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Western History & Civilization: Modern History (15th-20th century)

Special Collections - Modern History (15th-20th century)

An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians : written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 by Lane, Edward William
Call Number: DT70 .L27 1890
An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China by Staunton, George, Sir; Contributor Macartney, George Macartney, Earl; Gower, Erasmus, Sir
Call Number: DS708 .S77 1798
Benjamin B. Ferencz collection [microform]
Call Number: mic FF 1122
A bibliography of the Japanese empire : being a classified list of all books, essays, and maps in European languages relating to Dai Nihon (Great Japan) published in Europe, America and in the East by Wenckstern, Fr. von (Friedrich); Contributor Pagès, Léon
Call Number: Z3301 .W47
Bismarck, the man and the statesman : being the reflections and reminiscences of Otto, prince von Bismarck by Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von; Contributor Butler, Arthur John
Call Number: DD218 .A2 1899
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China's place in philology : an attempt to show that the languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin by Edkins, Joseph
Call Number: P201 .E3
China and the Roman Orient: researches into their ancient and mediæval relations as represented in old Chinese records by Hirth, Friedrich
Call Number: DS6 .H6 1885a
Commercial tariffs and regulations, resources, and trade, of the several states of Europe and America : together with the commercial treaties between England and foreign countries. Part the twenty-third. Appendices to the commercial reports by Macgregor, John; Great Britain. Board of Trade; Great Britain. Parliament
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.51
Comparative administrative law [electronic resource] : an analysis of the administrative systems, national and local, of the United States, England, France and Germany by Goodnow, Frank Johnson, Contributor Thomson Gale (Firm)
Call Number: K3400 .G59 1893
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Access via Gale Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise by Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste)
Call Number: DS708 .D85 1736
Description générale de la Chine by Grosier, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste)
Call Number: DS708 .G86 1787
East and West - European Language Rare Books at CUHK Library
Egypt and Nubia : with illustrations by St. John, James Augustus
Call Number: DT53 .S14 1845
Europe in China : the history of Hongkong from the beginning to the year 1882 by Eitel, Ernest John
Call Number: DS796.H757 E36 1895
France.Published under the direction of the committee of general literature and educationappointed by the Society Promoting Christian Knowledge by Masson, Gustave
Call Number: DC36.9 .M3
The general history of China : containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea and Thibet by Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste)
Call Number: DS708 .D86 1736
History of the Christian church by Schaff, Philip; Contributor Schaff, David S. (David Schley)
Call Number: BR145 .S3 1889
History of the intellectual development of Europe by Draper, John William
Call Number: CB53 .D8 1876
History of the intellectual development of Europe by Draper, John William
Call Number: CB53 .D8 1876
The history of the Puritans, or Protestant nonconformists from the reformation in 1517, to the revolution in 1688; comprising an account of their principles by Neal, Daniel; Contributor Toulmin, Joshua; Choules, John Overton
Call Number: BX9333 .N4 1844
The history of the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth by Robertson, William; Contributor Prescott, William Hickling
Call Number: DD179 .R67
In darkest Africa; or, The quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Call Number: DT351 .S79
The innocents abroad by Twain, Mark
Call Number: PS1312 .A1 1869
Laughing diplomat by Varè, Daniele
Call Number: DG575.V3 A4
Letters from John Chinaman by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
Call Number: CB251 .D538 1901
The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent by Roscoe, William; Contributor Roscoe, Thomas
Call Number: DG737.9 .R7 1846b
Lives of the leaders of our church universal, from the days of the successors of the apostles to the present time by Piper, Ferdinand; Contributor MacCracken, Henry Mitchell; Congregational Publishing Society
Call Number: BR1700 .P5 1879b
The making of modern Egypt by Colvin, Auckland, Sir
Call Number: DT107 .C72
The morals of Confucius : a Chinese philosophy by Confucius; Contributor Intorcetta, Prospero; Couplet, Filippo
Call Number: B128.C8 I57
Plutarch's lives by Plutarch; Contributor Dryden, John, Clough, Arthur Hugh
Call Number: DE7 .P53 1871
Rome et Lorette by Veuillot, Louis
Call Number: DG427 .V48 1899
The Saxon and the Celt : a study in sociology by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Call Number: CB218 .R64 1897
Silver in Europe by Horton, S. Dana (Samuel Dana)
Call Number: HC309 .H82
A smaller classical dictionary of biography, mythology, and geography by Smith, William Sir; Contributor Marindin, G. E. (George Eden)
Call Number: DE5 .S672 1898
The subjection of women
Call Number: HQ1596 .M52 1870a
An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue by Bailey, N. (Nathan)
Call Number: PE1620 .B3 1721
Voyages a Peking, Manille et l'Île de France : faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 à 1801 by Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de
Call Number: DS708 .G95 1808
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With fire and sword. An historical novel of Poland and Russia by Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Contributor Curtin, Jeremiah
Call Number: PG7158.S4 W5
出使英・法・義・比四國日記 : [6卷] by 薛福成
Call Number: D919 .H78

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