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• The Tippecanoe battle-field monument; a history of the association formed to promote the enterprise, the action of Congress and the Indiana legislature, the work of the commission and the ceremonies at the dedication of the monument (W.B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding, 1909), by Alva O. Reser, Tippecanoe Battle-field Monument Association, United States. Tippecanoe Battle-field Monument Commission, and Indiana. Tippecanoe Battle-field Monument Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. (Published by Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill, 1845), by Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of the world's child (Published by Bella Marsh, 14 Bromfield st., 1857), by Warren Chase, Francis O. Freeman, Bela Marsh, and Hobart and Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trouvères et troubadours (Paris : Félix Alcan éditeur, 1909., 1909), by Pierre Aubry, Guido Adler, and Guido Adler Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inner Asian frontiers of China (American Geographical Society, 1940), by Owen Lattimore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Mongols et leur prétendu rôle dans la transmission des contes indiens vers l'Occident européen; étude de folk-lore comparé sur l'introduction du "Siddhikûr" et le conte du "Magicien et son apprenti" ... (Imprimerie nouvelle G. Clouzot, 1913), by Emmanuel Georges Cosquin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Joseph Jefferson : reminiscences of a fellow player (New York, NY : C. Scribner's Sons, 1906., 1906), by Francis Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decorative work of T.M. Cleland : a record and review (New York, New York : Pynson Printers, MCMXXIX [1929], 1929), by T. M. Cleland, Gabriel Lambert, William Maurice Ling, Rockwell Kent, Alfred E. Hamill, and Pynson Printers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electrochemical analysis with graded cathode potential control. (G.F. Smith Chemical Co., 1948), by Harvey Diehl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus : published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes (University of Chicago Press, 1930), by George E. Wantz, Frank Glenn, Abraham Flexner, James Henry Breasted, and Edwin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospects beyond the Rubicon.* : A gratuitous exhibition of the great southern war horse, yclept nullification, alias separation, alias dissoultion of the Union. : Proving, nothwithstanding the terror it has frequently excited, that it is perfectly harmless, or, if capable of mischief, that the evil recoils on itself. [dagger]. ([publisher not identified], 1833), by Mathew Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection versus free trade. The scientific validity and economic operation of defensive duties in the United States. (D. Appleton and company, 1886), by Henry M. Hoyt and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• James on strangulated hernia. (John Churchill ..., 1859), by J. H. James, George E. Wantz, and Dr Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teale on hernia. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans ..., 1846), by T. Pridgin Teale and George E. Wantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Gilbert and her work for the blind (Macmillan and Co., 1887), by Frances Martin, R. & R. Clark (Firm), and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gantt chart, a working tool of management (The Ronald Press Company, 1922), by Wallace Clark, Frank W. Trabold, and Walter Nicholas Polakov (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on inguinal hernia; (Printed by Archibald Allardice, 1823), by David Ross Cundell, George E. Wantz, Great Britain. Army Medical Department. Library, and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la cure radicale des hernies inguinales et d'un moyen nouveau de l'obtenir; (Mel Savy ... ;, 1854), by A.-D. Valette and George E. Wantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cure radicale des hernies (G. Masson ..., 1883), by Paul Segond and George E. Wantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hernies. (Imprimerie de A. Parent ..., 1866), by J. B. Duguet, George E. Wantz, and Faculté de médecine de Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surgical essays and cases in surgery. (John Westall, printer ..., 1850), by David L. Rogers and George E. Wantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• In a poppy garden (R.G. Badger, 1904), by Charles Francis Saunders, Richard G. Badger, Elizabeth M. Hallowell, and Gorham Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dominion of Canada : a study of annexation. (Van Siclen, 1890), by William B. Aitken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories, and other verses ([Printed by the Stanley-Taylor company], 1900), by Edward Robeson Taylor and Stanley-Taylor Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the worship and traditions of the aborigines of North America ([London] : [publisher not identified], [1887?], 1887), by Stephen D. Peet and Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy scouts of 1814 (New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908., 1908), by George Cary Eggleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society crime (Hannibal, Missouri : [publisher not identified], 1908., 1908), by Minnie T. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder in all ages : being a history of homicide from the earliest times, with the most celebrated murder cases faithfully reported, arranged under controlling motives and utilized to support the theory of homicidal impulse (A.E. Pinkerton & Co. suite 803, No. 215 Dearborn Street, 1898), by Matthew Worth Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington (New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898., 1898), by Woodrow Wilson, Harry Fenn, Howard Pyle, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Paine's essays on vitality and remedial agents (Printed for the author, by Hopkins & Jennings, no. 111 Fulton-Street, 1842), by Martyn Paine and Hopkins & Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gray's chemistry (Published by Dayton & Newman, school book publishers, corner of Fulton and Nassau streets. ;, 1842), by Alonzo Gray, Saxton & Peirce, and Dayton & Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm life in Manitoba (W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. SW, 1884), by Cecil Hall and W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live questions : including Our penal machinery and its victims (The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1893), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Judicial committee of the Privy council. The history, consititution, and character, of the Judicial committee of the Privy council, considered as a judicial tribunal: especially in ecclesiastical cases, with special reference to the right and duty of its members to declare their opinions. (Stevens and sons [etc., 1878), by W. F. Finlason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loi psychophysique (Librairie Germer Ballière et cie., 1883), by Joseph-Remi-Leopold Delbœuf, Edwin Garrigues Boring, William James, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Osgoode Hall; reminiscences of the bench and bar (The Carswell company, limited, 1904), by James Cleland Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Empire & commerce in Africa : a study in economic imperialism (Labour Research Dept. ;, 1920), by Leonard Woolf and Labour Research Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• In old plantation days (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, William A. Burns, George Wharton Edwards, Martin Justice, Hill and Leonard (Firm), and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Benefit sale for the Belgian sufferers : under the auspices of the Authors Club : original manuscripts, presentation books, autograph letters and original drawings : on public exhibition from Saturday, May 15 and to be sold Thursday ... May 20, 1915. (Anderson Galleries, 1915), by Inc Anderson Galleries and N.Y.) Authors Club (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

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