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  THE HISTORY OF DON JUAN, Or the Libertine Destroyer.
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  THE SOLDIER’S ALPHABET. Aunt Louisa’s London Toy Books, 1/- or Mounted 2/-.
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  SIMON, Andre.

  THE HISTORY OF THE WINE TRADE IN ENGLAND. Volume I [of two]: The Rise and progress of the Wine Trade in England from the earliest times to the close of the Fourteenth Century.
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  McCARTHY, Tom.

  C.
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  ALFORD, Henry S. L. and SWORD, W. Dennistoun.

  THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN Its Loss and Recovery. Including I. – A rapid sketch of the history of the Soudan. II. – A narrative of the Dongola Expedition, 1896. III. - A full account of the Nile Expedition, 1897–8. With numerous portraits, illustrations and maps. And records of the Services of the Officers (1896-8), etc.
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  FIRESIDE, Frank [pseud].

  LIGHTS AND SHADOWS ON THE WALL; a Handy Amusement for Winter Evenings by Frank Fireside, Esq. First and Second Series.
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  [KENDALL, Edward Augustus.]

  THE CANARY BIRD: A Moral Fiction. Interspersed with Poetry. By the Author of, The Sparrow, Keeper’s Travels, The Crested Wren &c.
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  [CLARK, Samuel].

  THE LITTLE CONCHOLOGIST; An Introduction To the Classification of Shells. By the Rev. T. Wilson.
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  Du FRESNOY, Abbé Lenglet.

  GEOGRAPHY FOR CHILDREN; or, A Short and easy method of Teaching and Learning Geography: Designed principally for the Use of Schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situations, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, in the Form of Question and Answer: with a new general Map of the World, the Spheres, and also, a List of Maps necessary for Children. Translated from the French of Abbé Lenglet Du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The Twenty-Second edition. To which is prefixed, A Method of learning Geography without a Master, for the use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful study in their Youth. And a Table of Latitude and Longitude of the remarkable Places mentioned in this Work.
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  THE HISTORY OF TOMMY PLAYLOVE AND JACKY LOVEBOOK. Wherein is shown the superiority of virtue over vice, However dignified by Birth and Fortune. Embellished with elegant cuts.
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  SANDHAM, Miss [Elizabeth].

  THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER, A Tale for Young Persons. By Miss Sandham.
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  ALTRINGHAM, John D.

  The New Naturalist (No. 93.) BRITISH BATS. With 8 colour plates and over 120 black and white photographs and line drawings.
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  BUTLER, William.

  GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES, Designed for the use of Young Ladies. By the late William Butler, Teacher of Writing, Accounts, and Geography, in Ladies’ Schools. The Twelfth Edition.
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  LORE, Pittacus.

  I AM NUMBER FOUR.
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  MACDONALD, George.

  THE PRINCESS AND THE CURDIE. With eleven illustrations by James Allen. London.
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  STERNE, Laurence.

  THE SERMONS OF MR. YORICK.
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  [LONGUEVILLE, Peter.]

  LE SOLITAIRE ANGLOIS, ou, Avantures Merveilleuses de Philippe Quarl. Par Mr. Dorrington. Traduit de Anglois.
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  THE POPULAR ONE. Issues 1 – 3.
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  THE WAY OF LIVING IN A METHOD, and by Rule: Or, A Regular Way of Employing our Time: Recommended in a short, plain, practical Discourse to the Charity-Schools, for the Use of the Youth brought up in them. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
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  [FENN, Lady Eleanor.]

  COBWEBS TO CATCH FLIES, or Dialogues in short sentences, adapted to children from the age of three to eight years. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing Easy Lessons if Words of Three Letters, Four letters, Five Letters, Six Letters. Suited to Children from Three to Five Years of Age. Vo. II. Containing Instructive Lessons in Words of One Syllable, Two Syllables, Three Syllables, Four Syllables. Suited to Children from Five to Eight Years of Age.