The McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections began collecting rare materials in the 1850s, and through gift and purchase the holdings now constitute rich and highly diverse research collections. The humanities and social sciences and in particular art and architecture, Canadiana, history, literature, the history of ideas (philosophy and religion), travel and exploration, and the history of the book form the core of the collection. More information can be found on the library’s...
Topic: Rare Books and Special Collections
The Islamic Studies library was founded in 1952, along with the Institute of Islamic Studies by Prof. Wilfred Cantwell Smith. The library has grown from a modest departmental collection to a very well regarded library of over 150,000 volumes covering the whole of Islamic civilization in a number of languages including Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu. This sizable and rich collection is unique in Canada with only the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library comparable in size and breadth. The...
Topic: Islamic Studies Library
The McGill Student publications collection comprises a variety of publications from 1875 to 2001. The chief long-standing student newspaper at McGill, The McGill Daily, was founded in 1911. It had been preceded by the McGill (University) Gazette, the McGill Fortnightly, the McGill Outlook and the (McGill) Martlet.
Topic: McGill Student Publications
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, opened in 1929 to house the collection of rare medical and other books donated by Sir William Osler (1849-1929), the renowned physician and McGill graduate and professor. Initially comprising 8000 titles listed in the Bibliotheca Osleriana, the collection – one of the world’s outstanding ones - has grown to around 100,000 works including rare monographs, journals, archives and prints, as well as scholarly...
Topic: Osler Library of the History of Medicine
McGill University Library
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1345
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Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225; Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml; Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah; Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt al-kawākib; Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-buruj
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4 volumes in 1
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Topics: Divination -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800., Islamic occultism -- Early works to 1800.,...
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection contains over nine hundred British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries. This digital collection was created by identifying and digitizing volumes from the The Sheila R. Bourke Collection of Children's Literature, the Children's Books Collection and the main McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collection . As new titles are acquired and added to the collection they will be digitized and added to our digital collection...
Topic: McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection
The Macdonald Campus of McGill University is home to one of the oldest Faculties of Agricultural Sciences in Canada. This historical collection of Macdonald publications provides a unique view on agricultural developments and campus life throughout the twentieth century. Scholarly works written by faculty and students (Macdonald College Magazine, Annual and Journal) offer a historical perspective on professional concerns in the field of agriculture. The student newspapers (Failt-ye, Dram and...
Topic: Macdonald Campus History
McGill's Law Library began in the middle of the 19th Century as a limited holding of law books assembled to support legal instruction at the Faculty of Law. This holding became a proper law library in 1882 when Judge Robert MacKay donated of his vast collection of law books, focused on Civil law, to McGill University. Throughout the past century and a half, the library has supported the teaching and research of Law at McGill. At present, Nahum Gelber Law Library is a home to the collection of...
Topic: Nahum Gelber Law
McGill University Library
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1912
1912
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Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283, author
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606 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 19 cm.
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Topics: Manuscripts, Persian -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal., Illumination of books and manuscripts,...
McGill University Library
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231
1308
1308
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Anṭākī, Dāʼūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599, author
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3 volumes in 1 ; 28 cm
Topics: Medicine -- Arab., Medicine, Arab., Medicine, Arabic, Médecine arabe., McGill University Library...
McGill University Library
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1291
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Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
texts
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168 pages
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Topics: Islamic magic -- Early works to 1800., Magic, Arab -- Early works to 1800., Alphabet -- Religious...
143 pages ; 18 cm
Topics: Cooking, Lebanese., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cooking, Lebanese
McGill University Library
1,170
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1935
1935
by
Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920
texts
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xii, 192, 90 pages including 158 maps (some color) illustrations, diagrams 37 cm
Topics: Atlases., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Humanities and Social Sciences - Atlas...
McGill University Library
21,894
22K
1944
1944
by
Pires, Tomé, approximately 1468-approximately 1540; Rodrigues, Francisco, active 1513. O livro de Francisco Rodrigues
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2 volumes (xcvi, 578 pages) : xlii plates (some folded ; including frontispieces, maps, facsimiles), 2 folded maps (in pockets) ; 23 cm.
Topics: East Asia -- Description and travel., Pilot guides -- East Asia., McGill University Library...
6,580
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1959
1959
by
Saint Lucia; Lewis, Allen Montgomery
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2 volumes ; 28 cm
Topics: McGill University Library Digitized Title, Nahum Gelber Law
xix, 734 pages illustrations, facsimile, genealogical tables 26 cm
Topics: Visitations, Heraldic -- England -- Yorkshire., Yorkshire (England) -- Genealogy., Heraldry --...
McGill University Library
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404
1321
1321
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Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328
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4 volumes in 2 ; 29 cm
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Topics: Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, -- 1250-1325. -- Minhāj al-karāmah fī...
McGill University Library
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923
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1285
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Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
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402 pages
Topics: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -- 1201-1274. -- Tajrīd al-iʻtiqād.,...
The Marvin Duchow Music Library is one of the most important academic music collections in Canada. The collection consists of over 150,000 volumes of musical scores, sound and video recordings, books and journals, as well as online resources representing all formats. One of the 13 branches of the McGill Library, the Music Library provides resources and services to support the performance, composition, research, and teaching programs of the Schulich School of Music. It also serves the McGill...
McGill University Library
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1930
1930
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Standard Brands Limited; University of Waterloo. Library. Women's Studies Collection. CaOWtU
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48 pages ; 21 cm
Topics: Baking -- Canada., Desserts., Cooking, Canadian., Baking powder., McGill University Library...
McGill University Library
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1915
1915
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Lake of the Woods Milling Company, issuing body.
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144 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (double sided) : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Topics: Baking., Bread., Pastry., Cooking, Canadian., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Baking,...
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880-01Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān,-1465; 880-04Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd,1213?-1296?Burdah; 880-05Ibn al-Naḥwī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad,approximately 1041-1119 or 1120.Munfarijah
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205 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
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Topics: Islam -- Prayers and devotions., Prayer -- Islam., McGill University Library Digitized Title, RBD...
[4], xl, 496 [i.e. 502], [2] pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
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Topics: Printing -- Specimens., Type and type-founding -- Specimens., McGill University Library Digitized...
McGill University Library
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Apr 6, 2017
04/17
by
Frederick S. Tappenden, Carly Daniel-Hughes
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This collection of essays examines how notions of coming back to life shape practices and ideals throughout the ancient Mediterranean. All contributors focus on the common theme of coming back to life as a discursive and descriptive space in which antique peoples construct, maintain, and negotiate the porous boundaries between past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life .
Topics: Future life--Mediterranean Region--Antiquities, Mediterranean Region--Antiquities
volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Topics: Printing -- Specimens., Printers' ornaments -- Specimens., McGill University Library Digitized...
McGill University Library
785
785
1905
1905
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ʻAlavī Khān, Muḥammad Hāshim, active 1501, author
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644 pages ; 28 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Medicine, Arab -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions., Medicine, Arabic., McGill University Library...
v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Topics: Christian shrines -- Palestine -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, The...
McGill University Library
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1119
1119
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Ṭūsī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 995-1067? author
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480 unnumbered pager ; 29 x 20 cm
Topics: Mufīd, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -- -1022. -- Muqniʻah., Hadith (Shiites) -- Early works to...
McGill University Library
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Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283, author
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8, 584 pages : illustrations ; 32 x 22 cm.
Topics: Cosmography -- Early works to 1800., Geography, Arab -- Early works to 1800., Zoology --...
McGill University Library
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Darbandī, Āghā ibn ʻĀbidīn, -1868 or 1869
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1 volume (unpaged) ; 36 cm
Topics: Darbandī, Āghā ibn ʻĀbidīn, -- -1868 or 1869. -- Khazāʼin al-aḥkām., Shīʻah --...
volumes ; 29 cm
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Topics: Islamic Empire -- History., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Islamic Empire -- History,...
31 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Topics: Cooking, American., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cookbook Collection, Cooking,...
McGill University Library
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1943
1943
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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250, author
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cx, 637 pages : illustrations (some color), plates ; 29 cm
Topics: Falconry -- Early works to 1800., Falconry -- Bibliography., McGill University Library Digitized...
McGill University Library
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988
1865
1865
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Asʻad Fakhr al-Dīn, called Fakhrī, Jurjānī
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[4], 6, 400, [2], 6, [2] pages.
Topics: Persian poetry -- 747-1500., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Persian poetry -- 747-1500,...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
McGill University Library
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1944
1944
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Pires, Tomé, approximately 1468-approximately 1540; Rodrigues, Francisco, active 1513. O livro de Francisco Rodrigues
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2 volumes (xcvi, 578 pages) : xlii plates (some folded ; including frontispieces, maps, facsimiles), 2 folded maps (in pockets) ; 23 cm.
Topics: East Asia -- Description and travel., Pilot guides -- East Asia., McGill University Library...
volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Topics: Printing -- Specimens., Printers' ornaments -- Specimens., McGill University Library Digitized...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
261 leaves : illustrations ; 35 cm
Topics: Type and type-founding., Printing -- Specimens., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Rare...
v. illus. 24 cm.
Topics: Physicians -- North America -- Directories., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Physicians
[620] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (Folio)
Topics: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Divina commedia., Italian poetry -- To 1400., Epic poetry,...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
136 pages illustrations
Topics: Cooking., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cookbook Collection, Cooking
McGill University Library
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1874
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Crane, Walter, 1845-1915; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Martin, Sarah Catherine, 1768-1826. Old Mother Hubbard; Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. Absurd ABC
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4 volumes in 1 (8; 8; 8; [8]) leaves : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Topics: Nursery rhymes., Illustrated children's books., Fairy tales., Cats -- Juvenile poetry., Dogs --...
56 p.
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Topics: Numerology -- Early works to 1800., Islamic occultism -- Early works to 1800., McGill University...
McGill University Library
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1921
1921
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Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.; Goudy, Bertha, 1869-1935, compositor.; Marchbanks Press.
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1 broadside ; 56 x 34 cm
Topics: Type and type-founding., Printing -- Specimens., Goudy, Frederic W. -- (Frederic William), --...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits, plans ; 33 cm
Topics: Cards -- History., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Saul Shapiro Collection of...
480 pages ; 20 cm.
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Topics: Soldiers -- Religious life., Soldiers -- Conduct of life., McGill University Library Digitized...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
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Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
xvi, 768 pages, [34] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), 4 color portraits, 4 maps ; 28 cm
Topics: Franklin, John, -- 1786-1847 -- Travel -- Arctic regions., Arctic regions -- Discovery and...
1 volume (unpaged) : samples (pressed flowers and plants) ; 20 cm
Topics: Herbaria -- 19th century., Commonplace books -- 19th century., Manuscripts, English -- Québec...
McGill University Library
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1969
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Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman; Mengal, Aquil Khan; McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies
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2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Topics: Baluchi language., Baloutchi (Langue) -- Vocabulaires et manuels de conversation., McGill...
McGill University Library
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ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, -1330?; Hādīʹzādah, Majīd; International Colloquium on Cordoba and Isfahan, Two Schools of Islamic Philosophy (2002 : Iṣfahān, Iran). Publications of the International Colloquium on Cordoba and Isfahan, Two Schools of Islamic Philosophy, Isfahan, 27-29 April 2002 ; 16.
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726 pages, 12 pages ; 25 cm.
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Topics: Ibn al-ʻArabī, -- 1165-1240. -- Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam., Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to...
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1934
1934
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Peake, Frederick Gerard, 1886-
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2 volumes ; 32 cm
Topics: Ethnology -- Jordan., Jordan -- History., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Islamic...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Topics: Magic tricks., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Magic tricks
McGill University Library
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703
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McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Library. Manuscript. 19.
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318 unnumbered pages ; 27 x 18 cm
Topics: Qurʼan. -- Arabic., Manuscripts, Arabic -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal., McGill University...
McGill University Library
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1000
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Franciscans. Commissariat of the Holy Land
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v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Topics: Christian shrines -- Palestine -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, The...
McGill University Library
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Sep 18, 2022
09/22
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Dayrabī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, -1738 or 1739; Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490. Mujarrabāt
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112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Topics: Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800., McGill University Library...
McGill University Library
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The Edinburgh almanack, or, Universal Scots and Imperial register, for 1820 : being leap year ; containing a correct calendar, on an improved scheme.
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Almanacs, English -- Scotland.
Topics: McGill University Library Digitized Title, Sovereigns and States of Europe -- Peerage of Great...
McGill University Library
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97
1690
1690
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Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137, author
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1314 unnumbered pages ; 32 x 23 cm
Topics: Medicine, Persian -- Manuscripts., Medicine, Medieval., Medicine, Persian., Islam -- Medicine.,...
McGill University Library
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142
1862
1862
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Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872
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5 volumes
Topics: Birds -- India., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Rare Books and Special Collections -...
2 preliminary leaves, x, 272 pages, 2 leaves illustrations (including facsimiles) color mounted plates, color mounted portrait 32 x 26 cm
Topics: Wallpaper -- France -- History., Wallpaper, McGill University Library Digitized Title,...
McGill University Library
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1899
1899
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Naz̲īr Aḣmad, k̲h̲ān bahādur, -1912; Ward, George Ernest, b. 1837, editor
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li, [1], 371, [1] pages 22 cm
Topics: Conduct of life., Women in India., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Conduct of life,...
32 pages ; 17 cm
Topics: McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cookbook Collection, Baking, Cooking, Cuisson au four,...
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Topics: D. Stempel (Firm), Printing -- Specimens., Type and type-founding., McGill University Library...
Vol. 15, no. 5-6, May-July, 1935, not published
Topics: Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Der...
4 volumes tables (some folded) 28 cm
Topics: Cuba -- Dictionaries., Cuba -- Gazetteers., Cuba -- Biography -- Dictionaries., McGill University...
24, [2], [2], 24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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Topics: Cooking., Cooking, Canadian., Flour., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cookbook...
McGill University Library
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275
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1863
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Gibb, G. Duncan (George Duncan), Sir, 1821-1876
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20 cm of textual records
Topics: Gibb, G. Duncan -- (George Duncan), -- Sir, -- 1821-1876 -- Archives., Gibb, G. Duncan -- (George...
McGill University Library
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The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it : in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut vp
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1651
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Burton, Robert, 1577-1640, author
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[10], 78, [6], 723 [i.e. 735], [11] pages (last page blank) ; 29 cm (folio)
Topic: McGill University Library Digitized Title
McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection
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411
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1801
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More, Hannah,1745-1833; Hatchard, John,1768-1849.prt; Hazard, Samuel,d. 1806.prt; Howard & Evans.prt
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16 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.
Topics: Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century, McGill University Library...
McGill University Library
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1822
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Savage, William, 1770-1843; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. DLC; Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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vi, 118 p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Topics: Engraving -- Printing -- Specimens., Color printing -- Specimens., Printing -- Specimens., McGill...
164 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
Topics: McGill University Library Digitized Title, Cookbook Collection
