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  • Nos el Dr. D. Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta ... Entre las graves obligaciones de nuestro ministerio pastoral, consideramos ser la primera velar cuidadosamente, para que las almas de nuestros subditos consigan la salvacion eterna: y habiendo llegado á nuestra noticia, que se mira comunmente con horror la operacion llamada parto cesareo [&c.].
  • A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Horrors of the London burial grounds, being a correct account of the horrible disclosures made by gravediggers : with the manner of cutting up dead bodies, and other horrible transactions.
  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.
  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.
  • Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow
  • A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie.
  • A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).
  • The ghost of Ravia, dressed in white with blood on her dress, appears to her husband Cazem during a storm at night, in front of Gothic ruins, and asks him to avenge her murder. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1810.
  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • A person stranded on the peak of a mountain attacked by snakes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • Cholera: France, 1841
  • A cumulation of darts around the branches of a brown calyx. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • Three people in alarm. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Three people in alarm. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A cumulation of darts around the branches of a brown calyx. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • A soldier, leaning against the window ledge of a prison window with a large empty flask on the ground, is conversing with a prisoner who is looking through the bars while holding a tankard in his hand. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Ten red arrows with purple teardrops. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A pack of dogs is falling head over heels in their pursuit of a stag. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • Claude Ambroise Seurat, a very thin man. Coloured etching.
  • Claude Ambroise Seurat, a very thin man. Coloured etching.