A Giant Book of Tiny Birds: The First Edition of John Gould’s Hummingbirds
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A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament.
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Principles of Geology,
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Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Designs of Inigo Jones
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Lays of Ancient Rome.
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
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Account of the Empire of Marocco,
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Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the colonies of Western Africa,
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Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo.
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The Life of Sir Albert Hastings Markham.
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Ruins of Desert Cathay.
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Some Notes on the Country above Baghdad.
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Voyage round the World
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A Grammar of the Goojratee Language,
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A Suitable Boy.
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Absolute Friends.
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A Most Wanted Man.
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The Constant Gardener.
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Six Against The Yard...
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Limits and Renewals
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The Five Nations.
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Traffics and Discoveries.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937.
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A Meeting by the River.
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Fractals. Form, Chance and Dimension.
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Death of a Salesman.
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Fishing: Pike and other Coarse Fish.
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THE BOND STREET BULLETIN
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The Big World of Tiny Books : Miniature Books f...
Exploring the miniature Qur'ans of David Bryce and Hans Steinbrener, published from the 1890s through the 1960s, including their remarkable use as talismanic pendants by British-Muslim troops during the First...
Near East & IslamicThe Big World of Tiny Books : Miniature Books f...
By Roxana KashaniExploring the miniature Qur'ans of David Bryce and Hans Steinbrener, published from the 1890s through the 1960s, including their remarkable use as talismanic pendants by British-Muslim troops during the First...
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The Decline and Fall of Empires
This week marks 250 years since the first publication of Edward Gibbon’s (1737-1794) era-defining History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Philosophy History & EconomicsThe Decline and Fall of Empires
By Oliver YarwoodThis week marks 250 years since the first publication of Edward Gibbon’s (1737-1794) era-defining History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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A Giant Book of Tiny Birds: The First Edition o...
A close look at ornithologist John Gould's magnificent six-volume book on hummingbirds, Monograph of the Trochilidae, and the remarkable process he used to mimic iridescent bird feathers.
Science & NatureA Giant Book of Tiny Birds: The First Edition o...
by Laura MasseyA close look at ornithologist John Gould's magnificent six-volume book on hummingbirds, Monograph of the Trochilidae, and the remarkable process he used to mimic iridescent bird feathers.
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