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Robert Knox. Line engraving.

William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.

Robert Knox. Lithograph.

Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.

Robert Knox. Pen drawing by Goodwin.

Robert Knox lecturing on the anatomy of the pig. Coloured lithograph.

Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.

Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.

Robert Knox, anatomist, scientist, and martyr / by (the late) Andrew S. Currie.

The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.

The races of men: a fragment / By Robert Knox.

The anatomy of the bones of the human body; represented in a series of engravings, copied from the elegent tables of Sue and Albinus / By Edward Mitchell, engraver ... With explanatory references, by the late John Barclay.

Observations on the muscularity of the hepatic and cystic ducts, as explanatory of the production of jaundice by moral causes / [Robert Knox].

Plates of the arteries of the human body / after Frederic Tiedemann ; engraved by E. Mitchell, under the superintendency of Thomas Wharton Jones ; the explanatory references translated from the original Latin, with additional notes, by Dr. Knox.

A system of human anatomy: on the basis of the "Traité d'anatomie descriptive" of H. Cloquet / by Robert Knox.

On the growth of the salmon, from the egg to the adult / by R. Knox.

Observations on the statistics of hernia, and on the anatomical causes which determine its production / by Robert Knox.

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Knox, Robert, 1791-1862

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Observations on the muscularity of the hepatic and cystic ducts, as explanatory of the production of jaundice by moral causes / [Robert Knox].

Plates of the arteries of the human body / after Frederic Tiedemann ; engraved by E. Mitchell, under the superintendency of Thomas Wharton Jones ; the explanatory references translated from the original Latin, with additional notes, by Dr. Knox.

A system of human anatomy: on the basis of the "Traité d'anatomie descriptive" of H. Cloquet / by Robert Knox.

On the growth of the salmon, from the egg to the adult / by R. Knox.

Observations on the statistics of hernia, and on the anatomical causes which determine its production / by Robert Knox.