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  • A seventeenth-century German apothecary's shop with ornate pharmacy jars, large metal mortars and a stuffed turtle hanging from the ceiling; recreated for the German National Museum in Nuremberg. Photograph by Christof Müller.
  • Brazil: a member of the Von Wied expedition is digging into a turtle's nest to get at the eggs, another man wearing a long cape and a hat (Maximilian Prinz von Wied?) stands nearby, watching. Etching by W. Read.
  • A tortoise. Etching by E. Stalker, ca. 1801.
  • Six species of tortoise, including the african land tortoise. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • A common toad, frog, tortoise and eel-shaped siren. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • Animals in danger / The Body Shop.
  • Animals in danger / The Body Shop.
  • Animals in danger / The Body Shop.
  • Sale of reptiles (restriction) bill / UFAW.
  • America: an alligator and a tortoise are about to slip into a river while a tapir and a wolverine look on. Engraving by T. Wallis after W. M. Craig.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Vishnu fighting with the conch shell demon with Kurma's help. Gouache drawing.
  • A lakeside scene with waterlilies flowering in the water and a tortoise on the bank. Watercolour.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • A tortoise climbs up a female figure as she reaches out to a bird; in the background Adam and Eve are chased from Eden by the archangel Michael with his sword; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Ten avatars of Vishnu. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • The incarnations of Vishnu. Gouache drawing.
  • A steep rock face in the sea is populated by a large number of animals. Coloured etching by R. Scott and J. Stewart.
  • St. Kitts: six scenes. Engraving by H.A. Châtelain, 1732.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • F. Ruysch, Thesaurus Anatomicus.