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  • View of Pleasant Mountain, Maine from the West Side, (painting)

    Date
    Ca. 1858
  • New and improved Metropolitan Long Arm Bag Machine

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    1857
    [1857-]
  • Blanc de Chine : divine images in porcelain / John Ayers ; with an essay by Yuan Bingling

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    2002
    C2002
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Fujian Dehua yao = Fujian Dehuayao / "Zhonghua bo wu" jin gu bo da wang bian ; Ye Wencheng zhu bian ; Chen Jianzhong, Chen Lihua zhu

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    2003
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Censorship of political caricature in nineteenth-century France / Robert J. Goldstein

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    1989
    C1989
    19th century
  • On the action of non-conducting bodies in electric induction / by Professor Faraday and Dr. P. Riess

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    1856
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    1840s-1850s
  • On the use of the improved papier mâché : in furniture, in the interior decoration of buildings, and in works of art / by Charles Frederick Bielefeld, inventor ..

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    1850
    1850]
  • Catalogue of the caprimulgidae in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia / by John Cassin ; November 1, 1851

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  • Henry Harmon Spalding, by Clifford Merrill Drury, PH. D

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    1936
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