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  • Sunset After the Storm, (painting)

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    Late 19th c
  • Lawrence Taliaferro, (painting)

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    1830s
  • Herrn Georgij Galgemairs Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter vnnd vermehrter Vnderricht, Zubereitung vnd Gebrauch, der hochnutzlichen mathematischen Instrumenten proportional Schregmäss vnd Circkels, benebens dem Fundament dess Visierens allen Kunstliebenden zu sonderen Ehren vnnd wolgefallen, von H. Georg Brentel ... new herfür geben, vnnd durch Verlag Stephani Michelspachers an Tag gebracht

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    1615
    19th century
  • Ming dai fo chuan gu shi hua yan jiu / Xing Lili zhu

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    2010
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Floral Composition (2), (painting)

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    Late 19th c
  • Nardia cavana L. Clark

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    Vere 1834
  • Pavona varians

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    1838 to 1842
  • Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin.

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    1800 to 1899
  • Histoire de la faïence fine française, 1743-1843 : le triomphe des terres blanches / Christian Maire ; avec la collaboration d'Helen Smith pour les chapitres 10 et 14

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    2008
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  • Oleandra pilosa Hook.

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    1830 to 1831

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