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An elegiac and historical poem, sacred to the memory and virtues of the honourable Sir William Jones : Containing a retrospective survey of the progress of science, and the Mohammedan conquests in Asia / By the author of Indian antiquities.

Thomas Maurice 1754-1824

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Ireland, Ur of the Chaldees / by Anna Wilkes.

Anna Wilkes

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A visit to the seven churches of Asia : with an excursion into Pisidia : containing remarks on the geography and antiquities of those countries, a map of the author's routes and numerous inscriptions / Fr. V.J. Arundell.

A visit to the seven churches of Asia : with an excursion into Pisidia : containing remarks on the geography and antiquities of those countries, a map of the author's routes and numerous inscriptions / Fr. V.J. Arundell.

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell 1780-1846

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The travels of Ibn Batūta / translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occuring throughout the work by the Rev. Samuel Lee.

Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377

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Bruchstücke des Sanskritkanons der Buddhisten aus Idykuts̆ari, Chinesisch-Turkestān / von R. Pischel.

Bruchstücke des Sanskritkanons der Buddhisten aus Idykuts̆ari, Chinesisch-Turkestān / von R. Pischel.

Richard Pischel 1849-1908

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A view of the Holy Land, its present inhabitants, their manners and customs, polity and religion : antiquities and natural history of Egypt, Asia, and Arabia : with a curious description of Jerusalem, as it now appears, and other parts of the world mentioned in the Scriptures : interspersed with remarks, notes, and references of modern travellers : together with historical, geographical, and miscellaneous notes / by George [i.e. Charles] Thompson and others.

Charles Thompson active 1750

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A journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor / by Charles Fellows, 1838.

Charles Fellows Sir, 1799-1860

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A view of the division of the land of Canaan among the twelve tribes of Israel the situation of the city and sanctuary &c as described by Josephus antiquities / J. Purves.

A view of the division of the land of Canaan among the twelve tribes of Israel the situation of the city and sanctuary &c as described by Josephus antiquities / J. Purves.

John Canne -1667?

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