Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, Volume 1

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Mercantile library Company, 1870 - 707 pages

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Page 431 - Strength and other Properties of Metals : Reports of Experiments on the Strength and other Properties of Metals for Cannon. With a Description of the Machines for testing Metals, and of the Classification of Cannon in service. By Officers of the Ordnance Department US Army. By authority of the Secretary of War. Illustrated by 25 large steel plates. In one volume, 4to. . $10.00 SULLIVAN.— Protection to Native Industry. By Sir EDWARD SULLIVAN, Baronet, author of " Ten Chapters on Social Reforms.
Page 315 - Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy. By ALEXANDER KEITH, DD 37th Edition, with numerous Plates, in square 8vo.
Page 204 - The Federalist. A collection of essays, written in favor of the New Constitution as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
Page 89 - CARPENTER'S (Dr. WB) Zoology. A Systematic View of the Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, and of the chief Forms of Fossil Remains. Revised by WS Dallas, FLS Numerous Woodcuts. 2 vols. 6s. each. — Mechanical Philosophy, Astronomy, and Horology. A Popular Exposition. 181 Woodcuts. CARPENTER'S Works.— Continued. — Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany.
Page 234 - BLAKE.— LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. With Selections from his Poems and other Writings.
Page 205 - PASTON LETTERS. ORIGINAL LETTERS, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various Persons of Rank or Consequence.
Page 131 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 350 - LOUDON'S (JC) Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum ; or the Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described ; with their Propagation. Culture, ¿Management, and Uses in the...
Page 142 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher, fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. Svo. 6s. Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. Svo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
Page 15 - Typographical Antiquities, being an historical account of Printing in England, with some memoirs of our ancient Printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the year 1471 to 1600; with an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time.

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