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  • Three Netherlandish travellers with torches inside the Great Pyramid. Etching after C. De Bruyn, 1700.
  • A young woman sits on a mountain side with a cow and a basket on the ground, spinnning yarn. Engraving by P. Laurent after Karel du Jardin.
  • A censer supported by a column, held by female figures. Engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
  • Demons and witches arrive at the sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • "Maistre Robert", a blind healer healing by laying-on of hands. Oil painting.
  • A salesman selling booklets on self-surgery from a knapsack in the street. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, 1829.
  • Pope Pius VII on the Saône near Lyons. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu.
  • Jean Baptiste de Senac. Line engraving by Petit, fils, 1759, as successor to E. Desrochers.
  • Jean Baptiste de Senac. Line engraving by Petit, fils, 1759, as successor to E. Desrochers.
  • Prisoners of the Tchaudor tribe having their eyes cut out with a knife in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard after É. Bayard, ca. 1868.
  • The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of general Oudinot at the battle of Wagram, 1809. Watercolour by F. Pils.
  • A man sits on a stool smoking a pipe, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1754, after D. Teniers.
  • Somma de aritmetica, geometria, proporzioni, e proporzionalitá, etc / [Luca Pacioli].
  • Saint Laurence of Rome: his martyrdom. Engraving by G. Audran after E. Le Sueur.
  • A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.
  • Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
  • Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
  • Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont. Reprinted from the Plattsburgh edition, with notes by Andrew Combe.
  • Robert Macaire mesmerises an old lady in front of an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.
  • A message that there is no risk of transmission of AIDS in the workplace illustrated by numerous photographs of low risk activities from sharing a mug to shaking hands; an advertisement by l'Agence de Prevention du SIDA Lutte contre l'Exclusion des Seropositifs. Lithograph.
  • Angels serve Christ with food after his ordeal in the wilderness. Engraving by J. Mariette after C. le Brun.
  • Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.
  • Leçons d'anatomie comparée / de G. Cuvier, recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril [- G.L. Duvernoy].
  • Leçons d'anatomie comparée / de G. Cuvier, recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril [- G.L. Duvernoy].
  • Leçons d'anatomie comparée / de G. Cuvier, recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril [- G.L. Duvernoy].
  • Leçons d'anatomie comparée / de G. Cuvier, recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril [- G.L. Duvernoy].
  • Leçons d'anatomie comparée / de G. Cuvier, recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril [- G.L. Duvernoy].