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Feeling prickly today?

Leslie, Frank, and T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage. Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine (1881). New York: Frank Leslie’s Pub. House], 1881. 

AP2 .F895

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The Newest Fashions, 1832-1836.

Atkinson’s Casket. Philadelphia: [Saml. C. Atkinson], 1831. Jan. 1832, July 1832, Feb. 1833, Jan. 1834, Aug. 1835, Oct. 1836

AP2 .C257

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Fun activities of the past.

Warner, Benjamin. The Book of Games, or, A History of Juvenile Sports Practised at the Kingston Academy : Illustrated with Twenty-Four Copperplates. Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner, [171?] Market Street, 1821.

GV1203 .B72 1821

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Prelleur, Peter. The Art of Playing on the Violin; : With a New Scale Shewing How to Stop Every Note, Flat or Sharp, Exactly in Tune, and Where the Shifts of the Hand Should Be Made. To Which Is Added a Collection of the Finest Rigadoons, Almands, Sarabands, Courants, & Opera Airs Extant. London: Engrav’d, printed and sold at the Printing-office in Bow Church-yard, 1731.

MT262 .P88 1731

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Revisiting this one today to show the beautiful cover and marbled endsheets. Check out all the bug (and snail) friends!

From: Madox, Thomas et al. Firma Burgi, or, An Historical Essay Concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England : Taken from Records. London: Printed by William Bowyer, and sold by Robert Gosling at the Middle-temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1726. 

JS3041 .M2 1726

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Fancy letters for fancy books.

From: Madox, Thomas et al. Firma Burgi, or, An Historical Essay Concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England : Taken from Records. London: Printed by William Bowyer, and sold by Robert Gosling at the Middle-temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1726. 

JS3041 .M2 1726

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From: Transactions - The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 9. 1823.

Q41 .E2 v. 9

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From: The seaman's daily assistant : being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea ..., Thomas Haselden. Dublin, 1774.

VK553.H34 1774

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Ancient animals doing animal things.

From: Les antiquités d'Herculanum : avec leurs explications en Franc̦ois. P. Sylvain M. Paris, Chez David, 1780.

DG70.H5 M2 1780

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Home motivation.

From: Radford Building Plans. Chicago, Il., Lumbermen's Calendars and Plan Books, 1920?

NA7205.R33 1920

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Some flowers for your Friday.

Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon). A Flora of North America. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1821. Print.

QK112 .B29 1821

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Rosas, Juventino. “Over the Waves : Waltzes.” : n. pag. Print.

M32 .R6

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A few fancy spines to enjoy!

Henderson, W. A. (William Augustus). Common Sense in the Kitchen : Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cooking Every Variety of Food in Common Use in a Palatable and Digestible Manner at a Reasonable Cost : To Which Is Added a Chapter on the Art of Carving and Two Hundred of the Most Valuable and Popular Receipts Known for Domestic Purposes : The Whole Forming a History of Domestic Knowledge and Useful Economy. New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 122 Nassau Street, 1870. Print.

TX717 .H5 1870

The Western Farmer’s New and Universal Hand-Book, or, An Improved and Complete Guide to the Treatment of Soils, the Operations of Productive Field Husbandry, Kitchen Gardening, Dairy Practice, Fruit Growing, Management and Diseases of Animals, Fowls and Bees, Culture of Flowers, Ornamental Trees, &c., Construction of Farm Buildings, Grafting, Budding, Pruning, Training, the Great Diseases of Trees and Plants, Insects Injurious to Animals, Fruit-Trees, Grain, &c. : The Whole Embodying a Plain, Practical, and Comprehensive Detail of Agricultural Economy, in All Its Departments, throughout the United States and the Canadas : Illustrated by Upwards of Three Hundred Splendidly Executed Engravings by Practical Agriculturists. Chicago, Illinois: Keen & Lee, 1856.

S499 .W47 1856

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Smith, Charles Roach, T. Richards, and M. E. Phillips. Illustrations of Roman London. London: Printed for subscribers, and not published, 1859. Print.

DA677.1 .S63 1859

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You saw it here, chocolate is for every meal of the day.

Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert). Fifty Breakfasts. Second edition. London ; Edward Arnold, 1895. Print.

TX733 .K4 1895

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From: Wilson, Alexander, and George Ord. American Ornithology : Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States ; Illustrated with Plates, Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings Taken from Nature. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808. Print.

QL674 .W75 1808

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From: Holbrook, John Edwards. North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States. Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1842.

QL651 .H72 1842