. Bazalgette.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Two gentlemen opine that a 'Pharmacie Moderne' that opened in 1705 can no longer strictly be called modern. Coloured lithograph by P. Colvir, c. 1895.
  • Building: a way of raising rotten floors. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after S. Staples.
  • A hermit in devotion before the Cross, turning his back on children with instruments of arts and sciences (a lute, a celestial globe, a book, and a paintbrush). Etching.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles without a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles inside a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a caisson for driving piles. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Workmen fitting the metal casings for an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Bridges: a drawbridge, details of the winding mechanism. Engraving.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • The letters 'EZ' next to a man's foot standing on a Universal declaration about the rights of those with HIV or AIDS issued by the Asociacion Ciudadana de Lucha Contra el Sida de Autoapoyo Entre los Affectados T-4. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Carpentry: a machine, devised by Pierre Patte, for sawing piles to the correct length underwater. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: the pump on Notre Dame bridge, section. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a heavy barge (top), and a lighter, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice: Scuola Grande and Hospital of San Marco. Photograph, 18--.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
  • A soldier eyes a prostitute; the same soldier later suffers from syphilis or another sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph by Blas, 1936/1939.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • Certificate : to be given to volunteers at the time of their discharge to enable them to receive their pay, &c.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • [Fund-raising sticker : "Vigil tacitus"].