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Copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical value

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9 images from works
  • The Chair of Grace, God the Father presenting the dead Christ. Facsimile of an engraving.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Geography: a map of the world. Colour lithograph, ca.1970, after J. B. Vrients, 1596.
  • Daoyin tu - chart for leading and guiding people in exercise for improving health and treatment of pain, containing animal postures such as bear walk. This is a reconstruction of a 'Guiding and Pulling Chart' excavated from the Mawangdui Tomb 3 (sealed in 168BC) in the former kingdom of Changsha. The original is in the Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China.

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Human anatomy
Medieval
History, 19th Century
Dead
Human dissection
Expeditions
History, 16th Century
History of Medicine