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  • Ming herbal (painting): Ciliate desert grass
  • Charles M. Wilson in desert setting, circa 1943
  • Desert and fertile land watered by the Nile
  • Dust storm in the desert, Africa (?). Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A desert landscape with large cacti, jerboas and an armadillo. Colour lithograph.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: first world war front line trenches with three (British) soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: Egyptian men in a labour camp; camel and tents in the background. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The execution of a deserter in the Federal Camp, Alexandria, during the Civil War in America. Wood engraving.
  • The execution of a deserter by hanging him on a branch of a tree. Line block by Albert.
  • Armed men riding on camels in the desert during a sand storm. Watercolour by A.O. Lamplough, 19--.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: first world war (?) front line trenches; a machine gun with three (British ?) soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Encampment in the desert, with Mount Seir in the distance, Wady Arabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: first world war front line trenches; a machine gun emplacement surrounded by sandbags, with two soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • India: the Bikanir Camel Corps conservancy area ferry post: incinerators in the desert with Indian men. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1900/1910.
  • Desert-dwelling reptile from Egypt: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Normand after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • A jerboa standing in the desert next to an inscribed stone with pyramids in the background. Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.
  • A man in the desert carrying a rifle in one hand and a water pouch over his shoulder. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Episodes in the Zulu wars, including a Zulu ceremony, the flogging of a deserter and a Zulu warrior giving himself up to English soldiers. Wood engraving.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • A rhinoceros stands in the midst of a herd of stampeding animals in the desert. Line engraving by H. Adlard after J. Wolf after C. J. Anderson.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
  • An elephant wearing a condom on its raised trunk runs across a desert; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by M. Westrup for Wizard & Genius-Idealdecor AG, 1993.
  • An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.
  • An uncle visiting Majnun and Layla in the desert, from the story Layla and Majnun by Nizami, a 12th century Iranian poet. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.
  • Slaves in the Sudan with their hands manacled in planks forced to walk across the desert by their captors and guards who are mounted on camels. Wood engraving after G. Montbard.