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  • A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.
  • A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the Egyptian plover.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
  • A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.
  • A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • A crocodile encountered in the Hooghly river. Watercolour attributed to M. Harris.
  • A naked man holding two small crocodiles stands on a drinks table surrounded by male spectators with the message 'Wild living. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's and Buro GVO Amsterdam, 1991.
  • Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.
  • A frog representing 'tu' [you] clings on to the wide-open jaws of a small crocodile representing 'el SIDA' [AIDS]; with numerous surrounding AIDS-related messages in Spanish and English; an advertisement by the C.I.A.S. (Comité Independiente Anti-SIDI. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the Egyptian plover.
  • Crocodiles on the river, near Wadi Daboua, at sunset, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • A crocodile in natural surroundings. Engraving.
  • A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.
  • Above, a small cape-lizard ; below, a great cape-lizard. Etching by G. Child.
  • A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.