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    Book/Printed Material
    Nei paesi d'Islam, in Barberia, in Egitto, il pellegrino d'Islam, El Yemen; impressioni e ricordi;
    • Contributor: Rossi, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1897-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 270

  • Book/Printed Material
    The shores of Lake Aral.

  • Book/Printed Material
    La Russie extra-européenne et polaire: Sibérie, Caucase, Asie centrale, Extrême-Nord.
    • Contributor: Semenov, M. P. De
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 259

  • Book/Printed Material
    An account of the Arab tribes in the vicinity of Aden. An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden is an ethnography prepared for use by the British administrators and army in the Aden Protectorate. It was first published in…

  • Book/Printed Material
    De Kalmukken; beschrijving hunner zeden, gewoonteen, gebruiken, enz. Nieuwe uitgave.
    • Contributor: Bergmann, Benjamin Von
    • Date: 1820-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 442

  • Book/Printed Material
    Du Caucase aux Monts Alaï; Transcaspie, Boukharie, Ferganah.
    • Contributor: Leclercq, Jules Joseph
    • Date: 1890-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 295

  • Book/Printed Material
    Note on the tribes of the Aden Protectorate. Note on the Tribes of the Aden Protectorate is an annotated list of the Arab tribes and sub-tribes of the Aden Protectorate. The short monograph was prepared by a Captain Knapp of…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kaukázusi és Középázsiai utazásai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale.
    • Contributor: Zichy, Jen
    • Date: 1897-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Journal of a march from Delhi to Peshâwur and from thence to Câbul, Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshâwur and from Thence to Câbul is a firsthand account by a British officer, Lieutenant William Barr, of an operation led by Lieutenant Colonel Claude…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Monograph on the Aden Hinterland as touching the states of Dthala, Yafa, Alawi, etc. Monograph on the Aden Hinterland is an intelligence report prepared in 1908 by a British army major, Harold Jacob (1866-1936), who was posted to the mountainous areas north of the port town…
    • Contributor: Jacob, H. F. - Jacob, Harold F. (Harold Fenton)
    • Date: 1908-01-01
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 44

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postage stamps of the Hejaz,
    • Contributor: Haworth, W. B.
    • Date: 1922-01-01
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 76

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postal issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd. The Postal Issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd is a descriptive catalog of the postage stamps issued by the Arabian jurisdictions noted in the title. The work is generously provided with analytic…

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postage stamps of the Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd; a complete and illustrated price-list of the … The Postage Stamps of the Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd. A Complete and Illustrated Price-List of the 1924 Provisionals, Including all Subsequent Issues up to June 1926 is a sale catalog of postage…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers north of…
    • Contributor: Campbell, John - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Watts, William
    • Date: 1760

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ
    Энциклопедическій словарь /     The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890-1907 by Brockhaus-Efron, a joint venture of the Saint Petersburg printer I.A. Efron and the F.A. Brockhaus publishing company…
    • Contributor: Petrushevskīĭ, Ḟ. Ḟ. (Ḟedor Ḟomich) - Arsenʹev, K. K. (Konstantin Konstantinovich) - Andreevskīĭ, I. E. - Bachinskīĭ, Vasilīĭ Filaretovich - Shevi︠a︡kov, V. T. (Vladimir Timofeevich) - Brockhaus, F. A. (Friedrich Arnold) - Ėfron, I. A. - Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    La région du Tchad et du Oudaï; études ethnographiques, dialecte Toubou. Cover title: Tchad et Ouadaï. French and/or Toubou. Bibliography: t. 2. p. [273]-275. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-3
    • Contributor: Carbou, Henri
    • Date: 1912-01-01
  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1861; title from cover. Latest issue consulted: 1868.

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872] Title devised by cataloger. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1871
    • Resource: PDF - 2

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ ew gushakutʻiwn ōdotsʻ
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ     Annual Description based on: 1848. Latest issue consulted: 1869.

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 6. tari (1884). Latest issue consulted: 7. tari (1885).

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 14. tari (1873).

  • Periodical
    Haykazean ōratsʻoytsʻ ew lusnatsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1866.

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Afghanistan, 1879-80 Afghanistan, 1879-80 is an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what…
    • Contributor: Baker, William - Burke, John
    • Date: 1879
    • Resource: PDF - 86

  • Book/Printed Material
    Discours Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-93) was the first president of Côte d'Ivoire. He gave this speech shortly before a September 1958 referendum on the future of French West Africa. Houphouët-Boigny outlined the country's path…
    • Contributor: Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
    • Date: 1958
    • Resource: PDF - 26

  • Book/Printed Material
    Message a la nation du president Hassan Gouled Aptidon a l'occasion du 8 mai 1977 : … This booklet, published in Paris in March 1977, contains text excerpted from a declaration, signed by Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916-2006), president of Djibouti's leading political movement, the Ligue populaire africaine pour l'Indépendance…
    • Contributor: Gouled Aptidon, Hassan - Djibouti. President ( : Gouled Aptidon)
    • Date: 1977
    • Resource: Image - 20

  • Book/Printed Material
    Position de l'U.P.C. vis-à-vis de l'Indépendance du Kamerun This eight-page manifesto, issued by an outlawed Cameroonian political party, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (Union of the Peoples of Cameroon [UPC]), outlines the party's position vis-à-vis the independence of Cameroon.…
    • Contributor: Union Des Populations Du Cameroun
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: PDF - 12

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ghana's policy at home and abroad : text of speech given in the Ghana Parliament, August … On March 6, 1957, Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence from a European colonial power. The new state was made up of the former British colony of…
    • Contributor: Nkrumah, Kwame - Ghana. President ( : Nkrumah)
    • Date: 1957
    • Resource: PDF - 17

  • Book/Printed Material
    Republic of Malawi, July 4-7 1966, souvenir programme This 1966 souvenir program celebrates the declaration of Malawi as a republic. Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) became an independent member of the British Commonwealth on July 6, 1964, and adopted a republican constitution…

  • Book/Printed Material
    L'indépendance de la République du Congo : textes des discours prononcés à la Session solennelle de … This booklet, issued by the Ministry of Information of the Republic of the Congo, is a collection of speeches given by high-ranking Congolese and French politicians at a special session of the…
    • Contributor: Congo (Brazzaville). Ministère De L'information - Congo (Brazzaville). Assemblée Nationale
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: PDF - 31

  • Book/Printed Material
    Respect for human dignity : an inaugural address This pamphlet contains the text of the speech given by Nigerian independence leader Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-96) on the day he became the first indigenous governor-general of Nigeria and the first Nigerian to…
    • Contributor: Azikiwe, Nnamdi - Nigeria. President ( : Azikiwe)
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: PDF - 33

  • Book/Printed Material
    Message de Monsieur Leopold Sedar Senghor, président de la république au peuple sénégalais This speech to the people of Senegal by Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) was delivered the day after his election as the first president of the newly independent republic. Senghor was born in…
    • Contributor: Senghor, Léopold Sédar - Senegal. President ( : Senghor)
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: PDF - 12

  • Book/Printed Material
    Constitution de la République Togolaise, 5 mai 1963 Togo (officially known as the Togolese Republic) became a German protectorate in 1884 and a German colony in 1905. After World War I, it was made a French protectorate under a League…
    • Contributor: Togo
    • Date: 1963
    • Resource: PDF - 32

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ghana : one year old : a first independence anniversary review This pamphlet recaptures the main events of the first year of Ghana's history as an independent country. It features texts on politics by the prime minister and the leader of the opposition,…
    • Contributor: Danquah, Moses
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: PDF - 35

  • Book/Printed Material
    Aviation Based on a briefing to the Press by the Honorable Minister of Aviation, Alhaji M.A. Jega.
    • Contributor: Jega, Alhaji M. A. - Nigeria
    • Date: 1982
    • Resource:
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    Kainji hydro-electric development NC 6/25/69
    • Contributor: Nigeria. Niger Dams Authority - Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information
    • Date: 1968
    • Resource:
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    Clearing the Lagos ports This books carries the best of the statement made on October 30, 1975 by the Federal Commissioner for Transport, Lt. Col. Shehu Yar'Adua on the stiuation corning the Lagos ports complex and…
    • Contributor: Yar'adua, Shehu Musa - Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information
    • Date: 1975
    • Resource: PDF - 10

  • Book/Printed Material
    Renati Des-Cartes Principia philosophiae
    Des Cartes philosophia     René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientific thinker, and philosopher who made important contributions to mathematics, optics, epistemology, and other fields that helped to shape how the modern world came to…
    • Contributor: Descartes, René - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Elzevir, Louis
    • Date: 1644

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  • Book/Printed Material
    al-Radd ʻalā al-dahrīyīn Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-97) was a pan-Islamic thinker, political activist, and journalist, who sought to revive Islamic thought and liberate the Muslim world from Western influence. Many aspects of his life and…
    • Contributor: Afghānī, Jamāl Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1902
    • Resource: PDF - 90

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Srid pa ho "Tibetan Collection/Thangka no. 4" on cover of box. 20th century Tibetan Buddhist astrological thangka on cloth depicting auspicious symbols, including 12 animals of the 60 year calendar cycle. Also available in digital…
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 4

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ẓuhūr al-amān
    / | ظهور الامان /     Ẓuhūr al-amān (The advent of security) is a book on civics published during the reign of Ammanullah Khan (1919-29) as amir of Afghanistan. The book's title pays homage to the name of…
    • Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Taqṣīr, ʻabd Al-Ḥaqq
    • Date: 1923-01-01

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