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  • Colour, as a means of art, being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs. By Frank Howard ..

    Date
    1838
    19th century
  • Van Gogh in Arles / Ronald Pickvance

    Date
    1984
    19th century
  • Perebea xanthochyma H. Karst.

    Collection Date
    1760 to 1808
  • Adam Babcock, (painting)

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    Ca. 1806
  • L'École de Pont-Aven dans les collections publiques et privées de Bretagne : Quimper, Musée des beaux-arts, 15 juillet-16 octobre 1978, Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts, 24 octobre-31 décembre 1978, Nantes, Musée des beaux-arts, janvier-mars 1979

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    1978
    19th century
  • Discourses on Davila; a series of papers on political history

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    1973
    1805
    Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598
  • The American distiller, or, The theory and practice of distilling : according to the latest discoveries and improvements, including the most improved methods of constructing stills, and of rectification / by Michael Krafft ..

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    1804
  • The American woman's home: or, Principles of domestic science being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    1869
    19th century
    19e siècle
  • Biedermeier furniture / Rudolf Pressler & Robin Straub

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    1996
    19th century
  • Goupil's Paris Salon of 1898. One hundred plates - photogravures and etchings and one water color fac-simile by Goupil & Co. Translated by Henry Bacon

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    1898
    19th century

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