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

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.

ACIER Un Nouveau Grand Palais des Expositions

Report on a Plan for San Francisco.

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

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

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

The Bible Alphabet. Indestructible Pleasure Books with Colored Ilustrations.

[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.

Japhet in Search of a Father. [2 volumes]

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

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

The Jerusalem Bible. Illustrations by Salvador Dali.

Obras del V.P.M. Fr. Luis de Granada. Precede su vida; escrita por el licenciado Luis Muñoz. (6 volumes)

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District. Department of the Interior. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Volume II

Lesbian Herald. Volumes: 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. 1907-1913.

The Story of Maryland Politics

Architectural Details of Northern and Central Spain: One Hundred and Four Measured Drawings and Fifty Five Photographs.

Report upon the Development of Public Grounds for Greater Baltimore.

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