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  • Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • Two men sawing a baulk of timber in a woodyard, in Korea.
  • A line of shops beside a dusty street, with telegraph poles overhead, in Korea.
  • Leper asylum, Taiku, Korea: female patients wearing white robes stand in a group outside a brick building. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Pyongyang, Korea: wounded Chinese prisoners of war receiving medical treatment after the battle of Pyongyang. Gouache by J.N. Schönberg, 1894.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a male patient with a bandaged head, a nurse is standing near with a bowl, at an outdoor hospital in Korea. Colour process print after J.C.
  • Acer japonicum Thunb. Sapindaceae. Japanese maple. Small tree. Distribution: Japan, North Korea. Can be tapped in early spring for its sugar-rich sap although it is not as abundant as in Acer saccharum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • Fatsia japonica (Thunb.) Decne. & Planch. Araliaceae False castor oil plant. Distribution: Japan, South Korea. Not even in the same family as the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. An ornamental plant, Fatsia from the Japanese word for 'eight' hachi referring to the eight-lobed leaf. The sap can cause dermatitis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A cross-section of the HIV virus with the characteristic outer protrusions; with 3 red arrows pointing to the earth in orbit and the word 'AIDS' below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A personified red heart with eyes is split in two on impact with the word 'AIDS' below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A couple with a heart between them wrap their fingers together to represent their love and unity in an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A group of people eating a meal, seated behind a small table, in front of a painted screen.
  • A child posing in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio.
  • A Korean man in large hat stands smoking a pipe. Lithograph, c. 1857, after F. M.
  • A young woman wearing a plain robe and a tasselled hat, standing in front of a painted screen.
  • A Korean (?) woman, carrying a baby on her back.
  • A woman in Japan being carried in a litter through the mountains by two men. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'
  • Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895: the Chinese ambassador (?) as a patient in bed, being treated with an icepack on his head, has a nightmare of the advance of the Japanese army. Coloured woodcut, 1895.