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1. A collection of publications relating to Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead / by John Sykes.

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Date:
[1835?]
Physical Description:
534 p. in various pagings : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A companion to The Leasowes, Hagley and Enville : with a sketch of Fisherwick near Lichfield : illustrated with copper plates.

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Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
130, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A descriptive and historical account of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne : including the borough of Gateshead / by E. Mackenzie ...

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Creator:
Mackenzie, E. (Eneas), 1778–1832
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 (x, 770, [2] p., [40] leaves of plates) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A famous fox-hunter : reminiscences of the late T.A. Smith, Esq., or, The pursuits of an English country gentleman / by Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot, Bart.

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Creator:
Eardley-Wilmot, John E. (John Eardley), Sir, 1810–1892
Date:
1893
Physical Description:
vii, [5], 212 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke, Esq., author of "The history of the peerage and baronetage," "of the extinct and dormant peerage," &c.

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVIII [1834-1838]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank : but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke ...

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
1833-1838
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms, ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A general Cheltenham guide upon an entirely new plan : compiled from the most autentic sources, embracing the ancient and modern history, state, and description of that celebrated town, and its environs, comprising a statement of the virtues and qualitites of the mineral water ... a summary of the disorders, in which they are recommended ... embellished with several engravings / by J.K. Griffith.

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Creator:
Griffith, J. K
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
[4], 194 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A history of Hartlepool / by Sir Cuthbert Sharp ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vi, 180, [iii]-xxvi p., [3], [1], [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plates, plans, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex : including the rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city and diocese of Chichester / by James Dallaway ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Date:
1815-1832
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 3 : illustrations, maps, plans ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A memoir of Edward Calvert, artist / by his third son ; illustrated with reproductions from his own paintings and sketches.

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Creator:
Calvert, Samuel
Date:
1893
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 236 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A new and rare inventions of water-works ... : as also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water by fire.

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Creator:
Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
47, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (fold.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A panorama of Falmouth, containing a history of the origin, progress, and present state of the port; particulars of the packet and other establishments; directions to the public offices, taverns, lodging houses, &c. &c. descriptions of the walks, rides, aquatic excursions, and every other object of interest in its vicinity; with a map and other engravings. Being a complete guide to the harbour, town, and surrounding country.

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Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
88, [8] p. front., plates (part fold. and col.) 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course : including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court / by John Fisher Murray ; illustrated with upward of one hundred highly-finished wood engravings by Orrin Smith, Branston, Landells and other eminent artists.

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Creator:
Murray, John Fisher, 1811–1865
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xii, 356 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople : between the years 1810 and 1816 : with a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian gulf : together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley ... / by James Morier ; .. with two maps and engravings from the designs of the author.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 435 p, [19] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A topographical history of Surrey / by Edward Wedlake Brayley ; assisted by John Britton, and E. W. Brayley ... ; the geological section by Gideon Mantell.

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Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
1841-44
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

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Date:
[1838?]
Physical Description:
vi, 192 p. front., ill., plates. 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.

A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.
Creator:
Cooke, Edward, Captain
Date:
MDCCXII [1712]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse, with notes on the illumination of lighthouses; by Alan Stevenson ... By order of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.

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Creator:
Stevenson, Alan, 1807–1865
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
x p., 2 leaves, [9]-439, [1] p. front., ill., XXXIII plates (3 fold.; incl. charts, plans) diagrs. 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae / by Admiral W.H. Smyth.

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Creator:
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788–1865
Date:
MDCCCLXIV [1864]
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

22. Aedes Hartwellianae, or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell / by Captain W.H. Smyth.

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Creator:
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788–1865
Date:
MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 414, [2] p., XIII leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.) maps, plans, ports. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

23. An accidence, or gamut, of painting in oil / by Julius Caesar Ibbetson.

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Creator:
Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xii, [ix]-xiii, 18 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. An historical survey of the County of Cornwall: to which is added a complete heraldry of the same; with numerous engravings. / By C. S. Gilbert.

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Creator:
Gilbert, Charles Sandoe, 1760–1831
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map, portraits ; [57] leaves of plates (some folded), [20] p. of plates : 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. An improved and enlarged edition of Nicholson's New carpenter's guide : being a complete book of lines, for carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, and workmen in general : on methods entirely new, founded on geometrical principles ...

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
[1828?]
Physical Description:
iv, xii, 121 p., 121 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Ancient customs, sports, and pastimes, of the English; explained from authentic sources, & in a familiar manner. By J. Aspin ... With twelve engravings.

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Creator:
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, 18th/19th cent
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
viii, 256 p. ill., XII plates. 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4], 82 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:
[8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Annales Furnesienses. History and antiquities of the abbey of Furness, by Thomas Alcock Beck, esq.

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Creator:
Beck, Thomas Alcock, 1795–1846
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [vii]-xi, 403 p., 1 leaf, cxi, [1] p. front., illus., plates, (part double) plans, facsims. (part col., part double) 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.
Creator:
Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Antiquities historical, architectural, chorographical, and itinerary, in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent counties : comprising the histories of Southwell (the Ad Pontem) and of Newark (the Sidnacester, of the Romans) interspersed with biographical sketches, and profusely embellished with engravings : in four parts / by William Dickinson.

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Creator:
Dickinson, William, 1756–1822
Date:
1801-1819
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 2 v. : port., plans, geneal. tables ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Architectural illustrations of Windsor Castle / by Michael Gandy and Benjamin Baud, architects ; with a concise historical and architectural account of that monarchical edifice by John Britton ...

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Creator:
Gandy, Michael
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
[6], 12 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Architectural illustrations, history and description of Carlisle cathedral, by Robert William Billings.

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Creator:
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
vi, 92 p. illus., XLV pl. (1 col.) incl. front., plan, 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Australia : a popular account of its physical features, inhabitants, natural history and productions : with the history of its colonization ...

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Creator:
Angas, George French, 1822–1886
Date:
[1865]
Physical Description:
viii, 365, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Bibliotheca Spenceriana, or, A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century in the library of George John, Earl Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c. / by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin., F.R.S. S.S. Librarian to His Lordship.

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Creator:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758–1834
Date:
1814-23
Physical Description:
7 volumes : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Biographical sketch of the late John Trotter Brockett ...

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Creator:
Fenwick, John, 1787–1867
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
vi, [7]-16 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Black's picturesque guide to the English lakes : with a copious itinerary.

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Creator:
Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
154 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland : with an accurate travelling map : engraved charts and views of the scenery : plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow : and a copious itinerary.

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Date:
1842
Physical Description:
xi, 500 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Bookplates and labels by Leo Wyatt / Brian North Lee ; introduced by Will Carter.

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Creator:
Lee, Brian North
Date:
1988
Physical Description:
75, [3] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

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Creator:
Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. California and its resources : a work for the merchant, the capitalist, and the emigrant / by Ernest Seyd.

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Creator:
Seyd, Ernest, 1833–1881
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
[4], 168, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Carthage and her remains : being an account of the excavations and researches on the site of the Phoenician metropolis in Africa, and other adjacent places / conducted under the auspices of Her Majesty's government by Dr. N. Davis ...

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Creator:
Davis, N. (Nathan), 1812–1882
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
504, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Cathedral antiquities.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1816-1836
Physical Description:
13 v. ill., plates, plans. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Chile : its geography, climate, earthquakes, government, social condition, mineral and agricultural resources, commerce, etc. etc. / by Lieut. J.M. Gilliss ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Gilliss, J. M. (James Melville), 1811–1865
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, plates ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford. By John Duncumb ...

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Creator:
Duncumb, John, 1765–1839
Date:
1804-1882
Physical Description:
3 v. front (v. 3) illus., plates, port., maps, plans (1 double) 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.

Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.
Creator:
Penn, Granville, 1761–1844
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 371 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Cottage scenes : being a collection of pastoral tales, illustrative of rural manners : and calculated for the improvement of juvenile readers / by Anne Elizabeth Oulton.

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Creator:
Oalton, Ann Elizabeth
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
88, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts