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  • Michelangelo's painting of the creation of Adam, adapted to show God offering Adam a condom in order to prevent AIDS. Lithograph by C. Fritschke after Michelangelo, 199-.
  • Ernst Haeckel being tormented by Prussian cherubim who confront his work on the natural history of creation with the Almanach de Gotha. Drawing attributed to Max Hagen.
  • Adam reaches out to take a condom from the hand of God in an adaptation of Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam' on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by ABIA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Dedicate a day : an opportunity to share in the creation of 1994's most unique desk diary : A year of art for London Lighthouse: British painting / London Lighthouse.
  • Dedicate a day : an opportunity to share in the creation of 1994's most unique desk diary : A year of art for London Lighthouse: British painting / London Lighthouse.
  • Dedicate a day : an opportunity to share in the creation of 1994's most unique desk diary : A year of art for London Lighthouse: British painting / London Lighthouse.
  • A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / From designs by Charles Le Brun: with remarks on the system. [Anon].
  • A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / From designs by Charles Le Brun: with remarks on the system. [Anon].
  • Adam is standing in the garden of Eden looking up to the godhead while being surrounded by the animals of the creation. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after C. P. Marillier.
  • A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / From designs by Charles Le Brun: with remarks on the system. [Anon].
  • A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / From designs by Charles Le Brun: with remarks on the system. [Anon].
  • Création du domaine des invalides de la Légion étrangère à Puyloubier.
  • For six days only. From Monday, May 26, and five following days : The three wonders of creation. Patronized by Her most gracious Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent : The three German Liliputians : the Brockstedt family! / Town-Hall, Waterford.
  • The history of creation, or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes : a popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe and Lamarck in particular / from the German of Ernst Haeckel ; the translation revised by Professor E. Ray Lankester.
  • The chronology and history of the world from the creation to the year of Christ, 1790. Illustrated in LVI tables. Of which 4 are introductory & include the centurys prior to the 1st olympiad, and each of the remaining 52 contain, in one expanded view, 50 years or half a century / [John Blair].
  • The history of creation, or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes : a popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe and Lamarck in particular / from the German of Ernst Haeckel ; the translation revised by Professor E. Ray Lankester.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
  • The faces of two women, a clock and some pills representing an advertisement by the SIDA Info Service and AIDES, the support group for those with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph by Création Question d'Édition and Amos.
  • Hands grabbing other hands between the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) and 'solitaire' (lonely) within a starry universe with earth beyond, suggesting the loneliness of having AIDS. Silk screen print by Pierre Bernard, Atelier de Création Graphique - Grapus.
  • "Asepta" absorbent cotton for surgical, medical and hygienic uses. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1928.
  • An old man leaping out of his wheelchair after being cured of his ailments at Plombières-les-Bains. Colour lithograph after J. d'Ylen, 1931.
  • A Dragor water pump for raising water from a well, and uses of abundant clean water; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by P. Igert, 1935.
  • J.J. Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, tab. XXIII
  • God creates light over the waters. Wood engraving by Thompson after J. Martin.
  • God creates the sun, moon and earth. Etching by H. Moses after A. Canova.
  • The hand of God spans out heaven with a compass while surrounded by angels. Line engraving by Robert Pranker, ca. 1761.
  • God about to create the universe from a large sphere which is suspended on a rope by two genii. Engraving by J. Muller after H. Goltzius.
  • God creates man, his hand inspiring life into the head of Adam. Etching by H. Moses after A. Canova.
  • God creating the animals. Etching by C. Fantetti, 1675, after Raphael.
  • God stretches out his hand to give life to Adam. Etching by J.J. Pasquier after J. de Sève.