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  • Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines, &c. : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works, canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains, plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works, with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates

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    1838
    19th century
  • William Lord Palmer and Theodore D. Palmer

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    Probably 1853
  • 1 Poltina, Russia, 1851

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  • 1 Bu Gin, Japan, 1854 - 1859

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  • Chair, Side

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    1835-1850
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life / Joan D. Hedrick

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    1994
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  • Edicion bi-lengual guarani y español microform : el sermón de Jesu-Cristo en la montana ó sean ... S. Matéo el texto español es de la antigua version de Cipriano de Valera revisada, traducido á la lengua guaraní / por un Paraguayo

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  • 10 Dollars

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    1852-06-14
  • Heads of two men

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    ca. 1855-1859
  • The trial of "Indian Joe" : race and justice in the nineteenth-century West / Clare V. McKanna, Jr

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    2003
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