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The dead body of Tee, one of the chiefs of the island of Tahiti, in a state of preservation. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1784, after J. Webber.

Egyptian mummies / by G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson ; with woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations.

The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.

The charitable physitian. With the charitable apothecary / Written in French by Philbert Guibert ... and by him after many severall editions, reviewed, corrected, amended, and augumented. And now faithfully translated into English ... by I.W.

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

Lamentation over the dead Christ. Engraving after P. de Champaigne.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Anthropotomie, ou l'art d'injecter, de disséquer, d'embaumer et de conserver les parties du corps humain. &c / par M. Sue.

Embalming.

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Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Anthropotomie, ou l'art d'injecter, de disséquer, d'embaumer et de conserver les parties du corps humain. &c / par M. Sue.

Embalming.