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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.

A History of English Brickwork.

The Voyage of the 'Discovery.' With 200 Full Page and Smaller Illustrations by Cr. E.A. Wilson and other Members of the Expedition, Photogravure Frontispieces, 12 Coloured Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Wilson's Sketches, Panoramas and Maps. (2 volumes

Architettura Razionale. Polemica Tra L'Acrh.

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.

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

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

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.

De Gemeenschap. Jaargang 4. 1928.

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

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

L' Architecture. volume XLI, nos 1-12, 1928

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

[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.

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

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

Three Lectures.

The Bible Alphabet. Indestructible Pleasure Books with Colored Ilustrations.

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