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  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    Date
    1968
    1878
    19th century
    19e siècle
  • Drum handle

    Date created
    probably AD 1600–1875
  • Caminos de luz y sombra : historia indigena de Oaxaca en el siglo XIX / Leticia Reina Aoyama

    Date
    2004
    19th century
  • The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts : the first part, treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas : with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the scond sic part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards, also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels; and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish, by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendred sic into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, kt

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    1688
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    1548-1820
  • Lamp

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    probably AD 1500–1880
  • Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft= : Actes de la Société helvetique des sciences naturelles. Atti della Società elvetiva di scienze naturali

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    1817
  • Trade catalogs from Davis Level & Tool Co.

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    1800s
  • Trade catalogs from Oster-Williams (Firm)

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    1800s-1900s
  • Oscillatoria membranacea Bory

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    Sep 1815
  • Eriocoma hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Rydb.

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    30 Jul 1816

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