Illustration for The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49 engraved by Eugene Michel Abot 1836-94 -
Daniel Urrabieta Vierge
Ms Sup Turc 693 fol.96v Inspection of the Male Urethra, 1466 -
Charaf-ed-Din
Humpty Dumpty, illustration for the nursery rhyme by Lewis Carroll 1832-98 -
John Tenniel
Universal Suffrage, 10th December 1848, election of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1808-73, 1848-49 -
Frederic Sorrieu
Ramesses IV (1153-1147 BC) offering incense to Isis and Amon-Re, seated on a throne, copy of a wall painting from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, plate 260 from 'Monuments d'Egypte' -
Jean Francois Champollion
Captain Samuel Wallis (1728-1830) being received by Queen Oberea on the Island of Tahiti, from 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' by James Cook (1728-79) engraved by John Hall (1739-97) -
John Webber
Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India -
Boucicaut Master
The First Parachute Descent by Andre Jacques Garnerin 1770-1823 over Parc Monceau, 22nd October 1797 -
Simon Petit
View of the Tavern of Pompeii with the Priapus Shop Sign, from Antiquites de Pompeia by G.B. Piranesi, engraved by Francesco Piranesi 1758-1810 1804 -
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Paris, demolitions for the building of Rue des Ecoles, view taken from rue Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, engraved by Charles Maurand 19th century -
Felix Thorigny
The Divorce of Napoleon I (1769-1821) and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (1763-1814) 30th November 1809 -
Charles Abraham Chasselat
Cover of La Bombe depicting General Boulanger 1837-91 taking the Bastille, caricature on the French Elections of 1889, 14th July 1889 -
Paul de Semant
Emperor Ch'in Wang Ti (r.221-210 BC) abolishing feudalism, from a history of Chinese emperors -
Anonymous Artist
Scene from Carmen by Prosper Merimee 1803-70 illustrated by Eugene Decisy 1866-p.1936 -
Gaston Vuillier
Liou Repelling the French at Bach Ninh during the Franco-Chinese War of 1885, 1885-89 -
Anonymous Artist
Reconstruction of Theleme Abbey, illustration from Rabelais et larchitecture de la Renaissance by Charles Lenormant 1802-59, Paris, published 1840 -
Questel
The Cambodian Palace at the Trocadero, the Universal Exhibition of 1900 -
Henri Toussaint
Emperor Yang Ti (581-618) strolling in his gardens with his wives, from a history of Chinese emperors 2 -
Anonymous Artist
The Fall of a Picador, an illustration from Carmen by Prosper Merimee 1803-70 engraved by Eugene Decisy 1866-c.1936 -
Gaston Vuillier
Accident in a textile mill in Lille, illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1898 -
Alfred Pronier
The Market in Sokoto in 1853, from 'Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa' by Heinrich Barth -
Johann Martin Bernatz
A deposit of crowns at the cash counter, engraved by Chaivire 19th century 1897 -
Louis Remy Sabattier
Arabia and India, from the Miller Atlas, c.1519 -
Pedro Reinel
Civil Service Exam Under Emperor Jen Tsung (fl.1022) from a history of Chinese emperors -
Anonymous Artist
Ms Sup Turc 693 fol.28v Cauterisation for Toothache, 1466 -
Charaf-ed-Din
Advertisement for Jambon Coleman, 1900 -
E. Samson
Homes of Victor Hugo the lounge at Hauteville house in Guernsey the armchair of the ancestor -
Fortune Louis Meaulle
Group of negroes imported to be sold for Slaves in 1793, from Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, by J.G. Stedman, 1796 -
John Gabriel Stedman
The Nobleman is the Spider and the Peasant is the Fly 1650 -
Jacques Lagniet
Black revolt in Santo Domingo, 16th September 1802, from Histoire Universelle du XIXe siecle, after Martine -
Jean Francois Pourvoyeur
Native of the Caribbean with his weapons, from a manuscript on plants and civilization in the Antilles, c.1686 -
Charles Plumier
The God Amun offers a sickle weapon to the pharaoh Ramesses III as he strikes two captured enemies -
Jean Francois Champollion
Ms Sup Turc 693 fol.95 Surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity of the aspiration of peritoneal fluid with a canula on a patient suffering from dropsy, 1466 -
Charaf-ed-Din
Poster advertising the centenary of Algeria (1830-1930), 1930 -
Leon Cauvy
View near Point du Galle, Ceylon, engraved by Daniel Havell 1785-1826 published in 1809 -
(after) Salt, Henry
Ms Sup Turc 693 fol.29v Cauterisation of Scrofula, 1466 -
Charaf-ed-Din