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  • Spa, Belgium: people making their way towards the principal mineral fountain (pouhon). Etching after A. Le Loup, 1762.
  • Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: the Parades and Regent Hotel. Steel engraving by J.J. Hinchcliff, 1844, after J. Brandard.
  • Spa, Belgium: the medicinal spring and baths of Le Tonnelet. Etching by H.J. Godin after A. Le Loup.
  • Spa, Belgium: panoramic view of the town from the north-west. Etching by H.J. Godin after A. Le Loup.
  • A woman caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • Spa, Belgium: panoramic view of the gardens of the Capuchin monastery. Etching by H.J. Godin, 1782, after A. Le Loup.
  • New Spa and Saloon, Scarborough, Yorkshire: panoramic view of the harbour. Engraving by W.C. & S. after H.B.C.
  • Spa, Belgium: monks and visitors at the fountains of Sauveniere and Groisbeeck. Engraving by M.B. Wachsmuth after A. Le Loup, 1762.
  • New Spa and Saloon, Scarborough, Yorkshire: panoramic view of the harbour. Lithograph by Day & Haghe, 1842, after H.B. Carter after H. Wyatt.
  • The German spa, Brighton: pump room and surrounding grounds. Aquatint by M.U. Sears after himself.
  • A therapist overseeing a man caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • Tarasp, Lower Engadin Valley, Switzerland: view of the En river, the covered bridge, mountains and baths of the spa town. Photograph, 1880/1920?.
  • A German physician recommending to a gouty English patient that he take the waters at various spa resorts in Germany and Bohemia. Wood engraving after R. Cleaver.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • Description of a glass apparatus, for making in a few minutes, and at a very small expence, the best mineral waters of Pyrmont, Spa, Seltzer, Seydschutz, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c. Together with the description of two new eudiometers, or instruments, for ascertaining the wholesomeness of respirable air, and the method of using these instruments, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. J. Priestley / By J.H. de Magellan, F.R.S.
  • Description of a glass apparatus, for making in a few minutes, and at a very small expence, the best mineral waters of Pyrmont, Spa, Seltzer, Seydschutz, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c. Together with the description of two new eudiometers, or instruments, for ascertaining the wholesomeness of respirable air, and the method of using these instruments, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. J. Priestley / By J.H. de Magellan, F.R.S.
  • Description of a glass apparatus, for making in a few minutes, and at a very small expence, the best mineral waters of Pyrmont, Spa, Seltzer, Seydschutz, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c. Together with the description of two new eudiometers, or instruments, for ascertaining the wholesomeness of respirable air, and the method of using these instruments, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. J. Priestley / By J.H. de Magellan, F.R.S.
  • The spas of England, and principal sea-bathing places. Northern [Midland, Southern] spas / By A.B. Granville.
  • The spas of Germany / [A.B. Granville].
  • Old London's spas, baths, and wells / by Septimus Sunderland.
  • Old London's spas, baths, and wells / by Septimus Sunderland.
  • The Roman bath and the abbey at Bath, England; advertising British spas. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Les Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees: people walk along the mountain paths to the hot spas. Lithograph by E. Ciceri, 1858.
  • A standing woman holding a lamp, with water flowing at her feet, perhaps representing Nature healing at German spas. Colour lithograph after Jupp Wiertz.
  • A "spae wife" (fortune-teller). Engraving by J.A. Wright after T. Stothard.
  • A group of fallow deer stags drinking from a stream. Etching by W-S Howitt.
  • The angel Raphael appears among the animals in the garden of Eden to gaze upon Adam and Eve. Aquatint with etching by R. Pollard, 1792, after C. Metz.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat, the terrified patient looks on. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat, the terrified patient looks on. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.