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

A Collection of Pamphlets and Broadsides from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign.

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

The American Mercury (Volumes 1-30).

Godey's Lady's Book. 1860. [Volumes LX and LXI]

The Story of Maryland Politics

Hydriotaphia. Urne-Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepylchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk.

[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.

Proceedings of the Democratic Convention, Held at Indianapolis, January 8, 1840

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.

Report on a Plan for San Francisco.

Manuscript medical copy book and pharmacopoeia.

Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an Appendix Containing Reports from Officers.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Friends of Domestic Industry, in General Convention Met at the City of New York, October 26, 1831… 3 pamphlets relating to the Convention, 16, 44, 197p. Backed in calf and marbled boards.

The Voyage of the 'Discovery.' With 200 Full Page and Smaller Illustrations by Cr. E.A. Wilson and other Members of the Expedition, Photogravure Frontispieces, 12 Coloured Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Wilson's Sketches, Panoramas and Maps. (2 volumes

The Household Physician; for the use of Families, Planters, Seamen, and Travellers.

A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles.

Just So Stories For Little Children. Illustrated by the Author.

The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic . The Greek Revival. With a frontispiece in color and 256 illustrations.

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