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  • London in the nineteenth century / by Sir Walter Besant.
  • Pens suitable for feeding and washing sheep. Engraving, early nineteenth century.
  • A European family in nineteenth century dress, inspecting two camels. Gouache painting.
  • National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century / with memoirs, by William Jerdan.
  • National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century / with memoirs, by William Jerdan.
  • A town centre of north European origin, the foreground is peopled by figures wearing early nineteenth century costumes. Gouache painting.
  • Two men at sea in a fishing boat: one leans over the side, feeling seasick. Reproduction of a nineteenth century engraving.
  • Unzie, an albino Aboriginal man with an abundance of white hair. Reproduction by Sedgwick after a photograph by Wendt, late nineteenth century.
  • An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.
  • Thorley's horse and cattle spice is now creating such a sensation throughout the world, that all practical horse-keepers, flock-masters & cattle-feeders are pronouncing it the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century / Joseph Thorley.
  • Thorley's horse and cattle spice is now creating such a sensation throughout the world, that all practical horse-keepers, flock-masters & cattle-feeders are pronouncing it the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century / Joseph Thorley.
  • Annals of the Royal Society Club : the record of a London dining-club in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, by Sir Archibald Geikie ... / [Sir Archibald Geikie].
  • Sussex Place in Regent's Park, London. Engraving by W. Wallis after T. Shepherd, 1827.
  • A man and a woman making love in a well-appointed room, while a boy looks on from the next room. Gouache painting.
  • The ruins of the priory of St. Mary Overie, Southwark: a stone wall and timber framework. Coloured engraving, 1791.
  • Baths, Southernhay, Exeter. Engraving by J.F. Lambert, 1830, after W.H. Bartlett.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Etching.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai box girder bridge. Engraving by S. Bradshaw after G. Dodgson.
  • Baths, Southernhay, Exeter. Engraving by J.F. Lambert, 1830, after W.H. Bartlett.
  • Denbigh Hall Bridge carrying the London and Birmingham Railway at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: soldiers on horseback ride under the bridge as a train passes overhead. Engraving by W. Radclyffe, 1839, after G. Dodgson.
  • St. John's Hospital and Chapel, Exeter: front with street life. Line engraving by W. Deeble, 1830, after A. Glennie.
  • The poet P.J. Béranger at the age of twenty sits on the bed in his garret while his girfriend Lisette covers the window with a shawl in the lack of a curtain. Engraving by C.L.V. Mauduit, 1847, after H. Pauquet.
  • Leisure pursuits on a summer's evening on and about the river. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • Strolling in town on a summer's evening under a full moon. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by a midwife who works beneath her skirts. Woodcut.
  • A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • The exterior of a small brick building used as an apothecary shop by Dr. Archibald Blair in the eighteenth century, Virginia. Photograph.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A black banjo player with a wooden leg. Photograph, ca. 1865 (?).