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  • Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Psychiatric hospital (Het dol huys), Amsterdam, Netherlands. Etching, 17th century.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Le Goitre et le Cretinisme; Jules Gabriel Francois Baillarger
  • King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and tissues of stonewort (Chara and Nitella species). Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • The stolen Host; first episode: a Jewish merchant asks a young woman to give him the Host as payment for the cloth she requires. Etching by F. Ragot.
  • An orchid (Catasetum bungerothi N.E.Brown): flowering plant. Chromolithograph.
  • Eight different specimen of seals sitting on ice floes in the Arctic sea. Coloured etching by J. Bower after J. Stewart.
  • Œuvres. De Condillac / Revues, corrigées par l'auteur, imprimées sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentées de la Langue des calculs. Ouvrage posthume.
  • Œuvres. De Condillac / Revues, corrigées par l'auteur, imprimées sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentées de la Langue des calculs. Ouvrage posthume.
  • A festive crowd in a marketplace near a harbour in France in the 2nd. Republic in 1848. Lithograph by M. C. Goldsmid.
  • The legacy of Rome / essays by C. Foligno [and others] ; edited by Cyril Bailey ; with and introduction by the Right Hon. H.H. Asquith.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: a fabric sample mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1813.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1812.
  • Textiles: three fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1815.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • The yearly Ommegang pageant in Antwerp, 1685. Engraving by G. Bouttats.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of the chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • An island in the Seine with the River Goddesses of the Oyse, the Marne and the Seine displaying the royal coat of arms in front of the Louvre. Etching by I. Silvestre, 1654.