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Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.

A multi-horned ram holding a staff and flag within a red planet with an orange glow at the centre of a starry universe; a red drawn multi-headed fire-breathing winged serpent and personified half-moon in the lower half of the image, yellow drawn knights on horseback coming to the rescue and a glowing sun in the upper half; an astronaut hovers at the right side of the planet while an angel flies at the left; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Nelson Garrido, ca. 1994/5.

Ways in which the HIV virus is transmitted representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.

A spermatozoon chasing an egg, as an advertisement for condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy. Colour lithograph, 1994.

White spermatozoa swimming down, two with their tales crossed against a black background; a 'Stop AIDS' advertisement. Lithograph by L. Drewinski, 1997.

A red sperm-like creature with a mohican haircut like protrusions typical of an HIV cell, with a row of men and women below and a message about AIDS; an advertisement by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

Über den chemischen Charakter des Befruchtungsvorgangs und seine Bedeutung für die Theorie der Lebenserscheinungen : Vortrag gehalten auf dem Internationalen Zoologenkongress zu Boston am 22. August 1907 / von Jacques Loeb.

Prof Thaddeus Mann.

Note on the penetration of the spermatozoon into the interior of the ovum / by Martin Barry, M.D.

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Über den chemischen Charakter des Befruchtungsvorgangs und seine Bedeutung für die Theorie der Lebenserscheinungen : Vortrag gehalten auf dem Internationalen Zoologenkongress zu Boston am 22. August 1907 / von Jacques Loeb.

Prof Thaddeus Mann.

Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.

Note on the penetration of the spermatozoon into the interior of the ovum / by Martin Barry, M.D.

Über den chemischen Charakter des Befruchtungsvorgangs und seine Bedeutung für die Theorie der Lebenserscheinungen : Vortrag gehalten auf dem Internationalen Zoologenkongress zu Boston am 22. August 1907 / von Jacques Loeb.