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EARLY & RARE BOOKS AND RELATED ITEMS AUCTION
6:00 AM PT - Nov 10th, 2007

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Conestoga Auction Company

768 Graystone Road
Manheim, PA 17545
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604 Items

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2533A Lot 2533A

(Nathaniel Chapman) VIrgil. THE WORKS OF VIRGIL: CONTAINING HIS PASTORALS, GEORGICS AND AENEIS. TRANSLATED INTO E...

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2534 Lot 2534

(Benjamin Rush) Rush, Benjamin, MEDICAL INQUIIES AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE DISEASES OF THE MIND, Phila., Grigg an...

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2535 Lot 2535

(8 "Noble" Medical Fragments) This lot includes o dd volumes and other incomplete text of 18th and 19th century lea...

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2536 Lot 2536

(Osler/Hare) Osler, William, MODERN MEDICINE ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE, Phila. & NY., Lea bros., 1907, 4to., 1st ed...

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2537 Lot 2537

(12 various 19th century leather bound and other family/home physician and other health guides) including beach, ...

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2538 Lot 2538

Leishman, William. A System of Midwifery, Includi ng Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal State. ill. 182 Illust...

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2540 Lot 2540

Bell, John. THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HUM AN BODY CONTAINING THE ANATOMY OF THE BONES, MUSCLES, AND JOINTS;...

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2541 Lot 2541

Hohman, John George. THE LONG LOST FRIEND, CONTAI NING MYSTERIOUS AND INVALUABLE ARTS AND REMEDIES. Lancaster, Pa: ...

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2542 Lot 2542

Watson, Thomas. LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PR ACTICE OF PHYSIC; DELIVERED AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.... Philade...

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2543 Lot 2543

THE AMERICAN MEDICAL RECORDER.. ill. Several Plat es. Philadelphia: James Webster, 1818. 8vo. 3/4 Leather. Good+ . ...

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2544 Lot 2544

Thomson, Samuel (1769-1843). NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. Boston: Published for the Author, ...

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2545 Lot 2545

Sappington, Dr. John . THE THEORY AND TREATMENT O F FEVERS. Arrow Rock: Published by the Author, 1844. 16mo.. Full ...

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2546 Lot 2546

Smith, Samuel Stanhope. AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE VARIETY OF COMPLEXION AND FIGURE IN THE HUMAN SPECIES. New B...

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2547 Lot 2547

Lavater, Rev John Caspar. THE WHOLE WORKS OF LAVA TER ON PHYSIOGNOMY;. ill. Illus Throughout. London: Printed for W...

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2548 Lot 2548

(Milling) Evans, Oliver with Additions and Correc tions By Thomas P. Jones. THE YOUNG MILL-WRIGHT AND MILLER'S GUID...

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2549 Lot 2549

Redfield, William C.. SKETCH OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL ROUT OF A GREAT RAILWAY, BY WHICH IT IS PROPOSED TO CONNECT THE ...

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2550 Lot 2550

(5 American cookery books) THE LANCASTER, (PA) GE NERAL HOSPITAL "BENEFIT" COOK BOOK, Lancaster, Conn &Slote, n.d. ...

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2551 Lot 2551

Gillette, F. L., Mrs. and Hugo Ziemann. The White House Cook Book: Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, D...

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2552 Lot 2552

(4 Botany/Floral) Dumont, Henrietta, THE FLORAL O FFEREING: A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND ESTEEM; COMPRISING THE LANGUAG...

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2553 Lot 2553

Adam, James. PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE VOLU ME 1 ONLY. ill. Several Illustrations. London: Printed for T. Cad...

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2554 Lot 2554

(5 on Natural History) Bingley, Rev. W., ANIMAL B IOGRAPHY; OR, ANECDOTES OF THE LIVES, MANNERS, AND ECONOMY, OF TH...

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2555 Lot 2555

Bingley, William, USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: OR A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS OF NATURE, MINERAL, VEGETABLE...

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2556 Lot 2556

(2 Editions of Oliver Goldsmith) HISTORY OF THE E ARTH, AND ANIMATED NATURE, NY, Thomas Kinnersly, 1825, thick 4to....

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2557 Lot 2557

Darwin, Eramus, ZOONOMIA ; OR THE LAWS OF ORGANIC LIFE. IN THREE PARTS, Phila., Edward Earle, 1818, 8vo., 4th Amer...

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2558 Lot 2558

(Natural History) Pluche, Noel Antoine. SPECTACLE DE LA NATURE: OR, NATURE DISPLAY'D BEING DISCOURSES ON SUCH PART...

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2559 Lot 2559

Studer, Jacob H, ed., STUDER'S POPULARITY ORNITHO LOGY. THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, NY, Jacob H. Studer & Co., 1881...

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2560 Lot 2560

(3 on agriculture) Miller, Philip. THE GARDENERS DICITONARY: CONTAINING THE METHODS OF CULTIVATING AND IMPROVING ...

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2561 Lot 2561

(Natural History) Buffon, Georges Louis Marie LeC lerc, Comte De (1707-1788). NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, FISH, INSEC...

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2562 Lot 2562

(American law) Blair, FP. EXTRA GLOBE VOLUME I, # 1-26. FP Blair, 1834. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 3/4 Leather. Ver...

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2563 Lot 2563

(Map of Penna.) Smull, William P. . SMULL'S LEGIS LATIVE HAND BOOK RULES AND DECISIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF P...

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2564 Lot 2564

(2 Late 19th Century local (?) Ledgers) The first being a ledger of Christian Wittel of Spring Garden, Lancaster C...

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2565 Lot 2565

(Early Carlisle Ledger) Day Book of Adam, Jacob, John, and William Senseman, circa 1772-1799, many entries in Ger...

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2567 Lot 2567

(4 Phila./Penna. History) Watson, John F., ANNAL S OF PHILADELPHIA, BEING A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS, ANECDOTES, & IN...

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2568 Lot 2568

LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA....5 VOL UMES. Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1810. 8vo. Full Leather. Good+ ....

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2569 Lot 2569

(English Law) Wood, Thomas, AN INSTITUTE OF THE L AWS OF ENGLAND; OR, THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN THEIR NATURAL ORDER, A...

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2570 Lot 2570

(Charles Dickens) 15 various leather backed 19th century printings of writings by Dickens. Poor-Fair. Should be s...

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2571 Lot 2571

(Misc. Literature and Literary Refs.) 2 box lots of various 19th and 20th century publishings. Together 49 vols. ...

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2572 Lot 2572

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, THE POETICAL WORKS O F…, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881, 2 vols., folio, illust...

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2573 Lot 2573

(2 Illustrated by Doré) Cervantes, THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, Lond., Cassell, Petter and Galpin, n.d. (circa 1870...

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2574 Lot 2574

(Shakespeare) THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, NY, Martin, Johnson & Co., n.d., circa 1875, 4to, 3 vols. illus...

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2575 Lot 2575

(re: English Literature-Illustrated) Howitt, Will iam, HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE MOST EMINENT BRITISH POETS, Lond., R...

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2576 Lot 2576

(British and other literature) Edgeworth, Maria, POPULAR TALES, Lond., printed for J. Johnson, 1805, 16mo., 3 vol...

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2577 Lot 2577

(18th and early 19th century illustrated British lit.) Cotton, Charles, VIRGIL TRAVESTIE, A MOCK POEM, OF THE FIR...

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2578 Lot 2578

(Tobias Smollett) THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PIC KLE, Lond., printed for R. Baldwin, 1779, 12mo., complete in 4 vo...

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2579 Lot 2579

One lot of 9 various 19th century leather bound/b acked American printings of British and American poetry. Should b...

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2580 Lot 2580

One lot of 11 vols. of American printings of Brit ish and American literature bound or backed in leather. Should be...

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2581 Lot 2581

(4 2-vol. sets of leather bound/backed 1st and ea rly American editions of literature) Irving, Washington, THE ALHA...

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2582 Lot 2582

(English History) various 19th century leather b ound/backed items on English and Scottish history, mostly incompl...

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2583 Lot 2583

(European History-3 incomplete sets) THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE...

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2584 Lot 2584

(World History) Frost, John, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES, Phila., Charles J. Gillis, 1846, 8vo., 360 pp.,...

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