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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

The risen Christ shows his lance wound to Saint Thomas. Engraving by J. Sturt.

Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674

The medieval book : illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Barbara A. Shailor.

The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

Bodleian Library, Oxford: interior panoramic view. Line engraving by G. Hollis after J.C. Buckler.

The English book in eighteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Fabian.

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

Apotheosis of Aeneas, at the end of Mapheus Vegius "Aeneidos liber xiii", added to Virgil's "Aeneid".

Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci

Haeckel's Evolution of Man. This plate shows the embryos of four mammals in the three corresponding stages: of a Hog (H), Calf (C), Rabbit (R), and a Man (M). The conditions of the three different stages of development, which the three crossroads (I,II,III) represent, are selected to correspond as exactly as possible.

Hirschbergischen warmen Bades...foreword

Trochlea.

The Life of John Hunter: J. Hunter's animals.

Sketches of anatomy

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Hirschbergischen warmen Bades...foreword

Trochlea.

The Life of John Hunter: J. Hunter's animals.

Sketches of anatomy

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Hirschbergischen warmen Bades...foreword

Trochlea.

The Life of John Hunter: J. Hunter's animals.

Sketches of anatomy

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