Research Catalog

  • The globe of Martin Bylica of Ollkusz and celestial maps in the East and in the West. Translated by Andrzej Potocki. [Wyd. 1.]

    • Text
    • Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 73-643Offsite
  • The H. H. Young collection of antique terrestrial & celestial globes in the Stein Map Room of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    • Text
    • 1973
  • Globes, sphères et systèmes : collection supérieure : prospectus / par Ch. Dien, auteur de L'uranographie dressée sous l'inspection de M. Bouvard ...

    • Text
    • A Paris : Chez Ch. Dien, géographe bréveté pour les globes et les sphères, rue Hautefeuille, n⁰ 13, quartier de l'École de médicine, 1833.
    • 1833
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 83-620Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • L'usage des globes terrestres et celestes pour instituts et en général [microform] / par C. Abel-Klinger.

    • Text
    • Nuremberg : [s.n., 1845?]
    • 1845
  • A tutor to astronomy and geography; or, an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial.

    • Text
    • New York, B. Franklin [1968]
    • 1968-1674
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 89-7523Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Die alten Globen der Forschungsbibliothek und des Schlossmuseums Gotha / von Werner Horn.

    • Text
    • Gotha : Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Map Div. GA260 .H67Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • Rittenhouse : journal of the American scientific instrument enterprise.

    • Text
    • Hastings-on-Hudson, NY : D. & Y. Coffeen ; Dracut, MA : R.V. Giordano, 1986-
    • 1986-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 93-2Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Globes from the Western World / Elly Dekker, Peter van der Krogt.

    • Text
    • London : Zwemmer, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Map Div. GA260 .D44 1993 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • Islamicate celestial globes, their history, construction, and use / Emilie Savage-Smith ; with a chapter on iconography by Andrea P.A. Belloli.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, c1984.
    • 1985-1984
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OG 86-2244Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Map Div. QB66 .S28 1985Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • Die Welt in Händen; kurze Kulturgeschichte des Globus.

    • Text
    • Stuttgart, Schuler [c1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. (Fauser, A. Welt in Händen)Offsite
  • Les usages de la sphère, des globes céleste et terrestre : précédés d'un abrége sur les différentes systèmes du monde : suivis de la description et des usages de la géo-cyclique, etc / Par F. Delamarche.

    • Text
    • Paris : F. Delamarche, 1837.
    • 1837
    • 2 Items
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    Text OMP (Delamarche, C. F. Usages de la sphère. 1837)Offsite
  • Guy's Elements of astronomy : and an abridgement of Keith's New treatise on the use of globes.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Key & Biddle ..., stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1835.
    • 1835
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433087586446
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    Text 3-OMP (Guy, J. Guy's elements of astronomy. 1835)Offsite
  • Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Printed for and published by Mathew Carey, 1806
    • 1806
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-PAG (Ferguson, J. Ferguson's lectures on select subjects) v. 1Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-PAG (Ferguson, J. Ferguson's lectures on select subjects) v. 2Offsite
  • Bouvier's Familiar astronomy; or, An introduction to the study of the heavens. Illustrated by celestial maps, and upwards of 200 finely executed engravings. To which is added a treatise on the globes, and a comprehensive astronomical dictionary...By Hannah M. Bouvier.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson, [etc., etc.] 1857.
    • 1857
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433024465142
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    Text OMR (Peterson, H. M. B. Bouvier's Familiar astronomy)Offsite
  • Modelle der Welt : Erd- und Himmelsgloben / herausgegeben von Peter E. Allmayer-Beck.

    • Text
    • Wien : Brandstätter, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 98-10955Offsite
  • Libro dei globi. Venice 1693 (1701) With an introd. by Helen Wallis.

    • Cartographic
    • Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969.
    • 1969-1693
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic Map Div.+++ (World. 1701 (1969)) (Coronelli, M. V. Libro dei globi)Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117
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  • Adriani Metii ... De genvino vsv vtrivsqve globi tractatvs. Adjecta est nova sciatericorum, & artis navigandi ratio novis instrumentis, & inventionibus illustrata.

    • Text
    • Franekeræ, Excudebat Vldricus Balck ... sumptibus Joannis Jansonii, 1624.
    • 1624
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KB 1624 (Metius, A. A. Adriani Metii)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The description and uses of the celestial and terrestrial globes; and of Collins's pocket quadrant. By John Harris ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed by E. Midwinter for D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1703.
    • 1703
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KC 1703 (Harris, J. Description and uses of the celestial and terrestrial globes)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Sphaerae mundi : early globes at the Stewart Museum / Edward H. Dahl and Jean-François Gauvin ; with the collaboration of Eileen Meillon, Robert Derome and Peter van der Krogt.

    • Text
    • [Sillery, Quebec] : Septentrion, [2000].
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Map Div. GA195.M66 D39 2000Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • Globvs cœlestis in quo stelle fixæ omnes quæ a N. Viro Tychone Brahe suma Cura obseruatæ sunt, accuratissime dessignantur quibus adiuncte sunt circa Pol. Astrale stel. quæ a peritiss nauelero Petro Theodori annotate sunt simul accomodate ad annum 1614 æditus vero an 1615.

    • Cartographic
    • [Roma : G. di Rossi, 1615]
    • 1615
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic *KVB++ 1615 (Hondius, J. Globvs clest. in quo stelle fix)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Il Libro dei globi di Vincenzo Coronelli / Nicolangelo Scianna [author of accompanying text and ed. of facsim.] ; con un introduzione de Franco Farinelli [accompanying text].

    • Cartographic
    • [Italy?] : Dolmas, [1999]
    • 1999-1700
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic Map Div.++ 01-10644Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Gottorp : et fyrstehof i 1600-tallet / [redaktion, Mette Skougaard].

    • Text
    • Copenhagen : Gyldendal, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 03-3232Offsite
  • Catalogue of orbs, spheres and globes / Elly Dekker.

    • Text
    • Firenze : Giunti, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 05-3080Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Farquhar Transparent Globes : teachers manual.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Pa. : Farquhar Transparent Globes, c1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAX K-211Offsite
  • The archaic and the exotic : studies in the history of Indian astronomical instruments / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Manohar, 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSD 09-88Offsite
  • The Mercator globes, 1541-1994.

    • Text
    • Luxembourg : Peacock Management Services, [1994?]
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 09-5396Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Johann Schoner's globe of 1515 : transcription and study / Chet Van Duzer.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 13-2386Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Il globo celeste arabico del secolo XI [electronic resource] : esistente nel Gabinetto degli strumenti antichi di astronomia, di fisica e di matematica / del R. Istituto di studi superiori ; illustrato da F. Meucci.

    • Text
    • Firenze : Successori Le Monnier, 1878.
    • 1878
    • 1 Resource

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    http://ncco.galegroup.com/gdc/ncco/MonographsDetailsPage/MonographsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&prodId=NCCO&action=1&activityType=BasicSearch&javax.portlet.action=viewPortletAction&documentId=GALE%7CBKNAGJ186531594&dviSelectedPage=1&userGroupName=nypl
  • The description and uses of the celestial and terrestrial globes [electronic resource] : and of Collins's pocket-quadrant. By John Harris D.D. and F.R.S.

    • Text
    • London : printed for D. Midwinter at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Churchyard, M.DCC.XX. [1720]
    • 1720
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0142900700&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • The use of the ge-organon and improved analemma, [electronic resource] : or substitutes for the terrestrial and celestial globe. Invented by B. Donne, Teacher of the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at Bristol. Price of the Ge-Organon in Sheets 6s. 6d.; but if fitted up with moveable Hour Circles, &c. 10s.Of the Analemma 3s. 6d. and of this Pamphlet 1s.

    • Text
    • Bristol : published by the author, M.DCC.LXXXVII. Sold also by most of the principal Instrument-Makers in London, [1787]
    • 1787
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0031200400&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • Trigonometry [electronic resource] : with an introduction to the use of both globes, and projection of the sphere in plano. To which is subjoin'd, an appendix applying the doctrine of plain triangles to the taking of heights and distances, and to Plain and Mercator's Sailing. By John Wilson.

    • Text
    • Edinburgh : printed by James Watson, One of Her Majesty's Printers, 1714.
    • 1714
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0131000300&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • An introduction to the use of the globes, [electronic resource] : and the orrery: also, the application of astronomy to chronology; In which are contained Rules and Memorial Canons for finding the Dominical Letter, Leap-Year, Epact, Easter, &c. according to the Gregorian Account or New Style; with an Explication of the Reason of each Rule. Adapted to The Instruction and Entertainment of such Persons as are not previously versed in Mathematic Science. With an appendix, Attempting to explain the Account of the First and Fourth, Days Work of Creation in the First Chapter of Genesis. By David Jennings, D.D.

    • Text
    • London : printed for J. Nourse in the Strand, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty; J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster Row, near St. Paul's; and E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXVI. [1766]
    • 1766
    • 1 Resource

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  • Description of an improvement in the application of the quadrant of altitude to a celestial globe, [electronic resource] : for the resolution of problems dependant on azimuth and altitude. By Mr. John Smeaton, F. R. S. From the Philosophical transactions.

    • Text
    • [London, s.n., 1789]
    • 1789
    • 1 Resource

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  • The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. [electronic resource] : To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system. By Joseph Harris, Teacher Of The Mathematics.

    • Text
    • London : printed by John Rivington, jun. for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, at No 62, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and sold by John Troughton, successor to Mr. B. Cole, instrument-maker, No 136, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
    • 1783
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0675400300&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • A supplement to all former treatises on the use of the globes, [electronic resource] : render'd necessary from the late improvements exhibited to the public on Mr. Neale's patent globes. In two parts. Part I. Introductory: Containing the Description and Uses of the several Circles and Points on the Globes, intended for the Instruction and Benefit of young Beginners. Part II. Supplemental: Wherein the superior Excellency and Utility of these Globes are exemplified, in the Solution of above one hundred curious Problems in those noble Sciences, Astronomy, Geography, and Navigation: in so plain and intelligible a Manner, that such, who were before Strangers to the Nature and Cause of the Phoenomena resulting from the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies, may with great Ease obtain a competent Knowledge thereof. By Edward Moore, Teacher of Geography and Navigation, in Deptford.

    • Text
    • London : printed: and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row; B. Cole, mathematical instrument maker, in Fleet Street, and by the patentee, at his House in Leadenhall-Street, M.DCC.LI. [1751]
    • 1751
    • 1 Resource

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  • A new and general introduction to practical astronomy [electronic resource] : with its application to geography, in describing the Earth. Topography and hydrography, in describing Places on Land and at Sea. Horometry, or the Measurement of Time. The Trial of Time-Keepers. The Obliquity of the Ecliptic. The Magnetic Variation, and Variation Charts of the Ocean. Refraction and Parallax. The Horizons of the Spheroidal Earth. Surveying the Coasts, and correcting the Charts. Observations of Lunar Eclipses, and Jupiter's Satellites. The Construction of temporary, and other Instruments; with tables of the sun and fixed stars, and a variety of interesting copper plates. The whole being designed, As a Course of plain and easy Instructions and Operations, preparatory to the discovery of the longitude. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical and Philosophical Sciences, London.

    • Text
    • London : printed for the author; and sold by him, at No. 6, Clement's-Inn. Also sold by A. Smith, optician, near Charing-Cross, Strand; and at H. Gregory's Mathematical shop, Leadenhall-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
    • 1774
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1183000400&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • The description and uses of the celestial and terrestrial globes [electronic resource] : and of Collins's pocket quadrant by John. Harris, M. A. and F. R. S.

    • Text
    • London : printed by E. Midwinter for D. Midwinter and T. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCIII. [1703]
    • 1703
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0660700200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • Der Erdglobus des Johannes Schöner von 1515 / herausgegeben von Frank Berger.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt : Historisches Museum ; Frankfurt am Main : Henrich Editionen, c2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 16-35273Offsite
  • Globes : visions of the world = le monde en sphères / editorial coordination, Geneviève de la Bretesche and Elisabeth de Farcy.

    • Text
    • Edinburgh, United Kingdom : Akkadia Press, 2018.
    • 2018
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 20-416Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Mapping the heavens / Peter Whitfield.

    • Text
    • London : British Library, 2018.
    • 2018
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Map Div. QB65 .W45 2018Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • The H. H. Young collection of antique terrestrial & celestial globes in the Stein Map Room of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / cataloged by Gerard L. Alexander, Chief, Map Division, The New York Public Library.

    • Text
    • MIT, Cambridge, Mass. : [Gerard L. Alexander], 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 19-171Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Le monde en sphères / sous la direction de Catherine Hofmann et François Nawrocki.

    • Text
    • Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, [2019]
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 19-62283Offsite
  • Globalization / catalogue edited by Daniel Crouch [and 7 others].

    • Text
    • London : Daniel Croch Rare Books, [2020?]
    • 2020
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 20-418Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Libro dei globi. : Venice 1693 (1701) / With an introd. by Helen Wallis.

    • Text
    • Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969.
    • 1969-1693
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 912 T342 ser.4:v.5Off-site
  • Neuzeitliche europäische Himmelsgloben mit arabischen Inschriften / Paul Kunitzsch.

    • Text
    • München : Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften : In Kommission bei C.H. Beck, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AS182 .M823 Jahrg.1997 Heft 4Off-site
  • Die alten Globen der Forschungsbibliothek und das Schlossmuseums Gotha / von Werner Horn.

    • Text
    • Gotha : Forschungsbibliothek, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GA260 .H67Off-site
  • The globe of Martin Bylica of Olkusz : and celestial maps in the east and in the west / by Zofia Ameisenowa ; translated by Andrzej Potocki.

    • Text
    • Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1959.
    • 1959
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text N72 C24 Am31Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 505 M755 t.11Off-site
  • Islamicate celestial globes, their history, construction, and use / Emilie Savage-Smith ; with a chapter on iconography by Andrea P.A. Belloli.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, ©1984.
    • 1985-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SI 1.28:46Off-site
  • Catalogue of orbs, spheres and globes / Elly Dekker.

    • Text
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GA195.F565 I78 2004Off-site
  • Islamicate celestial globes, their history, construction, and use / Emilie Savage-Smith ; with a chapter on iconography by Andrea P.A. Belloli.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, ©1984.
    • 1985-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QB66 .S28 1985Off-site

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