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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 04 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Smith, Geoffrey, 1881-1916; Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948; Warburton, Cecil, 1854-1958; Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael, 1860-1906; Woods, Henry, 1868-1952; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 04 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 05 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Sedgwick, Adam, 1854-1913; Sharp, David, 1840-1922; Sinclair, F. G. (Frederick Granville), 1858-1914; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 05 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 06 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Sharp, David, 1840-1922; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 06 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 07 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937; Bridge, T. W. (Thomas William), 1848-1909; Herdman, W. A. (William Abbott), Sir, 1858-1924; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 07 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 08 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Gadow, Hans, 1855-1928; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 08 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 09 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Evans, A. H. (Arthur Humble), 1855-1943; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 09 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Birds.

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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 10 (of 10)

Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), 1862-1950 [Editor]; Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 [Editor]

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 10 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Animals.

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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930; Crickmore, H. [Illustrator]; James, Helen M. (Helen Mary), 1863-1900 [Illustrator]; Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910 [Illustrator]; Symington, James Ayton, 1856?-1939 [Illustrator]

The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture — English source edition. Subject: Church architecture -- Great Britain.

Church architecture -- Great BritainCathedrals -- Great Britain
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The Chemical History of a Candle

Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867; Crookes, William, 1832-1919 [Editor]

Explore The Chemical History of a Candle through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Chem...

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The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Barry, John D. (John Daniel), 1866-1942

The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architec...

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"

Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal...

New York (N.Y.) -- FictionLegal storiesAttorney and client -- Fiction
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