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  • Charles Brook. Lithograph by J. B. Day.
  • Joshua Brookes. Line engraving by J. Fittler, 1818, after T. Phillips.
  • Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. Stipple engraving by G. J. Stodart after W. Brookes.
  • Brook Watson being attacked by a shark in Havana harbour, 1749. Oil painting after J.S. Copley.
  • The asylum for orphan girls, Bristol. Aquatint by J. Bull and R.G. Reeve after C. Dyer and W. Brooks.
  • The asylum for orphan girls, Bristol. Aquatint by J. Bull and R.G. Reeve after C. Dyer and W. Brooks.
  • A youth idling by a brook, representing restful withdrawal from the world. Engraving by J. Heath, 1810, after R. Westall.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. Brooke, 1751, after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. Brooke, 1751, after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • Marie and Pierre Curie, he holding up a glowing specimen of radium. Colour lithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son after J. M. Price [Imp, JMP], 1904.
  • Marie and Pierre Curie, he holding up a glowing specimen of radium. Colour lithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son after J. M. Price [Imp, JMP], 1904.
  • Cedar trees (Cedrus species) in a garden in Monmouthshire. Photogravure by R. Fenton, ca. 1856.
  • [Keiromantia sic]: or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man .... Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19 genitures. Together with a ... discourse of the soul of the world .... / Written originally in Latine ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo. Wharton.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • The art of simpling. An introduction to the knovvledge and gathering of plants : vvherein the defininitions [sic], divisions, places, descriptions, differences, names, vertues, times of flourishing and gathering, uses, temperatures, signatures and appropriations of plants, are methodically laid down Whereunto is added, a discovery of the lesser world / By W. Coles.
  • The art of simpling. An introduction to the knovvledge and gathering of plants : vvherein the defininitions [sic], divisions, places, descriptions, differences, names, vertues, times of flourishing and gathering, uses, temperatures, signatures and appropriations of plants, are methodically laid down Whereunto is added, a discovery of the lesser world / By W. Coles.
  • Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.
  • Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.
  • Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.
  • Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.
  • Distinguished British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution, London. Mezzotint by W. Walker and G. Zobel after F. Skill and W. Walker, ca. 1860, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • Distinguished British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution, London. Mezzotint by W. Walker and G. Zobel after F. Skill and W. Walker, ca. 1860, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • A rider and his horse trying to cross a small stream. Coloured line block after an engraving by C. Tomkins after W. J. Shayer.
  • E. Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
  • E. Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
  • E. Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum