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Collection of photographs illustrative of people, buildings and civilisation in Japan, China and India, set together to describe a journey made in 1877-78 through those countries, possibly in connection with a visitation of the S.P.G. and other…

Collection of photographs illustrative of people, buildings and civilisation in Japan, China and India

Ceylon : an account of the island physical, historical and topographical, with notices of its natural history, antiquities, and productions / By Sir James Emerson Tennent. 2 volumes: fronts., illus., maps (part fold.); 22 cm.
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Photograph of Catherine Helen Spence by an unknown photographer, undated.

Poverty and public health in Belfast, 1888-1914

This image depicts an episode in 'The Fire Worshippers' from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. Hinda is captive on a Gheber boat; Hafed is at her side. Found in: Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (London: Longmans, 1880), p. 199;
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View of Canton City, c. 1905

The Book of Cerne is a composite manuscript. The central section, part II (fols 2-99), is a ninth-century prayerbook written in principally in Latin with some glosses in Old English. It contains a selection of extracts from the gospels, prayers and…

This magnificent manuscript was formerly known as the Canterbury Psalter. It is now named for the scribe, Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury where the Psalter was made. It is an illustrated copy of the Psalms in three Latin versions with…