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  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].
  • A board of medical officers of the Navy examining a naval man's injured arm. Halftone after Joseph Nash the younger after a sketch by A. Gascoigne Wildey.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • George, Prince Regent, in uniform holding out a swollen hand which is supported by Wellington; representing the enormous amount of money given to the army compared with the navy. Coloured lithograph, 1816.
  • Ambulance presented to the British Royal Navy by the city of Moradabad, India in 1916: a uniformed ambulanceman is shown at the wheel, while another stands at the rear of the vehicle. Photograph, 1916/1918.
  • A stout lady holding a broom inscribed 'the Navy' and wearing a helmet inscribed 'Britannia' is sweeping German merchant ships and warships away from the Atlantic and the Pacific. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Christopher Atkinson pilloried as part of his sentence for cheating on the Navy Victualling Board; illustrated by a pillory embellished with sheafs of corn amidst a huge crowd outside the corn exchange. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Gentiana asclepiadea L. Gentianaceae. Gentian. Perennial herb. Distribution. Southern Europe and Caucasus. Named after Gentius, King of Illyria (the western Balkan Peninsula) in 181–168 BC. Gentius had a powerful navy of 270 warships (lembi) and like most kings of this era he fought constant wars, fighting with the Romans against Macedonia, and then changing sides only to be defeated and brought captive to Rome in 168 BC
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 180-, after R. Pollard.
  • Field medical card / [War Office].
  • Field medical card / [War Office].
  • The wounding of Lord Robert Manners on the Resolution, at the battle of Dominica. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin and C. Sherwin, 1786, after T. Stothard.
  • A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • H.M.S. Marlborough - Dressing Station.
  • The hand of an American sailor about to pick up a lace handkerchief representing venereal disease. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • An abstract of certain instructions given the Commissioners for taking care of the sick and wounded men, for the relief of widows, children and impotent parents of such as shall be slain in His Majesties service at sea.
  • Engineering: section through the hull of an ironclad battleship. Engraving, c.1861.