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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.

Three Lectures.

The Agriculture of the U. States.

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

The Story of Maryland Politics

Daniel H . Burnham: Architect, Planner of Cities.

A General Plan for the Improvement of Colorado Springs.

Manuscript medical copy book and pharmacopoeia.

La Décoration et les Industries d'art à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900.

Twelve Photographs with a Poem by Galway Kinnell.

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

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].

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

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

L'Arredamento Moderno. Quarta Serie.

A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS FROM 1856 TO 1908

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

Das Interieur. Wiener Monatshefte fur Angewandte Kunst. Jahrgang I. Heft 1-6. Janner-Juni 1900 and Heft 7-12 Juli-Decemb

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