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  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
  • The words 'Love, Life, Live, Safe' in multicoloured blocks; advertisement for safe sex by Alex Echo and Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca modi, facultates et quicquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca modi, facultates et quicquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca modi, facultates et quicquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
  • Hieronymi // Mercurialis De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca modi, facultates et quidquid denique ad corporis humani eaxercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
  • Two naked men in a bathroom setting, one holds his hand against the stomach of the other man who holds a towel; an advertisement for safe sex by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A naked man in a sauna with a message promoting safe sex. Colour lithograph by Michael Bidner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • An art gallery with paintings featuring condoms and the names of men; advertising an art exhibition on AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph after L. Nitka for Landstinget förebygger AIDS, 1993.
  • Cupid aims his bow with a condom as an arrow as he stands within a multicoloured flower with a red centre surrounded by the words 'Contigo Concon'; an advertisement by the Fundación Triángulo in a collaboration with the Comunidad de Madrid. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.