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... present at a Nautch of Dancing Girls . Lady Bathing with attendants . Instructing children of men of distinction to read . Elephants in various positions . Camel at his picket . Avadavats . Room with young man smoking his hookah ...
... present at a Nautch of Dancing Girls . Lady Bathing with attendants . Instructing children of men of distinction to read . Elephants in various positions . Camel at his picket . Avadavats . Room with young man smoking his hookah ...
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... Present State , including Burghley . Numerous folding and other plates . 2 vols . , small 8vo , FINE COPY , bound by KALTHOEBER ( with his ticket ) in full russia gilt , g . e . Stamford , 1785 . £ 1 4s From the library of William ...
... Present State , including Burghley . Numerous folding and other plates . 2 vols . , small 8vo , FINE COPY , bound by KALTHOEBER ( with his ticket ) in full russia gilt , g . e . Stamford , 1785 . £ 1 4s From the library of William ...
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... Present Time . Containing a faithful relation of the Public Transactions of the Citizens , Accounts of the several Parishes , Parallels between London and other Great Cities , with the Several Accounts of Westminster , Middlesex ...
... Present Time . Containing a faithful relation of the Public Transactions of the Citizens , Accounts of the several Parishes , Parallels between London and other Great Cities , with the Several Accounts of Westminster , Middlesex ...
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... present time . With twenty - six portraits . Large Paper . 4 vols . , royal 8vo , half morocco , top edges gilt . London , 1808 . £ 6 6s A very interesting copy . Profusely extra illustrated by the insertion of two hundred and seventy ...
... present time . With twenty - six portraits . Large Paper . 4 vols . , royal 8vo , half morocco , top edges gilt . London , 1808 . £ 6 6s A very interesting copy . Profusely extra illustrated by the insertion of two hundred and seventy ...
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... present volume may have some connection with his plays during the pageants , for we find that there are given several of Theatri- cal Interest , such as Dick Fool , ' Snap Dragon , " Orator , " Speech Boy , " A Con- jurer , A Merry ...
... present volume may have some connection with his plays during the pageants , for we find that there are given several of Theatri- cal Interest , such as Dick Fool , ' Snap Dragon , " Orator , " Speech Boy , " A Con- jurer , A Merry ...
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