American Victorian Pennsylvania kitchen table with stretcher. Overhanging rectangular top with inset surface and molded front edge above a shallow, straight apron fitted to front with two wide shallow drawers. The drawers have brass scoop-type grips and are flanked by protruding square corners applied with renaissance-style fluted strapwork brackets with bosses. These are raised on massive tapered round legs, ring-turned with compressed bulbous sections and caster feet. Some fo the brasses have been replaced. One end of the table is squared where a shorter table could abut: the other end has rounded corners. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Pair of inlaid mahogany folding top gate-leg card tables, possibly of Philadelphia manufacture. Each has a rectangular folding top with inset ovolo corners, inlaid with double-stringed edges and a broad band border above a conformingly shaped apron, inlaid with plain string reserves and slender banded edge, raised on stringed tapering square legs with crossband cuffs. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Federal drop-leaf Pembroke table. Single-plank rectangular overhanging top hinged with rounded shallow drop-leaves which can be raised on hinged swing supports, flanking a frieze drawer with a turned wooden pull above a cockbeaded edge molding. The table is raised on tapered reeded round legs which terminate in compressed globous ankles with deep peg-feet and turned at top with deep collars. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Philadelphia Classical drop-leaf pedestal table. Rectangular overhanging top, hinged with boldly scalloped shallow drop-leaves which are raised on hinged swing-supports flanking a cockbeaded frieze drawer, with brass pull at each end above cockbeaded edge moldings and protruding corners suspended with stepped ring drops. These rest on an urn-form pedestal raised on molded sabre legs ending in brass paw-feet. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Federal drop-leaf Pembroke table. Hinged oval drop-leaf is above drawered bow front and conforming mock-drawer reverse, flanked by light-wood inlaid corners simulating fluting. Square tapered legs have stringed borders and cross-band cuffs. Depicted in "Blue Book, Philadelphia Furniture." (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

American Late Federal table. Has overhanging rectangular top of green Connecticut marble above shaped apron with square corners. Raised on bold ring-turned vasiform legs conjoined by deep stretcher shelf and ending in peg-feet.

Large Federal drop-leaf Pembroke table. Has single-plank rectangular overhanging top hinged with rounded shallow drop-leaves which can be raised on hinged swing supports, flanking frieze drawer with turned wooden pull above cockbeaded edge molding. Raised on taper-reeded round legs which terminate in compressed globous ankles with deep peg-feet and turned at top with deep collars. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Included in these papers are letters, memoranda, computations, and tables.

Ammerican Chippendale-style secretary table. It has a plain overhanging rectangular top above a molded straight apron which is fitted at each end with a thumb molded drawer with brass pulls and keyholes. It stands on ringed round legs which are conjoined at the block-form ankles with a molded block stretcher above short rounded feet of tear-drop shape. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

This unpublished copy of the 1678 manuscript contains a detailed summary of astronomy from a pre-Newtonian perspective. There are systematic descriptions of planets and stars, distance of planets to the earth, comets, hourly movements of the sun, solar equations, etc. The tables relate to refractions for every place at the horizon, movements of the moon, and other calculations. The plates contain illustrations to the text, one being the moon eclipse of February 13, 1710.

This item is a book of calculations, including problems in the elements of astronomy; the calculations of lunar eclipses at Philadelphia, 1747-1761, and of solar eclipses in 1744 and 1752; and Halley's tables of the sun and moon.