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Rare Books & Manuscripts

Illustration showing cut diamond shapes, Plate 1 from A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones by John Mawe, 1823

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Peculiar Diamonds of India and Brazil, from A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones by John Mawe, 1823

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Illustration of natural diamond shapes, Plate 2 from A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones by John Mawe, 1823

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Conglomerate mass containing diamonds and gold, from Travels in the Interior of Brazil by John Mawe, 1812

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Map of the diamond mines, from Travels in the Interior of Brazil by Jonn Mawe, 1812

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Crystalline forms of diamond, topaz and tourmaline, drawing from Travels in the Interior of Brazil by John Mawe,1812

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Illustration of a cylinder used for washing the cascalhao, from Travels in the Interior of Brazil by John Mawe, 1812

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A view of the manner in which the river is laid dry by an aquaduct, drawing from Travels in the Interior of Brazil by John Mawe, 1812

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Men washing for diamonds at Mandang, Travels in the Interior of Brazil, frontispiece

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Diamond washing at Curralinho, Travels in Brazil 1817-1820, frontispiece

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Suppenschildkrote, hunting sea turtles, from Brehms Tierleben by Alfred Edmund Brehm

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Passenger Pigeon by Mark Catesby, from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama islands

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Crescent nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea lunata), lithograph by J. Gould and H.C. Richter, Plate LVII in Mammals of Australia, Vol. II by John Gould

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Apteryx australis by John Gould, Plate 10 from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 1,1835

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Heath Hen by Mark Catesby, from The Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731-1743

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Cuban Parrot by Mark Catesby, from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731-1743

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Carolina Parakeet by Mark Catesby, from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731-1743

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Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Mark Catesby from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731-1743

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Flying squirrel, Plate 76 from Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands by Catesby

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Illustration of famous diamonds from Tavernier, 1681

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