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0swald'a Psychological Dictionary.
Fiskes Eschenburgs Manual of Classical Literature.
Fiske's Classical Antiquities
Outlines ofSacred History.
Trego's Geography of Pennsylvania.
Vogdcss United States Arithmetic-Key.
Rings 5000 Exercises in Arithmetic-Key.
Crittendens Book Keeping Counting house and School
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vogdes's Mensuration.-Key
Alsops First Lessons in Algebra.-Key
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Gummeres Astronomy fourth edition, Just published
Monges Statistics; translated from the French by
Woods Baker, A. NJ, Of the United States Coast Survey
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McMurtrie's Scientific Lexicon.
Peale's Graphics. Controllers Copy Slips
Hilps Drawing Book of Flowers and Fruit.
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The Works Of Thomas Dick, LIZ D., 10 vols limo In
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Atkins Christian Minstrel. Atkins Juvenile Minstrel
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Map Of the World as known TO the Ancents 81 by SO
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