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Account of Hampton Court Palace. (From Lyson's Middlesex parishes.)
Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834.Date: [1800]
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Guanimycin : Buckingham Palace.
Date: 1974
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The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: statues and bas-reliefs awaiting positioning in the unfinished interior. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.
Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889.Date: 1854Reference: 580004i
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The "Crystal Palace" from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham. Coloured process print, ca. 1861 (?).
Date: [1854?]Reference: 997377i
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Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys, and the palaces of princes, together, with historical relations, and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / By Charles Patin, M.D. ... Made English.
Patin, Charles, 1633-1693.Date: 1697
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Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe :bdescribing the most considerable citys, and the palaces of princes, together, with historical relations, and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / By Charles Patin, M.D. ... Made English ...
Patin, Charles, 1633-1693.Date: 1697
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Royal cookery; or, the complete court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's palaces ... By Patrick Lamb, ... To which are added, bills of fare for every season in the year.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: 1710
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The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: a large celtic cross and other statues in the unfinished interior. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.
Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889.Date: 1854Reference: 580002i
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Victoria Palace theatre at night. Photographic postcard, ca. 1924.
Date: [1924?]Reference: 2045191i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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India: Dilkdosha Palace. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.Reference: 33566i
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An ancient Roman forum with lodges attached to the emperor's palace and to the prisons: a fantasy. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1743.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1743?]Reference: 2935851i
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A short history of bees. In two parts. I. The natural history of bees, with directions for the management of them, an account of their enemies, &c. from Reaumur, &c. II. An ænigmatical account of a neighbouring nation - their queen, her palaces, attendants, &c.
Date: 1800
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Gin, the skeleton spirit and demon of depravity!! A voice from the poison palaces!!! : addressed to the two Houses of the British legislature / by the author of 'The golden rules of life','Every body's friend', 'A book for the whole world', &c. &c.
Date: [1835?]
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Report of the Commission of Arts to the First Consul Bonaparte on the antiquities of Upper Egypt and the present state of all the temples, palaces ... from the cataracts of the Nile to Cairo / Translated from the French of citizen Ripaud [by W. Combe].
Ripault, Louis-Madeleine, 1775-1823.Date: 1800
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M0006161: Model of the entrance hall of a hamam in Bursa, Turkey / M0006164: Russian hot vapour baths / M0006167: Model of the baths in one of the Sultan's palaces, Java, Bali / M0008671: Model of the baths and galleries of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.
Date: 19 March 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/59
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Original Papal documents in the Lambeth Palace library : a catalogue / by Jane E. Sayers.
Lambeth Palace Library.Date: 1967
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Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries Palace, Paris, France. Photograph by Édouard Baldus, ca. 1860.
Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889.Date: 1860Reference: 575945i
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A description of England and Wales. Containing a particular account of each county. With its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities.
Date: 1769-1770
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate cuts, neatly engraved.
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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Theatrum scotiæ: Containing the prospects of His Majesty's castles and palaces: together with those of the most considerable towns and colleges; the ruins of many ancient abbeys, churches, monasteries, and convents within the said kingdom. All curiously engraven on copper-plates. With a description of each place.
Slezer, John, -1714.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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The port of Naples: a ship arrives at the landing stage of a royal palace. Etching by M. Küssell after J.W. Baur.
Baur, Johann Wilhelm, 1607-1642.Date: [1681?]Reference: 2982881i
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Men in the decorated palace of Shah Shujah Ool Moolk, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after Lieutenant James Rattray, c. 1847.
Rattray, James, 1818-1854.Date: 1847-1848Reference: 30409i
Part of: Scenery, inhabitants, and costumes of Afghaunistan
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Palace of Shuja-ud-Daula at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Date: 14 December 1787Reference: 26832i
Part of: Select views in India
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The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).
Reference: 39566i
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A view of Paris: describing all the churches, palaces, publick buildings, libraries, manufactures, and fine paintings; necessary for the observation of strangers: by the Abbot Antonin. To this new edition is added, a chronological list of painters, ... With a map of all the adjacent places round Paris; ...
Antonini, Annibale, 1702-1753.Date: 1749

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Account of Hampton Court Palace. (From Lyson's Middlesex parishes.)

Guanimycin : Buckingham Palace.

The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: statues and bas-reliefs awaiting positioning in the unfinished interior. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.

The "Crystal Palace" from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham. Coloured process print, ca. 1861 (?).

Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys, and the palaces of princes, together, with historical relations, and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / By Charles Patin, M.D. ... Made English.

Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe :bdescribing the most considerable citys, and the palaces of princes, together, with historical relations, and critical observations upon ancient medals and inscriptions / By Charles Patin, M.D. ... Made English ...

Royal cookery; or, the complete court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's palaces ... By Patrick Lamb, ... To which are added, bills of fare for every season in the year.

The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: a large celtic cross and other statues in the unfinished interior. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.

Victoria Palace theatre at night. Photographic postcard, ca. 1924.

India: Dilkdosha Palace. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

An ancient Roman forum with lodges attached to the emperor's palace and to the prisons: a fantasy. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1743.

A short history of bees. In two parts. I. The natural history of bees, with directions for the management of them, an account of their enemies, &c. from Reaumur, &c. II. An ænigmatical account of a neighbouring nation - their queen, her palaces, attendants, &c.

Gin, the skeleton spirit and demon of depravity!! A voice from the poison palaces!!! : addressed to the two Houses of the British legislature / by the author of 'The golden rules of life','Every body's friend', 'A book for the whole world', &c. &c.

Report of the Commission of Arts to the First Consul Bonaparte on the antiquities of Upper Egypt and the present state of all the temples, palaces ... from the cataracts of the Nile to Cairo / Translated from the French of citizen Ripaud [by W. Combe].

M0006161: Model of the entrance hall of a hamam in Bursa, Turkey / M0006164: Russian hot vapour baths / M0006167: Model of the baths in one of the Sultan's palaces, Java, Bali / M0008671: Model of the baths and galleries of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.

Original Papal documents in the Lambeth Palace library : a catalogue / by Jane E. Sayers.

Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries Palace, Paris, France. Photograph by Édouard Baldus, ca. 1860.

The port of Naples: a ship arrives at the landing stage of a royal palace. Etching by M. Küssell after J.W. Baur.

Men in the decorated palace of Shah Shujah Ool Moolk, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after Lieutenant James Rattray, c. 1847.

Palace of Shuja-ud-Daula at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.

The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).