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Medium for recording information (words or images) typically on bound pages or more abstractly in electronic or audio form

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Images of Books

634 images from works
  • Rapture from Le Brun, Bowles's Passions
  • Benefit of the auncient bathes of Buckstones.
  • Anatomical illustration of the heart, by Vesalius.
  • Hermaphrodite twins from De Hermaphroditorum, 1614
  • Engraving of arms of patrons from, Le Grand, An entire body of philosophy..., 1694
  • Instruments for blood transfusion, late 19th Century
  • C. Cesio, "Cognitione de muscoli...", human muscles
  • Myotomia reformata, by William Cowper
  • Myotomia reformata, by William Cowper.
  • Certhidea
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Images about Books

217 images from works
  • Bookbinding: large and small book presses, and their constituent parts. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Christ's Hospital, London: one of the boys standing beside a table, his hand on some books, the exterior of the New Hall behind. Colour lithograph after J. Cristall.
  • A man reads a book while his wife cuts his toenails. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G. Longhi after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after S. Koninck.
  • Matthias Schenck, aged 24, wearing a sword and holding a book in his right hand. Line engraving.
  • Radcliffe Camera, Oxford: interior of the library showing study areas. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Mackenzie.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • A page from Book of Nativities
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Libraries
Reading
Italian Renaissance Art
House furnishings
Physician and patient
Physicians - Clothing
Printing
Urine - Examination
History, 19th Century
Physicians