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    Neall & Matthews, Iron Founders and Machinists, Bush Hill Iron Works.
    Neall Y Matthews, maquinistas y fundidores, de hierro en Bush Hill, esquina de las galles de Fairview y la septima de Schuylkill, Filadelfia = Neall & Matthews, iron founders and machinists, Bush Hill Iron Works, (formerly occupied by Rush & Muhlenberg,) corner of Fairview & Schuylkill Seventh St., Philadelphia = Neall & Matthews, fondeurs en fer et machinistes, forges et fonderie de Bush Hill, (autrefois occupée par Rush & Muhlenberg,) au coin des rues Fairview et Schuylkill Septme     William H. Rease, born in Pennsylvania circa 1818, was the most prolific lithographer of advertising prints in Philadelphia during the 1840s and 1850s. This advertisement shows the Bush Hill Iron Works, originally established by Oliver Evans in 1809 and operated by Neall, Matthews, and Moore in 1846-54, on the plot of land that is now between Buttonwood and Spring Garden Streets, facing 16th Street....
    • Contributor: Rease, William H.
    • Date: 1853-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Travels in the Mogul empire, Travels in the Mogul Empire is the first authoritative translation into English of François Bernier's Histoire de la dernière révolution des états du Grand Mogol, published in Paris in 1670-71. Bernier was born at Joué in the Loire, France, and educated in medicine at the University of Montpellier. Desiring to see the world, he traveled to Syria and Palestine in 1654. He returned to...
    • Contributor: Brock, Irving - Bernier, François
    • Date: 1826-01-01
    • Resource: - 557 pages
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    England and Russia in Central Asia. Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853-1928) was a British orientalist who wrote prolifically on topics mainly related to the British Empire. With Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1838-1908), a British administrator in India, he co-founded the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which he edited for a time. Presented here is Boulger's two-volume England and Russia in Central Asia, published in 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). Boulger was...
    • Contributor: Boulger, Demetrius Charles
    • Date: 1879-01-01
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    Unpublished documents on the history of the Seychelles Islands anterior to 1810 ... This compilation of documents is an important source for the study of the early history of the Seychelles, an archipelago located in the western Indian Ocean north of Madagascar. Previously uninhabited, the islands were explored by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama in the early 1500s. In the 1740s, the French sent expeditions from the Isle de France (present-day Mauritius) to the Seychelles, and...
    • Contributor: Fauvel, A. A.
    • Date: 1909-01-01
    • Resource: - 8 pages

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    Alsace-Lorraine. Appendix p. ([108]-116) : Préliminaires de paix, le 26 février, 1871.--Traité de paix le 10 mai, 1871.--Declaration of the representative of Alsace and Lorraine, February 16, 1871. "Authorities" : p. [117]-119.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    International rivers, "Appendix" (p. 60-65) includes extracts from "the final act of the Congress of Vienna, the Treaty of Paris, 1856, and the Treaty of Bucarest, 1918." "Authorities": p. 66-68.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section - Kaeckenbeeck, Georges
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 82 pages
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    Belgium. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Belgium is Number 26 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 242 pages
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    A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)
    • Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1808-01-01

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    The freedom of the seas, historically treated, In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Freedom of Seas is Number 148 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published...
    • Contributor: Piggott, Francis Taylor - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    The congress of Vienna 1814-1815 In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 is Number 153 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    French Guiana. "Appendix" (p. [51]-53): Extracts from treaties, etc., relating to French Guiana. "Authorities": p. [60]-61.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 78 pages
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    Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. "Authorities": p. 50-52.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 68 pages
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    French possessions in India. "Authorities": p. 55-57.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 74 pages
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    The congress of Berlin, 1878. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Congress of Berlin, 1878 is Number 154 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were...
    • Contributor: Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn)
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 72 pages
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    French Indo-China. "Authorities": p. [73]-74.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 90 pages
  • Book/Printed Material
    East and West Prussia. "Authorities" : p. 64-65.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 82 pages
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    Bohemia and Moravia. "Authorities": p. 108-109.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 128 pages
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    Abyssinia. "Appendix" (p. [92]-104): Extracts from treaties, etc. relating to Abyssinia. "Authorities": p. [105]-109.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 130 pages
  • Book/Printed Material
    The bondage and travels of Johann Schiltberger : a native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 On spine: Travels of Schiltberger. Translation of: Reisen in Europa, Asien, und Afrika von 1394-1427. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xiv) and index.
    • Contributor: Schiltberger, Johannes
    • Date: 1879-01-01
    • Resource: - 337 pages
  • Book/Printed Material
    Plebiscite and referendum. "The portion of this treatise dealing with the French plebiscites is by Mr. R.S. Rait ... and Miss Beatrice A. Lees ... That on the Italian plebiscites is by Miss Rachel Reid ... with additions by Prof. Rait. Capt. G.M. Gathorne-Hardy contributed the account of the plebiscites in Norway; Major Basil Williams, that of the referendum in Natal; Major Frank Fox the note on...
    • Contributor: Lees, Beatrice A. (Beatrice Adelaide) - Williams, Basil - Gathorne-Hardy, G. M. (Geoffrey Malcolm) - Fox, Frank - Reid, Rachel - Rait, Robert S. (Robert Sangster) - Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 170 pages
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    Ashmead-Bartlett's despatches from the Dardanelles. Portrait on cover.
    • Contributor: Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
    • Date: 1915-01-01
    • Resource: - 175 pages
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    Transylvania and the Banat. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Transylvania and the Banat is Number 6 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 92 pages
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    Turkey in Europe. Appendix (p. 139-150): Hat-i-Sheriff of Gulhané, 1839.--Firman and Hat-i-Humayun, 1856.--Firman, 1876. "Authorities": 1 leaf at end.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 168 pages
  • Book/Printed Material
    Austrian Silesia. "Authorities": p. 36.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 50 pages
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    Prussian Poland. "Authorities" : p. [57]-58.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 74 pages