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Science for survival : scientific research and the public interest
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Cotgreave, Peter.
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Q 175.5 C68 2003
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Trading places : the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834
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Farrington, Anthony.
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HF 486 E6 F37 2002
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Lie of the land : the secret life of maps
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William Wordsworth
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Hebron, Stephen
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Mapping time and space : how medieval mapmakers viewed their world
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Edson, Evelyn.
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The Illuminated page : ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library
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Backhouse, Janet.
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The mirror of alchemy : alchemical ideas and images in manuscripts and books : from antiquity to the seventeenth century
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Roberts, Gareth 1949-
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The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
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Dimitrova, Ekaterina.
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The Sforza hours
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Evans, Mark L.
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Books of hours
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Backhouse, Janet.
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