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  • Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo ... Humboldt ... Franklin ... etc / par les rédacteurs du Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; publié sous la direction de M. Alcide d'Orbigny ... Accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures ... d'après les dessins de MM. de Sainson ... et Jules Boilly.
  • Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo ... Humboldt ... Franklin ... etc / par les rédacteurs du Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; publié sous la direction de M. Alcide d'Orbigny ... Accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures ... d'après les dessins de MM. de Sainson ... et Jules Boilly.
  • Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo ... Humboldt ... Franklin ... etc / par les rédacteurs du Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; publié sous la direction de M. Alcide d'Orbigny ... Accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures ... d'après les dessins de MM. de Sainson ... et Jules Boilly.
  • Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo ... Humboldt ... Franklin ... etc / par les rédacteurs du Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; publié sous la direction de M. Alcide d'Orbigny ... Accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures ... d'après les dessins de MM. de Sainson ... et Jules Boilly.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • A pharmaceutical chemist demonstrating the effect of Pectoral San Andres on the lungs. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman recommending Pildoras Hermosina as a remedy for female maladies. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman throwing boxes of the cough-remedy Pulmoserina at lions; representing the ability of Pulmoserina to provide defence against respiratory diseases. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman throwing boxes of the cough-remedy Pulmoserina at lions; representing the ability of Pulmoserina to provide defence against respiratory diseases. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman throwing boxes of the cough-remedy Pulmoserina at lions; representing the ability of Pulmoserina to provide defence against respiratory diseases. Colour lithograph.
  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • A small reward.
  • A small reward.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.
  • Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco / Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.
  • A cross with the horizontal line representing a book bearing 2 impressions of an identical hand wearing a ring; a red shoe above and faded images sewn at the edges including a bike, a crab and an upside down figure feature along the bottom edge; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ofelia Rodriguez, 1994.
  • A red and black impression of a foetus and and umbilical cord within a womb incorporating a series of orange numbers and purple paint marks; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Fernando Arias, ca. 1995.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Christopher Columbus, surrounded by a crowd of people, is about to embark on his ship, August 1492. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Christopher Columbus receiving from Queen Isabella of Spain his nomination as Viceroy of the territories he will discover on his voyages. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Christopher Columbus, on his ship, admonishes his men for their lack of courage. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Above, a partridge (perdix californica); below, a pigeon (columba cruenta). Engraving by Manceaux after E. Traviès.
  • Fountain of Saint Francis of Assisi. at La Verna. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • A fruiting coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.