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  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French foot-soldier attacking a Polish cavalcade. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • A French liqueur label illustrated with a beautiful garden. Lithograph by E. Goy, 19th century, after G. Brunner.
  • A French liqueur label illustrated with a beautiful maiden seated on an eagle's wing. Engraving by Portier, 19th century.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with the bust of a French seaman and sprigs of rosemary. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • A French liqueur label illustrated with Pan piping to a maiden by a forest pool. Lithograph by E. Goy, 19th century, after G. Brunner.
  • A priest pouring Elisir del Prete into a cup; advertising the tonic Elisir del Prete. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • A priest pouring Elisir del Prete into a cup; advertising the tonic Elisir del Prete. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • Montserrat Lime Fruit Cordial for refreshing health.
  • Montserrat Lime Fruit Cordial for refreshing health.
  • Montserrat Lime Fruit Cordial for refreshing health.
  • White horehound (Marrubium vulgare): flowering stem with floral sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Hyssop (Hyssop officinalis L.): flowering stem with separate leaves and floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • White horehound (Marrubium vulgare): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1797.
  • Sloe or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and segments of flower and fruit, also a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • One ornamental and one plain label for the French distiller, Lemoine. Etching with engraving, 19th century.
  • Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Caraway (Carum carvi L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • A species of the genus Laserpitium: three sections of the flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • A collection of 'anti-boche' - ie. anti-German - medicine bottles, next to a scorpion about to be pulverised. Lithograph.
  • Artemisia absinthium (Wormwood)
  • A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.