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  • Great sea urchins of the North West Coast of America. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • Malaya: a ship and many small boats off the coast of Penang Island. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Cape Blanco, or Ras-el-Abiad, on the Syrian coast. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Cape Coast Castle, Ghana: a blind man is led through the street by a boy. Wood engraving by J.J.
  • The Gold Coast, Queensland: a yellow fever isolation camp: rows of tents with palm trees to one side. Photograph 1870/1900.
  • The heavens open on the day of judgement; Christ appears above the coast of the Netherlands. Engraving, 16th century.
  • Three wooden semi circular labrets (lip plugs), from N.W. coast of Africa. Semi-circular, grooved, worn in lower lip.
  • A woman of Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, dressing another woman's hair. Wood engraving by A.B., 1887, after E. Bayard.
  • A boy with Down's syndrome, dressed in a sailor suit, standing against a nautical background, holding a small yacht. Photograph by Kent Coast Studio.
  • Canton, China: boats off the coast of Canton City, looking south to Honam island. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.
  • A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • The capture of the slave ship Emilia off the north coast of Cuba by the Royal Navy ships Styx and Jasper. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Naqoura, Lebanon: the coast, a rocky path above the sea, and a tower on a promontory. Engraving by M. Picquenot after L.F. Cassas.
  • Parga, Albania (subsequently Greece): the castle, part of the town and the sea seen from the coast road. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: ships sailing on the sea near a coast, with a wooden building and palm trees on it. Lithograph.
  • The coast of a land mass with sea viewed from above; advertising an international exhibition of AIDS posters. Colour lithograph by Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Haida, Spirit mask of Shaman, carved wood. Human features with a removable bird's beak. Painted white, black, red, yellow and green. N.W. Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands, Brit. Columbia.
  • Shaman's charm of bone carved in Totemic British Columbia. North West Coast of America. Designs representing the Octopus and anthropoozomorphic bird. Abalone inlays in eyes. Hole pierced at top for pendant.
  • The wonder of the sea! : The Gymnetrus Northumbricus, or sea-serpent, caught on the Northumbrian Coast, March 26th, 1849 ... is now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
  • Genoa, with the aid of Arethusa, Alcimus, and Cosmus, introduces the lemon tree into Italy, thanks to the warm air of the Ligurian coast. Engraving by G.F. Greuter after G. Reni.
  • Pipe, argillite shale, very fine carving with intricately interlacing totemic figures of animals and supernatural creatures. Collected by the late Mr. George Roberts of Hudson's bay company. Haida Indians, North West Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands.
  • The Greenland Dwarfs : in Mr. Fillinham's collection there is a very curious and rare print, engraved by J.O. Berndt, minor Nurnberg, representing two dwarfs seated near the entrance of some caves on the Greenland coast ...
  • 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.