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  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.
  • Eyes and noses. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Wood-workers with various tools of the trade. Etching after Prevost.
  • Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds, and hunting at night with torches. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • The Borghese Gladiator seen in several views and in details. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Drawing instruments and stands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets and snares for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Clocks: side elevation of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Hunting: nets and hides for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Four heads of a young man, a girl, a bearded man and an old woman. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Clocks: plan of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland?].
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Rope-making, showing weights and different ways of winding. Engraving by Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Great sea urchins of the North West Coast of America. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • Lamp shells and ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • Clocks: a repeater clock mechanism, exploded view. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
  • A workshop for the production of cardboard and papier-mache: workmen variously squeezing sheets in a press, driving a horse which powers the mill, and filling a mould (top), tools (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by B. L. Prevost.
  • Sea urchins of the North West Coast of America, some cross-sectioned. Etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • Ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • Clocks: a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Oval heads. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Three winged boys floating above a reclining boy who holds a platter, with a ewer beside him. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: a wolf, with its head caught in a trap (above), and details of the trap (below) Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.