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BOOK

Title:  
Quelques articles sur l'abolition de la peine de mort
Creator:
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéricduc de, 1747-1827
Publication:
Paris, 1836]
Notes:  
Halt title-page. Extraits du Journal de la morale-chrétienne, t.11.
Call #:  
PAM. V.1000, NO.10
Extent:
67 p. ; 20 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Statistique de la peine capitale en Belgique, en France, en Angleterre et en Prusse
Creator:
Ducpétiaux, Edouard, 1804-1868
Publication:
S.l, n.d.]
Notes:  
Cover title.
Call #:  
Pam. v.1000, no.14
Extent:
20 p. ; 20 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Report of the majority and minority of the select committee of the House, relative to the abrogation of capital punishment
Creators:
Pennsylvania General Assembly. House. | Matthias, Benjamin.
Publication:
J.M.G. Lescure, Printer to the state, Harrisburg, 1846.
Notes:  
"Mr. Matthias, Chairman."
Call #:  
PAM. V.838, NO.8
Extent:
12 p. ; 21 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Considerazioni storico-filosofiche sulla pena capitale
Creator:
Muoni, Damiano, 1820-1894
Publication:
F. Gareffi, Milano, 1862.
Call #:  
PAM. V.1078, NO.10
Extent:
46 p. ; 22 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
On the punishment of murder by death
Creator:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Johnson, London, 1793.
Call #:  
Pam. v.71, no.8
Extent:
20 p. ; octavo.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Report of the majority and minority of the select committee of the House, relative to the abrogation of capital punishment
Creators:
Pennsylvania General Assembly. House. | Matthias, Benjamin.
Publication:
J.M.G. Lescure, Printer to the state, Harrisburg, 1846.
Notes:  
"Mr. Matthias, Chairman."
Call #:  
PAM. V.839, NO.8
Extent:
12 p. ; 21 cm.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
Introductory remarks: Symposium on Capital Punishment and the Administration of Justice
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.147, no.1
Creator:
Piel, Gerard, 1915-
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa, 2003.
Call #:  
506.73 AM4P V.147, NO.1
Extent:
p. 1-2. ; 26 cm.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
Crime, punishment, and executions in the twenty-first century
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.147, no.1
Creator:
Stevenson, Bryan.
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa, 2003.
Call #:  
506.73 AM4P V.147, NO.1
Extent:
p. 24-29. ; 26 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
An appendix to the essays on capital punishments
Creators:
Philanthropos. | Philanthropos. | Rice, David, 1733-1816
Publication:
Printed by S. Merritt, Philadelphia, 1812.
Call #:  
PAM. V.1134, NO.6
Extent:
33 p. ; 17 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Seconde lettre ... à M. le rédacteur ju Journal des débats, sur le jury et la peine de mort
Creator:
Sellon, Jean Jacquescomte de, 1782-1839
Publication:
Gruaz, S.l, 1834]
Notes:  
No title page. Discusses article in Journal des débats, Oct. 7, 1834.
Call #:  
Pam. v.253, no.8
Extent:
3 p. ; quarto.



BOOK

Title:  
Essays on capital punishments: republished from Poulson's daily advertiser
Creators:
Philanthropos. | Rice, David, 1733-1816
Publication:
Printed by Brown & Merritt, Philadelphia, 1811.
Call #:  
PAM. V.1134, NO.5
Extent:
24 p. ; 17 cm.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
Observations regarding the infliction of the death penalty by electricity
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.47, no.188
Creator:
Spitzka, Edward Anthony, 1876-1922
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa, 1908.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
506.73 Am4p v.47, no.188
Extent:
p. 39-49. ; 23 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Remarks on the expediency of abolishing the punishment of death
Creator:
Livingston, Edward, 1764-1836
Publication:
Jesper Harding, printer, Philadelphia, 1831.
Notes:  
"From the first report of Mr. Livingston made to the legislature of Louisiana, in March, 1822." Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
PAM. V.996, NO.3
Extent:
iv, 42 p. ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
A letter addressed to the South Carolina legislature & published in the Southern patriot, of Charleston, on the 1st of Dec., 1819
Creators:
Tidyman, Philip. | Carolinianpseud
Publication:
S.l, 1819?]
Notes:  
Signed: A Carolinian. Calls for enactment of a law in South Carolina, making the murder of a negro by a white man punishable with death. Not in Sabin.
Call #:  
Pam. v.545, no.14
Extent:
2 p. ; octavo.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
An enquiry into the effects of public punishments upon criminals and upon society: Read in the Society for Promoting Political Enquiries, convened at the house of His Excellency Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, in Philadelphia, March 9th, 1787. [Seven lines of quotations]
Creators:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | James, Joseph, 1754 or 1755-1830 | Mason, John | Society for Promoting Political Enquiries | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed by Joseph James, in Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, M. DCC. LXXXVII. [1787]
Notes:  
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ C² (C2 blank).
Call #:  
Pam. v.1075, no.1
Extent:
18, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)



BOOK

Title:  
The impropriety of capital punishments, or: the report of a committee on Dr. Cuyler's sermon entitled The law of God with respect to murder
Creator:
Philadelphia Committee of Twenty-five on Capital Punishment.
Publication:
John Penington, publisher, No. 169 Chestnut Street, above Fifth, Philadelphia, 1842.
Call #:  
PAM. V.839, NO.7
Extent:
23, [1] p. ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
An essay on crimes and punishments
Creators:
Beccaria, Cesaremarchese di, 1738-1794 | Voltaire, 1694-1778
Publication:
Printed for F. Newbery, London, 1785.
Call #:  
343 B38E
Extent:
viii [4] 179, lxxix p. ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
The impropriety of capital punishments, or: the report of a committee on Dr. Cuyler's sermon entitled The law of God with respect to murder
Creator:
Philadelphia Committee of Twenty-five on Capital Punishment.
Publication:
John Penington, publisher, No. 169 Chestnut Street, above Fifth, Philadelphia, 1842.
Call #:  
PAM. V.838, NO.3
Extent:
23, [1] p. ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
A visit to the Philadelphia prison: being an accurate and particular account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that building : containing also an account of the gradual reformation, and present improved state, of the penal laws of Pennsylvania
Creator:
Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833
Publication:
Printed by Budd and Bartram, Philadelphia, 1796.
Notes:  
"With observations on the impolicy and injustice of capital punishments. In a letter to a friend."
Call #:  
PAM. V.997, NO.10
Extent:
iv, 108 p. : 1 folded chart ; 21 cm.



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1764-1858
Abstract:  

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).
Call #:  
Mss.B.H22
Extent:
3 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century