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    Date created
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  • Victorian resorts and hotels : essays from a Victorian Society autumn symposium / edited by Richard Guy Wilson

    Date
    1982
    C1982
    19th century
  • A new dictionary of the Spanish and English languages; wherein the words are explained agreeable to their different meanings, and a great variety of terms relating to the arts, sciences, trade, and navigation, carefully elucidated. Compiled from the best authorities, by Henry Neuman in two parts

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    1802
  • A short system of comparative anatomy. Tr. from the German of J.F. Blumenbach ... by William Lawrence ... With numerous additional notes, and an introductory view of the classification of animals, by the translator

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    1807
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  • The public city : the political construction of urban life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 / Philip J. Ethington

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    1994
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  • The natural history of British shells : including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each ; in five volumes / by E. Donovan

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