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Memoire sur la dérivation des canaux pour servir à l'irrigation: report
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Carte de l'antique Alexandrie et de ses faubourgs : dresée sur les ordres de S. A. le vice-roi d'Egypte à l'aide de fouilles, nivellements et autres recherches / par Mahmoud-Bey, Astronome de Son Altesse
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2445 Mahmoud. Carte de l'antique Alexandrie et des faubourgs... fait en 1866. Paris, Imp. Monrocq, 1866. 1 sheet. [see p.]."Maḥmūd Bāshā Falakī (Mahmoud-Bey) was an Egyptian engineer, mathematician, and scientist who was charged with making the first complete topographical map of Egypt. (Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt, Arthur Goldschmidt, 2000, page 53, accessed online at http://books.google.com/books?id=p3J6IS8t74QC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=mahmud+basha+falaki&source=bl&ots=-274t5RYMd&sig=e7qKwgbc7CV-o8csctA39Xsofy0&hl=en&ei=KxhjTJ_DEJGMOK6otb8K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=mahmud%20basha%20falaki&f=false on August 11th, 2010.) Stamp: Kensington Public Library. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Meters, stade. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Stamp: Kensington Public Library MS notes: 15 2445 p.Maps Africa Mahmoud.
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Carte de la Nouvelle France Pour servir a l'Etude de l'Historie du Canada Depuis sa Découverte Jusqu'en 1760
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Manuscript by Ambroise Tranquille Sassard, in French, on the treatment of pain in medicine that was published later in the October 1780 issue of Le Journal de Physique de l'Abbe Rozier. There is a handwritten note by Sassard that translates to "I was 28 years old when I wrote and published this dissertation."
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Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895. [Notes pour servir discours de réception à l'Académie française en 1882: autograph notes for a speech]
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(1 p.). Note: written on the final page of a manuscript in Spanish about a discovery by Manuel Carmora Y Valle (4 p.). Pasteur Library, Series II, 12. Also enclosed: typewritten and photocopied description and transcription (5 p.); Burndy Library paper folder. Subjects: Académie française ; Carmona Y Valle, Manuel Maria, 1832-1902 ; Yellow fever.
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Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi : dresseé sur un grand nombre de memoires entrau tres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire / par Guillaume De l'Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences
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This is a reproduction of part of the de l'Isle map of 1718. First use noted on catalog card as 1942. See Museum Bookstore Collection 093:550 for the original and 105:478 and 150047 for later editions of the original. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Old French Map La. Maps -La. Lisle, G. de Carte de Louisiane. np. 1718.
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Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dresée sur un grand nombre de Memoires entrau tres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire Par Guillaume de l'Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences
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