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Triptafen-DA combined antidepressant and tranquilliser amitriptyline hydrochloride and perphenazine : large white.

Fentazin : marbled white.

Fentazin : mazarine blue.

A cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea) with an associated moth or butterfly and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Among the many different presentations of penicillin V one name stands out : DQV-K : the quality oral penicillin.

A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.

When pollen's on the wing... : Rynacrom : disodium cromoglycate for hay fever.

Two moths, one a swallow-tail and one possibly a marvel-du-jour (Agriopis species). Stipple engraving with etching.

Ethnine Piriex : wood white.

The natural history of foreign butterflies / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates; with memoir and portrait of Lamarck.

The white silhouette of a butterfly representing the fragility of those living with AIDS against a grey/black tablet form; with the message in German, 'Verdict. AIDS. People with AIDS. Convicted of fear. AIDS see and judge. As the disease. We are concerned'; one of 3 posters advertising the AIDS-Hilfe Tirol. Colour lithograph by Nicolai Buchinger.

Triptafen-DA combined antidepressant and tranquilliser amitriptyline hydrochloride and perphenazine : meadow brown.

An illustrated natural history of British butterflies / by Edward Newman.

Studies in the theory of descent / by Dr. August Weismann...with notes and additions by the author; tr. and ed., with notes, by Raphael Meldola...with a prefatory notice by Charles Darwin...with eight coloured plates.

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The natural history of foreign butterflies / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates; with memoir and portrait of Lamarck.

Triptafen-DA combined antidepressant and tranquilliser amitriptyline hydrochloride and perphenazine : meadow brown.

An illustrated natural history of British butterflies / by Edward Newman.

Studies in the theory of descent / by Dr. August Weismann...with notes and additions by the author; tr. and ed., with notes, by Raphael Meldola...with a prefatory notice by Charles Darwin...with eight coloured plates.