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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the articl… A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the articl… Peter Lecount This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s. Chapter headings are: -P… OL235587W
L'homme machine L'homme machine Bernard A. Laska,Julien Offray de La Mettrie Man a Machine (French: L'homme Machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1748. In this work, La… OL2453226W
Self-knowledge Self-knowledge John Mason published 1813. covered in brown (leather or paper?) Hardbound, abt 51/2 by 31/2" written in old fashioned type; f's look like s's OL6384123W
On the composition of images, signs & ideas On the composition of images, signs & ideas Giordano Bruno With typical magniloquent aplomb, Bruno delivers what can only be described as a system of Hermetic semiotics with a barrage of bizarre components ranging from Hellenistic astrology to Enochian table… OL959886W