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Burke's General Armory. Encyclopædia of

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Burke's, Peerage, Baronetage, &c., for

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Landed Gentry of Great Britain and

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The Overland Route, From England to

Calcutta, as Conducted in 1845. By the late FREDERICK
WALTER SIMMS, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., M. Inst. C.E.,
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Great Landowners of Britain, being a List

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Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the

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Life of Sir William Parker, Bart, G.C.B.

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Karens of the Golden Chersonese. By

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LIEUT.-COL. A. R. MCMAHON, F.R.G.S., Madras Staff
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Post Hiems Ver. A Novel. By ADA MONTAGUE.

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Army and Navy Signal Book, for use with

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Army Circulars. Published monthly.
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Army Hospital Corps Regulations. Royal

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Army Promotion and Retirement.

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Artificers' (Military) Handbook. By SERGEANT

MAJOR T. ARMSTRONG, R.A. New Edition, 1877. 12mo., roan. Price 3s.

Artillery. A plea for its better Technical Educa

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Artillery-Useful Tables. Compiled by

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Artillery Carbine (Snider) Manual and Fir

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Artillery Exercises (Field) Manual, 1877,

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Artillery Exercises Manual, 1873. Royal

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Artillery Volunteers. Catechism for Officers.

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Austria, Armed Strength. Compiled at the

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Austria. Treaties and Tariffs. See "Hertslet."

Authorized Arms. A Selection of Arms

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Auxiliary and Reserve Forces Circulars,

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Auxiliary Cavalry.
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Baldwin's Laws of Short Whist.

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Banting's Letter on Corpulence. Fourth

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