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Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural-History Objects

Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895 [Editor]; Braithwaite, Robert, 1824-1917 [Contributor]; Bridgman, John B. [Contributor]; Britten, James, 1846-1924 [Contributor]; Buckman, James, 1816-1884 [Contributor]; Crombie, James M. (James Morrison), 1833-1906 [Contributor]; Elwin, Edward Fenton, 1853-1921 [Contributor]; Grattann, W. H. [Contributor]; Knaggs, H. Guard (Henry Guard), 1832-1908 [Contributor]; Rye, E. C. (Edward Caldwell), 1832-1885 [Contributor]; Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917 [Contributor]; Southwell, Thomas, 1831-1901 [Contributor]; Tate, Ralph, 1840-1901 [Contributor]

Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural-History Objects — English source edition. Subject: Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation.

Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservationBotanical specimens -- Collection and preservation
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On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada

Ralph, Julian, 1853-1903; Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 [Illustrator]

On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada — Englis...

Indians of North America -- CanadaNorthwest, Canadian -- Description and travelHudson's Bay Company -- History
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Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence With a Brief Sketch of Welsh History

Bradley, A. G. (Arthur Granville), 1850-1943

Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence With a Brief Sketch of Welsh History — English source edition. Subject: Glendower, Owen, approxim...

Glendower, Owen, approximately 1354-1416Revolutionaries -- Wales -- BiographyNationalism -- Wales -- History
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Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning

Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725; Canning, George, 1770-1827; Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975 [Editor]

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning...

ParodiesBallads, English -- England -- History and criticism
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Phallic Worship A description of the mysteries of the sex worship of the ancients, with the history of the masculine cross. An account of primitive symbolism, Hebrew phallicism, bacchic festivals, sexual rites, and the mysteries of the ancient faiths.

Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890

Phallic Worship A description of the mysteries of the sex worship of the ancients, with the history of the masculine cross. An account of primitive symboli...

Phallicism
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Pharmacographia A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894; Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875

Pharmacographia A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India — English source edition. Subject: Botany...

Botany, MedicalMateria medica, VegetableMateria medica, Vegetable -- India
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Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

Stephens, Robert Neilson, 1867-1906

Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Ye...

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
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