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  • Astronomy: a map showing the paths of several eighteenth century eclipses over England. Engraving, 1787.
  • Astronomy: eclipses (top), and the Moon's passage around the Earth. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Astronomy: eclipses (top), and the Moon's passage around the Earth. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • The "eclipse" drenching bottle.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of an eclipse. Engraving by Seale.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • Astronomy: a view of London in 1748, with diagrams of an eclipse. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1842.
  • Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1878.
  • Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1871.
  • A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.
  • Two orang-utans wearing clothes and drinking tea. Coloured lithograph by Day & Haghe after W Hawkins.
  • Franco-Prussian War: in the siege of Paris. a surgeon of the Garde Nationale (formerly a professor at the Ecole de Médecine) meets an army surgeon, who is one of his former students. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Franco-Prussian War: foreign ambulance staff in the Siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.
  • Astronomy: a terrestrial globe, with a device for projecting the shadow of the moon. Engraving [before 1764].
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III on horseback with a smiling Queen Victoria, a flag-draped coffin, and a battle. Coloured lithograph, [c.1867?].
  • The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
  • The crucifixion of Christ. Line engraving by J. Neeffs after P.P. Rubens, 16--.
  • The crucifixion of Christ. Line engraving by J. Neeffs after P.P. Rubens, 16--.
  • This evening, Mr. C.H. Adams, will repeat his lecture on astronomy / The King's Theatre.
  • This evening, Mr. C.H. Adams, will repeat his lecture on astronomy / The King's Theatre.
  • A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
  • Vibrators / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • Vibrators / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • Vibrators / Stanley Cox Ltd.