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  • Message in numerous languages of the Pacific Islands that AIDS and HIV does not respect tradition culture or religion; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Lancets. Pacific from Australia, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands. In The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Collection
  • Numerous children's faces with a message about AIDS related orphans in the Pacific; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by André Passa, 1993.
  • Poulaho, King of the Friendly islands (south Pacific), drinking kava during a ceremony. Engraving by W. Sharp after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Researches in the western Pacific : being a report on the results of the expedition sent from the London School of Tropical Medicine to the Ellice, Tokelau, and Samoan Islands in 1921-1922 / by Francis W. O'Connor.
  • A couple walking along a beach, representing a safer sex advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by Jipé Le Bars and Martial Dosdane, 1992.
  • Two Fijian couples sitting chatting among trees with a backdrop of a bamboo fence and message about community committment to prevent AIDS; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by Jipé Le Bars and Martial Dosdane, 1992.
  • Map of the world in outline, with pacific in centre.
  • Tortola, the Virgin Islands: birthplace of John Coakley Lettsom. Engraving, 1815.
  • Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • The "Queen of the Sandwich Islands" visiting Oxford, with Oxford dignitaries. Photograph, 1866.
  • The United States Army in World War II: deployment of troops in Europe and the Pacific, and prevention of venereal disease. Colour lithograph, December 1945.
  • The United States Army in World War II: deployment of troops in Europe and the Pacific, and prevention of venereal disease. Colour lithograph, December 1945.
  • A family from the Cook Islands; representing an advertisement to stay faithful to loved ones by protecting them against AIDS, issued by the Ministry of Health, Cook Islands. Colour lithograph by Judith Künzle.
  • Cape Verde Islands: above, the volcanic island Fogo; below, the harbour of St Vincent (Porto Grande). Etching by G. Child.
  • An egg-timer bearing the words "Time to Act" representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993 for the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization. Lithograph, 1993.
  • Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The broad planks serve as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows.
  • A gathering at the ceremonial drinking of kava in the Friendly Islands. Lithograph by A. Noël after L.A. de Sainson.
  • Darwin : (miniature sheet) : Galapagos Islands surveyed by Captain Robert FitzRoy and the officers of the HMS Beagle, 1835.
  • A crater on the island of Vulcano, Lipari islands. Coloured aquatint, 1812, after Luigi Mayer.
  • The inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands offering to Captain Cook the sacrifice of a pig. Etching by S. Middiman and J. Hall, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • Mineralogical travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands, and mainland of Scotland, with dissertations upon peat and kelp / By Robert Jameson.
  • Mineralogical travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands, and mainland of Scotland, with dissertations upon peat and kelp / By Robert Jameson.
  • The Royal College of Elizabeth, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Lithograph by C. Haghe after J. Wilson.
  • A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • Antilles islands: plants, trees, animals, agriculture, and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.