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  • Ten demonstrations of digestion, blood circulation, breathing, bone structure, smell, hearing, sight, touch, taste, the nervous system, and muscle structure. Coloured lithograph by C. Bethmont, ca. 1860 (?).
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Jacob arrives among the shepherds of Haran; he falls in love with Rachel at first sight. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1732, after F. Le Moine.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Two treatises concerning the preseruation of eie-sight / The first written by Doctor Baily sometimes of Oxford: the other collected out of those two famous phisicions Fernelivs and Riolanvs.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.
  • The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...
  • A man with filarial elephantiasis, being helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling, approaches a temple; two women are shocked at the sight. Coloured woodcut after Hokusai by Hiroshige II, 1859.
  • Jupiter waves a wand at a woman looking at herself in a mirror, while a travelling merchant of spectacles and a blind man walk by; allegory of the conscientious use of sight. Engraving by P. de Jode.
  • Horses pulling a stagecoach carrying a hunting party are shying at the sight of a pack of hounds chasing a fox; twelve vignettes show sporting and military events, such as duels and jousting. Etching by F. Paton.
  • Above, a cat in a priest's habit is hung on the gallows with priests laughing at the sight; below, a blindfolded man is hung and the rope breaks to release him to the ground. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Above, a dagger is thrown in the direction of a priest on a platform; below, monks pointing at and showing signs of distress at the sight of a cat hanged in a priest's habit. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • Ayer's Sarsaparilla : The deacon: "Land sake Liza, the very sight of that bottle makes me feel like another man" : Ayers Sarsaparilla is a compound concentrated extract- the strongest, best, cheapest blood medicine / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's Sarsaparilla : The deacon: "Land sake Liza, the very sight of that bottle makes me feel like another man" : Ayers Sarsaparilla is a compound concentrated extract- the strongest, best, cheapest blood medicine / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • A woman holding a torch is dragging a woman by her hair, another woman is holding her head in despair at the sight of a one-legged man destroying books and instruments; a woman and a sea monster contemplate the scene. Etching, 16--.
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • Southport, Lancashire: sheet of sketches showing various sights. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • Magnalia naturae: or, the philosophers-stone lately expos'd to publick sight and sale; being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours court, at Vienna, came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor ... / By John Joachim Becher ... [by] Wenceslaus Seilerus ... Published at the request ... especially of Mr. Boyl [sic].
  • Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.
  • The thermal baths and mountains of Bagnères de Luchon, including a key of the sights. Lithograph by Victor Petit.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • Navigation: a sighting compass. Engraving.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.