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Assyrian stone vessels and related material in the British Museum.
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ISBN: 9781842173121 184217312X Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow


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Ostraka aus dem Britischen Museum in London mit Einführung in das Formular der vorgelegten Urkunden
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ISBN: 3447043288 Year: 2000 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz


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A catalogue of the lamps in the British Museum. IV: lamps of metal and stone, and lampstands
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ISBN: 071411278X 0714112437 0714122068 9780714122069 9780714112787 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Trustees of the British Museum


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Smoking pipes of the North American Indian
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ISBN: 0714115479 Year: 1977 Publisher: London Trustees of the British Museum


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How to see the British Museum in four visits
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ISBN: 1781666296 4064066243791 9700000013755 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Luton, Bedfordshire] : Andrews UK Limited,


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Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Glass in the British Museum.
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ISBN: 9780861591671 0861591674 Year: 2008 Volume: 167. Publisher: London British Museum Publications

Portrait sculpture : a catalogue of the British Museum collection: c.1675 - 1975.
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ISBN: 0714105988 Year: 1999 Publisher: London British Museum press

The British Museum : A-Z Companion.
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ISBN: 0714121436 9780714121437 Year: 1999 Publisher: London The Britis Museum Press


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Lives of the founders of the British Museum : with notices of its chief augmentors and other benefactors, 1570-1870.
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ISBN: 0511710097 110801495X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This two-volume work covers the period 1570-1870, and is one of several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812-1886), whose three-volume Memoirs of Libraries is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation collections' of the British Museum. Among them were Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I, Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), and Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose bequest of his collections to George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum by Act of Parliament in 1753. The administrators and early donors to the Museum - archaeologists, travellers and dilettanti such as Sir William Hamilton and the earl of Elgin - are also discussed.

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