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The liliputian history, containing a particular account of the government, laws, customs and manners of that celebrated nation, with the ceremony of the coronation of their Kings and Queens, their processions on public occasions, feasts, diversions and improvements in th different arts and sciences, and a detail of their wars both by land and sea. Calculated for the amusement of children of all Sizes, Read of their Manners, Customs, Laws and State, You'll find our little Liliputians Great Embellished with ten copper-plate-prints elegantly executed.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The history and description of the Isle of Man: viz. its antiquity, history, laws, customs, Religion and Manners of its Inhabitants, its Animals, Minerals; Curious and Authentick Relations of Apparitions of Giants that have lived under the Castle Time immemorial. Likewise many comical and entertaining stories of the pranks play'd by faries, &c. The whole carefully collected from original papers and personal knowledge, during near twent y years residence there.
Waldron, George, 1690-1730?.Date: [1742?]- Books
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The present state of the Ottoman empire. Containing a more accurate and interesting account of the religion, government, military establishment. Manners, customs, and amusements, of the Turks than any yet extant, including a particular description of the court and Seraglio of the Grand Signor. And interspersed with many singular and entertaining anecdotes. Translated from the French manuscript of Elias Habesci, many years resident at Constantinople, in the service of the Grand Signor.
Habesci, Elias.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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West India customs and manners: Containing strictures on the soil, cultivation, produce, trade, officers, and inhabitants: with the method of establishing, and conducting a sugar plantation. To which is added, the practice of training new slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A new edition.
Moreton, J. B.Date: 1793- Books
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A picture of the manners, customs, sports, and pastimes, of the inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons down to the eighteenth century. Selected from the ancient chronicles. And rendered into modern phraseology / By Jehoshaphat Aspin.
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1825- Books
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Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen: with anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions of the territory westward of the Mississippi / [John Dunn Hunter].
Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827.Date: 1823- Books
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Arabian nights entertainments: consisting of one thousand and one stories told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody vow he had made to marry a lady every day and have her cut off next Morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. Containing A better account of the customs, Manners and religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians and Indians, than is to be met with in any author hitherto published. Translated into French from the Arabian Mss. by M. Galland of the Royal Academy; and now done into English from the last Paris edition. ...
Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]- Books
Sketches of Japanese manners and customs / by J.M.W. Silver.
Silver, J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier)Date: 1867- Pictures
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The three Graces and ancient allegorical figures. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 661998iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662163iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662161iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Tivoli: ruins of the villa of Maecenas. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662088iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Tivoli: ruins of the villa of Maecenas. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662089iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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A masque. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662166iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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A pagoda in India. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662043iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian). Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662136iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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A Roman trophy. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662050iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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A Roman circus with a chariot race. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662087iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Rome: baths of Diocletian. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662127iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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The pharos of Alexandria. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662011iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Nineveh. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662000iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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The tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 661999iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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A Roman bath-house: left, a fountain; right, a tub. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662091iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
Babylon: the city (above); the hanging gardens of Babylon (below). Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662001iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.- Pictures
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Rome: tomb of Augustus. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
Spalart, Robert von.Date: [1804?-1811?]Reference: 662128iPart of: Costumes, manners, customs and material culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Coloured engravings, ca. 1804-1811.