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Page 31 - Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, and of the several Commissioners of the Great Seal, and Lord Chancellor Loughborough, from 1778 to 1794, with the Annotations of Mr.
Page 22 - GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA. With an Explanatory Text, Geological Sections, and Plates of the Fossils which characterize the Formations. By JULES MARCOU.
Page 31 - ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY, •° PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL : Embracing its application to the Arts, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, Medicine, and Pharmacy. By JAMES C. BOOTH, Melter and Refiner in the United States Mint, Professor of Applied Chemistry in the Franklin Institute, etc., assisted by CAMPBELL MORFIT, author of "Chemical Manipulations,
Page 22 - OVERMAN.— The Manufacture of Steel : Containing the Practice and Principles of Working and Making Steel. A Handbook for Blacksmiths and Workers, in Steel and Iron, Wagon Makers, Die Sinkers, Cutlers, and Manufacturers of Files and Hardware, of Steel and Iron, and for Men of Science and Art. By FREDERICK OVERMAN, Mining Engineer, Author of the " Manufacture of Iron,
Page 15 - THE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVERS : containing Plans for the Protection of the Delta from inundation, and Investigations of the Practicability and Cost of Improving the Navigation of the Ohio, and other Rivers, by means of Reservoirs.
Page 21 - The Electro.Magnetic Telegraph; With an Historical Account of its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition. Also, Practical Suggestions in regard to Insulation and Protection from the Effects of Lightning. Together with an Appendix containing several important Telegraphic Devices and Laws.
Page 9 - Gunnison. — -The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake : a History of their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition and Prospects, derived from Personal Observation during a Residence among them, by Lieut.
Page 20 - A Treatise on Screw Propellers and their Steam Engines ; with Practical Rules and Examples how to Calculate and Construct the same for any Description of Vessels ; accompanied with a Treatise on Bodies in Motion in Fluid, exemplified for Propellers and Vessels ; also, a full Description of the Calculating Machine, by TW Nystrom.
Page 6 - The first attempt at a complete history of the United States. The reader who desires to inform himself in all the particulars, military or political, of the American Revolution, will find that they have been scrupulously collected for him by Mr. Hildreth.— London Athenceum. It has condensed into consecutive narrative the substance of hundreds of volumes.
Page 23 - HATFIELD. THE AMERICAN HOUSE CARPENTER. A Treatise upon Architecture, Cornices, and Mouldings, Framing, Doors, Windows, and Stairs ; together with the most important principles of Practical Geometry.

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