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Image from 'Great African Travellers from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, etc', 001971049
Author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
Page: 149
Year: 1874
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from 'The Land We Live In: a pictorial, historical, and literary sketch-book of the British Islands ... Profusely illustrated, etc. [With contributions by Charles Knight, James Thorne, George Dodd, Andrew Winter, Harriet Martineau, William Harvey and William Michael Wylie.]', 002064922
Author: DODD, George Miscellaneous Writer
Volume: 03
Page: 193
Year: 1854
Place: London
Publisher: William S. Orr & Co.
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Image from 'Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War, etc', 002706354
Author: OLLIER, Edmund.
Volume: 02
Page: 458
Year: 1877
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from 'The Lord's Land: a narrative of travels in Sinai ... and Palestine, etc', 003099794
Author: RIDGAWAY, Henry B.
Page: 707
Year: 1876
Place: New York
Publisher:
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Image from '[Principles of Geology ... Reprinted from the sixth English edition, etc.]', 002293155
Author: LYELL, Charles Sir, Bart
Volume: 02
Page: 607
Year: 1872
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from 'A Winter in the City of Pleasure; or, Life on the Lower Danube', 000283399
Author: BERGER, Florence K.
Page: 257
Year: 1877
Place: London
Publisher: R. Bentley & Son
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Image from 'Cadore, or Titian's Country', 001420620
Author: GILBERT, Josiah.
Page: 145
Year: 1869
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from '[The Comprehensive History of England, civil, military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy Revolt. ... Revised and edited by T. Thomson.]', 002313755
Author: MACFARLANE, Charles and THOMSON (Thomas) Rev
Volume: 02
Page: 519
Year: 1876
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from '[The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources ... With maps, illustrations, and portraits.]', 000176543
Author: BAKER, Samuel White Sir
Volume: 01
Page: 248
Year: 1867
Place: London
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
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Image from 'Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century. [By Archibald Forbes, Major Arthur Griffiths, and others.]', 001266335
Author: FORBES, Archibald War Correspondent of the “Daily News.'
Volume: 01
Page: 193
Year: 1895
Place: London
Publisher: Cassell & Co.
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Image from 'Notre pays de France. Bretagne. Le Roi du biniou. 80 dessins de MM. L. Mouchot, S. Masson, A. O'Callaghan, etc', 000889276
Author: DECAUDIN-LABESSE, Édouard and PIERRET (Henry)
Page: 133
Year: 1889
Place: Paris
Publisher:
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Image from 'The Haven under the Hill. A novel', 002178753
Author: LINSKILL, Mary.
Volume: 02
Page: 42
Year: 1886
Place: London; Guildford [printed]
Publisher: R. Bentley & Son
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Image from 'A High Little World and what happened there. [A novel. By Elizabeth S. Fletcher, afterwards Watson.]', 003977678
Author: FLETCHER, afterwards WATSON, Elizabeth Sophia.
Volume: 03
Page: 118
Year: 1892
Place: London
Publisher: Richard Bentley & Son
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Image from 'The Novels of Captain Marryat. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. L.P', 002390844
Author: Marryat, Frederick
Volume: 23
Page: 40
Year: 1896
Place: London
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co.
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Image from 'Wild Life under the Equator. Narrated for young people, etc', 000993246
Author: DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni.
Page: 43
Year: 1869
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from 'Histoire & souvenirs. Les rues de Liége anciennes et modernes ... 2e édition', 001442801
Author: GOBERT, Théodore.
Volume: 01
Page: 1363
Year: 1884
Place: Liége
Publisher:
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Image from 'Sketches of Tokyo Life ... Illustrated', 001802937
Author: INOUYE, Jukichi.
Page: 34
Year: 1897
Place: Yokohama
Publisher: Torando
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