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  • Deng Shiru zhuan shu / "Li dai bei tie fa shu xuan" bian ji zu

    Date
    1982
    1982 (1986 printing)
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Watanabe Kazan : himerareta kaibō shisō / Hibino Hideo

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    1994
    1600-1868
  • Ming colours : polychrome porcelain from Jingdenzhen / Rebecca Feng

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    2006
    C2006
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Aretas A. Wilder (1809-92), (painting)

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    19th c
  • William H. Hayden (B. Aug. 7, 1838), (painting)

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    1840
  • Asplenium flabellifolium Cav.

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    1838 to 1842
  • Chrysanthemums

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    1615-1868
    Period
    Edo period
  • Archaeology of the Mfecane/Difaqane : landscape transformations in post 15th century southern Africa / by Warren R. Perry

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    1996
    19th century
    Mfecane period, 1816-ca. 1840
  • A grammar of the Mpongwe language, with vocabularies: by the missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. Gaboon Mission, western Africa

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    1847
  • Trade catalogs from Keiser & Schmidt

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