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Power, John Hatch, Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body. Philadelphia, 1862 Walsh, William S., Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. Philadelphia, 1893
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First published in Japan starting in 1873, and was required learning for art students in the fourth grade. During the Meiji Era, when Japan went through major rapid modernization and societal charge, education as much as other aspects of society became highly influenced by Western theory and practice. The work introduces the concepts of Isaac Newton on the color spectrum and purportedly utilized previously existing American educational materials. The front of the book contains a detailed color chart, color wheel (Venn diagram) representing the relationship between primary and secondary colors, and a diagram of the light spectrum, all hand colored. The rest of the book is divided in sections for each color of the spectrum.
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The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body
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The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1761-1823), published in London in 1793, was the first systematic treatise on pathology, and the first work on the subject in English. Baillie, the nephew of John and William Hunter, based most of his descriptions on observations he made from specimens preserved in John Hunter's medical museum. Though portions of Hunter's museum were lost in World War II, what survived is preserved in the Royal College of Surgeons of London.
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Lectures by an unknown author
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Volume containing two lectures by an unidentified person. The first lecture was given to a mercantile group and is about "universal education," the second lecture, entitled "The Anatomy of Labor," is about human beings and work.
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Mitchell, Sir William. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Adelaide, South Australia
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He expects war to be declared with Japan on or about December 1, 1941 because of a Japanese raider sinking an Australian ship.
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Essays and reviews: various drafts
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Includes the following pieces published in collections or periodicals: Salvador by J. Didion, The Ordnance Survey Atlas of Great Britain (review), Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, William Simpson, The Notebooks of Henry James ed. L. Edel, Anatomy of Restlessness by B. Chatwin, Foreward to The Sunday Book of Travel, The Writing Life: Writing Travel.
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