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  • Muktesar, Punjab, India: view of Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, looking south east. Photograph, 1897.
  • Clocks: a bracket clock formerly in the possession of the East India Company. Process print.
  • Poplar Hospital for Accidents, East India Dock Road, Blackwall, London: three-quarter view. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • A sepoy in the service of the East India Company, with a woman (courtesan?) on the right. Gouache, 18--.
  • English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.
  • An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.
  • An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.
  • Islamic map of the world. The north is at the bottom, with the west to the right surrounded by unknown seas. The Indian Ocean, with the Red Sea, is on the left, with China, India and Iran in boxes to the right. The other sea shown is the Mediterranean next to which is a black square indicating Rome and a circle Constantinople. The Nile flows from the Mediterranean to the east and into the north then turn east and head towards a large circle indicating its source in Africa.
  • Pepper plant (Piper nigrum L.): fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des mœurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays / Par M. Sonnerat.
  • An essay on the diseases incident to Indian seamen, or Lascars, on long voyages / By William Hunter.
  • Flowering stems of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctorum) and coffee plant (Coffea arabica). Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Plante chef-tereck: flowering stem. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), Chinese citron or natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai), jak fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), muhimbi tree (Cynometra cauliflora) and bilimbi tree (Averrhoa bilimbi), in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Madroen plant (?Arbutus menziesii), unknown plant and wild spanish wheat: fruiting heads. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • Terpentine tree bough (Pistacia terebinthus L.) and goel nasranie flowers. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • Almond plant (Prunus dulcis) and other fruiting stems collected in Persia. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1704.
  • Grenadine (Punica granatum) flowers and tree and a mixture of fruit and vegetables, in separate plates. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1704.
  • Towns, cotton plant, bird and rock formations of Persia, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
  • Plants, birds and archaeological sites from Persia, including terpentine plant (Pistacia terebinthus). Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • Madar plant (Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.): flowering and fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1705.