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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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].

R. E. Lee; A Biography. 4 volumes.

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

A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS FROM 1856 TO 1908

Architettura Razionale. Polemica Tra L'Acrh.

The Story of Maryland Politics

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

Daniel H . Burnham: Architect, Planner of Cities.

L'Arredamento Moderno. Quarta Serie.

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

The American Mercury (Volumes 1-30).

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.

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