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... Libraries , 96 . Shaksperian Club , 38 . Testimonial , see Clarke . * Antiquities , sale of , 27 . Apograph , 75 . Archæological Associations , 22 ... Library , Jarvis , sale of , 4 . wood . No. XIII . ] NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PRICE.
... Libraries , 96 . Shaksperian Club , 38 . Testimonial , see Clarke . * Antiquities , sale of , 27 . Apograph , 75 . Archæological Associations , 22 ... Library , Jarvis , sale of , 4 . wood . No. XIII . ] NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PRICE.
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... Library Chair , richly carved , and covered with the finest French Satin Brocade . It is at this moment on the Atlantic , in the " Atlantic , " and insured by the Atlantic Insurance Company , for three hundred dollars . AS THE FAME OF ...
... Library Chair , richly carved , and covered with the finest French Satin Brocade . It is at this moment on the Atlantic , in the " Atlantic , " and insured by the Atlantic Insurance Company , for three hundred dollars . AS THE FAME OF ...
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... Library , New York Society Library , and the Historical Society of New York . The sale being the largest that ever took place in America , of any private library , the books brought fair prices . A volume of Tracts , containing the ...
... Library , New York Society Library , and the Historical Society of New York . The sale being the largest that ever took place in America , of any private library , the books brought fair prices . A volume of Tracts , containing the ...
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... library for reference , I avail myself of the medium of your instructive and valuable publication , and beg to subscribe myself , with all good wishes , Your obedient servant , Symonds ' Inn . St. Petersburg . London . • ELLEN F. 24th ...
... library for reference , I avail myself of the medium of your instructive and valuable publication , and beg to subscribe myself , with all good wishes , Your obedient servant , Symonds ' Inn . St. Petersburg . London . • ELLEN F. 24th ...
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... Library at Paris , all of which are more or less adorned with miniatures , two of them , like the present , having the summary of the chapters ( left blank for the insertion of the miniatures ) written in a contemporary hand on the ...
... Library at Paris , all of which are more or less adorned with miniatures , two of them , like the present , having the summary of the chapters ( left blank for the insertion of the miniatures ) written in a contemporary hand on the ...
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Page 36 - O'er the deep ! The dread behest is past ! — All is silent as the grave ; One shriek was first and last — Scarce a death-sob drunk the blast, As sank her towering mast Beneath the wave.