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  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • A cone-shaped mountain rises out of the sea, crowned by a tree over flames and divided into twelve levels, on each level people are either working, sitting or running. On the far right a boat delivers more people; representing Earthly Paradise. Etching.
  • A personification of Obedience with her attributes is attacked from the sides by eight vices; above her appears Christ on the cross; (top left) the sacrifice of Isaac; (right) Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; (below) three examples of disobedience, including the expulsion from Paradise. Engraving after H. Wierix .
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two fisrt [sic] books, concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise.
  • 3e commandante : Si paradis artificiels te font triper, kits stériles sont récommandés! / Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence - Couvent du Nord.
  • 3e commandante : Si paradis artificiels te font triper, kits stériles sont récommandés! / Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence - Couvent du Nord.
  • Andreas Vesalius. Line engraving by L. Paradisi after A. Villa after Titian (?).
  • Saint Francis of Paula, head and shoulders; bestowing his blessing with his right hand. Engraving by Paradisi after E. Graziani, 1840/1880.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by L. Paradisi.
  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • A woman is drawing up a chair for a gentleman who has joined a group of people sitting in a kitchen area. Coloured lithograph by J.C.Rowland.
  • The council in hell: the fallen angels, persuaded by Satan, decide to pursue the battle against God. Etching by J. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • An old physician with a clyster attends to one of his patients. Lithograph by L. Morel-Retz.
  • A soldier confiscates a baby from its mother in the night, because the baby has violated the curfew. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • The entrance to hell guarded by Sin and Death. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1792, after T. Stothard.
  • Christ enthroned, holding the globe and displaying the Sacred Heart. Colour lithograph.
  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, Joseph bends over a palm tree to provide them with dates. Engraving by F. Brizio after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.
  • Adam and Eve committing the primal sin; representing the origin of AIDS. Colour lithograph after Pavel Beneš, 1991.
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • Adam naming the animals. Etching by G. Scotin and J. Cole after H. Gravelot and J.B. Chatelain, 1743.
  • A nurse holding healthy twin babies. Colour lithograph after L. Tarasova, 1983.
  • Daniel O'Connell transmuted into the form of Satan stands arms aloft with Shiel behind him. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.