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  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.
  • Henry Harpur Spry. Etching by C. Grant, 1828.
  • The dance of death: the shipwreck. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Hindi Manuscript 395
  • Upper End of Cumberland Bay
  • Maison de Carnicobar
  • Quartier de manille a Carnicobar
  • Terraced Hill forming West Point of Bay
  • Water course with coal seam
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Maison des inhabitants...
  • Radiolaria
  • Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
  • With best wishes : London Lighthouse wishes you a very happy 1993 / London Lighthouse.
  • With best wishes : London Lighthouse wishes you a very happy 1993 / London Lighthouse.
  • With best wishes : London Lighthouse wishes you a very happy 1993 / London Lighthouse.
  • Three sea-creatures. Wood engraving.
  • The dangers of not using sexual protection and AIDS.
  • Two stag beetles crawling over a map of the world underneath a large mandible. Coloured etching by G. Edwards.
  • Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by C. de Passe, 1620.
  • Vishnu in his incarnation as Kurma the turtle. Engraving, 1672.
  • Above, a sea otter; centre, an opossum; below, a white bear. Etching by Taylor.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • Narayan on the waters with Lakshmi massaging his legs surrounded by Narada, Maruti, Garuda and Tumbra, all surrounded by roundels. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Laksmi and Visnu. Panjabi manuscript 255
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.