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Pennsylvania Loan Obligation Certificate for £30

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Transcription: Philadelphia County. Pennsylvania. No. 99 I do hereby certify that Henry Johnson of the township of Hasfield has furnished this state, for the use of the United States, with one Dark Brown Mare which has appraised by two freeholders,…

One Share in the Rancocus Toll-Bridge

Recto
Transcription: No. 77 John Negus is entitled to one share in the stock of the president, managers, & company of Rancocus Toll-Bridge. Witness, the signatures of the president and treasurer, and the seal of the said corporation, the eighteenth day…

The pictorial history of the United States of America

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Added engraved title-pages.
Folded colored Map of the United States (Hart[for]d : Published by Case Tiffany & Company, 1851) attached at end.

Through the Yellowstone Park on horseback

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Folded map in pocket, bottom cover: Map of the Yellowstone National Park compiled from different official explorations and our personal survey, 1882 [by] Carl J. Hals and A. Rydström.

Illustrations of the manners, customs & condition of the North American Indians

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Binder's ticket: "Restored by Pierre Thibaudeau", rebound using original publisher's covers, original spines bound in at end of each volume.

Narrative of the United States exploring expedition

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" ... This edition ... contains ... the same type, page and reading matter, as the one in imperial octavo; the difference between them being in the quality and size of the paper; the substitution of forty-seven wood-cuts for that number of steel…

Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44

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A parallel edition, with its own versions of the plates, was printed and issued by order of the Senate as document no. 174, with imprint: Washington : Gales & Seaton, Printers, 1845 (Checklist Amer. imprints 45-2519).

The astronomical and…