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- Manuscripts
Foster, Jane (& others).
Date: 1739-1794
- Pictures
Japanese masks: six masks of characters in Noh plays, including two representing a dog and a demon, with an old man shown on the right. Colour woodcut with pop-up flaps on strings, 1860/1920?.
Utagawa Kunisada II
Date: 1860/[1920?]
- Books
The costume of Great Britain / Designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.
William Henry Pyne
Date: 1804
- Books
A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons. Exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic economy ; and methods of detecting them / [Friedrich Christian Accum].
Friedrich Accum
Date: 1820
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