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The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879Date: 1855- Books
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The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys. Illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879Date: 1853- Books
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The butterfly vivarium, or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium / by H. Noel Humphreys ... Illustrated with coloured engravings.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: 1858- Books
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The genera of British moths : Popularly described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Museum / Illus. by a series of picturesque plates, exhibiting the insects in their different stages, with the caterpillars and the plants on which they are generally found.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1860?]- Books
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The sea and its living wonders / tr. from the 4th German ed. and partly rewritten by the author, Dr. G. Hartwig ... By Henry Noel Humphreys.
Hartwig, G. (Georg), 1813-1880.Date: 1860