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  • A mermaid, with a measuring scale. Colour aquatint by A. Gautier D'Agoty, 1757.
  • A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • Three male dwarfs. Lithograph by F. Piloty after J. Callot.
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Los emblemas de Alciato. Traducidos en rhimas españolas. Añadidos de figuras y de nueuos emblemas en la tercera parte de la obra / [Andrea Alciati].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • Charisma sive donum sanationis. Seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilitum sanitatum gratia, in qua praecipue agitur de solenni et sacra curatione strumae, cui reges Angliae rite inaugurati, divinitus medicati sunt, et quam serenissima Elizabetha, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae regina, ex caelesti gratia sibi concessa, applicatione manuum suarum, et contactu morbidarum partium, non sine religiosis ceremoniis, & precibus, cum admirabili & faelici successu indies sanat / [William Tooker].
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.
  • A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • An artist sketching an elderly man with a reclining man looking on. Photo-lithograph after an etching by W. Geikie.
  • A family group with an old lady, a young woman with a child on her lap and a small boy playing a whistle. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • An old man sits asleep with his hands clasped while an old lady looks down at something she is holding in her hands. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A man from Easter island (Rapa Nui), with elongated ears, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • The arrest of Robespierre after his failed suicide attempt. Steel engraving by A. Revel after T. Johannot.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the Duke of Wellington face each other as two opposing Irish chieftains. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • Four African men competing in a walking race.
  • Four African men competing in a walking race.
  • The Copley medal of the Royal Society, as presented to Benjamin Franklin: left obverse, right reverse, with a decorative surround. Engraving, later than 1753.
  • A group of men playing a game outside with a ball and nine pins, a woman watches from a doorway. Engraving by A. Laurent, 1743, after David Teniers.
  • Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.
  • An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
  • A hand hanging over a chessboard has made its last move: white wins because the white king is protected by a condom; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.