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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...

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A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geography and History of Palestine, and a Chapter on Churches of Christ in Great Britain

Janes, Don Carlos, 1877-1944

A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geogra...

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Geology and Revelation or, the Ancient History of the Earth, considered in the geological facts and revealed religion.

Molloy, Gerald, 1834-1906; Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 [Contributor]

Geology and Revelation or, the Ancient History of the Earth, considered in the geological facts and revealed religion. — English source edition. Subject: B...

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Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniver...

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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...

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