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

Collection of Architectural Designs Including Designs which have been executed and Objects whose Execution was Intended. New complete edition in 174 plates.

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

De Gemeenschap. Jaargang 4. 1928.

Service Sheets

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

Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi = The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

Geology of the Yellowstone National Park. Part II. Descriptive Geology Petrography, and Paleontology. Department of the Interior. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume XXXI. Part II

Les Aventures de Huck Finn l'ami de Tom Sawyer [with] Les Aventures de Tom Sayer. Illustrations by Achile Sirouy.

A General Plan for the Improvement of Colorado Springs.

Salvador Dali. 6 tavole dal ciclo della Biblia Sacra.

An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, Villa Architecture and Furniture.

Kunstgewerbliche schmuckformen für die fläche, monatshefte für die verzierende Kunst.

Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. 1820. By the authority of the medical societies and colleges.

History of Frederick County, Maryland : from the earliest settlements to the beginning of the war between the states / by T.J.C. Williams ... continued from the beginning of the year 1861 down to the present time by Folger McKinsey (the Bentztown bar

[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.

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

The London Quarterly Review. 1860. American Edition. Volumes CVII and CVIII

Nouveau dictionnaire des origines, inventions et decouvertes, dan les arts, les sciences, la geographie, le commerce, l'agriculture, etc. . . Tomes 1 & 2

Telliamed ; or, The world explain'd : containing discourses between an Indian philosopher and a missionary, on the diminution of the sea-- the formation of the earth-- the origin of men & animals: and other singular subjects, relating to natural history & philosophy. : --A very curious work.

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