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  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • A senior German army doctor being driven at speed in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • An old physician taking the pulse of a seated patient; representing the sense of touch. Aquatint with etching by J.-B. Le Prince, 1775.
  • Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • A woman in Russia is sitting at a table selling bread to an Albanian soldier wearing a long cloak; a child is curled up asleep on the ground. Etching by J.B. Le Prince, 1765.
  • A Russian gentleman being driven in a two-horse town carriage (or droschki), while a small dog runs alongside. Lithograph after A.O. Orlowski, ca. 1821.
  • World War One: a military doctor is dressing the wound of a Russian woman soldier in a trench. Watercolour by F. Matania, 1917.
  • Civil engineering: plan and elevation of the Kowno railway bridge, Russia. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins.
  • Civil engineering: the Kiefe suspension bridge. Engraving, c.1861.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • Government soldiers cleansing by fire the plague-ridden village of Vietlanka, Astrakhan in 1879. Reproduction of a wood engraving by D. Vierge.
  • Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • Lepra / prokaza / izlechima / World Health Organization.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • An angler pulls in a raft on which Russian pirates are tied to a gibbet with hooks piercing into their flesh. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1805.
  • Malaria: precautions taken by surveyors and other land workers in rural areas of Russia. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • A cossack on horseback, holding a spear; a wolf; instruments of serfdom; polar bears on icebergs; and an imperial eagle in the sky; representing the Russian Empire. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • Russia: people carrying goods on sledges over the snow. Engraving by Smith, 1785.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.
  • Government soldiers cleansing by fire the plague-ridden village of Vietlanka, Astrakhan in 1879. Reproduction of a wood engraving by D. Vierge.
  • A young person walking blindfold along a cigarette propped up precariously by another cigarette, and about to tread on the ash and fall; representing the dangers of smoking. Colour lithograph by A. Munt︠︡ian, 1985/1986.
  • A physician examining a urine flask of a scantily dressed attractive woman who is in bed surrounded by her mother, lover and servant. Engraving by A.F. David after J.B. Leprince.
  • Russia / Thomas Holloway.
  • The sick tsar Alexander III attended by Pobedonostsev, head of the Russian Orthodox church, Tolstoy and the mascot of the French republic; representing the difference between Russia's internal problems and the enthusiasm of France following the Franco-Russian alliance. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1891.