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... addition to the portraits of those guides who have perfected the Art of Climbing , we are still able to obtain the likenesses of men who were among the first pioneers in the Alps . " CIERS ; a series of Excursions by Members of the ...
... addition to the portraits of those guides who have perfected the Art of Climbing , we are still able to obtain the likenesses of men who were among the first pioneers in the Alps . " CIERS ; a series of Excursions by Members of the ...
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... additional information is included in the present edition . " A most important and valuable work , giving us as com- plete and exact an account of the American Indians as it is possible to furnish on the existing state of our knowledge ...
... additional information is included in the present edition . " A most important and valuable work , giving us as com- plete and exact an account of the American Indians as it is possible to furnish on the existing state of our knowledge ...
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... addition to the above the volumes contain a number of curious pieces , among them the following - some probably un- Caprice ; Paris , 1759 - Les Philippiques Françoises , and other severe attacks on the scandalous life of the Regent ...
... addition to the above the volumes contain a number of curious pieces , among them the following - some probably un- Caprice ; Paris , 1759 - Les Philippiques Françoises , and other severe attacks on the scandalous life of the Regent ...
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... addition of A PRACTICAL TREATISE on FLY- FISHING , by the late JOHN JACKSON , with 10 steel plates , COLOURED , representing 120 Flies , natural and artificial , forming 2 vols . impl . 8vo . LARGE PAPER , new half polished morocco ...
... addition of A PRACTICAL TREATISE on FLY- FISHING , by the late JOHN JACKSON , with 10 steel plates , COLOURED , representing 120 Flies , natural and artificial , forming 2 vols . impl . 8vo . LARGE PAPER , new half polished morocco ...
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... addition of Manchester Cathedral , nearly 200 fine engravings , 3 vols . impl . 8vo . half morocco , top edges gilt , £ 2 . 12s 6d 1860 THE [ WINSTON ( C. ) ] Enquiry into the Difference of Style observable in ANCIENT GLASS PAINT- INGS ...
... addition of Manchester Cathedral , nearly 200 fine engravings , 3 vols . impl . 8vo . half morocco , top edges gilt , £ 2 . 12s 6d 1860 THE [ WINSTON ( C. ) ] Enquiry into the Difference of Style observable in ANCIENT GLASS PAINT- INGS ...
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Page 288 - and PASTIMES of the People of England, including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and pompous Spectacles, from the earliest period to the present Time, edited,
Page 152 - Vols. 4 and 5. Reports on the Buddhist Cave Temples and their Inscriptions ; and the Elura Cave Temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina Caves in Western India : containing Views, Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Façades of Cave Temples ; Drawings of Architectural and Mythological Sculptures ; Facsimiles of Inscriptions, etc. ; with Descriptive and Explanatory Text, and
Page 62 - CYCLOPEDIA of COSTUME, or Dictionary of Dress, Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, from the Earliest Period in England to the Reign of George III., including Notices of contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and General History of the Costumes of the principal Countries of Europe,
Page 234 - government during the ten years succeeding the restoration. If quitting the broad path of history, we seek for minute information concerning ancient manners and customs, the progress of arts and sciences, and the various branches of antiquity, we have never seen a mine so rich as the volumes before us."—
Page 270 - MODERN PAINTERS : their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to all the Ancient Masters proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JMW TURNER, ESQ.,
Page 163 - HISTORY of our LORD as exemplified in Works of Art : with that of his Types, St. John the Baptist, and other Persons of the Old and New Testament, edited by Lady Eastlake
Page 281 - SIMMS (FW) PRACTICAL TUNNELLING, explaining in detail all the Operations, with the amount of labour required for, and the cost of the various portions of, the work, as exemplified by the
Page 129 - exhibiting, under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Date of Creation, Descent, and present State of every Title of Peerage which has existed in this Country since the Conquest, 2 vols. 12mo.
Page 281 - SMYTH (Prof. W.) LECTURES on MODERN HISTORY, from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution, 2 vols. 8vo. elegantly bound
Page 264 - ROBIN HOOD, a collection of all the ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS and BALLADS, now extant relative to that celebrated English Outlaw ; with Historical Anecdotes of his Life