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BOOK

Title:  
The present state of the nation: particularly with respect to its trade, finances, &c. &c. Addressed to the King and both houses of Parliament
Creators:
Knox, William, 1732-1810 | Almon, John, 1737-1805 | Grenville, George, 1712-1770 | Whately, Thomas, -1772 | Bailyn, Bernard | Bailyn, Lotte
Publication:
Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, in Piccadilly, London, 1768.
Notes:  
Not listed in Sabin, 28768. Attributed also to George Grenville and to Thomas Whately. "... three editions were printed in London, and another in Dublin -- all in 1768. The first edition had 48 pages; the second had 100 pages; the third had 103 pages; and the Dublin edition had 74. In 1769 a fourth London edition appeared, with 107 pages."- from tipped in description by William Knox, Harvard University, Department of History.
Call #:  
336.42 K77P.1
Extent:
48 pages ; 26 x 21 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
A candid examination of the mutual claims of Great Britain, and the colonies: with a plan of accommodation, on constitutional principles
Creators:
Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779 | Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 | Rivington, James, 1724-1802 | Rogers, William | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed by James Rivington, New York, 1775.
Notes:  
Containing "Errata" on verso of title, not found in some copies of this edition. [Hazard pamphlets, v.38, no.7]
Call #:  
Pam. v.1230, no.5
Extent:
62 pages ; 20 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
The twelve united colonies: by their delegates in Congress, to the inhabitants of Great-Britain ; friends, countrymen, bretheren!
Creators:
United States Continental Congress. | Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 | Hancock, John, 1737-1793 | David Center for the American Revolution | William and Thomas Bradford (Firm)
Publication:
Printed by William and Thomas Bradford], Philadelphia], [1775]
Notes:  
Written by Richard Henry Lee. Caption title. Signed (p. 8): "By order of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attested by Charles Thomson, secretary. Philadelphia, July 8, 1775." Ascribed to the press of William and Thomas Bradford by Evans.
Call #:  
DLAR 9px
Extent:
8 pages ; 20 cm. (8vo)



BOOK

Title:  
Revolutionary times: sketches of our country, its people, and their ways, one hundred years ago
Creators:
Abbott, Edward, 1841-1908 | Roberts Brothers (Boston, Mass.) | John Wilson and Son | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1876
Notes:  
With half title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
Call #:  
DLAR 1472
Extent:
208 pages ; 15 cm



BOOK

Title:  
Envisioning the world: the first printed maps 1472-1700
Creators:
Wendt, Henry. | Delaney, John M. (John Macklin) | Bowles, Alex. | Baron, Herman | Sonoma County Museum
Publication:
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California, ©2010.
Notes:  
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Envisioning the World: the first printed maps, 1472-1700" organized by the Sonoma County Museum, October 2, 2009-January 17, 2010. The exhibition was held in the Milberg Gallery of the Firestone Library, Princeton University, Feb. 7 - August 1, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:  
526 W48e
Extent:
102 pages : color maps. portraits ; 28 x 36 cm



BOOK

Title:  
Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman: travels (1745-1779)
Creators:
MacDonald, John, 1741?- | Beresford, John, 1888-1940 | George Routledge and Sons | Headley Brothers (Firm) | Liverpool (England) Free Public Library, | Liverpool (England) Corporation. | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1927.
Notes:  
"First published in this Series in 1927"--Verso t.p. Set up from a rotograph of the British Museum copy of the first and only edition, 1790. With reproduction of original t.p.: Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards. By John Macdonald, a cadet of the family of Keppock in Inverness-shire ... London: Printed for the author and sold by J. Forbes, 1790. Includes index.
Call #:  
DLAR 4587
Extent:
xxiv, 256 pages, 8 leaves of numbered plates : illustrations, frontispiece, portrait ; 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:
Acts and laws passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England: begun & held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of May, 1731
Alt. Title:  
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1731 May)  
Creators:
Massachusetts | Green, Bartholomew, 1667-1732 | Massachusetts General Court.
Publication:
Printed by B. Green, Boston, Mass, 1733]
Notes:  
Caption title, preceded by headlines (running-title and subject). Bound with six additional acts. "The seven foregoing acts were published April 18, 1733." -- page 498. Imprint suggested by Evans and Cushing. Pagination continues the Acts and laws as printed by B. Green and Benjamin Eliot, Boston, 1726 (Evans, 2762). Royal arms (Reilly 900) at head of title.
Call #:  
347.44 M38a
Extent:
pages 457-498 ; 29 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Thoughts on the difficulties and distresses in which the peace of 1783 has involved the people of England: on the present disposition of the English, Scots, and Irish, to emigrate to America : and on the hazard they run (without certain precautions) of rendering their condition more deplorable : addressed to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox
Creators:
King, John, active 1783-1802 | Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 | Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785 | Pettit, J.W. | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed for T. Davies ... J. Southern ... and W. Deans, London, 1783.
Call #:  
DLAR 59px
Extent:
71, [1] pages ; 23 cm (8vo)



PAMPHLET

Title:  
A discourse delivered on the public Thanksgiving day, November 29, 1798
Creators:
Eckley, Joseph, 1750-1811 | Winship, L. | Leonard, H. | Broussard, James H., 1941- | Broussard, Margaret | Manning & Loring
Publication:
Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, Boston, 1798.
Notes:  
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
Call #:  
973 Pam. 922
Extent:
23, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)



BOOK

Title:
Lucan's Pharsalia
Alt. Title:  
Pharsalia. English. 1753  
Creators:
Lucan, 39-65 | Lucan, 39-65 | Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718 | Welwood, James, 1652-1727 | Hedge, T.H. | Vaughan, Samuel | J. and R. Tonson
Publication:
Printed for F. and R. Tonfon and S. Draper in the Strand, London, 1353 [i.e. 1753]
Notes:  
"The preface. Giving some account of Lucan and his works, and of Mr. Rowe, by James Welwood": v. 1, p. l-lxiv. Also published as Lucan's De bello civili. Dedication signed: Anne Rowe. Head and tail pieces.
Call #:  
873.2 L96.3r
Extent:
2 volumes : illustration, folded map ; 17 cm.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders: papers from the conference held at the American Philosophical Society, October 2019
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Transactions, v.110, pt.4
Creators:
The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders (Conference) (2019 : American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), | Gliserman, Nicholas | Gallwey, George | American Philosophical Society
Publication:
American Philosophical Society Press, Philadelphia, PA, [c2021]
Notes:  
Based on papers from the three day conference "The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders" held October 10-12, 2019 at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Volume includes an Introduction by Nicholas Gliserman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, whose research focuses on the history of cartography in North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:  
506.73 Am4t v.110, pt.4
Extent:
vii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (mostly color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm.



PERIODICAL

Title:  
James Logan's "The duties of man as they may be deduced from nature": an analysis of the unpublished manuscript
Creator:
Fiering, Norman
Publication:
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, [c2022]
Call #:  
506.73 Am4t v.111, pt.3
Extent:
v, 90 pages ; 26 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
An historical and critical account of the life and writings of James I. King of Great Britain: After the manner of Mr. Bayle
Creators:
Harris, William, 1720-1770 | Strahan, William, 1715-1785 | Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802 | Bladon, Samuel, -1799 | Vaughan, Samuel, active 18th century | T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt
Publication:
Printed for W. Strahan; T. Becket and Co. and T. Cadell in the Strand, and S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCLXXII. [1772]
Notes:  
Error in pagination: p. 27 misnumbered p. 72. Head and tail pieces. Signatures: A-R⁸ S². Apparently some copies were issued with [1] plate. cf. ESTC.
Call #:  
B J23.2
Extent:
xiv, [2], 255, [5] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)



BOOK

Title:  
The rights of man: for the use and benefit of all mankind
Creators:
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814 | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed and sold by Citizen Daniel Isaac Eaton, London, 1795.
Notes:  
"Preface purporting to have been written by Paine while in Luxembourg prison ... is manifestly spurious." : Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and edited by Moncure D. Conway. 1894. v.2, page 263. An altered version of the author's "Rights of man, being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution"; many references to Edmund Burke, the English Parliament, the French revolution, etc. are omitted.
Call #:  
DLAR 76px
Extent:
vii, [1], 151, [1] pages ; 22 cm (8vo)



PAMPHLET

Title:  
A memorial of the proceedings of the late ministery and Lower House of Parliament: With an account of several secret correspondences with foreign ministers of state, letters and messages, sent upon London to Paris and Utrecht and from Utrecht and Paris to London; abstracts of speeches, addresses, answers, &g. with reflections upon each head. To which is added, A short history of a plot to dethrone Queen Anne, and what has been attempted to bring in the Romish pretender, since the King ascended the throne. At the end of the memorial is a Black list of the names of many of those persons concern'd in one or both conspiracies. Also particulars casst up in it, of men, horses, money, provisions, cloaths, quarters, arms, ammunition, &c. promis'd to the assistance of treason
Creators:
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743 | Roberts, James, 1668 or 1669-1754 | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed for the author, and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane [and 5 others], London, 1715.
Notes:  
Author of An inquiry into the miscarriages of the four last years reign = Charles Povey, according to Halkett & Laing. In lower half of title page, the imprint is set in a column to the right; to the left; a coat of arms is centered, with "Price 6d." below it. "Advertisement" for works by Charles Povey (page 3) encourages "loyal subjects to keep this memorial by them", the price is also stated as "or 32s. per hundred to those that sell, or give copies away." "The copies are counterfeit that have not this coat of arms on the title page, viz. a bend engrail'd between six cinque-foils, crest a griffin's head out of a mural coronet".--from title page. However, The description on the title page of the coat of arms is incorrect, describing only the dexter pale. The same device appears on page 32 of his Inquiry into the miscarriages. Signatures: A-E⁴ F²
Call #:  
DLAR 87px
Extent:
44 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)



BOOK

Title:
Voyage historique de l'Amerique Meridionale: fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne
Alt. Title:  
Relacion historica del viage à la America Meridional. French  
Creators:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795 | Juan, Jorge, 1713-1773 | Mauvillon, Eléazar, 1712-1779 | Juan, Jorge, 1713-1773 | Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795 | Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Eberhardt, Fritz, 1917-1997
Publication:
Arkste'e & Merkus, Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1752.
Notes:  
Translations by E. de Mauvillon, of: Ulloa's "Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional", and of the companion work by Jorge Juan y Santacilia, entitled, "Observations astronomicas y physicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù" (both published at Madrid in 1748); and of Garcilaso de la Vega's "Comentarios reales de los Incas." "Ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires, et qui contient une histoire de Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la terre." "Abrègé historique de l'origine et de la succession des des Yncas, et autres souverains du Perou, avec un récit de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable sous le Régne de chacun d'eux [par Garcilaso de la Vega]": v. 2, p. [209]-316, [6], with separate index. "Observations astronomiques et physiques faites par ordre du roi d'Espagne pour déterminer la figure et la grandeur de la terre, relativement a la navigation. Par Don George Juan ... et par Antoine de Ulloa ... ": v. 2, [312] p., at end; has separate paging and index. Errata [for the entire work]: v. 1, p. [19], prepaging. Caption/Running title: Voyage au Perou. Titles in red and black, with vignettes; head- and tailpieces. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Call #:  
918 J87M
Extent:
2 volumes, [46] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, diagrams ; 26 cm