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Martyrdom of Paolo Erizzo. Line engraving by A. Zucchi after S. Manaigo after P. Longhi.

A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.

A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.

A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.

Zaro Agha, wearing a turban, in profile, reputedly at the age of 150 years. Photograph, ca. 1925.

Two Turkish soldiers, one smoking a pipe. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.

A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.

Head of a young woman as a Turkish slave girl. Line engraving by T. Viero after G.B. Piazzetta.

Trans-gendered T.S. boy : amazing, amazing : Indian/Turkish, 20 yr old : was born girl, sex-change to male : 1/2 still gierl : 1 min Warren St., Gt Portland St., 5 min Euston.

Schamanismus der türken Sibiriens : Versuch einer vergleichenden arealen Untersuchung / N.A. Alekseev.

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Two Turkish soldiers, one smoking a pipe. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.

A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.

Head of a young woman as a Turkish slave girl. Line engraving by T. Viero after G.B. Piazzetta.

Trans-gendered T.S. boy : amazing, amazing : Indian/Turkish, 20 yr old : was born girl, sex-change to male : 1/2 still gierl : 1 min Warren St., Gt Portland St., 5 min Euston.

Schamanismus der türken Sibiriens : Versuch einer vergleichenden arealen Untersuchung / N.A. Alekseev.