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

Three Lectures.

Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi = The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

Report on a Plan for San Francisco.

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

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

The London Quarterly Review. 1860. American Edition. Volumes CVII and CVIII

History of Frederick County, Maryland : from the earliest settlements to the beginning of the war between the states / by T.J.C. Williams ... continued from the beginning of the year 1861 down to the present time by Folger McKinsey (the Bentztown bar

Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe an XVIe siècle. (10 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.

A History of English Brickwork.

Geology of the Yellowstone National Park. Part II. Descriptive Geology Petrography, and Paleontology. Department of the Interior. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume XXXI. Part II

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

Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge. 36th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 90.

Service Sheets

Salvador Dali. 6 tavole dal ciclo della Biblia Sacra.

Proceedings of the Democratic Convention, Held at Indianapolis, January 8, 1840

Report of the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a reconnoissance [sic] of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River by Lietenant Derby. June 19, 1852. Senate, 32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 81

[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.

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

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