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  • Table illustrating the 'laws of variation', a fold out illustration after p.168, Chapter V of The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin, Imp: London: John Murray, 1859
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • General and descriptive anatomy of the domestic animals / by John Gamgee and James Law. Vol. 1, pt. [1]-2.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law and grandchildren, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law and grandchildren, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • John Liston acting the part of Lubin Log, a character in Kenney's play Love, law and physic. Coloured etching by Richard Dighton, 1819.
  • Portrait of Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1814-1900
  • Portrait of Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1814-1900
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • Observations on obstetric auscultation, with an analysis of the evidences of pregnancy, and an inquiry into the proofs of the life and death of the foetus in utero ... / With an appendix containing legal notes, by John Smith ... Barrister at Law.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • On the pathology and treatment of spermatorrhœa / by J.L. Milton.
  • On the pathology and treatment of spermatorrhœa / by J.L. Milton.
  • On the pathology and treatment of spermatorrhœa / by J.L. Milton.
  • On the pathology and treatment of spermatorrhœa / by J.L. Milton.
  • On the pathology and treatment of spermatorrhœa / by J.L. Milton.
  • Micklegate Bar, Hospital of St. Thomas, York, England. Engraving by W. Byrne and T. Medland, 1782, after T. Hearne.
  • By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.