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INDEX to RARE AND BEAUTIFUL

Mrs. Evan Noyes Collection of Children's Books
Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped (1933), Treasure Island (1939) and The Black Arrow (1916)
Charles S. Kingsley:
The Water-Babies (1916)
Randolph Caldecott:
R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2 (19??)

Dr. John E. Jesseph Collection of Civil War Books
William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1875)
    
with Henry V. Boynton: Sherman's Historical Raid: The Memoirs in the Light of the Record (1875)
James D. McCabe:
A Tour Around the World by General Grant (1879)
P.H. Sheridan:
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan (1891)

The Leo and Mary Solt English History Collection
John Saltmarsh: Groanes for Liberty (1646) and A Letter From the Army (1647)
John Goodwin:
Hubristodikai, The Obstructours of Justice (1649)
Thomas Burton:
Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. (1828)

Robert A. Woods Masonic Collection
William Morgan: Morgan's Freemasonry Exposed and Explained (1882)
     with Henry L. Valance: Confession of the Murder of William Morgan (1869)
    
and Thurlow Weed: The Facts Stated: Hon. Thurlow Weed on the Morgan Abduction (1882)
St. Barnabas Conclave No. 31 (Louisville, KY):
Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine (1924?)
Willis Darwin Engle: The Eastern Star in Indiana (1899)

The George Santayana Collection
George Santayana: The Sense of Beauty (1896)
George Santayana:
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)
George Santayana:
The Last Puritan (1935)

Other Items in the Rare Books Collection
David Bryce (publisher): The Holy Bible (1890)
Shotaro Kimura and Charlotte M. A. Peake:
Sword and Blossom Poems (1900?)
Benton L. Hatch:
A Check List of the Publications of Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine (1966)


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