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1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d.
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 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Text is browned with brittle edges, x-lib embossed stamp of the AMNH on title page, binding near fine, text good.
Set is in matching contemporary pnaelled vellum with inked titles, light browning to some text portions, last index page of volume one archivally repaired at tear with no lose, small worm holes along inner margin in a few pages of volume 7 archivally repaired, very good.
The Warburton work is an historical novel based on the ill-fated "Darien Scheme," the attempts of banker William Paterson to establish a Scottish colony in 1698 on the Isthmus of Panama.
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 Jacobus PAST STORIES
What old William Rickey stashed away, and what Jamie Rickey pulled out a few years ago, was a very rare and remarkable document: the Vernon Township Tax Assessment list for the year 1816--185 years ago.
William Winans continued to experiment with his cigar steamer, and after various delays another, larger version was demonstrated in 1865, but the results were still not impressive to the Russian navy, which soon lost interest.
His father William had sold the tavern property in 1827 to the Denton family, and moved just up the street to the house formerly owned by the late Sea Captain William Vibbert, who had been dead for eight years.
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 Personnages qui sont associées à Alexandre Dumas père
Admiral William Brown was the founder of the Argentine Navy.
In 1901, Williams wrote an original work D'Artagnan the King-Maker, published by Street and Smith (reprinted 1989) using the characters of D'Artagnan and Porthos.
Williams' book was inaccurately described by the publisher as "by Alexandre Dumas."
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 StrategyPage.com - Military Book Reviews
The Memoirs of Brigadier General William Passmore Carlin, U.S.V. June 2, 2001
General William Maxwell and the New Jersey Continentals
In the Shadow of Nelson: The Naval Leadership of Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 1753-1812
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 Trivia Contest - World Cultures European   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Barclay "Bat" Masterson - gunfighter, buffalo hunter, frontier lawman, and newspaperman - was the son of Catherine McGurk who was from Northern Ireland?
• The "father of Argentina's Navy" was Admiral William Brown who wasborn in Foxford, Co. Mayo?
The Irish Rugby Football Union were so attached to it that they flew the Union Jack and not the tricolour at all matches until 1932, when the President of the Executive Council, William T Cosgrave, intervened.
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