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Funeral Rites

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  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick.
  • Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.
  • Pompe funebri. Di tutte le nationi del mondo. Raccolte dalle storie sagre, et profane / Dal Sr. Dottre. Francesco Perucci.
  • A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
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    Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain.

    Muret, Pierre, approximately 1630-approximately 1690. | Date: 1683
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    Greek burial customs / Donna C. Kurtz and John Boardman.

    Kurtz, Donna, 1943- | Date: 1971
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    M0012344: Section on disposal of the dead in the Gallery of Primitive Medicine, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1946

    | Date: February 1952 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/110/32
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    En torno a la muerte : una bibliografía, México, 1559-1990 / María Concepción Lugo Olín.

    Lugo Olín, Concepción. | Date: 1994
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    The reformation of the dead : death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1450-1700 / Craig M. Koslofsky.

    Koslofsky, Craig. | Date: 1999
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