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  • Saint Birinus converting the Saxons of Wessex to Christianity. Engraving by W. Walker, 1773, after S. Wale.
  • Four sketches, from different angles, of an Anglo-Saxon skull, from cemetery at Brighthampton, Oxon (Kingdom of the West-Saxons, Sixth to Tenth Century A.D)
  • A wicker man inside which people are sacrificed, surrounded by the principal deities of the Saxons. Etching by Smith after R. Verstegen and A. Sammes.
  • The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes / By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.
  • Anglo Saxon Medical Manuscript.
  • Physicians offering draughts and medicine, Anglo-Saxon.
  • Archaeological burial objects from the Anglo-Saxon period
  • Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon. circa 1050
  • Diagrams of Frankish & Saxon remains, namely tool heads
  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • General Town Hospital, Berlin: two floor plans and a plan of the site, with a key. Photolithograph after H. Saxon Snell.
  • Saxon deities after which days of the week were named: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Saeter (Seater). Etching after R. Verstegan, 17--.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Two surgeons applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points on the chests of two male patients, the senior surgeon wears a pointed hat (?). Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • 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.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, Exmoor Street, London: the exterior. Wood engraving, 1881 (?).
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, Exmoor Street, London: the exterior. Coloured wood engraving by H.J. Crane after F. Watkins (?), 1881.
  • The story of Metlakahtla / by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • The story of Metlakahtla / by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Titlepage to 'Ten Years' Diggings'
  • A hind standing on a crag in the forest belling with a group of stags and deer resting on patch of grass below. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Members of the British Association playing at phrenology on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by Mrs C. Henderson, 1905.
  • A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.
  • Paul Luther. Line engraving by J.G. Mentzel.
  • Paul Luther. Line engraving by J.G. Mentzel.
  • Led by the female personification of Germany, the representatives of Germans kneel to the left of the throne of Charles V, while the leaders of the protestant states stand on the right. Engraving after A. van der Does.
  • H.S.Wellcome, The Story of Metlakahtla