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Total number of records: 98

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voyages and travels7
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Jones, Anna Maria6
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Keane, A H (1833-1912)3
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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.1)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.2)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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Travellers P & O pocket book

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

[1888]

Cover-title: P & O pocket book. Title from engraved pictorial title-leaf. Section-title, p. [9-10]: Pocket Book. 1888, with company's emblematic logo; full company title and address on verso. Firs...

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Historia degli imperatori Greci

Choniates, Nicetas (1140-1213); Orologi, Giuseppe (1576); Hayton Frère (1235-1314)

1562

Italian translation of his Chronike diegesis. Signatures *[sup]4 a-f[sup]4 A-Z[sup]4 Aa-Zz[sup]4 AA-ZZ[sup]4 AAa[sup]4 (C2 signed B2) Printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf. "Tavola di ...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

mid - late 18th Century

A fragment consisting of part of the border of a red shawl. The fabric is twill woven. The design consists of a repeating series of large buta motifs. The predominant colours are reds but there are...

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shawl
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shawl

1830-1850

The phala (large patterned border at each end of the shawl) has a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetric...

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shawl
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shawl

c. 1825

The deep phala patterned border at each end has seven buta shapes each with a symmetrical floral design with the phalia infilled around the buta shapes with stylised flowers. This is called the jhal. ...

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shawl
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shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven Moon shawl composed of a central medalion and a quarter medallions at each corner. The whole field is twill/tapestry woven with small repeating geometric shapes in blue on a cream ground. ...

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shawl
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shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven shawl with an all over design composed of a central medalion and quarter medallions in each corner. A decorative border surrounds the whole design. The central field of the shawl has a re...

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