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Malaria in pre-Columbian America? / Julian de Zulueta, Stephen C. Ayala.
Zulueta, Julián de.Date: 1978- Books
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Catalogue of manuscripts & ancient deeds : among which will be found, the chartulary of Carisbrooke Castle, manuscript upon vellum, Josephus, Antiquitez des juifs, a fine manuscript upon vellum, splendidly illuminated, Glover's visitation of Yorkshire, a very curious collection of official papers relating to America, and other interesting articles, with some curious autograph letters : on sale, at the prices affixed for ready money, by Thomas Rodd, 9, Great Newport Street, London.
Rodd, Thomas, 1796-1849.Date: 1845- Books
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A serious address to such of the people called Quakers, on the continent of North-America, as profess scruples relative to the present government: exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority. Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778, by a native of Pennsylvania. To which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from an essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the Revolution of 1688.
Grey, Isaac.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Pvrchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation unto this present. In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the flovd, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since. With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries ... remarkable rarities of nature ... in the same / By Samuel Pvrchas.
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.Date: 1613- Books
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A compendious geographical dictionary, containing, a concise description of the most remarkable places, ancient and modern, in Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, interspersed with historical anecdotes. To which are added, a chronological table from the creation to the present time; a monthly list of all the fixed fairs in England and Wales; and, a table of the Coins of the Various Nations, and their values in English money. To the whole is prefixed, an introduction, exhibiting a view of the newtonian system of the Planets, &c.
Date: 1795- Books
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Illustrated memoir of an eventful expedition into Central America, resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya : in an unexplored region, and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, Maximo (the boy) and Bartola (the girl), descendants and specimen of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct), of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country / described by John L. Stephens and other travelers ; translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez of San Salvador.
Velasquez, Pedro.Date: 1860- Books
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Royal genealogies: or, the genealogical tables of emperors, kings and princes, from Adam to these times; in two parts. Part I. Begins with a chronological history of the world, from the Beginning of Time to the Christian Era, and then the Genealogies of the earliest great Families and most ancient Sovereigns of Asia, Europe, Africa and America, down to Charlemain, and many of 'em down to these Times. Part II. begins with the grand revolution of Charlemain, and carries on the Royal and Princely Genealogies of Europe down to these Times; concluding with those of the Britannic Isles. See a more particular Account in the Preface and in the Contents of the Tables. By James Anderson, D.D.
Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739.Date: M,DCC,XXXII. [1732]- Books
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The ancient halls of the city guilds / drawn in lithography by Thomas R. Way, with some account of the history of the companies, by Philip Norman, F.S.A.
Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913.Date: 1903- Books
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A complete geographical dictionary, or universal gazetteer; of ancient and modern geography: containing a full, particular, and accurate description of the known world; in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: Comprising a Complete System of Geography, Illustrated with correct maps and beautiful views of the principal cities, &c. and Chronological Tables of the Sovereigns of Europe. The geographical parts by John Seally, A. M. Member of the Roman Academy; Author of the Histoire Chronologique, Sacre'e et Profane; Elements of Geography and Astronomy, &c. &c. Interspersed with Extracts from the private Manuscripts of one of the Officers who accompanied Captain Cook in his Voyage to the Southern Hemisphere. the astronomical parts from the papers of the late Mr. Israel Lyons, of Cambridge; Astronomer in Lord Mulgrave's Voyage to the Northern Hemisphere. Vol. I. By the King's Royal Licence and Authority.
Seally, John, approximately 1747-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]- Books
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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America. Containing I. Some general account of ancient and modern colonies, the granting and settling of the British continent and West-India island colonies, with some transient remarks concerning the adjoining French and Spanish settlements, and other remarks of various natures. II. The Hudson's-Bay Company's lodges, fur and skin trade. III. Newfoundland harbours and cod-fishery. IV. The province of L'Acadie or Nova Scotia; with the vicissitudes of the property and jurisdiction thereof, and its present state. V. The several grants of Sagadahock, province of Main, Massachusetts-Bay, and New-Plymouth, united by a new charter in the present province of Massachusetts-Bay, commonly called New-England. By William Douglass, M. D. Vol. I.
Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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American antiquities, and discoveries in the West: being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America, many centuries before its discovery by Columbus. And inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins. With conjectures concerning what may have become of them / Comp. from travels, authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies. By Josiah Priest.
Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.Date: 1833- Books
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A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America. In which the arguments in favour of the colonies, are placed in a new point of view, and their rights and privileges are incontestibly demonstrated on constitutional principles, supported by unanswerable arguments drawn from their ancient original charters, and the circumstances attending their first settlement. Together with a serious and impartial consideration of the consequences which must necessarily result from the exercise of coercive measures, to compe them to a submission to the late acts of Parliament. Also an appendix in answer to a pamphlet intituled, The constitutional right of Great-Britain to tax the colonies. [Two lines in Latin]
Date: 1769- Books
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A serious address to such of the people called Quakers, on the continent of North-America, as profess scruples relative to the present government: exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority. Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778. By a native of Pennsylvania. To which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from an essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the Revolution of 1688.
Grey, Isaac.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The shocking history of electric fishes : from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology / Stanley Finger, Marco Piccolino.
Finger, StanleyDate: [2011]- Books
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A history of dentistry from the most ancient times until the end of the eighteenth century / by Dr. Vincenzo Guerini ... with 104 engravings and 20 plates.
Guerini, Vincenzo, 1859-1955.Date: 1909- Books
La ciencia en el período grecoromano / [José Babini].
Babini, José, 1897-1984.Date: [1968]- Books
La ciencia y el siglo de Pericles / [José Babini].
Babini, José, 1897-1984.Date: [1967]- Books
La ciencia helenística / [José Babini].
Babini, José, 1897-1984.Date: [1968]- Books
La ciencia en tiempos de la Academia y el Liceo / [José Babini].
Babini, José, 1897-1984.Date: [1968]- Books
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A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America. In which the arguments in favour of the colonies, are placed in a new point of view, and their Rights and Privileges are incontestibly demonstrated on constitutional Principles, supported by unanswerable Arguments drawn from their ancient original Charters, and the Circumstances attending their first Settlement. Together with a serious and impartial Consideration of the Consequences which must necessarily result from the Exercise of coercive Measures, to compel them to a Submission to the late Acts of Parliament. Also an appendix in answer to a pamphlet intituled, The constitutional right of Great-Britain to tax the colonies.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
Averrois Cordubensis Compendia librorum Aristotelis qui parva naturalia vocantur / Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustravit Henricus Blumberg.
Averroës, 1126-1198.Date: 1954- Books
La prehistoria de la ciencia / [José Babini].
Babini, José, 1897-1984.Date: [1968, ©1967]- Books
Commentariorum urbanorum Raphaelis Volaterrani, octo et triginta libri, accuratius quam antehac excusi, cum duplici eorundem indice secundum Tomos collecto. Item Oeconomicus Xenophontis ab eodem latio donatus / [Raffaele Maffei].
Maffei, Raffaele, 1455-1522.Date: Anno M. D. XXX[1530]- Books
The Maya / Michael D. Coe.
Coe, Michael D.Date: 1984- Books
The Popol vuh, the mythic and heroic sagas of the Kichés of Central America / by Lewis Spence.
Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955.Date: 1908