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  • Habesh or Abyssinian Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • Berberi playing on the kisirka to women of the same tribe. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • The revelation of St John: an angel descending from the sun brandishing a sword for punishment of the sinful; an allegory of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Peret, 1993.
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563?-1612). Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken after John de Critz.
  • Cairene lady waited upon by a Galla Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • The Blessed Henri Joyeuse as a knight of St John giving alms to a lame beggar. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th (?) century.
  • Hypericum olympicum L. Clusiaceae. Mount Olympus St John's wort. Deciduous perennial herb. Distribution Greece, Asia minor. This is not the plant used for mood disturbances in herbal medicine which is Hypericum perforatum. However, all the 370 species of Hypericum are called 'St John's Wort' so a potential for confusion exists. It shares some of the chemicals thought to be active in Hypericum perforatum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • [Leaflet advertising Captain Montgomery's Family "Just arrived in England" from St. John's, Newfoundland, whose 3 children were all born with"hands and feet in the shape or form of a crab." They were exhibited in the New Cut, Lambeth 10 November 1883, by manager, James Paine].
  • An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... With a particular description of ... Buxton-Bath ... To this is added I. An extract of Dr. Jones's Treaty on Buxton-Bath ... II. A letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well. III. An abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton ... / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council / edited by J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye.
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.