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A Swedish clergyman showing the chalice to children at their first communion. Wood engraving after E. Oehme, 1881.

A woman wearing a waistcoat smiles beside another woman who looks at her; a warning about HIV within the work place by the Arbetarskyddsstyrelsen Folkhälsoinstitutet (Swedish National Public Health Insitute). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

The face of a middle-aged blonde-haired woman wearing black; French version in a series of AIDS prevention advertisements entitled 'Yes' by Folkhälsoinstitutet. Colour lithograph by Nina Vestlund & Co and Anti Wendel, ca. 1995.

Annie Söderberg, a social worker in Stockholm and a pioneer in addiction treatment; with the message in Swedish 'You must take the love game seriously'. Lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.

Nine famous Swedish doctors, numbered with a key from 28-36. Lithograph by A. Hardh.

A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.

A figure dives off a cliff into the sea; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements for Swedish addiction support groups including the AIDS delegation, the Federation of alcohol and drug awareness, Youth Federation and Soldiers Against Drugs. Colour lithograph by Annerino-Liaison, 1992.

A comic human figure looking dubiously at a bowl of soup; advertising food hygiene. Colour lithograph after L. Bramberg for the Swedish Red Cross, 1954.

People making tar in the forests of Sweden. Etching after E. D. Clarke.

Caroli Linnaei ... Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciae regni qvadrupedia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, distributa per classes et ordines, genera et species. Cum differentiis specierum synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, locis habitationum, descriptionibus insectorum / [Carl von Linné].

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi.

Sweden: map. Engraving, 1808.

Gymnastikens dekadans i varå dagars Sverige / [Svenska gymnastikdirektörs förbundet].

Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Syphilis in Sweden about 1800 / Inger Wikström-Haugen.

Genetic-statistical and psychiatric investigations of west Swedish population / by Torsten Sjögren ; [translated by Erica Odelberg].

State papers relating the change of the constitution of Sweden: containing the several speeches of His Swedish Majesty, and of the speakers of the several orders; the form of government, established August the 21st, 1772. &c. &c. &c. &c. Correctly transla

Form of government enacted by His Majesty the King and the States of Sweden at Stockholm Aug. the 21 1772

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State papers relating the change of the constitution of Sweden: containing the several speeches of His Swedish Majesty, and of the speakers of the several orders; the form of government, established August the 21st, 1772. &c. &c. &c. &c. Correctly transla

Form of government enacted by His Majesty the King and the States of Sweden at Stockholm Aug. the 21 1772

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State papers relating the change of the constitution of Sweden: containing the several speeches of His Swedish Majesty, and of the speakers of the several orders; the form of government, established August the 21st, 1772. &c. &c. &c. &c. Correctly transla

Form of government enacted by His Majesty the King and the States of Sweden at Stockholm Aug. the 21 1772

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