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  • Voyage à Madagascar tr. de l'allemand avec l'autorisation de la famille de l'auteur, par W. de Suckau et précéde d'une notice historique sur Madagascar, par Francis Riaux

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    1862
    19e siècle
    1810-1885 (Domination mérina)
  • Trade catalogs from A. G. Day

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    1800s
  • 和歌のキャンハス : 懐紙にしたためられた歌 : センチュリー文化財団寄託品展覧会 = Canvas for waka : treasures from Century Cultural Foundation

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    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • The effect of the Civil War on music in Michigan

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  • The Alabama & the Kearsarge : the sailor's Civil War / William Marvel

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  • Edoneko : ukiyoe nekozukushi / Inagaki Shin'ichi;Isao Toshihiko

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    2010
    Edo period, 1600-1868
    Meiji period, 1868-1912
  • Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video

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  • The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris

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  • He chu shi Penglai Xian shan tu te zhan = Whereto Paradise : Picturing Mountains of Immortality in Chinese Art Xu Wenmei zhu bian

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    Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
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  • A discourse on the plague by Richard Mead, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; and physician to His Majesty

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    1744
    1720
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    18th century

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