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1 print : engraving ; platemark 11.5 x 25.2 cm

Two knives with ornate handles, incorporating human figures and ornament in the grotesque style. Engraving by C. Alberti, after F. Salviati, 1575/1600?

Knives used for cataract operations, including those used by Daviel.

Knives used for cataract operations.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

4 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Specification of George Kent : apparatus for sifting cinders and cleaning knives.

North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle (5" long), possibly used for circumcision.

North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle.

The sculpture known as the "Arrotino" (knife grinder), also as the "Listening slave", in the Uffizi, Florence, from 1677: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.

Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.

A warrior. Gouache drawing.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.8 x 20.6 cm

Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

A man who attacked women, represented by a grotesque fiend wielding an exaggerated knife and fork and holding a young woman up by the skirt. Later identified as Renwick Williams. 

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.3 x 35.5 cm

The monster going to take his afternoons luncheon.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 13.4 x 22.2 cm

The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.

A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.

1 print : line engraving ; border 22.3 x 16 cm

A pedlar with his tray of wares while holding his spectacles. Line engraving by Mauron, 1711.

1 drawing : pen and ink ; image 6.5 x 5.3 cm

A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.

Opera ... divisa in sei libri. Nel primo si contiene il ragionamento che fa l'Autore con Gio[vanni] suo discepolo. Nel secondo si tratta di diverse vivande di carne ... Nel terzo si parla ... de pesci. Nel quarto si mostrano le liste del presentar le vivande in tavola ... Nel quinto si contiene l'ordine di far diverse sorti di paste ... Nel sesto ... si ragiona de' convalescenti, et molte altre sorti di vivande per gli infermi. Con il discorso funerale che fu fatto nelle essequie di Papa Paulo III. Con le figure che fanno bisogna nella cucina, et alli Reverendissimi nel Conclave.

A selection of knives.

A selection of knives

Lithotomy knives.

1 drawing : gouache, with gum arabic ; image 27 x 37 cm

Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.

Knives and lancets for abscesses

Iridectomy knives label

An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

The double-blade knife for cutting fine sections was introduced by Gabriel Gustav Valentin. These examples are modifications of Valentin's original pattern.

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Two knives with ornate handles, incorporating human figures and ornament in the grotesque style. Engraving by C. Alberti, after F. Salviati, 1575/1600?

Knives used for cataract operations.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

Specification of George Kent : apparatus for sifting cinders and cleaning knives.

North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle.

A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.

Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.

A warrior. Gouache drawing.

Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

The monster going to take his afternoons luncheon.

The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.

A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.

A pedlar with his tray of wares while holding his spectacles. Line engraving by Mauron, 1711.

A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.

A selection of knives

Lithotomy knives.

Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.

Knives and lancets for abscesses

Iridectomy knives label

An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Knives for cutting fine sections.

Egyptian and Predynastic flint knives

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Two knives with ornate handles, incorporating human figures and ornament in the grotesque style. Engraving by C. Alberti, after F. Salviati, 1575/1600?

Knives used for cataract operations.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

Specification of George Kent : apparatus for sifting cinders and cleaning knives.

North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle.

A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.

Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.

A warrior. Gouache drawing.

Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

The monster going to take his afternoons luncheon.

The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.

A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.

A pedlar with his tray of wares while holding his spectacles. Line engraving by Mauron, 1711.

A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.

A selection of knives

Lithotomy knives.

Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.

Knives and lancets for abscesses

Iridectomy knives label

An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Knives for cutting fine sections.

Egyptian and Predynastic flint knives

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