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  • Geography: the comparative heights of the highest mountains. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie.
  • Astronomy: eclipses (top), and the Moon's passage around the Earth. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Meteorology: a view of the Earth and the sun during summer [in the Northern hemisphere]. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Astronomy: eclipses (top), and the Moon's passage around the Earth. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Astronomy: a terrestrial globe, with a device for projecting the shadow of the moon. Engraving [before 1764].
  • Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine latitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Four phases of the Earth's rotation around the sun showing the seasons, with allegories of the four elements. Engraving, 1750.
  • Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Geology: the ages of the Earth and details of types of stone. Coloured lithograph by Bethmont, 1911, after himself.
  • Meteorology: atmospheric effects. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1846, after himself.
  • Astronomy: a section through the earth, showing the atmosphere. Engraving.
  • Geography: a panoramic display of the world, in a building on the Champs Élysées, Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Cybele, a Phrygian earth goddess, surrounded by putti, lions, fruit and general abundance, a flying putto carries a model of a building on his head. Engraving by M. Küssel after S. Vouet.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of a suggested explanation of the Aurora Borealis. Lithograph after Sir J. Ross.
  • Cybele wearing a turreted crown and holding a sceptre; in the background men work on the land; representing Earth, one of the four elements. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1587, after D. Barendsz.
  • Female figures representing the elements of air, earth and water. Etching by G. Vascellini after A. Fedi the elder after bas-relief in Florence.
  • The Earth: map, showing the voyages of La Pérouse. Engraving, 1800.
  • Ceres on a chariot with children representing the months March, April and May, surrounded by forms of natural abundance, corybantes and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Etching by A. Tempesta, 1592.
  • Varāha raising the earth from the bottom of the ocean and trampling on the demon Hiranyāksha. Gouache drawing.
  • The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two fisrt [sic] books, concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • Leciferrin gibt Blut und Kraft : Ovo-Lecithin-Eisen : Galenus Chemische Industrie G.m.b.H. Frankfurt a.M.
  • Astronomical lecture on the new dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery : twenty-one feet in diameter.
  • Theatre Royal, Haymarket, made perfectly warm by a powerful air stove in the centre of the pit : on Friday evening, March 10, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Lloyd's dioastrodoxon, the largest and most magnificent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public.
  • The largest, the most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, February 26th, 1819; and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.
  • The largest and most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public... : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, March 3, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.