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  • Sealing in the southern oceans 1788-1833 : twelve articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006 / by Rhys Richards

    Date
    2010
    18th century
  • Wan Ming bian xing zhu yi hua jia zuo pin zhan = Style transformed, a special exhibition of works by five late Ming artists / Bian zuan zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan

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    1977
    Minguo 66 [1977]
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • A voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies, in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth describing the several islands and settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies : the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants : with remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts by John Atkins, surgeon in the Royal Navy

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    1735
    18th century
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    1787 - 1792
  • Ashbel Green (1762-1848), (painting)

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    Ca. 1795-1800
  • Qing porcelain : famille verte, famille rose, 1644-1912 / Michel Beurdeley, Guy Raindre

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    1987
    C1987
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Rossiia-Frantsiia, vek prosveshcheniia : russko- frantsuzskie kulʹturnye sviazi v 18 stoletii

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    1987
    18th century
  • Mrs. Samuel Johnston (Elizabeth North Carnan) (1731-1803), (painting)

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    Ca. 1791-1796
  • Portrait of Lieutenant John Bolles, (painting)

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    Ca. 1790
  • Betty Washington Lewis, (painting)

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    Mid-18th c

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