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1451 HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. A COMPLETE SET from THE FIRST to the FIFTEENTH, with ALL APPENDIXES and Indexes, and the Calendar of the MSS. of the Marquess of SALISBURY, 6 vols.-in all 78 vols. and parts, folio and 8vo., in parts as issued

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1452 HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. Reports I-IX, part 1, with Appendixes and Indexes. 15 vols. folio, sewed 1870-1884

1453 HOWELL'S COMPLETE COLLECTION of STATE TRIALS and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors, from Henry II, 1163, to George IV, 1820, with Jardine's Index. 34 vols., roy. 8vo. (published at £52 unbound); neatly and uniformly bound in half russia; A FINE SET

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1454 STATE TRIALS. Reports of State Trials. NEW SERIES, Vols. I-VII,
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1455 Huguenot Society of London. PUBLICATIONS. 8 vols. and parts as described below, royal 8vo., sewed

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Vol. II. Les Actes des Colloques des Eglises Françaises, et des Synodes des
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1456 IBIS (The); a MAGAZINE of GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY. COMPLETE from the beginning in 1859 to 1898, inclusive, with a GENERAL INDEX to the vols. for 1859-1876;-41 vols., 8vo., with a great number of fine COLOURED plates; uniformly half bound in morocco gilt, marbled edges;

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Linnean Society:

1479 TRANSACTIONS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. A COMPLETE SET from the beginning in 1788 to May, 1899, forming 41 vols., and 18 parts, 4to., with many hundreds of fine plates, many of them COLOURED; thirty eight vols. uniformly half bound in calf, the rest in parts 1791-1899 31 10 [FIRST SERIES], 30 vols., and General Index, 2 parts in 1 vol., 1791-1875SECOND SERIES (in which the Zoological and Botanical papers are published separately): Zoology, vols. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII parts 1-8; Botany, vols. I, II, III, IV, and V parts 1-10.

1480 TRANSACTIONS of the LINNEAN SOCIETY. First Series, COMPLETE in 30 vols. with General Index, bound in twenty-five vols. half russia, and two parts; a neat set 1791-1876 12 10

1481 PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY.
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1482 Microscopical Society. A COMPLETE SET of the publications of the Microscopical Society from the beginning in 1841 to 1898 inclusive, forming 76 vols. in 71, 8vo., with many plates; the whole neatly and strongly half-bound in MOROCCO, a very fine set 1841-98 28 0

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1484 TRANSACTIONS of the Microscopical Society of London. [FIRST SERIES] 3 vols., COMPLETE. Royal 8vo., with 68 plates; in parts as issued, very scarce 1844-52 The second series, 16 vols., 1853-1868, was issued with the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science for the corresponding period; and from 1869 to 1877 the Society's Transactions appeared in the Monthly Microscopical Journal.

1485 MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL: Transactions
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1487 MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE, and Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. A COMPLETE SET from the beginning in August, 1876, to April, 1899, inclusive, forming Vols. I-XI, and parts 1 and 2 of Vol. XII, with Index to the first ten vols. 8vo., with numerous plates; eleven vols. in half calf neat, and two parts,

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