1870's + 1880's = Old Off Quaint Books

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The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial: In Which Light is Thrown Upon Dark Deeds, Incompetency, and Perfidy; and Crime Fastened Upon Those Whose Position, If Not Manhood, Should have Commanded Honest Dealing
The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial: In Which Light is Thrown Upon Dark Deeds, Incompetency, and Perfidy; and Crime Fastened Upon Those Whose Position, If Not Manhood, Should have Commanded Honest Dealing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Dr. J.H. McLean's Peace-Makers
Dr. J.H. McLean's Peace-Makers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Forty Years in Phrenology; Embracing Recollections of History, Anecdote, and Experience
Forty Years in Phrenology; Embracing Recollections of History, Anecdote, and Experience 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pookas, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and Other Marvels of the Emerald Isle
Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pookas, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and Other Marvels of the Emerald Isle 3.63 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Devil and I
The Devil and I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dreams of My Solitude on the Mysteries of the Heavens
Dreams of My Solitude on the Mysteries of the Heavens 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Dancing Imps of the Wine: Or, Stories and Fables
The Dancing Imps of the Wine: Or, Stories and Fables
by: Angelo
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Glyptic; Or, Musee Phusee Glyptic: A Scrap Book of Jottings from Stratford-On-Avon and Elsewhere, with an Attempt at Description of Henry Jone's Museum
The Glyptic; Or, Musee Phusee Glyptic: A Scrap Book of Jottings from Stratford-On-Avon and Elsewhere, with an Attempt at Description of Henry Jone's Museum it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints: Our Opium Smokers as They Are in Tartar Hells and American Paradises
The Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints: Our Opium Smokers as They Are in Tartar Hells and American Paradises 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Josh Billings' Trump Kards: Blue Glass Philosophy
Josh Billings' Trump Kards: Blue Glass Philosophy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
by: Karl Kron
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ye Vampyres! a Legend of the National Betting-Ring, Showing What Became of It
Ye Vampyres! a Legend of the National Betting-Ring, Showing What Became of It
by: Spectre
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Children of the Week
The Children of the Week it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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U.S.A., Uncle Sam’s Abscess; Or, hell upon earth for U.S.
U.S.A., Uncle Sam’s Abscess; Or, hell upon earth for U.S. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ghost Book, Eugene and the Ostrich, and Minor Poems
The Ghost Book, Eugene and the Ostrich, and Minor Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Life Story of Sarah M. Victor for Sixty Years: Convicted of Murdering Her Brother, Sentenced to Be Hung, Had Sentence Commuted, Passed Nineteen Years in Prison, Yet Is Innocent
The Life Story of Sarah M. Victor for Sixty Years: Convicted of Murdering Her Brother, Sentenced to Be Hung, Had Sentence Commuted, Passed Nineteen Years in Prison, Yet Is Innocent 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cranky Ann, the street-walker : a story of Chicago in chunks
Cranky Ann, the street-walker : a story of Chicago in chunks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Nauticus in Scotland: A Tricycle Tour of 2,462 Miles
Nauticus in Scotland: A Tricycle Tour of 2,462 Miles
by: Nauticus
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Queens and Kings and Other Things
Queens and Kings and Other Things 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Behind a Brass Knocker: Some Grim Realities in Picture and Prose
Behind a Brass Knocker: Some Grim Realities in Picture and Prose it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On Prehistoric Traditions and Customs in Connection with Sun and Serpent Worship
On Prehistoric Traditions and Customs in Connection with Sun and Serpent Worship 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Double Golden Chains with Blazing Diamonds Strung
The Double Golden Chains with Blazing Diamonds Strung 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword Feats; or, How to Use a Cut-and-Thrust Sword
Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword Feats; or, How to Use a Cut-and-Thrust Sword 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Vanity and Insanity of Genius
The Vanity and Insanity of Genius 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Found at Last: The Veritable Garden of Eden - Or, a place that answers the Bible description of the notable spot better than anything yet discovered
Found at Last: The Veritable Garden of Eden - Or, a place that answers the Bible description of the notable spot better than anything yet discovered really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects
The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Lock of Hair: Its history, ancient and modern, natural and artistic
The Lock of Hair: Its history, ancient and modern, natural and artistic 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
28.
Adrift on the Black Wild Tide, a Dream
Adrift on the Black Wild Tide, a Dream 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hidden Way Across the Threshold: or, the Mystery Which Hath Been Hidden for Ages and from Generations
Hidden Way Across the Threshold: or, the Mystery Which Hath Been Hidden for Ages and from Generations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and Psychology
The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and Psychology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Onti Ora: A Metrical Romance
Onti Ora: A Metrical Romance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Legend of the Luray Caverns, Founded Upon the Discovery of a Skeleton in One of Its Chasms
Legend of the Luray Caverns, Founded Upon the Discovery of a Skeleton in One of Its Chasms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration
Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings
The Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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'Down the Road', or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman
'Down the Road', or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A romance of perfume lands, or, The search for Capt. Jacob Cole: with interesting facts about perfumes and articles used in the toilet
A romance of perfume lands, or, The search for Capt. Jacob Cole: with interesting facts about perfumes and articles used in the toilet liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Sympneumata; or, Evolutionary forces now active in man
Sympneumata; or, Evolutionary forces now active in man 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Beckside Boggle and Other Lake Country Stories
The Beckside Boggle and Other Lake Country Stories
by: Alice Rea
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as a Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being
The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as a Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, a Study of the Prehistoric World
Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, a Study of the Prehistoric World 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Man Among the Monkeys, or, Ninety Days in Apeland
The Man Among the Monkeys, or, Ninety Days in Apeland liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
42.
Revelation, Mythology, Correspondences
Revelation, Mythology, Correspondences really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bricks from Babel: A Brief View, Myths, Traditions and Religious, Belief of Races, Concise Studies in Ethnography
Bricks from Babel: A Brief View, Myths, Traditions and Religious, Belief of Races, Concise Studies in Ethnography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken. A Complete, Graphic, and Comparative History of the Many Strange Beliefs, Superstitious Practices, Domestic Peculiarities, Sacred Writings, Systems of Philosophy, Legends and Traditions, Customs and Habits of Mankind
Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken. A Complete, Graphic, and Comparative History of the Many Strange Beliefs, Superstitious Practices, Domestic Peculiarities, Sacred Writings, Systems of Philosophy, Legends and Traditions, Customs and Habits of Mankind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Vaccination and other rhymes
Vaccination and other rhymes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Quad's Odds
Quad's Odds 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ballads of Books
Ballads of Books 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Octopus; or, the 'Devil-Fish' of fiction and of fact
The Octopus; or, the 'Devil-Fish' of fiction and of fact
by: Henry Lee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Johnnykin And The Goblins
Johnnykin And The Goblins really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
50.
Smith and Schmidt in Africa, Hottentot Blue-Book
Smith and Schmidt in Africa, Hottentot Blue-Book 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Dream of Hell
A Dream of Hell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A General History of Labyrinths
A General History of Labyrinths 4.78 avg rating — 49 ratings
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I've Been A-Gipsying, Or, Rambles Among Our Gipsies and Their Children in Their Tents and Vans
I've Been A-Gipsying, Or, Rambles Among Our Gipsies and Their Children in Their Tents and Vans 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Edinburgh Life 100 Years Ago: With an Account of the Fashions and Amusements of Society
Edinburgh Life 100 Years Ago: With an Account of the Fashions and Amusements of Society it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Saved From a Living Death, or Hydrophobia Robbed of Its Victim: The wonderful deliverance of Winfrey Hall
Saved From a Living Death, or Hydrophobia Robbed of Its Victim: The wonderful deliverance of Winfrey Hall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains
Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Infant Philosopher: Stray leaves from a baby's journal
The Infant Philosopher: Stray leaves from a baby's journal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Blarney Ballads
The Blarney Ballads it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
59.
The Philosophy of Disenchantment
The Philosophy of Disenchantment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings
60.
The Amphibion's Voyage
The Amphibion's Voyage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Spiritualism and Animal Magnetism: A Treatise on Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Magnetic Sleep, Spiritual Manifestations, Hallucinations...
Spiritualism and Animal Magnetism: A Treatise on Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Magnetic Sleep, Spiritual Manifestations, Hallucinations... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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From the Green Bag
From the Green Bag 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Isle of Palms: Adventures While Wrecking for Gold, Encounter with a Mad Whale, Battle with a Devil-Fish, Fish, and Capture of a Mermaid
The Isle of Palms: Adventures While Wrecking for Gold, Encounter with a Mad Whale, Battle with a Devil-Fish, Fish, and Capture of a Mermaid 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A California Tramp and Later Footprints; Or, Life on the Plains and in the Golden State Thirty Years Ago, with Miscellaneous Sketches in Prose and Verse
A California Tramp and Later Footprints; Or, Life on the Plains and in the Golden State Thirty Years Ago, with Miscellaneous Sketches in Prose and Verse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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From Under the Cloud; or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity
From Under the Cloud; or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes: The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation
Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes: The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Hawkie: The Autobiography of a Gangrel
Hawkie: The Autobiography of a Gangrel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Another World; Or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
Another World; Or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
by: Hermes
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Golden Age of Patents: A Parody on Yankee Inventiveness
The Golden Age of Patents: A Parody on Yankee Inventiveness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
70.
The Equine Paradox! Can You Solve It?
The Equine Paradox! Can You Solve It? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl
A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
72.
Another World; or, The Fourth Dimension
Another World; or, The Fourth Dimension 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Marquis and the Moon: A Story
The Marquis and the Moon: A Story 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Zeph and Other Stories
Zeph and Other Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary: A Curious Fable Of The Cotton Plant
The Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary: A Curious Fable Of The Cotton Plant
by: Henry Lee
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Am I a Lunatic? or, Dr. Henry Helmbold's exposure of his personal experience in the lunatic asylums of Europe and America
Am I a Lunatic? or, Dr. Henry Helmbold's exposure of his personal experience in the lunatic asylums of Europe and America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Egypt, or the Double Land and Its Stone Records: Giving a Complete Chronology of the World's History as Far as Scriptural Events are Concerned
Egypt, or the Double Land and Its Stone Records: Giving a Complete Chronology of the World's History as Far as Scriptural Events are Concerned
by: W.E.S.T.
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Conscious Matter: Or the Physical and the Psychical Universally in Causal Connection
Conscious Matter: Or the Physical and the Psychical Universally in Causal Connection liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Your Luck's in Your Hand, or the Science of Modern Palmistry; Chiefly according to the systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarolles
Your Luck's in Your Hand, or the Science of Modern Palmistry; Chiefly according to the systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarolles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
80.
The Old Showmen, and the London Fairs
The Old Showmen, and the London Fairs 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Kissing: Its Curious Bible Mentions
Kissing: Its Curious Bible Mentions 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Convict Once, and Other Poems
Convict Once, and Other Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
83.
The True Story of Those Dreadful Mouse Boys
The True Story of Those Dreadful Mouse Boys 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
84.
History of the Prehistoric Ages: Written by the Ancient Historic Band of Spirits
History of the Prehistoric Ages: Written by the Ancient Historic Band of Spirits did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
My Winter on the Nile: Among the Mummies and Moslems
My Winter on the Nile: Among the Mummies and Moslems 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
86.
The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters
The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
87.
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
88.
Ghostly Visitors: A Series of Authentic Narratives
Ghostly Visitors: A Series of Authentic Narratives 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography
The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Kinetic Jottings: Miscellaneous Extracts from Medical Literature, Ancient and Modern, Illustrating the Effects of Mechanical Agencies in the Treatment of Disease
Kinetic Jottings: Miscellaneous Extracts from Medical Literature, Ancient and Modern, Illustrating the Effects of Mechanical Agencies in the Treatment of Disease 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
91.
Brownies and Bogles
Brownies and Bogles 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Preadamites; Or, A Demonstration Of The Existence Of Men Before Adam
Preadamites; Or, A Demonstration Of The Existence Of Men Before Adam liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
93.
A Double Life, or Starr Cross: An Hypnotic Romance
A Double Life, or Starr Cross: An Hypnotic Romance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child: Containing a Full and Complete Account of the Abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the Home of His Parents
The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child: Containing a Full and Complete Account of the Abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the Home of His Parents 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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On Board the "Rocket"
On Board the "Rocket" 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks
Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
97.
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
98.
Folk-Lore Relics of Early Village Life
Folk-Lore Relics of Early Village Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
99.
Electric Bells and All about Them: A Practical Book for Practical Men
Electric Bells and All about Them: A Practical Book for Practical Men really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Songs of Singularity, or, Lays for the Eccentric, by the London Hermit
Songs of Singularity, or, Lays for the Eccentric, by the London Hermit 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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