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United States internal revenue. Annual taxes, 1865.
One of the earliest income tax forms.
Map of the United States of America, the British provinces, Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, with part of New Granada and Venezuela
Insets: A map of the Atlantic Ocean showing the American & European ports and the routes of the ocean steamers -- The Isthmus of Panama showing the routes of travel between Chagres & Panama., map drawn by Geo. W. Colton ; engraved by John M. Atwood ; border desig'd. & eng'd. by W.S. Barnard., Relief indicated by hachures.
De [con]tractibus marcatorum
Reuere[n]di p[at]ris fratris Joh[ann]is Nider sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ordinis predicator[um]., Title from incipit on p. [1]., Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red., Summary of Giovanni di Montenero's Defensorium mendicantium: p. [54]-[59].
Calico painting and printing in the the East Indies in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
"Les toiles peintes de L'Inde", p. 60-72, signed: Henri Clouzot, conservateur du [!] Bibliotheque Forney, Paris., Portfolio of plates has only cover-title., Bibliographical foot-notes.
Calico painting and printing in the the East Indies in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
"Les toiles peintes de L'Inde", p. 60-72, signed: Henri Clouzot, conservateur du [!] Bibliotheque Forney, Paris., Portfolio of plates has only cover-title., Bibliographical foot-notes.
The Factory operatives' magazine.
No. 1 (Apr. 1841)., Cover from caption.
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydluftige beschryvige der Moluccos ... en alle de eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende; het Nederland
deel 1, stuk 1. Nederlands mogentheid. stuk 2. Moluccos. Molukse zaaken. -deel 2. Amboina. Ambonsche zaaken. -deel 3, stuk 1. Amboina (cont.) Boomen, planten, dieren, etc. van Amboina. stuk 2. Boomen, etc., van Amboina (cont.) Banda. Bandasche zaaken. Solor en Timor. Macassar. Macassaarsche zaaken. Borneo. Bali. Tonkin. Cambodia. Siam. -deel 4, stuk 1. Java. Bantam. Batavia. Levens der opper-landvoogden. stuk 2. Javaansche zaaken. Suratte. Levens der Groote Mogols. Tsjina. Tayouan of Formosa. Des schryvers uyten t'huysreyze. -deel 5, stuk 1. De kust van Choromandel. Persien. Malakka. Sumatra. Ceylon. -deel 5, stuk 2. Malabar. Japan. Zaaken van Japan. De Kaap der Goede Hoope. Zaaken van de Kaap der Goede Hoope. Zaaken van het eyland Mauritius., door Francois Valentyn ..., Vol. 1 has added t.-p., engr.: Beschryvinge van doud en nieuw Oost-Indien., A general title in vol. 1 only, the other volumes containing special titles., Several title-pages in red and black with printr's mark. 16 pt. in all, un-numbered, with separate paging, but without special t-p. Many errors in paging.
The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. Wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and co
Lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez Semedo ... Now put into English by a person of quality, and illustrated with several mapps and figures ... To which is added the history of the late invasion, and conquest of that flourishing kingdom by the Tartars. With an exact account of the other affairs of China, till these present times., The history of the invasion by the Tartars, p. [251]-304, has special t.-p.: Bellum tartaricum, or, The conquest of the great and most renovvned empire of China, by the invasion of the Tartars ... Written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius ... London, Printed for J. Crook, 1655.