Notable women in history; the lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history,

A group of classic dames.--Many queens and some martyrs.--Women of wit and pleasure.--Priestesses of woman's cause.--Some women of the footlights.--Women in arts and letters.--Women who stand alone.

Practical cosmophonography; a system of writing and printing all the principal languages, with their exact pronunciation,

Mode of access: Internet.

Dictionaire oeconomique: or, The family dictionary. Containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved remedies for most distempers of the body of man, cattle and other creatures ... The most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding and ordering all sorts of domestick animals ... The different kinds of nets, snares and engines for taking all sort of fish, birds, and other game. Great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries, relating to gardening [and] husbandry ... The whole illustrated throughout with very great variety of figures ... Done into English from the 2d edition, lately printed at Paris ...

Vol. 2 without t.-p.

Discussion of the precision of measurements : with examples taken mainly from physics and electrical engineering /

Advertising section at the end of the book.

A treatise on canals and reservoirs, and the best mode of designing and executing them; with observations on the Rochdale, Leeds and Liverpool, and Huddersfield canals ... Likewise observations on the best mode of carding, roving, drawing and spinning all kinds of cotton twist. Also instructions for designing and building a corn mill ... together with important directions on public drains.

Mode of access: Internet.

An historical and descriptive account of China; its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, government, industry, manners, and social state; intercourse with Europe from the earliest ages; missions and embassies to the imperial court; British and foreign commerce; directions to navigators; state of mathematics and astronomy; survey of its geography, geology, botany, and zoology.

Added t.p., illustrated.

Collected reprints - Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Laboratory.

Includes bibliographical references.

The important collection of engraved portraits of Washington belonging to the late Henry Whelen, Jr., of Philadelphia ... from whose collection, the late Wm. S. Baker, compiled his celebrated book on the "Engraved portraits of Washington," and including all but a few of the portraits mentioned in that work; also the extensive collection of engraved portraits of Franklin belonging to the same estate; to be sold ... April 27, 1909 ...

"List of prices realized ..." inserted.

A natural philosophy : embracing the most recent discoveries in the various branches of physics, and exhibiting the application of scientific principles in every-day life : adapted to use with or without apparatus, and accompanied with full descriptions of experiments, practical exercises, and numerous illustrations /

Includes index.

An introduction to the physics and chemistry of colloids,

At head of title: Text-book of chemical research and engineering.

Digest of the law of mines and minerals and of all controversies incident to the subject-matter of mining : comprising the cases in the English and American reports, from the year books to the present time (1878) /

Mode of access: Internet.

The law relating to canals : comprising a treatise on navigable rivers and canals; and including all legislation to the close of the last session of Parliament, together with the procedure and practice in private bill legislation; with a map of the existing canals in England and Wales /

Includes index.

Myths and legends of flowers, trees, fruits, and plants in all ages and in all climes,

"Second edition."

Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States : Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session-Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 282, to investigate (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation.

Martin Dies, chairman.