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Vagabond princess the great adventures of Gulbadan Ruby Lal

Author:
Lal, Ruby  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates color illustrations, map 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Place:
Mogul Empire
Empire moghol
Date:
2024
Topic:
Princesses  Search this
History  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1166143

The Utah expedition, 1857-1858 a documentary account of the United States military movement under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and the resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion edited, with introduction and notes, by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen

Writer of introduction:
Hafen, LeRoy R (LeRoy Reuben) 1893-1985  Search this
Hafen, Ann W (Ann Woodbury) 1893-1970  Search this
Physical description:
375 pages illustrations, map, portraits 25 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
History
Biographies
Place:
Utah
United States, Utah
United States, West
Date:
1958
1857-1858 (Migration des Mormons)
Topic:
History  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1166016

Sen Rikyū / Karaki Junzō

Title:
唐木順三 1904-
Author:
Karaki, Junzō 1904-1980  Search this
Physical description:
231 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 19 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Place:
Japan
Japon
Date:
1963
Topic:
Tea masters  Search this
Japanese tea ceremony  Search this
Maîtres du thé  Search this
Cérémonie du thé  Search this
Call number:
GT2911.S4 K36 1963
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1084604

Inside the Seraglio private lives of the Sultans in Istanbul John Freely

Author:
Freely, John 1926-  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 360 pages illustrations (some color), maps, portraits 20 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
Turkey
Istanbul
Empire ottoman
Date:
2000
Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Topic:
Sultans--Dwellings  Search this
Sultans  Search this
History  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Call number:
DR438.1 .F74 2000
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_851614

Violence in Lincoln County, 1869-1881 a New Mexico item by William A. Keleher ; Front. by Ernest L. Blumenschein

Author:
Keleher, William A (William Aloysius) 1886-1972  Search this
Illustrator:
Blumenschein, E. L (Ernest Leonard) 1874-1960  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 390 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits, map, facsimiles 24 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
New Mexico
Lincoln County
Lincoln County (N.M.)
United States, New Mexico, Lincoln
Date:
1957
19th century
Topic:
Violence--History  Search this
Vendetta--History  Search this
Frontier and pioneer life  Search this
Vendetta  Search this
Violence  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1165880

Benedicte Wrensted : an Idaho photographer in focus / Joanna Cohan Scherer, editor ; Anne Merkley, editorial assistant

Author:
Schreyer, Joanna Cohan  Search this
Merkley, Anne  Search this
Subject:
Wrensted, Benedicte 1859-1949  Search this
Physical description:
162 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm
Type:
Portraits
Biography
Place:
Idaho
Date:
1993
Topic:
Women photographers  Search this
Call number:
TR140.W74 B45 1993
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_497399

Old houses of the antient town of Norwich, 1660-1800 with maps, illustrations, portraits and genealogies, by Mary E. Perkins

Author:
Perkins, Mary E (Mary Elizabeth)  Search this
Physical description:
2 pages leaves, [iii]-xviii, 402 pages, 1 leaves, 407-621 p front. (folded map) illustrations, plates, portraits, plans 24 x 19 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Genealogy
Biographies
collective biographies
History
Place:
Connecticut
Norwich
New London County (Conn.)
Norwich (Conn.)
New London County
Date:
1895
Topic:
Historic buildings  Search this
Buildings  Search this
Buildings, structures, etc  Search this
History  Search this
Biography  Search this
Call number:
F104.N93 P4X
F104.N93P4X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10279

Paracelsus magic into science, being the true history of the troubled life, adventures, doctrines, miraculous cures, and prophecies of the most renowned, widely traveled, very learned and pious gentleman, scholar, and most highly experienced and illustrious physicus, the Honorable Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus ab Hohenheim, Eremita, called Paracelsus

Author:
Pachter, Henry Maximilian 1907-1980  Search this
Physical description:
x, 360 p illustrations, portraits, facsims 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Student Collection
collective biographies
History
Place:
Europe
Date:
1951
16th century
16e siècle
Topic:
Physicians  Search this
Science--History  Search this
Scientists  Search this
Science--history  Search this
Médecins  Search this
Sciences--Histoire  Search this
physicians  Search this
Science  Search this
Call number:
B785.P24 P3X
B785.P24P3X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10319

John Paul Jones a sailor's biography With a new introd. by Daniel V. Gallery

Author:
Morison, Samuel Eliot 1887-1976  Search this
Subject:
Jones, John Paul (1747-1792) Biographies  Search this
Physical description:
xxxiv, 456 p illustrations, portraits, maps 21 cm
Type:
Books
Biographies
Date:
1964
Call number:
CT275.J78 M8 1964
CT275.J78M8 1964
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10321

400 outstanding women of the world and costumology of their time compiled by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt .

Author:
Schmidt, Minna Moscherosch 1866-1961  Search this
Subject:
Moscherosch family  Search this
Physical description:
2 pages leaves, ix-xviii pages, 1 leaves, 583 pages including illustrations, plates, portraits, facsims front. (portrait) 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Date:
1933
Topic:
Clothing and dress--History  Search this
Costume--History  Search this
Fashion--History  Search this
Women's clothing--History  Search this
Women  Search this
Femmes  Search this
Vêtements de femme--Histoire  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Costume  Search this
Fashion  Search this
Women's clothing  Search this
Call number:
CT3202 .S3X
CT3202.S3X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10742

Essays in biohistory and other contributions presented by friends and colleagues to Frans Verdoorn on the occasion of his 60th birthday Edited by P. Smit & R. J. Ch. V. ter Laage

Author:
Laage, R. J. Ch. V. ter  Search this
Smit, Philippus  Search this
Verdoorn, Frans 1906-1984  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 426 pages with illus portrait, facsims 24 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Essay
Aufsatzsammlung
Biographies
Essais
Essays
Festschriften
History
Verdoorn, Frans
Date:
1970
Topic:
Botanists  Search this
Botany  Search this
Botany--History  Search this
Botany--history  Search this
Botanique  Search this
Botanistes  Search this
Biowissenschaften  Search this
Botanik  Search this
botanists  Search this
botany  Search this
Call number:
QH305 .S64
QH305.S64
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10777

A book of the Presidents with portraits from the White House collection

Author:
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Worcester  Search this
Physical description:
72 p illustrations (part color) 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
collective biographies
Place:
United States
Date:
1971
Topic:
Presidents  Search this
Call number:
E176.1 .F52X
E176.1.F52X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10883

Franklin D. Roosevelt portrait of a President

Author:
Gies, Joseph  Search this
Subject:
Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945  Search this
Physical description:
233 p illustrations, color port 27 cm
Type:
Biography
Pictorial works
Biographies
collective biographies
Illustrated books
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés
Place:
United States
Date:
1971
Topic:
Presidents  Search this
Call number:
CT275.R77 G4
CT275.R77G4
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_11048

Almost ancestors the first Californians by Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer ; edited by F. David Hales

Author:
Kroeber, Theodora  Search this
Author:
Heizer, Robert F (Robert Fleming),) 1915-1979  Search this
Sierra Club  Search this
Physical description:
168 pages illustrations, map, portraits 29 cm
Type:
Portraits
Biography
Catalog
Portrait
Biographies
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Catalogues
group portraits
Portraits de groupe
Place:
California
Amérique du Nord
Californie
Indianer
Kalifornien
Date:
1968
Topic:
Peuples autochtones  Search this
Indians of North America  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10019

"Noble fellow", William Starling Sullivant by Andrew Denny Rodgers III; with a compilation of the new species of mosses and liverworts described by William S. Sullivant and those described by William S. Sullivant and Leo Lesquereux, prepared by Richard T. Wareham of the Ohio state university; with a foreword by Dr. Adolph E. Waller

Author:
Rodgers, Andrew Denny 1900-  Search this
Author:
Lesquereux, Leo 1806-1889  Search this
Wareham, Richard Thurman  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 361 pages front., plates, portraits, maps, facsim 22 cm
Type:
Books
Biographies
collective biographies
Date:
1940
Topic:
Liverworts  Search this
Mosses  Search this
Hépatiques  Search this
Mousses  Search this
Call number:
QK31.S8 R6X
QK31.S8 R6X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10084

Edgar Allan Poe, a critical biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn

Author:
Quinn, Arthur Hobson 1875-1960  Search this
Physical description:
xvi pages, 1 leaves, 804 pages front., illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
collective biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Date:
1941
19th century
19e siècle
Topic:
Authors, American  Search this
Fantasy literature, American--History and criticism  Search this
Écrivains américains  Search this
Littérature fantastique américaine--Histoire et critique  Search this
Fantasy literature, American  Search this
Call number:
CT275.P74 Q7
CT275.P74Q7
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_10206

Marc Chagall Franz Meyer ; [translated from the German by Robert Allen]

Author:
Meyer, Franz 1919-2007  Search this
Translator:
Allen, Robert  Search this
Subject:
Chagall, Marc 1887-  Search this
Chagall, Marc 1887-1985 Criticism and interpretation  Search this
Physical description:
775 pages illustrations (part mounted color) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Biographies
collective biographies
Place:
France
Date:
1964
20th century
Topic:
Jewish painters  Search this
Painters  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9094

Abraham Lincoln the prairie years and the war years

Author:
Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967  Search this
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Biography  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 762 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Bookplates (Provenance)
collective biographies
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
1954
Civil War, 1861-1865
1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Topic:
Presidents  Search this
Statesmen  Search this
Hommes d'État  Search this
Présidents--Biographies  Search this
Presidents--Biography  Search this
History  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Call number:
E457 .S215X
E457.S215X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9134

Titian Ramsay Peale, 1799-1885 and his journals of the Wilkes Expedition

Author:
Poesch, Jessie J  Search this
Subject:
Peale, Titian Ramsay (1799-1885) Biographies  Search this
Peacock (Ship)  Search this
United States exploring expedition  Search this
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)  Search this
Physical description:
x, 214 pages illustrations, portraits, maps (on lining papers (1 folded)) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Biographies
collective biographies
Diaries
Journaux intimes
Date:
1961
Call number:
N40.1.P355 P7
G170 .P74
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9296

Life of Horace Mann By his wife, Mary Peabody Mann

Author:
Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody 1806-1887  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 9-609 pages front. (portrait) 22 cm
Type:
Books
Biographies
Date:
1937
1865
Call number:
CT275.M28 M2 1937
CT275.M28M2 1937
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9323

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