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Broch of Mousa, Scotland.

Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

Singapore: a large bungalow with people having drinks in the garden around a large traveller's palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

The house of Abraham Cowley in Chertsey. Line engraving by J. Basire.

Singapore: a large bungalow for British officers with tropical plants in the garden. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.

The interior of a house on the island of Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada, with some of its inhabitants encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.

Sarawak: the supporting poles of a Kayan tribal house and a Sea Dayak house under construction. Photograph.

Five views of Skara Brae Bronze Age village, Orkney.

How to live in tropical Africa : a guide to tropical hygiene. The Malaria problem : the cause, prevention, and cure of malarial fever / by J. Murray.

The Greek house : its history and development from the Neolithic Period to the Hellenistic Age / by Bertha Carr Rider.

A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

A policy for warmth / M. Gray [and others].

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How to live in tropical Africa : a guide to tropical hygiene. The Malaria problem : the cause, prevention, and cure of malarial fever / by J. Murray.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

The Greek house : its history and development from the Neolithic Period to the Hellenistic Age / by Bertha Carr Rider.

A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

A policy for warmth / M. Gray [and others].