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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.

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

Good Night & Good Morning. With illuminations and etchings by Walter Severn.

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.

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

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

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

The American Mercury (Volumes 1-30).

A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles.

De Gemeenschap. Jaargang 4. 1928.

The Tippecanoe Text-Book, Compiled from Niles' Weekly Register and other Authentic Records.

San Diego: A Comprehensive Plan for its Improvement

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

Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an Appendix Containing Reports from Officers.

Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae. Vicesimo Secundo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Tenth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1747. And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Twenty

[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.

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

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

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

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