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  • Three Royal Dutch book covers.
  • A book cover designed as a board game about safer sex risks. Colour lithograph by the Walraven Book Cover Company, 1992.
  • The book of Beauty Culture, inside cover and
  • The cover of a Buddhist painted book box. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • Front cover of a drawing book for students by J. D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, A. Aglio, & c. Letterpress.
  • An American sailor looking at a prostitute with a warning to use a condom as a protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Lithographic match-book cover.
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A skeleton, seated on a ledge, writes 'Recueil D'anatomie' on the cover of a book: behind him is shown an anatomy drawing and an hour-glass. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson, a retired American professional basketball, wearing the USA flag and a gold medal with the message: "What can you do to avoid AIDS"; with the same image on the front cover of a book also entitled "Magic Johnson L'amour sans risque" published by J'ai Lu; an advertisement by the book publishers, J'ai Lu [from the Flammarion group]. Colour lithograph.
  • Back cover of 'secretly transmitted' acu-moxa text
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Pulse diagnosis table
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Table of paired concepts
  • Double page from 'Shinki ipputsu'
  • Double page from 'Shinki ipputsu'
  • Front cover of 'Chodo Zue'; A collection of monochrome designs for 'tansu' and acessories like boxes for combs and writing sets; the compiler Aoki Hisakuni is otherwise unknown
  • Double page from 'Shinki ipputsu'
  • Double page from 'Chodo Zue'; A collection of monochrome designs for 'tansu' and acessories like boxes for combs and writing sets; the compiler Aoki Hisakuni is otherwise unknown
  • Two Shwetambar Jain monks. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Ephemera Collection: Crescent Cook Book
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's visitors book, 1913
  • Profit and Pleasure, Circular Book 7.
  • De humani corporis fabrica, Vesalius, 1555.
  • De humani corporis fabrica, Vesalius, 1555.
  • Ephemera Collection, Snowdrift Secrets