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The World's story : a history of the world in story, song, and art   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881
Tillinghast, William H. (William Hopkins), 1854-1913
Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930
Title
The World's story : a history of the world in story, song, and art
Publisher
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Subtitles of each volume at head of title
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress
"The first edition of The world's story is limited to seven hundred and fifty numbered copies."
"Vol. XIV has title: An outline of universal history, by Carl Ploetz ; tr. and ed. by William H. Tillinghast, with additions covering recent events
I. China, Japan and the islands of the Pacific -- II. India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine -- III. Egypt, Africa and Arabia -- IV. Greece and Rome -- V. Italy, France, Spain and Portugal -- VI. Russia, Autria-Hungary, the Balkan states and Turkey -- VII. Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland -- VIII. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the search of the poles -- IX. England -- X. England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- XI. Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies -- XII-XIII. The United States -- XVI. An outline of universal history -- XV. The World War / ed. by H.W. Dresser

Subjects: World history
Language English
Publication date 1914
publication_date QS:P577,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: cornell; americana
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cu31924026424352
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Internet Archive identifier: cu31924026424352
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