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Pittoresque et Monumentale, 5 vols. in 3; Le Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, on vellum paper, the plates beautifully coloured, 3 vols.
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Pittoresque en Autriche, 3 vols., plates finely coloured; La Borde,
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[196] Histoire Pittoresque des Religions, t.i. p. 217.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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Souvenirs d'un Vieillard (1854); also La Bretagne Pittoresque (1845), and, finally, Causeries Historiques et Litteraires (1854, 2 vols.) '.
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Pittoresque ", a popular review founded in 1899; the" Vies des
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Rouen Pittoresque, drawings by _Lalanne_, text by various hands, 1886 (illus.).
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Patissier Pittoresque_ (1842), which contains designs for confectioners, deceived the bookseller from its plates of pavilions, temples, etc., into supposing it to be a book on architecture, and he accordingly placed it under that heading in his catalogue.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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Any man, born about the year 1845, who does not feel the tears of homesickness rise to his eyes as he turns over the pages of an old number of the 'Magasin Pittoresque', or who hears some one play upon an old piano Marcailhou's Indiana Waltz, is not endowed with much sensibility.
A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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Amedee had received for a birthday present a box of water-colors, with which he was sprawled out upon an old rug, earnestly intent upon his work of coloring the woodcuts in an odd volume of the 'Magasin Pittoresque', and wetting his brush from time to time in his mouth.
A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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[147-1] _Voyage Pittoresque dans le Yucatan_, p. 49.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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