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The British Museum: the Etruscan Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

The British Museum: the Egyptian Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

The British Museum: the Zoological Gallery, crowded with holiday visitors. Wood engraving, 1845.

The British Museum: the exterior of the new gallery. Engraving by T. Prattent after himself, 1810.

The British Museum: the Xanthian Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

The British Museum: the King's Library, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1851.

The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.

The British Museum: the main facade. Collotype after an earlier print.

The British Museum: the Coral Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

The British Museum: the reading room, with many readers. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd.

The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.

The British Museum: the Large Room (North  Library), with many visitors. Wood engraving, 1851.

The British Museum in Montague House: the Great Russell Street facade. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

The British Museum, new gallery. Engraving by T. Prattent after himself, 1810.

Babylonian magic and Sorcery, being "The prayers of the lifting of the hand" : The cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik collections preserved in the British Museum / By Leonard W. King.

Petrarch : poet and humanist, 1304-74 catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bible Room, British Museum, 14 June to 15 September 1974 / [organised by] the British Library.

Enlightenment : discovering the world in the eighteenth century / edited by Kim Sloan, with Andrew Burnett.

A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals ... : Which will be sold by auction, (by order of the Trustees) by Leigh and Sotheby ... On ... March the 6th, 1788, and the s[ixte]en following days.

Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

Disputatio I.(-III.) de natura medicinæ. [Followed by fifty-nine physiological disputations.] / Praeside Iohanne Antonide vander Linden.

Printing and the mind of man : [Catalogue of a display of printing mechanisms and printed materials arranged to illustrate the history of Western civilization and the means of multiplication of literary texts since the XV century, organized in connexion with the Eleventh International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition] assembled at the British Museum and at Earls Court, London, 16-27 July 1963.

Bibliotheca chimica. Seu catalogus librorum philosophicorum hermeticorum : in quo quatuor millia circiter authorum chimicorum vel de transmutatione metallorum, re minerali, & arcanis, tam manuscriptorum, quam in lucem editorum, cum eorum editionibus, vsque ad annum 1653 continentur. / Cum eiusdem bibliothecæ appendice, & corollario. / Authore Petro Borellio Castrensi, medico doctore.

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Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

Disputatio I.(-III.) de natura medicinæ. [Followed by fifty-nine physiological disputations.] / Praeside Iohanne Antonide vander Linden.

A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals ... : Which will be sold by auction, (by order of the Trustees) by Leigh and Sotheby ... On ... March the 6th, 1788, and the s[ixte]en following days.

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Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

Disputatio I.(-III.) de natura medicinæ. [Followed by fifty-nine physiological disputations.] / Praeside Iohanne Antonide vander Linden.

A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals ... : Which will be sold by auction, (by order of the Trustees) by Leigh and Sotheby ... On ... March the 6th, 1788, and the s[ixte]en following days.

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