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' The plate is inscribed: 'F P Nodder delin

Town of Diano opposite'

Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

c1796-1837

In the belief that France was pouring funds into her navy to bring it up to the standard of the British Navy

Flying kites, Japan mb-code 42-36569815 ' The plate is inscribed:Flying kites, Japan, 19th century (1956). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.

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