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PRINCIPLES OF ORCHESTRATION, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Great classical
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BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL BALLET, Agrippina Vaganova. Great Russian
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YUCATAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONQUEST, Diego de Landa. First English
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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, Alfred R. Wallace. Spirited travel account by one
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THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES, edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence W.
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Transcriber's notes:
- Different spelling of resume (verb) and résumé (noun) remains
unchanged because of different meaning.
- Gesperrt text marked as: _= ... =_
- The letter e with macron has been represented by [=e]