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  • Rapport fait à son excellence le Ministre de l'Intérieur, sur les nouveaux développemens et l'état actuel du sauvage de l'Aveyron / par E.M. Itard.
  • Essai sur les vertus de l'eau de chaux, pour la guérison de la pierre. Avec ... l'histoire de la maladie de M. Walpole ... celle ... de M. Newcome, etc / Traduit sur la 2e éd. de l'anglois, par A. Roux. Anquel on ajouté une méthode de dissoudre la pierre par la voie des injections de M. Butter, traduit par le mème.
  • Memoire sur l'usage œconomique du digesteur de Papin / donnée au public par la Société des Belles-Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Par M. ***, avoc. anc. sécret. de la même Société et auteur des Ouvertures de paix universelle [i.e. F.G. Quériau].
  • Monks singing the Liturgy of the Hours; one monk doing penance. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1795.
  • Gaspard Poitevin. Engraving by E. Desrochers, 1716.
  • Pope Pius VII on the Saône near Lyons. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu.
  • Eight heads showing human passions. Etching by Taylor, 1788, after C. Le Brun.
  • François Villette. Line engraving by E. Desrochers.
  • Jean Baptiste Morin (Morinus). Line engraving by E. Desrochers.
  • Recueil complet de pieces curieuses concernant l'opération et l'accouchement de l'homme de Dordrech [sic] ... / Augmenté en cette troisième edition de la découverte de l'isle Arecifes.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Venus riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Juno in a chariot drawn by two peacocks flying through the sky surrounded by nymphs and cherubs, Jupiter on the ground trying to lock up a group of putti: symbolising the element air. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Jean Hamon. Line engraving by E. Desrochers.
  • René Descartes. Line engraving by E. Desrochers after F. Hals, 1649.
  • A man and a boy gaze at a young woman as she lies asleep on her bed in the morning. Colour engraving by E. De Ghendt, ca. 1778, after P.A. Baudouin.
  • Lazare Rivière [Riverius]. Line engraving by Germain Audran.
  • A woman standing at her dressing table and arranging her bodice; upon the dressing table is a power box and puff, two perfume bottles and a mirror upon which perches a bird. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after P.A. Baudouin.
  • Henri Grandjean. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after F.B. Deshays, 1779.
  • Gui Crescent Fagon. Line engraving by E. Ficquet, 1747 and 1765, after H. Rigaud, 1694.
  • Henri Grandjean. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after F.B. Deshays, 1779.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
  • A naked woman reclining on a bed. Engraving by C.E. Gaucher, 1790, after Beaudoin after C. Netscher.
  • A Christian Roman soldier receiving the Extreme Unction. Engraving by B. Audran I after N. Poussin, 1644-48.
  • Jean-Baptiste de Silva. Line engraving by E. Ficquet, 1765, after H. Rigaud, 1740.
  • Jean-Baptiste de Silva. Line engraving by E. Ficquet, 1765, after H. Rigaud, 1740.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
  • Saint Jerome. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1797.
  • A young woman is disturbed at her evening toilette by a boy arriving at the door. Colour engraving by Emmanuel de Ghendt, ca. 1778, after P. A. Baudouin.