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  • Dialogus creaturarum / [Nicolaus].
  • Dialogus creaturarum / [Nicolaus].
  • Ru cao bian (Ming herbal), Preface
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • 15th century Chinese scholar-physician, Japanese woodcut
  • C16 Chinese prescription book
  • A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts / By Thomas Young.
  • A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts / By Thomas Young.
  • A fat man wearing a coat and hat standing with his hand in his pocket; described as "un pizzicaruolo". Etching by A. Pond, 1741, after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • Men and women are gathered outside a prison in Cairo as prisoners look out from behind the bars, and a child stands on ledge to look through the window. Wood engraving after J.C. Horsley, 1876.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.
  • The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ... / edited by his brother, John Davy.
  • Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.
  • King George III sits in his library pondering which advice to accept: to govern by law or by force. Engraving, 1771.
  • Nicolas Bion. Line engraving by N. de Larmessin IV (also numbered III).
  • Bruce Conner, 'Fame, October 18', 1989
  • A jester with a small guitar slung over his shoulder offers cherries to a bird on his hand as another bird takes the fruit from the plate on the floor, and a chained monkey looks on. Engraving by E. Mohn after A. Lambron.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.