The first of the cascades. Plate 4 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
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The first of the cascades. Plate 4 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846.. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
Simla from Mahassoo. Plate 5 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
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Simla from Mahassoo. Plate 5 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846.. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
The Hindoo temples on the plains near Meerut. Plate 6 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
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The Hindoo temples on the plains near Meerut. Plate 6 from 'Simla Scenes, drawn from nature.' Printed and published by Messrs. Dickinson, London, 1846.. Artist(s): Dickinson & Co., after Scott, A. E. (fl. mid-19th century)
Photographic art treasures; or, nature and art illustrated by art and nature. By this new and beautiful art of engraving, the uncertainty of colour and the liability to fade, so objectionable in photographs, is obviated, while the detail and truth of nature is faithfully preserved. Photographer(s): Fenton, Roger
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Imprint: London: Published by the Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, Holloway Place, Holloway Road, Islington. December, 1856. Folio, published in parts, incomplete. With note on wrapper reading: 'Memo: This work was among those abstracted from the Liby. by the suicide Greenwood and found to be 3 ...
Observatoire de Nice. Souvenir de la Conférence Géodésique session 1887 par le photographe Disderi avec le concours de M. Courret, photographe paysagiste. Photographer(s): Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Imprint: [?Nice, ?1887.] Landscape folio volume measuring 338x456mm, marbled paper boards with title stamped in gilt on cloth title panel laid down diagonally on upper board. The volume contains a printed titlepage, two leaves of text (list of delegates to the conference and the text of a shor...
Types principaux des différentes races humaines, dans les cinq parties du monde. Modeléles sous la diréction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg. Photographer(s): Unknown
Chinese imperial encyclopaedia, commissioned by the Yongle Emperor and completed in 1408. This is the second manuscript edition (Jiajing to Longqing period 1562-72). The volumes are unique and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he ...
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YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he became interested in the customs and megaliths of the Khasis. In 1843 he was sent to the Punjab to work on the west Jumma canals. At the end o...