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    Date
    1943
  • Two 40c Violet Postal Cards on album page

    Date
    1926-1928
  • C. Plinii Secvndi Novocomensis epistolarum libri decem : in quibus multae habentur epistolae non ante impressae. Tum Graeca correcta, et suis locis restituta, atque ; reiectis adulterinis, uera reposita. Item fragmentatae epistolae, integrae factae. In medio etiam epistolae libri octaui de Clitumno fonte non solum uertici calx additus, et calci uertex, sed decem quoque ; epistolae interpositae ... Eiusdem panegyricus Traiano imp. dictus. Eiusdem de viris illustribus in re militari, et in administranda rep. Suetonii Tranquilli de claris grammaticis et rhetorib. Iulii Obsequentis prodigiorum liber. Epistolae decimi libri ad Traianum probantur esse Plinii in sequenti epistola. Inibi etiam liber de viris illustribus, non Tranquilli, sed Plinii esse ōnditur

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    1508
  • Checklists of birds, Isla de los Estados expedition aboard RV Hero, 1971

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    1971-1977
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    1971
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    1977
  • Eugene Amandus Schwarz Papers, 1875-1928 : notebooks, a reply to Dr. C. V. Riley by George H. Horn, M.D.

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  • 2c Washington single on cover

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    March 24, 1895
  • First Flight Cover

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    1990
  • William Henry Tripp, whaling log records, circa 1900-1925 : correspondence.

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    1938
  • Irradiated Mail

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    2004

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