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  • King Charles I. Engraving by B. Reading after E. Bower.
  • A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
  • The encouragement to works of charity and mercy, from Christ's acceptance of them as done to himself. A sermon preached in the Parish Church of All Saints in Northampton, before the President and Governors of the County Infirmary for sick and lame poor on Thursday, March 29, 1744 / by Richard Grey ... ; To which are added, the statutes of the said Infirmary.
  • Anima astrologiae: or, a guide for astrologers. Being the considerations of the famous Guido Bonatus, faithfully rendred into English. As also the choicest aphorisms of Cardans Seaven segments translated and methodically digested under their proper heads. ; with a new table of the fixed stars, rectified for several years to come, and divers other necessary illustrations. A work most useful and necessary for all students, and recommended as such to the sons of art / [Ed.] By William Lilly.
  • Three exact pieces of Leonard Phioravant viz. His rationall secrets, and chirurgery, reviewed and revived / Together with a book of excellent experiments and secrets, collected out of the practises of severall expert men in both faculties [by John Hester] Whereunto is annexed Paracelsus his one hundred and fourteen experiments: with certain excellent works of B.G. [Penotus] à Portu Aquitano [i.e. B.G. Penot] Also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets concerning his vegetall and animall work. With Quercetanus [i.e. J. Duchesne] his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot.
  • A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • The god Mercury, with Venus in the background, tries to teach Cupid to read. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1744, after Van-Loo le pere.
  • The god Mercury, with Venus in the background, tries to teach Cupid to read. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1744, after Van-Loo le pere.
  • The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesties special command.
  • Arcana naturae, ope & beneficio exquistissimorum microscopiorum detecta / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].
  • A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • A clothed woman carrying a chair and magazine puts the chair down, sits on it and starts to read. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.