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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Angus, Sarah
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Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
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animal art
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animal art
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Butterflies.
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Women in natural history.
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Adam, John, 1779–1825.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Angus, Sarah.
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Boundaries (Estates) -- England -- Dorset
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Children -- Conduct of life.
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China trade watercolor painting -- Specimens.
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East India Company -- Officials and employees.
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Adam, John, 1779–1825
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Angus, Sarah
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Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
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Goffin, Robert, 1816?-1889
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Swinton, Alan, -1888
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Swinton, Archibald Adam, 1820–1894
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Swinton, Henrietta, 1771–1853
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Swinton, Margaret, -1879
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Swinton, William, 1784–1853
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Two Bats
1829
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Chameleon and a Mammal
1829
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A Lizard with Sketches of a Scorpion and a Spider
1829
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Two Scorpions and Two Centipedes
1829
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Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
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Cobweb three-dimensional watercolor
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Paget, John, 1811–1898
Album of drawings, etchings, and watercolors
1829-1843 (bulk 1832-1834)
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Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758–1838
Terrae Horaeanae in com. Wilts, Dorset, Somerset
1829-1844
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Commonplace book
1829-1834
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Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
Writing exercise books
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Swinton, George, 1780–1854
Papa's keepsake
1829
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Angus, Sarah
[Botanical watercolors]
1829
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Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
[Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures]
[ca. 1829?]