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  • Alpacas grazing in Peru. Lithograph by P S Duval & Co after Lieut L Gibbon, U.S.N.
  • A procession of the Lord of Earthquakes at Cuzco, Peru. Wood engraving by J. Huyot after Ed. Riou.
  • A coca plantation in Peru in which stands an armed man and his dogs. Lithograph after Lieut. L. Gibbon.
  • Arequipa, Peru: ten corpses inside a chulpa (mausoleum) among the Aymara tribe. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Edouard Riou, 1873.
  • A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
  • A canon at Cuzco, Peru, in his study, studying natural sciences while his adopted children fight. Wood engraving by Picard after E. Riou.
  • Portrait of Daniel Carrion, a student at Lima, who died while studying Oroya fever in Peru, who had Carrion's Disease named after him.
  • The word 'SIDA' linked within a chain of male and female symbols representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by Coprecos, Peru. Colour lithograph by Paco San Martin, ca. 1995.
  • Travels in Peru and India : while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India / by Clements R. Markham.
  • Two men facing each other holding phone receivers wearing white masks to imply confidentiality; an advertisement for an AIDS helpline for gay men in Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
  • Friars at Pevas (Pebas, Pehuas), Peru, showing to Paul Marcoy a five-year old girl with a desire to eat earth (geophagia). Wood engraving by E. Riou, 186-.
  • The faces of men and women representing the warning that AIDS does not respect respect sex, race, age or social status; advertisement by Via Libre, Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.
  • Peru : History of coca, "the divine plant" of the Incas / with an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day, by W. Golden Mortimer.
  • [2 cents charity stamp showing a woman, a red cross below her right hand and a standard (?) / staff in her left. Dated 23 May 1915with reference to Callao in Peru].
  • A crowd of people with three further images of a man, a woman and a couple below showing how they are protecting themselves from AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministerio de Salud, Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Helianthus annuus L. Asteraceae Sun flower Distribution: Peru to Mexico. The seeds are a source of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat which as part of one's diet is given to reduce coronary artery and cerebrovascular disease, but recently a study has found an increased death rate (BMJ2013
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Gripe, resfrios : Cequigripe Roussel / Laboratorios Roussel Perú S.A.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Fiebres tifo- paratificas : Paraxin chloramphenicol / Boehringer, representantes en el Perú Edmundo Stahl & Cia., S.A.
  • El hallazgo de una paradoja : el andrógeno no virilizante Metandiol, dipropionato de metilandrostendiol ... / Laboratorios Roussel Perú S.A.
  • El hallazgo de una paradoja : el andrógeno no virilizante Metandiol, dipropionato de metilandrostendiol ... / Laboratorios Roussel Perú S.A.
  • El Duplenvás asegura estabilidad y facilita la mezcla : El Bevitín Fuerte con hígado inyectable ... / Abbott Laboratories del Perú, S.A.
  • Arsenoterapia Acetylarsan : lo que es oportuno saber del: Acetylarsan / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Arsenoterapia Acetylarsan : lo que es oportuno saber del: Acetylarsan / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.