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Market scene in Dieppe, France, 19th July, 1817

View of the Manam river, Bangkok, Siam, with sailing ships anchored

Nepal; street cleaning in Kathmandu, 1986. In the mid-1980s, Kathmandu was a mix of medieval architecture and urban sprawl. Television was a late-comer to Nepal but by the 1980s, the skyline of urban areas had become peppered with television aerials. Copying western culture and values became fashionable, and drug addiction amongst the young increased significantly during the decade.

Street scene in Rouen, France, 21st July, 1817, taken by camera lucida on the second day of Lister's visit

Mount Meru Bangkok, Siam

Watercolous of a palace and bridge along the banks of the Rhine created via a camera lucida

Maphæi S.R.E. Card. Barberini postea Urbani PP.VIII. Poemata. Præmissis quibusdam de vita auctoris & annotationibus adjectis. Edidit Josephus Brown, A. M. Coll. Regin. Oxon

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Maphæi S.R.E. Card. Barberini postea Urbani PP.VIII. Poemata. Præmissis quibusdam de vita auctoris & annotationibus adjectis. Edidit Josephus Brown, A. M. Coll. Regin. Oxon