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Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies, to 1900
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Lilliputian characters
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Japanese fairy tale series.
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The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins. Illustrated in a series of original drawings from nature, demonstrating their attitudes and different signs and figures performed by them during the Ceremonies of their Morning Devotions, Poojas, etc.
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The costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French.
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The costumes of the various tribes, portraits of ladies of rank, celebrated princes and chiefs, views of the principal fortresses and cities, and interior of the cities and temples of Afghaunistaun. From original drawings by James Rattray.
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The history of the coronation of ... James II ... King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, and of ... Queen Mary ... in ... Westminster ... the 23 of April ... 1685 ...
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The oriental album: twenty illustrations, in oil colors, of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text. By Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep.
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The people of India : A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced ...
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The thirty-seven nats, a phase of spirit-worship prevailing in Burma, by Sir R. C. Temple. With full-page and other illustrations.
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Tipy naselenii Penzenskoi gubernii
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Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country.
11
Vospominanie ob Otechestvennoi voinie 1812 g.
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Voyage a Meroe, au fleuve Blanc, au-dela de Fazoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennar, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les annees 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822.
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Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville ...
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Voyages au Pérou, faits dans les années 1790 à 1794. Collection de planches.
14
Character & costumes of Afghaunistan
28
Costume of the lower orders of London.
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Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis
18
Etchings of rustic figures, for the embellishment of landscape.
60
The highlands of Ethiopia.
26
Album of Turkish Costume Paintings.
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An illustration of the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman costume : in forty outlines with descriptions .
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Chinese paintings on rice paper illustrating the treatment of crime in China.
13
Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China: thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking. Containing an exact and particular description of the extent and limits of those countries, and the customs of the barb
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[Chinese water color paintings.]
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Chinese rice paper paintings.
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Philippine costumes.
17
A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Several Countries of Africa.
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A general description of the people of Africa, including a more particular account of the manners, customs, and curiosities, of the inhabitants of Egypt, Barbary, Morocco, Guinea, Congo, Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and Abyssinia. For the instruction
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Musee des anciens costumes turcs de Constantinople.
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Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea ... with an account of her shipwreck in the straits of Gaspar.
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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.
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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.
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A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short his
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Puteshestvie po vostochnoi Sibiri I. Bulychova. Ch. 1. IAkutskaia oblast, Okhotskii krai.
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Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, gravees sur les tableaux peints d'apres nature en 1707 & 1708 par l'ordre de M. de Ferriol ... et mis au jour en 1712 & 1713 par les soins de M. Le Hay.
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Second voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-esperance, dans les annees 1783, 84 et 85. Tome Premier.
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Sketches in Afghaunistan, by Jas. Atkinson, esq.
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Sketches of character and costume in Constantinople, Ionian Islands &c. from the original drawings made on the spot by Capt'n. Forbes Mac Bean, 92nd Highlanders, lithographed by J. Sutcliffe
26
Africans at home; being a popular description of Africa and the Africans condensed from the accounts of African travellers from the time of Mungo Park to the present day
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Lilliputian humorists : drawn as big as life
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Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the English. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions.
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Souvenirs d'Egypte
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Opisanie vsekh obitaiushchikh v rossiiskom gosudarstve narodov : Ikh zhiteiskikh obriadov, obyknovenii, odezhd, zhilishch, uprazhnenii, zabav, vieroispoviedanii i drugikh dostopamiatnostei...
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Album du bal costume au Palais d'hiver, Fevrier 1903. 21 photogravues et 174 [i.e. 173] phototypies ...
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Chinese water color paintings.
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Chinese drawings.
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The punishments of China : illustrated by twenty-two engravings : with explanations in English and French.
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Chinese paintings.
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Two birds painted on leaves
Two water birds on a stone wi…
Two birds, one in water, one …
Two birds, one on stone, one …
Junk with two sails, twenty r…
Boat with ornately decorated …
Boat with one sail.
Houseboat [?]]
Man wearing a purple tunic, p…
Woman holding a fan and a clo…
Woman holding a folded fan.
Man wearing blue and green tr…
Woman wearing pink and gold t…
Man wearing long beaded neckl…
Man wearing long beaded neckl…
Woman wearing purple tunic wi…
Man wearing lavender traditio…
Man with white beard wearing …
Woman wearing purple tunic wi…
Large group, two figures wear…
Large group, three figures we…
Large group, two figures wear…
Man sitting on ornately carve…
Man and woman painted on a la…
Woman sitting on a chair next…
Woman reclining on large plat…
Four figures; one man leads a…
Four figures; one man beats a…
Large group conducting a tria…
Scene of beheading.
Two men placing severed heads…
Two prisoners, bound hand and…
Two men carry a man in a bask…
Man is tied to cross-shaped f…
Man is tied to cross-shaped f…
Man is laid in coffin and pie…
Woman is led by another woman…
Trial scene; [?] thrree peopl…
Man is bound to low platform …
Man is trapped inside a large…
Two guards lead a man bound w…
Black and red butterfly with …
Black and blue butterfly with…
Pink, white, and blue flowers…
Four butterflies with eggs, l…
Brown butterfly with gold str…
Pink and blue flowers.
Rural landscape with house, m…
Rural landscape, people water…
People working in tea field, …
