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  • Surgery: instruments for the compression of aneurisms, including bandages. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments for the surgical removals of stones from the urinary tract (lithotomy). Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments, including a speculum for the uterus and a speculum for the anus. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. 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.
  • Surgery: instruments for the amputation of limbs, including chisels and needles. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
  • Surgery: above, a skull being trepanned; below, various instruments used in trepanation. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
  • Three winged boys floating above a reclining boy who holds a platter, with a ewer beside him. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • A lapidary, sitting at his foot-operated grinding wheel (above), an elevation and plan of his worktable (below). Engraving by B. L. Prevost after J. N. F. Boucher.
  • Medals: a die-engraver in his workshop (top), with diagrams of die-engraving tools (below). Engraving by B.L. Prevost after F. Boucher.
  • A seal-cutter and his assistant in his workshop, with diagrams of seal-cutting tools beneath. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Boucher.
  • Hunting: a wolf, with its head caught in a trap (above), and details of the trap (below) Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • The interior of a painter's studio with a diagram of a mahlstick, paintbrushes and palettes beneath. Engraving by R. Bénard after B.L. Prevost.
  • Science: the engraved titlepage to the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Engraving by B.L. Prevost, 1772, after C.N. Cochin, the younger, 1765.
  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including an instrument for the dilation of the foreskin, a cannula and a syringe for the bladder. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: above, a chair-bedstead and a patient-dossier; below, a man and a child seated on the chair-bedstead. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
  • A bearded male nude figure with outstretched arms imploring a young seated male nude figure at whose feet he sits. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after J. Jouvenet.
  • A standing female figure representing health; a standing female figure of Ceres; two female heads in profile. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after E. Bouchardon and N. Poussin.
  • The Farnese Hercules seen from the front, the back and in profile; details of the right arm, head and knee. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after G. Audran.
  • The Venus de Medici from the front and back, and in both lateral views; with details of her head, arm and feet. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after G. Audran.
  • Ground plan of a school of drawing: cross-section with a vignette above showing art students drawing after a life model and sculpture. Etching by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, 1763.
  • 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.
  • Diamond cutters: interior view (a) a diamond cutters' wheel (b) elevations and sections of cutting machines with various components. Etching by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by B. L. Prévost after J. M. Moreau, 1785.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by B. L. Prévost after J. M. Moreau, 1785.
  • Manufacture of sealing wax. Etching by B.L. Prévvost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923.
  • Seventeen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C.E. Miksch, 1923.