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The Weekly Register; Niles’ Weekly Register, Niles’ National Register. A Complete Run in 76 volumes.

Ten Years in Wall Street; Or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on 'Change.

Lesbian Herald. Volumes: 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. 1907-1913.

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The Weekly Register. [Niles' Weekly Register, also Niles' Register]

[BOUND VOLUME OF PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS, 1823-1847]. (1)The Water of Cities, Scientific Tracts, February 15, 1835; (2) Family Lyceum No. 1, Saturday, October 26, 1833; (3) Family Lyceum No. 7, Saturday, October 7, 1833; (4) Striking Fulfillment of Prophecy. No. 310; (5) Letter on the Relief of the Poor. Boston, June, 1847 (6) Tract No. 10. A short treatise on the insufficiency of money...;(7) Tract No. 11. A brief representation of the condition and prospects of a great, learned, and popular man...; (8) Tract No. 13. The following Expostulation with certain men who seem to have crept into the Christian ministry...;(9) Tract No. 14. A description of the present condition, character, and prospects of many of the business and worldly minded men...;(10) Prepare to Meet Thy God! No. 347; (11) Ought I to Become a Missionary to the Heathen? By a Member of the Princeton Theological Seminary. Taken form the American Quarterly Register. Missionary Paper, No. 15; (12) A Call to Personal Labor as a Foreign Missionary. By the Rev. William S. Plumer, Petersburg, VA. Missionary Paper, No. 19; (13) The Advantages of Sabbath Schools. A Premium Tract. Published by the American Tract Society, (4p), 12p., No. 272; (14) Address to the Trustees of the Evangelical Missionary Society in Massachusetts. Boston: Printed by R. M. Peck, Congress Street, April 1823; (15) Mistakes Made by Parents. By John Vaughan. 16p, (4p) No. 296.

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieces on various subjects. 2 volumes. First edition.

The Histories of the Lives and Reigns of Henry the Third, and Henry the Fourth, Kings of England. [In two parts]

Nurse Grand's Stories; A Voice from Richmond and Other Addresses to Children and Youth; The Only Son, Or, the History of Jonah Ross and His Mother; Broken Cisterns, Or, the Story of Jessie Worthington; Charles Clifford, Or, the Children at River Bank; Frank Netherton, Or, the Talisman; George Somerville, Or, the Boy Who Would be a Minister; Loss and Gain, Or, Great Fortunes; The Story of a Hessian; Doing and Suffering: Memorial of Elizabeth and Frances, Daughters of the Late Rev. E. Bickersteth; Triumphs of Industry, Illustrated in the Life of Adam Clarke; Uncle Austin and His Nephews, Or, the Scripture Guide; Jessie Burton, Or, Danger in Delay; Lady Lucy's Secret, Or, the Gold Thimble; Annie Sherwood, Or, Scenes at School; The Life of George Washington; Two Hundred Years Ago, Or, Life in New Sweden.

Discurso sobre la Historia Universal. Edicion aumentada con nuevas adiciones y con variantes del testo. Traducida al castellano por Juan Manuel Calleja.

Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland. In Two Volumes. One Hundred Original Etchings by Don Swann. With descriptive text by Don Swann, Jr. Introduction by Herbert O'Conor, Governor of Maryland. Foreword by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

Report upon the Development of Public Grounds for Greater Baltimore.

Ladies Almanack: Showing their Signs and their Tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers, written & illustrated by a lady of fashion.

Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge. 36th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 90.

A General Plan for the Improvement of Colorado Springs.

Das Interieur. Wiener Monatshefte fur Angewandte Kunst. Jahrgang I. Heft 1-6. Janner-Juni 1900 and Heft 7-12 Juli-Decemb

De Gemeenschap. Jaargang 4. 1928.

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District. Department of the Interior. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Volume II

Dated September 4th [1930]. Addressed "Dear Hamilton:-" TLS [initialed] on letterhead from The Lord Nelson, Halifax, Canada. 27.5x21. Triple fold; slight toning; otherwise fine.

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