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Category : Almanacs, British
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Mining Manual and Almanack for 1851
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Category : Almanacs, British
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Almanacs, British
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Qui in Bibliotheca Collegii Sacrosanctae Et Individuae Trinitatis, Reginae Elizabethae, Juxta Dublin, Adservantur
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Reign of the Beast
Author: Adrian Desmond
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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First Supplement ... January 1852
Author: Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK)
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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