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  • Mounted horsemen and soldiers in antique armour battling with a group of lions. Engraving by C. F. Le Tellier after P. P. Rubens.
  • An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.
  • Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • Wax models of the viscera, etc. by Jean-Joseph Sue père, after his own dissections. Engraving, 1749.
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Top, the lesser horseshoe bat; bottom, a bat with large ears. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
  • Limewood models of the ear by G. Mastiani 1743. Engraving, 1749.
  • Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
  • Seven figures illustrating different types of anatomical specimen jars and their lids and methods of preservation used by Réaumur, Le Cat, and others. Engraving, 1749.
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • A wax model of the brain and head (figs 1-2) by F. La Croix after G. Duverney and a wax model of a section of the brain made by Russel, "chirurgien major des Gardes-du-corp" (fig. 3) Engraving by Moitte after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Wax model of the human male generative organs and viscera, made by an anonymous collaborator of La Croix from dissections made by M. Faget while surgeon at the Hôpital Général de la Salpêtrière. Engraving by R. Gaillard after J. De Seve, 1749.