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A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, 1848-1916

A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power a...

Bow and arrowMilitary art and science -- HistoryEngines of war
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A treatise on the esculent funguses of England containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving, etc.

Badham, David, 1806-1857; Currey, Frederick, 1819-1881 [Editor]

A treatise on the esculent funguses of England containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious prope...

Mushrooms -- England
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Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists

Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoverie...

Alchemy -- History
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An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

Laing, S. (Samuel), 1812-1897

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges — English...

EvolutionCreationChambers, Robert, 1802-1871. Vestiges of the natural history of creation
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An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott

Lincoln, Jeanie Gould, 1846-1921

An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott — English so...

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
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Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books

Aristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, 1750-1822 [Contributor]; Cresswell, Richard, 1815-1882 [Translator]

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Zoology -- Pre-Linnaean works
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