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Celebrated Crimes (Complete)

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Explore Celebrated Crimes (Complete) through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Criminal...

Criminals -- BiographyCrime
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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905; Benett, Léon, 1838-1917 [Illustrator]; Philippoteaux, Paul, 1846-1923 [Illustrator]; Leigh, Dora [Translator]

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World — English source edition. Subject: Voyages and travels.

Voyages and travelsDiscoveries in geographyExplorers
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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905; Benett, Léon, 1838-1917 [Illustrator]; Matthis, Charles Émile, 1838- [Illustrator]; Philippoteaux, Paul, 1846-1923 [Illustrator]

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century — English source edition. Subject: Voyages and travels.

Voyages and travelsDiscoveries in geographyExplorers
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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905; Benett, Léon, 1838-1917 [Illustrator]; D'Anvers, N., 1844-1933 [Translator]

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century — English source edition. Subject: Voyages and travels.

Voyages and travelsDiscoveries in geographyExplorers
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Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 247-262

Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923

Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the...

Indians of North America -- Government relationsIndian land transfers -- United StatesIndian land transfers -- Indiana
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Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925

Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal — English source edition. Subject: Cetewayo, King of Zulul...

Cetewayo, King of Zululand, approximately 1826-1884Zulu War, 1879Zululand (South Africa) -- History -- Civil War, 1879-1884
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925 [Editor]

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- CorrespondenceNaturalists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
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Charles Lamb

Jerrold, Walter, 1865-1929

Charles Lamb — English source edition. Subject: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
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