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  • The earliest known Chaldean deity associated with healing. A statue in the possession of the British Museum.
  • The British Museum: the entrance facade as intended. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after B. Sly, 1849.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the West Wing, with visitors. Wood engraving after R. and S. Smirke 1851.
  • Sin of vanity, temptation by personal ornament. From a manuscript in the British Museum, Royal 19ci, Folio 204.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.
  • The British Museum at Montague House: the entrance tower, seen from the courtyard. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1844.
  • The British Museum: the entrance hall and staircase. Wood engraving C. D. Laing, 1849, after B. Sly after L. Collman.
  • Hand-axe found by the apothecary John Conyrs in 1690, near Gray's Inn, London and now in the British Museum
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.
  • The British Museum: (above) the entrance facade, (below) the plan. Wood engraving after a design attributed to G. R. French, 1843.
  • Babylonian prototype of the Madonna and child, Astarte. Possible votive offering from woman recovered from childbirth. Original in the British Museum.
  • The British Museum at Montague House: a layout plan, and elevation of the garden facade. Engraving by J. Roffe after A. Pugin, 1823.
  • George Shaw: portrait and view of the British Museum. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1803, after J. Russell and by E.W. Thomson.
  • George Shaw: portrait and view of the British Museum. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1803, after J. Russell and by E.W. Thomson.
  • The British Museum: the entrance facade, during the delivery of the tomb of Mausolus. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after B. Sly, 1849.
  • The British Museum, London: a gallery of Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculptures, with visitors admiring a copyist's work. Engraving by R. Sands after T. Allom.
  • The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
  • The British Museum at Montague House: (above) the Russell Street facade, and (below) the garden side, with the tower of St George's Church in the background. Engraving after J. Green, 1761.
  • [Reprint of a 1736 "small hand bill, in the British Museum" about a boy and girl, conjoined twins, with 2 heads, 3 arms and 3 legs on display at the Rummer in Three Kings Court, Fleet Street, London].
  • Air raid precautions : local certificate of anti-gas training / John Fosdyke, director and principal librarian.
  • A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals ... : Which will be sold by auction, (by order of the Trustees) by Leigh and Sotheby ... On ... March the 6th, 1788, and the s[ixte]en following days.
  • A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age.
  • A guide to antiquities of the Stone Age in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities.
  • Die Medizin der alter Ägypter / [herausgegeben von] W. Wreszinski.
  • Three figure sculptures forming part of the Parthenon frieze. Wood engraving.
  • Part of the Parthenon frieze. Wood engraving, 1845.