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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.

Daniel H . Burnham: Architect, Planner of Cities.

Report of the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a reconnoissance [sic] of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River by Lietenant Derby. June 19, 1852. Senate, 32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 81

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.

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

San Diego: A Comprehensive Plan for its Improvement

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.

Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that may attend the Misconduct both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage. In eight volumes.

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.

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

A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles.

A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases : with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. 2 volumes.

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

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

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

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Under the Deodars [bound with] The Phantom 'Rickshaw [bound with] Wee Willie Winkie. Indian Railway Library Nos. 4, 5, and 6

The American Mercury (Volumes 1-30).

The Bible Alphabet. Indestructible Pleasure Books with Colored Ilustrations.

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