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On the nature and structural characteristics of cancer, and of those morbid growths which may be confounded with it. ... Illustrated with numerous steel plates and wood engravings / by J. Muller ; translated from the German, with notes, by Charles West.
Date: 1840
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Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings / by Asa Gray.
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.Date: [1858], ©1858
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The elements of medical chemistry; embracing only those branches of chemical science which are calculated to illustrate or explain the different objects of medicine; and to furnish a chemical grammar to the author's Pharmacologia / Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.
Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.Date: 1825
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A journey across South America : from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean / by Paul Marcoy [pseud.] ; illustrated with 600 engravings on wood, drawn by E. Riou, and 12 maps, printed in colours, from drawings by the author.
Marcoy, Paul.Date: 1873
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Wood cuts, or, The practice of engraving and cutting upon wood / by D.P. Bliss.
Bliss, Douglas Percy, 1900-1984.Date: [1930?]
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Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells ... being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood, within a circuit of nearly twenty miles : illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal plates / Edited by James Phippen.
Date: 1840
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A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical / With upwards of three hundred illustrations, engraved on wood, by John Jackson.
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864.Date: 1839
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Specimen of engraving on wood by John Hands. Coventry.
Hands, John, Engraver.Date: 1796
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A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical : with upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood / by John Jackson. The historical portion by W.A. Chatto.
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864.Date: 1861
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The natural history of man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / By James Cowles Prichard ; with thirty six coloured and four plain illustrations engraved on steel, and ninety engravings on wood.
Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848.Date: 1843
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The English flower garden : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the best plants for the open-air garden and their culture / by W. Robinson. Illustrated with many engravings on wood.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1897
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Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character / by Jules Janin, Balzac, Cormenin, and other celebrated French authors. With upwards of two hundred and thirty engravings, drawn on the wood by Gavarni, H. Monnier, and Meissonier. And engraved by Lavieille, etc.
Date: 1840
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Wood engraving / by R. John Beedham ; with introduction and appendix by Eric Gill.
Beedham, R. J.Date: 1938
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The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood.
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.Date: 1902
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Beeton's every-day cookery and housekeeping book : comprising instructions for mistress and servants, and a collection of over sixteen hundred and fifty practical receipts. With numerous wood engravings and one hundred and forty-two coloured figures, showing the proper mode of sending dishes to table.
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.Date: [1888?]
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The histology and histochemistry of man : a treatise on the elements of composition and structure of the human body / by Heinrich Frey ... Translated from the fourth German edition, by Arthur E.J. Barker ... and revised by the author. With six hundred and eight engravings on wood.
Frey, Heinrich, 1822-1890.Date: 1874
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The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century / by Friedrich Lippmann.
Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903.Date: 1888
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The domestic chemist: comprising instructions for the detection of adulteration in numerous articles employed in domestic economy, medicine, and the arts. To which are subjoined the art of detecting poisons in food and organic mixtures; and a popular introduction to the principles of chemical analysis / Illustrated by engravings on wood.
Date: 1831
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The domestic chemist : comprising instructions for the detection of adulteration in numerous articles employed in domestic economy, medicine, and the arts : to which are subjoined, the art of detecting poisons in food and organic mixtures; and a popular introduction to the principles of chemical analysis : illustrated by engravings on wood.
Date: 1831
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A familiar introduction to crystallography; including an explanation of the principle and use of the goniometer / With an appendix, containing the mathematical relations of crystals; rules for drawing their figures; and an alphabetical arrangement of minerals, their synonymes, and primary forms. Illustrated by nearly 400 engravings on wood. By Henry James Brooke.
Brooke, Henry James, 1771-1857.Date: 1823
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The Hampshire syren: or, Songster's miscellany. Being a collection of the latest and most approved songs, duets, &c. sung at Vauxhall, the Theatres Royal, several other places of public amusement, in London; and by Mr. Dibdin, at his Sans Souci, in the Strand: together with some originals. Embellished with a few emblematical engravings on wood.
Date: 1794
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The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore : the folklore of North Carolina, collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943, in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society / General editor: Newman Ivey White ; associate editors: Henry M. Belden [and others] ; wood engravings by Clare Leighton.
Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore.Date: [1952-1964]
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Cecil County, Maryland, 1608-1850 : as seen by some visitors, and several essays on local history / collected by G.E. Gifford, Jr. ; with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy ; sponsored by the Calvert Elementary School Parent-Teachers Association and the Calvert School Alumni Association as a memorial to George E. Gifford, Sr.
Gifford, George Edmund.Date: 1974
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A series of botanical tables, and tables of the materia medica, designed for the use of students preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall : illustrated with numerous engravings on wood, and four coloured medico-botanical maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, showing the geographical situation of all the plants of the Pharmacopoeia / by W.K. Toase.
Date: 1835
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The animal kingdom arranged according to its organization / Forming the basis for a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Mammalia, birds and reptiles, by Edward Blyth, the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie, the molluscous animals by George Johnston, the articulated animals by J. O. Westwood. Illustrated by three hundred engravings on wood.
Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832Date: 1840

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On the nature and structural characteristics of cancer, and of those morbid growths which may be confounded with it. ... Illustrated with numerous steel plates and wood engravings / by J. Muller ; translated from the German, with notes, by Charles West.

Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings / by Asa Gray.

The elements of medical chemistry; embracing only those branches of chemical science which are calculated to illustrate or explain the different objects of medicine; and to furnish a chemical grammar to the author's Pharmacologia / Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

A journey across South America : from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean / by Paul Marcoy [pseud.] ; illustrated with 600 engravings on wood, drawn by E. Riou, and 12 maps, printed in colours, from drawings by the author.

Wood cuts, or, The practice of engraving and cutting upon wood / by D.P. Bliss.

Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells ... being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood, within a circuit of nearly twenty miles : illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal plates / Edited by James Phippen.

A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical / With upwards of three hundred illustrations, engraved on wood, by John Jackson.

Specimen of engraving on wood by John Hands. Coventry.

A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical : with upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood / by John Jackson. The historical portion by W.A. Chatto.

The natural history of man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / By James Cowles Prichard ; with thirty six coloured and four plain illustrations engraved on steel, and ninety engravings on wood.

The English flower garden : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the best plants for the open-air garden and their culture / by W. Robinson. Illustrated with many engravings on wood.

Wood engraving / by R. John Beedham ; with introduction and appendix by Eric Gill.

The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood.

The histology and histochemistry of man : a treatise on the elements of composition and structure of the human body / by Heinrich Frey ... Translated from the fourth German edition, by Arthur E.J. Barker ... and revised by the author. With six hundred and eight engravings on wood.

The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century / by Friedrich Lippmann.