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This is a selection of items from the National Library of Scotland , which is an information treasure trove of Scotland's knowledge, history and culture, with millions of books, manuscripts and maps covering every subject.
Topic: National Library of Scotland
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The UK Medical Heritage Library brings together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century history of medicine and related disciplines. This ongoing digitisation project is funded by Jisc (http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/) and the Wellcome Library (http://wellcomelibrary.org). The UK Medical Heritage Library is a sub-set of the Medical Heritage Library (archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary). UK Medical Heritage Library partners...
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The Wellcome Library is one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. It houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world. The Library is making as many of its collections as possible freely available online. In addition to this selection of historical books and journals, increasing amounts of digitised material, including manuscripts and...
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Books in Gaelic and relating to Gaelic topics contributed by the National Library of Scotland.
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National Library of Scotland, Scottish Directories
Topic: Scottish Directories
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Chemist and Druggist, the leading trade journal for the pharmacy community in the UK, has been in continuous publication since 1859. It contains a wealth of information for studying the history of medicine and pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Also contained in its pages are many striking visual examples from over 150 years of developments in advertising, packaging and graphic design. The Chemist and Druggist has been made available by the Wellcome Library, one of the greatest...
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La Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF) è la più grande biblioteca d'Italia, con oltre 6 milioni di volumi a stampa. È biblioteca nazionale e serve da biblioteca centrale insieme alla BNCR (Roma).Questa collezione comprende alcuni dei libri, tornati nel pubblico dominio, http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/notizia.php?id=1268>digitalizzati nel progetto Google Books e messi a disposizione nel 2014.The National Central Library of Florence (BNCF) is the biggest library of Italy,...
Topic: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
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The Royal College of Surgeons of England is a professional membership organisation of 20,000 UK and international members, and registered charity, which exists to advance surgical standards and improve patient care. The College received its first Royal Charter in 1800 but traces its origins to the Company of Barber-Surgeons, established in 1540. In 1745, the Barber-Surgeons were split by an Act of Parliament into two bodies and the Company of Surgeons was established. The Hunterian Museum,...
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National Library of Scotland, British Navy Lists
Topic: Navy, Scotland
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National Library of Scotland, British Army lists
Topics: NLS, National Library of Scotland, Harts Army List
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The RCPE is an independent standard-setting body and professional membership organisation. Our aim is to improve and maintain the quality of patient care. We help qualified doctors to pursue their careers in specialist (internal) medicine through medical examinations, education and training. We also provide resources and information to support and facilitate professional development for physicians throughout their careers. The Library was founded in 1682 when Sir Robert Sibbald, one of the...
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Books contributed by National Library of Scotland
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The history of medicine in film The Moving Image and Sound Collection (MISC) is part of the Wellcome Library, one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. The Library houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world. This selection of over 200 digitised videos from MISC covers all aspects of 20th century healthcare and medicine. Some of the...
Topic: medical
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This collection contains items from the University of Glasgow Library. Glasgow University is a broad based, research intensive institution with a global reach, and has been teaching medicine since 1714. The University's Libra ry's medical collections cover all subject areas and are particularly strong in anatomy, surgery, clinical medicine, public health, sanitation and homeopathic medicine.
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National Library of Scotland, British Air Force Lists
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University College London's University College London's Main Library primarily holds collections in the Arts & Humanities and there is an equally large Science Library close by. Following further expansion over the past century there are a further 14 libraries supporting UCL's teaching and research, including several that provide services to both UCL and the National Health Service. Our Special Collections and Digital Collections are a rich source of manuscripts, archives and rare books.
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Books from the Music collection at the National Library of Scotland
Topic: keyword
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Leeds University Library is one of the major academic research libraries of the UK, attracting students and scholars from around the world to its rich and extensive print, online and manuscript collections gathered during its 100 -year history. The Library has some of the UK's outstanding collections of rare books and manuscripts, and five of its premier Special Collections have been awarded "designated status" under the national scheme for recognising world class collections held in...
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The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is the professional body for physicians, with over 30,000 members and fellows across the globe. The RCP has an extensive library, started at the foundation of the RCP in 1518 and maintained and developed today. The rare books and special collections are displayed in public exhibitions and can be viewed in person by making a research appointment with the library. 20th-century collections are available to all for reference access in the library reading room....
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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 3,900 students and more than 1,000 staff worki ng in over 100 countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, and was recently cited as the world's leading research-focused graduate school. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence...
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This collection contains items from the Foyle Special Collections Library, King's College London. The Foyle Special Collections Library holds over 180,000 printed books and journals, as well as maps, slides, sound recordings and manuscript material, spanning the humanities, sciences and social sciences and ranging in date from the 15th century to the present day. The history of medicine is a notable strength of these holdings, which include the historical library collections of St. Thomas's...
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Lists of Scottish soldiers and regiments serving in World War I.
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Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Sexology exhibit, 2014-15.
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Books from The Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Council
Topic: keyword
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Stirling Council, Scotland Directories
Topic: Scottish Directories
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Glasgow School of Art was established in 1845 as the first Government School of Design in the UK outside London, and is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s foremost institutions for creative education and research. Throughout its long history, the School has provided a library service to its staff and students, and is well-known for its famous library interior designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1907-1909. Today’s library collections encompass a wide range of...
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The University of Bristol Library serves the needs of one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Its special collections reflect the broad scope of the institution’s research and teaching, ranging from important deposits of publishing archive, through leading geological collections to the library and archive of the National Liberal Club, a key source for public debate in the nineteenth-century. The present collection is drawn from the library of the Bristol Medical School...
This film shows various cases of mothers who have difficulty breast feeding their babies. Solutions to the problems are demonstrated, for instance a case of inverted nipples can be treated successfully with massage and the use of a breast pump. An inadequate milk supply can be supplemented with formula. 'Flabby breasts' can be successfully treated with massage, supplementary feeding and exercise. 2 segments.
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Topics: Anatomy, Breast Feeding, Maternal Behavior, Mothers, Maternal and child health, Anatomy, Breast...
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Robert Louis Stevenson books from the National Library of Scotland
Topic: keyword
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=lqACAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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This collection contains items from the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The history of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh touches five centuries. Founded in 1670 as a garden for growing medicinal plants, the collection of living plants has expanded from 2000 separate taxa enumerated in the first plant catalogue for the garden, “Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis” (1683) to over 20 000 separate taxa currently in cultivation in Edinburgh and three satellite gardens at other Scottish...
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Books on Architecture in Scotland
Topic: keyword
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1883
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Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei, Jesuits (Works by
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=OqMIAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=RwEJAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Historic printed material published by the Wellcome Trust.
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Duncan Forbes
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=8FIIAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Crawfurd, John, 1783-1868
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CAM
Topics: Malay language, Malay language, English language
This film in two parts shows the mechanism of an artifical respirator (an iron lung) a female patient is shown being placed in the machine and then cared for by nurses (she is fed, groomed and given an enema). The second part starts with instructions as to what to do if there are electrical or mechanical faults in the machinery. 3 segments.
Topics: Ventilators, Mechanical -- history, Respiration, Artificial, Medical equipment, Respiratory...
Shows how a typical labour should be managed, including abdominal and vaginal examination, the second stage of labour, the patient prepared for delivery, the control of the foetal head, examination of the umbilical cord, use of the mucus cather, ligation of the cord, expulsion of the placenta and an examination for vaginal and perineal lacerations. 1 segment.
Topics: Obstetrics, Parturition, Labor, Obstetric, Medical sciences, Birth, Obstetrics, Parturition, Labor,...
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Gazetteers of parishes, towns and places in Scotland
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1837
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D'Rozario, P. S
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topics: English language, Bengali language, Hindustani language
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=YawIAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Rev. William Morton
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=hJoCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1856
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Monlau y Roca, Pedro Felipe, 1808-1871. [from old catalog]
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Spanish language
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=j6IFAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topics: Normans, Names, Personal
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=TVMBAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1876
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Juan Cuveiro Piñol
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=lXsCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Books of reference for Scottish Ordnance Survey maps
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Edinburgh University Library came into being in 1580 with a bequest of books from scholar and advocate Clement Litill. We now have some 35 kilometres of Special Collections material, including fine collections of medieval and oriental manuscripts, rich literary and historical archives, and strong holdings of scientific and medical material. There are some 400,000 early and rare printed books including nearly 300 incunabula and the personal libraries of notable individuals such as Adam Smith and...
Topic: University of Edinburgh
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland.
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Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Forensics exhibit, 2014-15.
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland.
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1882
1882
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Albert Heintze
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ChKMTD4VU00C&oe=UTF-8
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland.
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1865
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ANGELO DELL'ACQUA
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=U5wEAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1836
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Magín Ferrer
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=v4YCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=iuUNAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1707
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Lhuyd, Edward, 1660-1709. cn
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Title vignette
Topics: Breton language, Cornish language, Scottish Gaelic language, Irish language, Welsh language
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland
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1836
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James Thomas , William Yates
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=MlMIAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1793
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James Thomson
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=HZ0Hibar_BYC&oe=UTF-8
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1864
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T C. Donkin , Friedrich Christian Diez
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnoCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland.
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Sir William Wilson Hunter
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=-8oOAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1873
1873
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Edward Balfour
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=8CAAAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland
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1931
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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1934
1934
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Spurrell, William, 1813-1889; Anwyl, J. Bodvan (John Bodvan), b. 1875
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1849
1849
by
Juan Antonio Seoane
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=dHwCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1880
1880
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J. W. Redhouse, M.R .A.S.
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=zpwCAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1872
1872
by
Antonio Casetti
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=_cAJAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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1931
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Great Britain. Ministry of Defence
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1837
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Graglia, Giuspanio
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CAM
Topics: English language, Italian language
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1871
1871
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Edward Balfour
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAAAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Francis Henry Stratmann
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=6KYFAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8