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  • Shunga no nazo o toku / Shirakura Yoshihiko

    Date
    2004
    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • Pipe bowl

    Date created
    probably AD 1600–1800
  • A distinctive industrialization : cotton in Barcelona, 1728-1832 / J.K.J. Thomson

    Date
    1992
    18th century
    19th century
  • Northern comfort : New England's early quilts, 1780-1850 : from the collection of Old Sturbridge Village / Lynne Z. Bassett and Jack Larkin ; photographs by Thomas Neill

    Date
    1998
    18th century
    19th century
  • The works of William Paley ... Containing his life, Moral and political philosophy, Evidences of Christianity, Natural theology, Tracts, Horae Paulinae, Clergyman's companion, and sermons, printed verbatim from the original editions ..

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    1831
    18th century
  • The sailing navy, 1775-1854 / Paul H. Silverstone

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    2001
    C2001
    18th century
    19th century
  • Eighteenth-century Italian porcelain / Clare Le Corbeiller

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    1985
    C1985
    18th century
  • An account of the Liberian hinterland c. 1780

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    1962
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  • Dorothy Wendell Skinner

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    1772
  • Actor in a Black Robe

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    1615-1868
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    Edo period

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