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  • Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.
  • Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by B. Thomson, 1808, after G. H. Harlow.
  • Lord John Russell addresses Sir Robert Peel on the subject of his "friend" the Marquess of Normanby. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
  • John Bull sits in a box, umpiring a free trade race between Sir Robert Peel as a tortoise and Lord John Russell as a hare. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • John Bull has a nightmare about income tax represented by Sir Robert Peel sitting on his chest surrounded by donkeys (asses). Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1842.
  • John Bull climbs on board a coach helped up by the Duke of Wellington with Sir Robert Peel in the driving seat. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • Introduced by the Duke of Wellington, John Bull and Sir Robert Peel interrupt a dinner table occupied by government ministers and Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell as schoolboys at a class given by Sir Robert Peel: Lord Brougham peeps from behind a door. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell as schoolboys at a class given by Sir Robert Peel: Lord Brougham peeps from behind a door. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • Sir Robert Peel holds a candle-snuffer inscribed "Conservatism" about to extinguish a low candle inscribed "Whiggery". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell are matched against the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel in a game of cards; Whigs against Tories. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • A cat with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes at a cage trap containing the Sheriff of Middlesex, Evans, held by Lord John Russell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Lord Stanley holds open the door of a coach to Sir Francis Burdett with Sir Robert Peel as the driver. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • A large bull with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes angrily at a dog with the head of Lord Melbourne in a manger, regarded by John Bull holding a pitch fork. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • The Lord Mayor and officers of the Irish corporations are hustled through a door by conservatives Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Hardinge and Lord Stanley among others. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Sir Robert Peel leads a queue for a coach but is told by the keeper of the coach-office, James Abercromby (Speaker of the House of Commons) that the coach has already gone. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Biographical history of Gonville and Caius College, 1349-[1972] : containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes / Compiled by John Venn.
  • Biographical history of Gonville and Caius College, 1349-[1972] : containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes / Compiled by John Venn.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches(Table VI, fig. 1); the trunks of the vena porta (Table VI, fig. 2), both after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645; the brain, nerves and spine, after Eustachius, by 1552 (Table VII) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • Makers of British botany : a collection of biographies by living botanists / edited by F.W. Oliver.
  • A boy in Granada rides on a donkey loaded with panniers as he leads his flock of goats. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Ansdell.
  • A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin, : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same / gathered and made by Wylliam Turner.