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A ruined Egyptian obelisk compared with a Greek temple, representing Egyptian and Greek architecture. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1760.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1760?]Reference: 2821921i- Books
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A complete commentary, with etymological, explanatory, critical and classical notes on Milton's Paradise Lost: Explaining 1. All the Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, Syriac, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Russian, Tatarian, Saxon, Teutonic (or German) Dutch, Norman, (or Old French) Old English (or Scottish) Indian, American and Miltonian Words, i. e. Those of the Author's own Coining, thro' the whole Poem. 2. All the difficult Terms of Divinity, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, History, Geography, Architecture, Navigation, Anatomy, Surgery, Chymistry, Alchemy, Hunting, Hawking, Gardening, and other Human Arts and Sciences. 3. All the fine Epithets, the Mythology (or Fables) of the Antients) all the Figures of Grammar and Rhetoric, Comparisons, Similies, Digressions, different Persons; and setting all the Transposed Sentences in a plain English Prose Order; with many new Theological, Critical, Historical and Political Observations, never published before. For without such a Work the Poem is useless to most Readers of it. By James Paterson, M. A. And Philologist.
Paterson, James, M.A., philologist.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]
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M0001945EA: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The Step Pyramid of Sakkara. Showing the excavations now being made" also known as the Pyramid of Djoser, an archaeological remain in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt / M0001945EB: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The temple of Deir el-Bahri" [Deir el-Bahari]
Date: June 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/27Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0001939: Reproduction of three photographs of Trajan's Kiosk of Philae, Egypt; Church of the Savior on Blood, St Petersburg, Russia, and Pisa Baptistery of St. John, Pisa, Italy from an unknown publication
Date: June 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/21Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Group of Nubians with weapons, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: [1849]Reference: 32495iPart of: Egypt and Nubia