GAUTIER'S (THEOPHILE) WORKS. A Winter in Russia. Translated from the French by M. M. Ripley. 12mo. $1.75.
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Constantinople. Translated from the French by Robert Howe Gould, M.A. 12mo. $1.75.
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JONES' (C. H.) AFRICA: the History of Exploration and Adventure as given in the leading authorities from Herodotus to Livingstone. By C. H. Jones. With Map and Illustrations. 8vo. $5.00.
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MORELET'S (ARTHUR) TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Including Accounts of some Regions Unexplored since the Conquest. Introduction and Notes by E. Geo. Squier. Post 8vo. Illus. $2.00.
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PUMPELLY'S (R.) AMERICA AND ASIA. Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World, and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China. By Raphael Pumpelly, Professor in Harvard University, and some time Mining Engineer in the employ of the Chinese and Japanese Governments. With maps, woodcuts, and lithographic facsimiles of Japanese color-printing. Fine edition, royal 8vo, tinted paper, gilt side, $5.00. Cheap edition, post 8vo, plain, $2.50.
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STILLMAN'S (W. J.) CRETAN INSURRECTION OF 1866–7–8. By W. J. Stillman, late U. S. Consul in Crete. 12mo. $1.50.
WHIST (SHORT WHIST). Edited by J. L. Baldwin. The Standard adopted by the London Clubs. And a Treatise on the Game, by J. C. 18mo, appropriately decorated, $1.00.
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