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  • Circus madness / Animal Defenders.
  • Circus madness / Animal Defenders.
  • Circus madness / Animal Defenders.
  • Statue by Alfred Gilbert erected Piccadilly Circus, 1893.
  • Harvard's Teeth, 272 Oxford Circus, London. Advertisment. Back cover.
  • Harvard's Teeth, 272 Oxford Circus, London. Advertisment. Front cover.
  • Enema Pump. Reads: new patent. 33 regent Circus (No.74) £2.10.0
  • Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
  • Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
  • Three Indian circus performers. Gouache drawing.
  • Christian Müller, a circus performer. Line engraving.
  • A circus horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A circus horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A Roman circus with a chariot race. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Girl acrobats forming the shape of an elephant at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
  • Girl acrobats forming the shape of a horse at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
  • Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • British prisoners of war performing a circus act for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • British prisoners of war performing a circus act for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Another surprise for London! : Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess direct from Barnum's American Circus : the tallest married couple in the world ...
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion ...
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion ...
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion ...
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion ...
  • Henrik Brustad the Norwegian giant : a penny-piece will pass through his finger-ring : stands nearly 8 feet, acknowledged to be the tallest man in the world : to be seen every evening ... / Assembly Rooms, Anlaby-Road, (near Hengler's Circus.).
  • The outline of a clown's bow-tie in multi-coloured wavy lines representing an advertisement for a gala circus night by Circo Chen at Campo Pequeno on 18 November to benefit the AIDS organisation Abraco. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A red and gold decorated head with an open mouth adorned with skeletons wearing crowns representing an advertisement for Saltarino, an asian circus AIDS gala in support of children and families affected by AIDS and HIV; organised by the AIDS-Forum e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions : Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish giant and his wife, the renowned German giantess direct from Barnum's circus / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • One fascicule of life-sized lithographs, showing dissections carried out by George Viner Ellis: front of wrapper. Letterpress, 1867.
  • On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre, Comedy is hanged, Tragedy is stabbed, and Sheridan the playwright lies dead drunk as the theatre is given over to animal entertainments. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.