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  • Leh, the capital of Ladak, in western Tibet
  • De capite sacri ordinis Sancti Spiritus dissertatio / [Petrus Saulnier].
  • De capite sacri ordinis Sancti Spiritus dissertatio / [Petrus Saulnier].
  • De capite sacri ordinis Sancti Spiritus dissertatio / [Petrus Saulnier].
  • De capite sacri ordinis Sancti Spiritus dissertatio / [Petrus Saulnier].
  • An Ionic column with capitals at both ends. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An Ionic column with capitals at both ends. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Practica theorica empirica morborum interiorum, a capite ad calcem usque, fere omnium / [Johann Marquard].
  • The Four Gospels, 1495. St Luke's Gospel 5: 7-14 in bologir script with decorated capitals
  • Ruined capitals with a view of Gaza. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Title page for the series of thirty-six views of the Eastern capital, Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige.
  • 222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...
  • 222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...
  • A stylized blue head and the sun forming the silhouette of an Ionic capital; advertising an exhibition on food and hygiene in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by G. Scheepstra, 1933.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • Hymnal, 1679, Frontispiece and headpiece, showing a minature of Joachim and Anna under a tree (left), and the headpiece of the Canon of Joachin and Ann with decorated capitals in the form of birds (right)
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • The sun in the '0' of the number '10' with a list of statistics about AIDS and HIV in New Zealand representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993 by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Capital Coast Health. Photocopy.
  • Six vignettes (with capital letters T or O): an open book with closed books (T); bunch of wild flowers (O); a seated Zouave holding a gun (O); two soldiers (T); a messenger on horseback (T); a boy asleep on the grass (T). Wood engraving by H. Linton.
  • A woman on whose dress is written "Radicalism" has taken some "disestablishment poison" after reading that her lover has been hanged; the dog is eating the meal on the table, which is inscribed with "capital". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 14 November 1885, after W. Hogarth.
  • A computer display screen bearing the words in German "The condom protects me ... you ... him ... them from AIDS" in green and in capitals against red the words: "AIDS affects us all"; an advertisement for condoms as a protection against AIDS by the German Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph by Marat.
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.