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  • A fully saddled horse with a coat hanging over its saddle and a dog are sniffing and catching the scent of each other. Engraving after J.F. Herring (?).
  • Eva Vliegen, a woman who lived off the smell of flowers. Etching after B. Flessiers (?).
  • Eva Vliegen, a woman who lived off the smell of flowers. Drawing after B. Flessiers.
  • A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
  • A peasant man sits on a tree stump vomiting and onlookers hold their noses, with an accompanying couplet. Etching, 17th century.
  • An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A dog looks on as a man and a woman smell a flower; representing the sense of smell. Engraving.
  • Sea samphire (Crithmum maritimum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / jam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti, et locis plus mille aucti. Adjectis plantarum, et animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longe pluribus, ad vivum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines Graeci contextus quam plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius depravatam lectionem restituunt.
  • Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / jam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti, et locis plus mille aucti. Adjectis plantarum, et animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longe pluribus, ad vivum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines Graeci contextus quam plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius depravatam lectionem restituunt.
  • People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.
  • Olea Euroapaea (Olive)
  • Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis medici, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / iam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti et locis plus mille aucti. Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longè pluribus, ad viuum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines græci contextus quàm plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatam lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicbus.
  • Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis medici, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / iam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti et locis plus mille aucti. Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longè pluribus, ad viuum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines græci contextus quàm plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatam lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicbus.
  • The story of Cupid and Psyche: inside the palace, Psyche, shown five times, is undressed, bathed, anointed, dried and laid to bed by invisible nymphs. Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
  • A man and a woman are weighed to assess their wealth for the purpose of marriage. Engraving, ca. 1600, after C. van Mander.