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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.

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 Bible Alphabet. Indestructible Pleasure Books with Colored Ilustrations.

The Agriculture of the U. States.

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

Architettura Razionale. Polemica Tra L'Acrh.

Manuscript medical copy book and pharmacopoeia.

History of the Express Companies: And the Origin of American Railroads. Together with some reminiscences of the latter days of the mail coach and baggage wagon business in the United States.

The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912. With maps and numerous illustrations. 2 volumes.

La Décoration et les Industries d'art à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900.

Heaven on Earth. Explorations into the Wilderness Set Forth by John Muir. With Wood Engraving Illustrations Executed by Charles D. Jones.

Medical flora; or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. : Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: And notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. : In two volumes. Volume the first, A-H with 52 plates [-Volume the second, with 48 plates].

A General Plan for the Improvement of Colorado Springs.

Das Interieur. Wiener Monatshefte fur angewandte Kunst. Jahrgang III. Heft 1-6. Janner-Juni 1902

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

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

Report on a Plan for San Francisco.

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

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

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