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  • Memoirs of Captain Lemuel Roberts

    Date
    1969
    1809
    Revolution, 1775-1783
    1775-1783 (Révolution)
  • The "Chinese garden in good taste" : Jesuits and Europe's knowledge of Chinese flora and art of the garden in the 17th and 18th centuries / Bianca Maria Rinaldi

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    2006
    C2006
    17th century
    18th century
  • "Hong lou meng" zhong di gong yi pin / Du Yiping zhu

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    1990
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • China to order : focusing on the XIXth century and surveying polychrome export porcelain produced druing the Qing dynasty (1644-1908) / Daniel Nadler

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    2001
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Observations on the authentication of Ming furniture / Ching Yu Yip

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    1992
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Invoice, Joseph Robbins from Ebenezer Hancock

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    1774-10-25
  • American military biography; containing the lives and characters of the officers of the Revolution, who were most distinguished in achieving our national independence. Also the life of Gilber Motier La Fayette

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    1829
    Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Bijinga no tanjō : tokubetsuten / Yamatane Bijutsukan henshū

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    1997
    Edo period, 1600-1868
    20th century
  • Tea bowl

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    1630-1650
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    Edo period
  • Letter 書状

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    late 18th-early 19th century
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    Edo period

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