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[Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.

Date

1774

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées: pilgrims gathered at the cave of Massabielle. Lithograph.

Reference

20359i

Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

Date

1795

Reference

27232i

Part of

Oriental scenery

Hong Kong: distillery and china sugar refinery at East Point, c. 1871. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Date

[between 1800 and 1899]

Reference

29773i

Part of

Floyd, William Pryor.

Ancient rock-cut watch-tower overlooking the valleys of El Ghor and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Date

[1849]

Reference

35575i

Part of

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia

Men sitting to smoke by a ravine at Petra, Jordan. Lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.

Date

1 October 1842

Reference

25477i

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks, scavengers on the shore haul in booty. Etching.

Reference

524712i

Fr. Ernest. Bruckmanni Med. Doct. Acad. Caesar. Nat. Cur. Colleg. et Pract. Brunsvic. Specimen physicum sistens historiam naturalem lapidis nummalis Transylvaniae.

Date

1727

A hart's tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) growing on a pile of mossy rocks. Watercolour.

Reference

23619i

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying in front of the grotto and portrait of Bernadette Soubirous. Wood engraving.

Reference

20370i

Sandrock Chalybeate - Spring, near Niton, Isle of Wight, England. Line engraving by G. Brannon, 1828, after himself.

Date

2 June 1828

Reference

18557i

Moses draws water from the rock, and the Israelites quench their thirst. Engraving by E. Baudet after N. Poussin, 163-.

Date

[168-?]

Reference

2803358i

Moses strikes a rock and water pours forth in abundance. Etching after F. Sigrist.

Reference

18268i

Boer War: soldiers placing stones over the graves of their comrades on the Modder River. Halftone, c. 1899, after W. W. Russell after A. C. Girdwood.

Date

1899

Reference

23713i

An introduction to the study of rocks / by L. Fletcher.

Date

1896

Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.

Reference

23464i

Tunbridge Wells, Kent: six sketches of the high rocks. Lithograph by G. Barnard.

Reference

22949i

In front of a grand palace, Moses draws water from a rock. Etching by J. Le Pautre.

Reference

18267i

Traité des pierres : qui s'engendrent dans les terres & dans les animaux ; où l'on parle exactement des causes qui les forment dans les hommes : la methode de les prevenir & les abus s'en garantir & pour les chasser même hors du corps / par ... Nicolas Venette ... ; enrichie des figures.

Date

1701

High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Etching by Letitia Byrne, 1809, after P. Amsinck.

Date

1 May 1809

Reference

22932i

Towns, cotton plant, bird and rock formations of Persia, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.

Date

[1718]

Reference

20212i

A bonsai tree on a rock and a cycad (Cycas revoluta) in a decorated pot with a Japanese watering vessel. Watercolour.

Reference

23627i

High Roaks, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: with printed text. Etching by Letitia Byrne, 1809, after P. Amsinck.

Date

1 May 1809

Reference

22980i

Les pierres : esquisses minéralogiques / par L. Simonin ; ... illustré ... par Eugène Cicéri [and others].

Date

1869

Lourdes, Hautes Pyrénées, France: panoramic view. Lithograph by J. Jacottet.

Reference

20351i