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  • Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insignẽ, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, figurísque nouis illustrata: additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmæ Frisii.
  • Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo ... Humboldt ... Franklin ... etc / par les rédacteurs du Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; publié sous la direction de M. Alcide d'Orbigny ... Accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures ... d'après les dessins de MM. de Sainson ... et Jules Boilly.
  • Model of Leibig's lab at the 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis
  • Sioux Indian amulet in the form of a turtle, worn by girls to ward off illness. Said to contain the umbilical cord of the wearer. Decorated in beading. Northern Plains
  • A male and female savage
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Catalogue

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    History of the Negro race in America / [George Washington Williams].

    Williams, George Washington, 1849-1891. | Date: [1882]
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    Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qui circumnauigato vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea copiis nauticis, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panamam, in Indiam nauigauit. Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralech quibus describitur ... regnum Gviana ... cuius ... tabula geographica in fronte operis occurrit / Primo Anglicana lingva sparsim consignata: iam vero in vnum corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa; figurisq; illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & sumptibus I. T. de Bry haeredum.

    | Date: 1625
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
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    American resorts : with notes upon their climate / by Bushrod W. James...With a translation from the German by Mr. S. Kauffmann of those chapters of "Die klimate der erde" written by Dr. A. Woeikof...that relate to North and South America and the islands and oceans contiguous thereto.

    James, Bushrod Washington, 1836-1903. | Date: 1889
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    Public drinking in the early modern world : voices from the tavern, 1500-1800 / general editor: Thomas E. Brennan.

    | Date: 2011
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