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  • Methods of torture in South America: people in field stocks before large crucifixes. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • An ideal landscape of the Miocene period, with elephants rummaging through a forest. Wood engraving by Riou after Cazat.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • An ideal landscape of the Pliocene period with elephants, hippopotami and horses. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • African villagers sitting in a square watching the spectacle of a young man having his hand chopped off with a sword. Wood engraving by Barbant after Riou.
  • Marie-François-Xavier Bichat: unveiling of a statue to him in Paris. Wood engraving by Jayer after E. Riou and Beranger [?], ca. 1857.
  • A procession of the Lord of Earthquakes at Cuzco, Peru. Wood engraving by J. Huyot after Ed. Riou.
  • An African man burnt on a stake surrounded by other Africans and a white soldier in the background. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • An ideal scene of the Lias period with two sauropods in the sea. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • Marie-François-Xavier Bichat: unveiling of a statue to him in Paris. Wood engraving by Jayer after E. Riou and Beranger [?], ca. 1857.
  • Arequipa, Peru: ten corpses inside a chulpa (mausoleum) among the Aymara tribe. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Edouard Riou, 1873.
  • Friars at Pevas (Pebas, Pehuas), Peru, showing to Paul Marcoy a five-year old girl with a desire to eat earth (geophagia). Wood engraving by E. Riou, 186-.
  • A canon at Cuzco, Peru, in his study, studying natural sciences while his adopted children fight. Wood engraving by Picard after E. Riou.
  • An ideal scene in the lower cretaceous period in which an iguanodon bites a megalosaurus. Wood engraving by E. Ferington after E. Riou.
  • An ideal landscape of the muschelkalk sub period with retiles sitting on stones in a stream. Wood engraving by E. Riou after Marand.
  • A crucified man fallen prey to birds on an island; representing the punishment for cannibalism. Wood engraving by E. Meunier after Riou.
  • An ideal landscape in the Quartenary epoch with bears, elks and mammoths. Wood engraving by Riou after E. Meunier.
  • A ritual execution whereby a victim kneels on the ground with his hands tied at the back having a spear thrust through his left shoulder, presumably piercing the heart. Wood engraving by G.-L. Devos after E. Riou.
  • A procession, probably in Peru. Wood engraving.