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Elizabeth Brownrigg: her skeleton displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London. Engraving.

Mr. Brookes's celebrated museum and theatre of anatomy : Mr. George Robins has the pleasure to announce to the medical world, that he has been honoured by the instructions of Joshua Brookes ... to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 3rd of July, and the 20 following days (Sunday and Monday always excepted) at the Theatre of Anatomy, in Blenheim-Street, London, the anatomical and zoological museum of theis learned anatomist / George Robins.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

Muscles of the face and neck. Engraving, 1686.

A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.

Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.

A false ankylosis of the right femur (thigh-bone), seen from the front and back (figs 1-2) and divided for an interior view (fig. 3) Engraving, 1749.

Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing anatomical specimens in a cupboard. Photograph, ca. 192-.

A sky-lit anatomy theatre with anatomical specimens in jars and a suspended skeleton. Colour acquatint by J. C. Stadler after A. Pugin, 1815.

Skeletons of a male giant and a female dwarf, displayed at the Royal College of Surgeons. Process print.

Catalogue of anatomical objects : constituting the main part of the museum of Professor Cleland, handed over by agreement for the use of the Anatomical Department to the University of Glasgow.

Catalogue of the Pathological Museum / compiled by J. Coats.

Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge / [compiled] by W. Clark.

Description of the anatomical museum of the school of Great Windmill Street.

A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy's Hospital / / arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the hospital, and of the teachers of the medical and surgical school, by Thomas Hodgkin.

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Catalogue of anatomical objects : constituting the main part of the museum of Professor Cleland, handed over by agreement for the use of the Anatomical Department to the University of Glasgow.

Catalogue of the Pathological Museum / compiled by J. Coats.

Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge / [compiled] by W. Clark.

Description of the anatomical museum of the school of Great Windmill Street.

A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy's Hospital / / arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the hospital, and of the teachers of the medical and surgical school, by Thomas Hodgkin.