12 HENRY CAREY BAIRD'S CATALOGUE. 



KEENE.— A Hand-Book of Practical Gauging : 



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KELLEY. — Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on In- 

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KENTISH.— A Treatise on a Box of Instruments, 



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KOBELL.—ERNI.— Mineralogy Simplified : 



A hhort ^Method of Determining and Classifying Minerals, by means 

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LANDRIN.— A Treatise on Steel: 



Comprising its Theory, Metallurgy, Properties, Practical Working, 

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LARKIN. — The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's 

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LEA VITT.— Facts about Peat as an Article of Fuel : 



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