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Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the formation of his library
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Year: 1886 Publisher: London Stevens

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Le globe Lenox de 1511
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Year: 1880 Publisher: Rouen : Cagniard,

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The restoration warship : the design, construction and career of a third rate of Charles II's Navy
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ISBN: 9781844860883 1844860884 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Conway,

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Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation
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An Act to Designate the Facility of the United States Postal Service Located at 300 Vine Street in New Lenox, Illinois, as the "Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building"
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Year: 2008 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. G.P.O.],

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Charlotte Lennox
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ISBN: 1611483913 9781611483918 9781611483901 1611483905 1611485673 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Bucknell University Press

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"This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and she interacted with many other influential figures including her patroness the Countess of Bute, publisher Andrew Millar, and the Reverend Thomas Winstanley. In addition to Lennox's and her correspondents' letters, this book presents related documents such as the author's proposals for subscription editions of her works, her file with the Royal Literary Fund, and a series of poems and stories supposedly composed by her son but perhaps written by herself. In these carefully and extensively annotated documents, Charlotte Lennox traces the vagaries in the career of a female writer in the male-dominated eighteenth-century literary marketplace. The introduction situates Lennox in the context of contemporaneous print culture and specifically examines the contentious question of the authorship of The Female Quixote, Lennox's experimentation with various forms of publication, and her appeals for charity to the Royal Literary Fund when she was impoverished towards the end of her life. The author who emerges from Charlotte Lennox was an active, assertive, innovative, and independent woman trying to find her place--and make a literary career--in eighteenth-century Britain. Thus, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of female authorship, literary history, and eighteenth-century studies."--Publisher's website.


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American dinosaur abroad : a cultural history of Carnegie's plaster Diplodocus
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ISBN: 0822986663 9780822986669 9780822945574 0822945576 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii--or Dippy, as it's known today--was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie's pursuit of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot, Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Spain. In this largely untold history, Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie's prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.--


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Treasures from the New York Public Library
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ISBN: 087104286X Year: 1985 Publisher: New York

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