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  • Ruins of the great Roman aqueduct that served Cherchel, port of old Mauritania. Halftone.
  • A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.
  • The tomb of Louis Pasteur at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Halftone.
  • Several varieties of field snail (Helix hortensis). Colour reproduction of a painting by L. F. Muckley.
  • A man in Madagascar predicting the future with seeds (sikidy). Process print, ca. 1930, after G. Grandidier.
  • A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.
  • An apparatus for obtaining fresh water, Antofagasta. Halftone.
  • Five types of humming bird from America. Colour halftone print.
  • Henry Robinson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • Two male great birds of paradaise (Paradisea apoda) displaying to a female bird. Reproduction of a painting.
  • Saint Francis of Paola praying; head and shoulders. Halftone, 1880/1930.
  • The tomb of Louis Pasteur at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Halftone, 1923.
  • Methods of torture through the ages: including a rack, the man in the iron mask? and Roman and Tudor punishments. Halftone.
  • A young woman, posing naked in a photographic studio. Halftone after a photograph, ca.1900.
  • An extinct parrot, Ara gossei, perched on a branch. Colour halftone after J. Smit.
  • Istanbul: Turkish police taking Armenians to prison and attacking those who resist. Halftone by C. Hentschel after C.J. Staniland, 1895.
  • Saint Francis of Paula, head and shoulders with stars in the background. Halftone, 1880/1930.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector of the sisters of the order of San Giuseppe Calasanzio. Halftone.
  • Richard Owen standing next to the skeleton of the Dinornis maximus (the extinct New Zealand moa). Halftone after J. Smit after a photograph.
  • Henry Airay, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • World War I: lung tissue damaged by mustard gas poisoning: microscopic section. Colour halftone after A.K. Maxwell, ca. 1917 (?).
  • Sultan Abdulhamid II hosting a dinner at Yildiz Palace, Istanbul. Halftone by C. Hentschel, 1895, after J. Nash.
  • Two Indian men seated on the ground, their left feet trapped in a pillory. Halftone.
  • Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.
  • Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.
  • A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.
  • A bloodhound with a heavy collar is looking intently towards a heavy door. Half tone after an oil painting by E. H. Landseer.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • Three canvas-backed ducks (Nyroca valisineria) Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.