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Packard, Alpheus
Spring 1876. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on
Those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops, for the Use of Colleges, Farm-Schools,
and Agriculturists, 6th ed, New York: H. H. Holt and Company
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Paget, Frederick Arthur
1870. Report on the Economy of Road Maintenance and Horse
Draught through Steam Road Rolling; with Special Reference to the Metropolis
, London: Judd & Co.
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Paley, William
1794. A View of the Evidences of Christianity, London: R. Faulder
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Paley, William
1802. Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the
Deity: Collected from the Appearances of Nature, [London]: R.
Faulder
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Palgrave, Francis
Turner 1862. Handbook to the Fine Art Collections in the
International Exhibition of 1862, London: Macmillan and Co.
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Paradis, James G. 1997. 'Satire and Science in Victorian
Culture', in
Lightman, ed. 1997, 143–75
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Paris, John Ayrton
1826. A Treatise on Diet: With a View to Establish, on Practical Grounds, a
System of Rules for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases Incident to a
Disordered State of the Digestive Functions, London: T. & G.
Underwood
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[Paris, John
Ayrton] 1827. Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest! Being
an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid
of the Popular Toys and Sports, 3 vols, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown
and Green
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Parkes, Samuel
1806. A Chemical Catechism for the Use of Young People, with Copious Notes
for the Assistance of the Teacher [...], London: privately
printed
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Parkinson,
James 1822. Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains,
Especially those Found in the British Strata, Intended to Aid the Student in
his Enquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils and their Connexion with the
Formation of the Earth, London: printed for the author
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Parr, Harriet [Holm Lee,
pseud.] 1872. Country Stories, 2 vols, London
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Parr, Samuel 1801.
A Spital Sermon, Preached at Christ Church, upon Easter Tuesday, April 15,
1800; To Which are Added Notes, London: J. Mawman; Cambridge: W. H. Lunn,
J. Deighton, and B. Flower; Oxford: J. Cooke, Hanwell and Parker, and R.
Bliss
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Parry, William
Edward 1821. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a
North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years
1819–20 in his Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, Under the Orders of
William Edward Parry R.N., F.R.S. and Commander of the Expedition. With an
Appendix, Containing the Scientific and Other Observations, London: John
Murray
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Parry, William
Edward 1824. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a
North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years
1821-22-23, in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla Under the Orders of Captain
William Edward Parry, London: John Murray
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Parry, William
Edward 1826. Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a
Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years
1824–25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury, Under the Orders of
Captain William Edward Parry, London: John Murray
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Partington,
Charles Frederick 1822. An Historical and Descriptive Account of
the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing
Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics; with an Appendix of Patents and
Parliamentary Papers Connected with the Subject, London: J. Taylor
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Pascal, Blaise
1656. Lettre escrite á un provincial par un de ses amis sur le sujet
des disputes présentes de la Sorbonne, [Paris?]: [n. pub.]
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Pascal, Blaise 1803. Thoughts on Religion,
and Other Important Subjects: To Which are Added Memoirs of his Life and
Writings, London: Samuel Bagster
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Pass, Horatio
1846. A Treatise on Artificial Teeth and Palates: With Advice to Parents;
And Observations on the Effects of a Residence in Tropical Climates on the
Teeth of Europeans, London: John Churchill
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Paston, George. 1932. At John Murray's: Records of a
Literary Circle, 1843–1892, London: John Murray
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[Paulian, Aimé
Henri]. Dictionnaire de physique portatif [...]. A l'usage des
personnes qui n'ont aucune teinture de geometrie; dans lequel on explique le
sistème physique de Newton [...], Avignon: F.-B. Merande, La Veuve
Girard, 1758
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Paxton, James
1831–34. An Introduction to the Study of Human Anatomy, 2 vols,
London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper
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Peacock, William
F [1860?]. A Visit to the Wonderful City of Uriconium; or, TH
Roman Ruins at Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury, with an Account of the Deformed
Skeletons; and a Word to 'Punch', Manchester: Thomas Coles
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Pearson,
William 1824–29. An Introduction to Practical
Astronomy, 2 vols, London: printed for the author
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Peary, Robert
Edwin 1898. Northward Over the "Great Ice": A Narrative of Life
and Work Along the Shores and Upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland
in the Years 1891–1897, 2 vols, London: Methuen & Co.
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Peek, Henry William
1867. Six Essays on Commons Preservation: Written in Competition for Prizes
Offered By H. W. Peek Containing a Legal and Historical Examination of
Manorial Rights and Customs, With a View to the Preservation of Commons Near
Great Towns, London: Sampson Low and Marston
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Penn, Granville
1822. A Comparative Estimate of the Mosaic and Mineral Geologies,
London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co.
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Pennant,
Thomas 1766. The British Zoology: Class I. Quadrupeds II. Birds.
Published Under the Inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society, Instituted for the
Promoting Useful Charities, and the Knowledge of Nature, Among the Descendants
of the Ancient Britons [...], London: printed for the Society
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Pennant,
Thomas 1768–70. British Zoology, 4 vols, London:
Benjamin White
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Pennant,
Thomas, ed. 1790. Indian Zoology [...] An Essay on
India [...], trans. by J. Aikin, London: R. Faulder
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Penning, William
Henry 1876. Field Geology, London: Baillière, and
Tindall & Cox
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Penny,
Frederick 1861. 'Clay in Foreign Paper', The Times, 22 May
1861, p. 9c
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Penny, Josiah
1820. Scripture Philosophy; Part First. Bath: [n. pub.?]
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Percival,
Edward 1819. Practical Observations on the Treatment, Pathology,
and Prevention of Typhus Fever, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and
Browne
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Perkins, Barbara M. 1985. 'Harper's Monthly Magazine',
in
Chielens, ed. 1985, pp. 166–71
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Peschel,
Oscar 1870. Neue Probleme der vergleichenden Erdkunde als versuch
einer Morphologie de Erdoberflache, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot
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Petermann,
August 1870. Der Gulfstrom, und Standplunkt der Thermometrischen
Kentniss des Nord-Atlantischen Oceans und Landgebiets im Jahre 1870, Gotha:
Justus Perthes
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Peters, Catherine 1987. Thackeray's Universe: Shifting
Worlds of Imagination and Reality, Faber and Faber
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Pettigrew, Thomas
Joseph 1817. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late John
Coakley Lettsom, With a Selection from his Correspondence, London: Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
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Philip, Alexander
Philip Wilson 1821. A Treatise on Indigestion and its
Consequences, Called Nervous and Bilious Complaints: With Observations on the
Organic Diseases in which they Sometimes Terminate, London: Thomas and
George Underwood
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Phillips,
Henry 1820. Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical
Account of Fruits Known in Great Britain, London: printed for the
author
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Phillips,
Henry 1822. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising their
Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities, Natural History, and
Relation to Art, Science, and Commerce, 2 vols, London: Henry Colburn and
Co.
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Phillips,
Henry 1824. Flora Historica; or, The Three Seasons of the British
Parterre Historically and Botanically Treated: With Observations on Planting,
to Secure a Regular Succession of Flowers, from the Commencement of Spring to
the End of Autumn. To which are Added, the Most Approved Methods of Cultivating
Bulbous and Other Plants, as Practised by the Most Celebrated Florists of
England, Holland, and France, 2 vols, London: E. Lloyd
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Phillips,
John 1829. Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or, A
Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast:
Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections, and Plates of the Fossil Plants and
Animals, 2 vols, York: printed for the author [Vol. 2, London: J.
Murray]
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Phillips, Mrs.
Arthur 1894. The Birth of a Soul: A Psychological Study,
London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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[Phillips,
Richard] 1807. An Easy Grammar of Natural and Experimental
Philosophy, for the Use of Schools, London: Richard Phillips
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Phillips, Richard [J.
Goldsmith, pseud.] 1815. Geography Illustrated on a Popular Plan:
For the Use of Schools and Young Persons, with Sixty Engravings, 7th edn,
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
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Phillips, Richard
[Rev. C. C. Clarke, pseud.] 1818. The Hundred Wonders of the
World, and of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Described According to the Best and
Latest Authorities, London: Richard Phillips
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Phillips,
Richard 1828. A Personal Tour Through the United Kingdom;
Describing Living Objects, and Contemporaneous Interests, London: Horatio
Phillips
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[Phillips, T.]
1827. Scenes and Occurrences in Albany and Caffer-Land, South Africa,
London: W. Marsh
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[Phipps,
Constantine Henry] 1828. Yes and No: A Tale of the Day, 2
vols, London: Henry Colburn
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Phipps, Constantine
John 1774. The Journal of a Voyage Undertaken by Order of His
Present Majesty, for Making Discoveries Towards the North Pole, by the Hon.
Commodore Phipps and Captain Lutwidge, in His Majesty's Sloops Racehorse and
Carcase: To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Several Voyages Undertaken for
the Discovery of a North-East Passage to China and Japan, London: F.
Newbery
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Piesse, George William
Septimus 1855. The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining
Odours of Plants, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
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Pinkerton,
John 1802. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires,
Kingdoms, States, and Colonies, with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles, in all Parts
of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations,
Digested on a New Plan; the Astronomical Introduction by S. Vince, 2 vols,
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, and T. N. Longman and O. Rees
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[Pinnock,
William] [1815?]. A Catechism of Geography, Bristol: Philip
Rose
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Pitkin,
Timothy 1816. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United
States of America: In Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures and an
Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States:
with a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the
Colonies, Previous to their Independence. Accompanied with Tables, Illustrative
of the Principles and Objects of the Work, Hartford: printed by Charles
Hosmer
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Plato 1871. The
Dialogues of Plato, trans. (with analyses and introductions) by
B. Jowett, 4 vols, Oxford:
Clarendon Press
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Playfair,
John 1802a. Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the
Earth, London: Cadell and Davies; Edinburgh: William Creech
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Playfair,
John 1802b. 'Meteorological Abstract for the Years 1797, 1798, and
1799', Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 5,
193–202
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Playfair,
Lyon 1870. The Inosculation of the Arts and Sciences: Address
Delivered at the Town Hall, Birmingham, on the 29th September, 1870,
Birmingham and Midland Institute, Presidential Addresses, Birmingham: J.
Allen
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P[lot], R[obert]
1677. The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural
History of England, Oxford: at the Theatre; London: Mr. S. Millers
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Plot, Robert 1686.
The Natural History of Staffordshire, Oxford: at the Theatre
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Pluche, Noël
Antoine 1732–51. Le spectacle de la nature; ou, entretiens
sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus
propres à rendre les jeunes-gens curieux, et à leur former
l'esprit, 8 vols, Paris: La veuve Estienne, and Jean Desaint
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Pocock, George
[1827]. The Aeropleustic Art; or, Navigation in the Air, by the Use of Kites
or Buoyant Sails, London: W. Wilson
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Podmore, Frank
1894. Apparitions and Thought-Transference: An Examination of the Evidence
for Telepathy, Contemporary Science Series [26], London: Walter
Scott
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Poggendorff,
Johann Christian 1863 Biographisch-literarisches
Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften, 2 vols,
Leipzig: J. A. Barth
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Pole, William
1859. 'On Colour-Blindness', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
of London, 149 (1859), 323-339
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Pollock, Frederick
Richard 1879. Sports in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah
and Jyntiah Hills. With Notes of Sport in the Hilly Districts of the Northern
Division, Madras Presidency [...], 2 vols, London: Chapman and Hall
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Polo, Marco 1818.
The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century: Being a
Description, by that Early Traveller, of Remarkable Places and Things, in the
Eastern Parts of the World, trans. by
William Marsden, London: printed
for the author [i.e. translator]
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Polo, Marco 1871.
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and
Marvels of the East, newly trans. and edited with notes by
Colonel Henry Yule, 2 vols, London: J.
Murray
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[Pope,
Alexander] 1711. An Essay on Criticism, London: W.
Lewis
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Pope, Alexander
1713. Windsor Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown,
London: B. Lintott
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Porteus,
Beilby 1811. The Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus,
D.D., Late Bishop of London, 6 vols, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies
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Pouchet, Félix
Archimède 1859. Hétérogénie; ou,
traité de la génération spontanée basé sur
de nouvelles expériences, Paris: Corbeil
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Pouchet, Félix
Archimède 1895. The Universe; or, The Infinitely Great and
the Infinitely Little, 12th edn, 4 vols, London: Blackie and Son
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Power, D'Arcy, ed. 1930. Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2 vols, Royal College of
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Powers, Susan
Rugeley [1866]. The Mother's Book of Health, and How to Manage a
Baby, London:
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Powers, Susan Rugeley
[1859]. Why do not Women Swim? A Voice from Many Waters,
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Pratt, Anne [1855].
The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, 5 vols, London: Society
for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
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Pratt, Josiah
1811. The Life, Character, and Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil, Collected and Revised
by Josiah Pratt, London: Whittington and Rowland
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Pratt, Samuel
Jackson 1801. Bread; or, The Poor: A Poem with Notes and
Illustrations, London: Longman and Rees, and T Becket
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[Prichard, James
Cowles] 1813. Researches into the Physical History of Man,
London: J. and A. Arch
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Prichard, James
Cowles 1819. An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology: To Which is
Subjoined, a Critical Examination of the Remains of Egyptian Chronology,
London : J. & A. Arch
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Prichard, James
Cowles 1826. Researches into the Physical History of Mankind,
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Priestley,
Joseph 1767. The History and Present State of Electricity, with
Original Experiments, London: J. Dodsley, J. Johnson and B. Davenport, and
T. Cadell
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Priestley,
Joseph 1802a. 'A Reply to Mr. Cruikshank's Observations in Defence
of the New System of Chemistry', Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry
and the Arts, 1, 181–84
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Priestley,
Joseph 1802b. ''Observations and Experiments Relating to the Pile of
Volta', Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, 1,
198–204
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Proctor, Richard
Anthony 1868. 'Great Solar Eclipses', Cornhill Magazine, 18,
155–69
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Proctor, Richard
Anthony 1869. Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide
to the Knowledge of the Constellations, Showing, in Twelve Maps, the Position
of the Principal Star-Groups Night After Night Throughout the Year, with
Introduction and a Separate Explanation of Each, London: R.
Hardwicke
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Proctor, Richard
Anthony 1872. The Orbs Around Us: A Series of Familiar Essays on
the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of
Suns, London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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Proctor, Richard
Anthony 1875. 'Astronomy' in
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Proctor, Richard
Anthony 1881. Easy Star Lessons, London: Chatto and Windus
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Professor
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Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 10,
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Prout, William
1834. Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion, Considered with
Reference to Natural Theology, Bridgewater Treatises, 8, London: William
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Pryce, William
1778. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining:
Containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with
the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, and of
Cleansing and Metalizing their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process for
Dressing, Assaying, and Smelting of Ores: To Which is Added, an Explanation of
the Terms and Idioms of Miners, London: J. Phillips
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Ptolemy 1540.
Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei
Alexandrini enerrationibus libros VIII. Quorum primus noua translatione
Pirckheimeri et accessione commentarioli illustrior quam hactenus fuerit,
redditus est [...] addita sunt [...] scholia quibus exoleta
[...] nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur; succedunt tabulae
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Petrum
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Pulte, Joseph
Hippolyt 1855. Homeopathic Domestic Physician: Containing the
Treatment of Diseases; with Popular Explanations of Anatomy, (revised and
supplied with explanatory notes by
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Epps
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Pym, William 1815.
Observations upon the Bulam Fever: Which has of Late Years Prevailed in the
West Indies, on the Coast of America, at Gibralta, Cadiz, and other Parts of
Spain; with a Collection of Facts Proving it to be a Highly Contagious
Disease, London: J. Callow
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