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Book/Printed MaterialPolitical, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces : arranged under the following heads, and distinguished by initial letters in each leaf: (G.P.) General politics: (A.B.T.) American politics before the troubles: (A.D.T.) American politics during … Edited by Benjamin Vaughan. Issued in both quarto and octavo formats. Signatures: a⁴ b² A-4C⁴ 4D⁴(-4D4) Errata: p. 567, [7] p. at end. Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 342 Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3053 ESTC T58635 (4to), T56601 (8vo) LC copy has signed binding: "Bound by F. Bedford for H. Stevens". Has bookplate of Henry Stevens. LC copy 2 with…- Contributor: Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Vaughan, Benjamin - Kebler, Leonard - Bedford, Francis - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Stevens, Henry - Franklin, Benjamin - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialHistoria de Nueva-España Signatures: pi1 [par.]-3[par]² A⁴ (-A4) ²[par.]-²3[par.]² 4[par.]² B-5O² (5O2 blank) Title page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette. Sowerby, E. M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4120 Medina, J.T. Imprenta en México (1539-1821), 5380 Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 63204 Maps: (1) Plano de la Nueva España ... dispuesto por J.A. de Alzate y Ramírez,…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio - Cortés, Hernán
- Date: 1770
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Book/Printed MaterialThe present state of the West-Indies : containing an accurate description of what parts are possessed by the several powers in Europe : together with an authentick account of the first discoverers … This book, published in London in 1778, is a succinct compilation of information about the West Indies, containing, as indicated by the lengthy subtitle, "an authentick account of the first discoverers of those islands, and the parts adjacent, their situation, extent, boundaries, soil, product, trade, commerce, inhabitants, strength, government, and religion: also their principal bays and harbours, the materials for which were collected on…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Kitchin, Thomas - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialAuthentic papers relative to the expedition against the Charibbs, and the sale of lands in the island of St. Vincent Signatures: A-X². Sabin 2456 ESTC (RLIN) N16462 Kislak accession no.: 1997.057.00.0005. F2106.A93 Copy 2 found in GenColl and moved to Pre-1801 Collection in Rare Book; F2106.A93 Copy 1 is actually in the RBSCD Rare Books gen. stacks (exactly as gsl indicates), not in Pre-1801 Collection. vj17 2007-01-25 LAC snh 2019-06-14 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1773
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Book/Printed MaterialTo the Grand Jury of the County of Chatham, state of Georgia. : Gentlemen, On the point of being (unjustly as I conceive) banished from this country, I think it a debt … Caption title. Signed at end: Savannah, October 8, 1777. J.J. Zubly. Evans, C. American bibliography, 15715 English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W17855 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., vol. 4, page 200, column 3 A digital reproduction of the Library of Congress copy of this title is available from Evans Digital Edition. LC copy in bound volume…- Contributor: Lancaster, William - Zubly, John Joachim - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1777
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Book/Printed MaterialThe case of Mr. John Gordon, with respect to the title to certain lands in East Florida, purchased of his Catholick Majesty's subjects by him and Mr. Jesse Fish, for themselves and … Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Signed: Fowler Walker. Signatures: A-D⁴ a-c⁴ f²(-f2). Includes: Appendix, J.M.J St. Augustine, in the year 1763, acts and records relative to the property of a landed estate called Palica, belonging to Francisco Chrisostomo, a native and inhabitant of this town, [42] p. at end. NUC pre-1956 N15003 Sabin 101042 Kislak accession no.: 2002.014.00.0001. LAC snh 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-07-08 review- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Walker, Fowler
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialTravels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana
Half title: Travels through Louisiana Published originally under title: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales, Paris, 1768, and comprising the author's observations during his first two visits to the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762. The systematic catalogue of plants (v. 2, p. [17]-67) also published separately as Flora Americae Septentrionalis. "An abstract of the most useful and necessary articles mentioned by Peter Loefling, botanist to His Catholic Majesty, in his travels…- Contributor: Bossu - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Forster, Johann Reinhold - Löfling, Per - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1771
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Book/Printed MaterialA vindication of the conduct of the General assembly of the state of Vermont : held at Windsor in October 1778, against allegations and remarks of the protesting members; with observations on … Regarding the annexation to Vermont of 16 towns east of the Connecticut River. Evans 16184 LAC ael 2019-05-28 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-06-04 review
- Contributor: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Vermont. General Assembly - Allen, Ira
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialAtlante novissimo "Teatro della guerra presente tra la Russia e la Porta Ottomana," 1788 : fold. map inserted in v. 2. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1592 LC copy imperfect: "Li contorni di Parigi" [map] 28 in v. 1 wanting. LAC knj 2019-07-02 create (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-07-12 review LAC ddw 2022-03-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Zatta, Antonio
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialVoyage au Kamtschatka par la Sibérie. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Gmelin, Johann Georg - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialVoyage autour du monde, Following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War (1756-63), Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), a soldier with a distinguished military record in Canada, received permission from King Louis XV to undertake France's first major geographical exploration of the Pacific. In 1766-69 Bougainville became the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe. His voyage, meticulously recounted in this book, resulted in several significant scientific contributions, including establishing…- Contributor: Bougainville, Louis-Antoine De
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialAn account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain … LAC knj 2019-06-19 update (1 card)- Contributor: Carteret, Philip - Byron, John - Cook, James - Wallis, Samuel - Hawkesworth, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Banks, Joseph
- Date: 1773
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Book/Printed MaterialA journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. Account of the first expedition under command of Capt. Cook, 1768-1771. LAC knj 2019-06-19 update (1 card)- Contributor: Parkinson, Sydney - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Parkinson, Stanfield
- Date: 1773
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Book/Printed MaterialA collection of voyages chiefly in the southern Atlantick Ocean Journals of Halley's voyages have special t.p. (misbound after 1st voyage in L.C. copy): Two voyages made in 1698, 1699 and 1700, by Dr. Edmund Halley ... London, Printed in the year MDCCLXXIII. LAC knj 2019-06-20 update (2 cards) LAC rwp 2019-07-02 review- Contributor: Halley, Edmond - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Dalrymple, Alexander
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialNaufrage et aventures de monsieur Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire: histoire véritable, vérifiée sur l'attestation de Mr. Sevettenham, commandant du Fort St. Marc, des Appalaches. First edition. Bordeaux and Paris, 1768. cf. Barbier's Dict. des ouvrages anonymes. Formerly attributed to the editor of the French ed., Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle. The shipwreck is supposed to have occurred on the coast of Florida, February 1766. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC knj 2019-06-27 update (1 card)- Contributor: Viaud, Pierre
- Date: 1770
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Book/Printed MaterialThe shipwreck and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, a native of Bourdeaux, and captain of a ship Translation of: Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud. Formerly attributed to the editor of the French ed., Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle. The shipwreck is supposed to have occurred on the coast of Florida, February 1766. Signatures: A⁶ B-S⁸ T². ESTC (RLIN) T138378 Sabin 21020 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 1996.042.00.0002 LAC knj 2019-06-27 no…- Contributor: Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard - Griffith, Elizabeth - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Viaud, Pierre
- Date: 1771
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Book/Printed MaterialSuite d'estampes pour servir a l'histoire des mœurs et du costume des François dans le dix-huitième siecle. Année 1774
Histoire des mœurs et du costume des François Each plate accompanied by one page of explanatory text. Plates in first finished state, with tablets unshaded. Cf. Henri Cohen. Guide de l'amateur. 6 ed. 1912 col. 355. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1673 LAC scc 2019-06-28 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2019-07-16 review LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Freudenberger, Sigmund - Barbou, Joseph-Gérard
- Date: 1774
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Book/Printed MaterialSuite d'estampes pour servir a l'histoire des mœurs et du costume des François dans le dix-huitième siecle
Histoire des mœurs et du costume des François Vols. 2 and 3 have title: Seconde-[troisieme] suite d'estampes pour servir a l'histoire des modes et du costume en France, dans le dixhuitième siècle ... Plates of v. 1 engraved after designs by Freudenberger, those of v. 2 and 3 after designs by J.M. Moreau. Each plate accompanied by one or two pages of explanatory text. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1681…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Freudenberger, Sigmund - Prault, Louis-François - Moreau, Jean Michel
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialSeconde suite d'estampes, pour servir à l'histoire des modes, et du costume en France, dans le XVIII siecle, année 1776.
Histoire des modes, et du costume en France The plates, numbered 13-24, are those designed by Moreau for v. 2 of Freudenberger's Suite d'estampes pour servir à l'histoire des mœurs et du costume des François, here greatly reduced and reversed. Under each plate is a description in verse. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1685 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC scc 2019-06-28 update…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Freudenberger, Sigmund - Moreau, Jean Michel
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialAnalyse du jeu des échecs Inscribed to Mr. Rosenwald by Edward Lasker. LAC tnb 2019-06-26 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Philidor, F. D. (François Danican) - Lasker, Edward - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1777
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Book/Printed MaterialA bill, intituled an Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the province of Massachusetts Bay, and New Hampshire, and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence plantations in North …
Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the province of Massachusetts Bay, and New Hampshire, and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies | Act to restrain the trade &c. of Massachusetts Bay &c. 1775 Drop-head title. Includes docket title. Signatures: A-D². English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), N61786 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., vol. 4, page 170, column 1 LC copy 1 has ink stamp on verso of front fly-leaf: "Library of Congress. By transfer from State Department. May 9, 1925." LC copy 2 formerly: Bound broadsides. Great Britain. A Bill…- Contributor: Great Britain. Parliament
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialLa science du bonhomme Richard, ou, Moyen facile de payer les impôts
Science du bonhomme Richard | Moyen facile de payer les impôts Translated into French by A.F. Quetant. La science du bonhomme Richard signed: Richard Saunders. The original was first published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title: "Father Abraham's speech" and frequently reprinted under title: "The way to wealth". Title vignette, head and tail pieces. Signatures: A-F¹² G⁶. Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 113 "Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant la Chambre…- Contributor: Penn, Richard - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Quétant, Antoine-François - Ruault, Nicolas - Pennsylvania - Du Pont De Nemours, Pierre Samuel - Kebler, Leonard - L'ecuy, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste) - Stevens, Henry - Pratt, W. (William Pitt) - Franklin, Benjamin - Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - De Coverly, R. (Roger)
- Date: 1777
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Book/Printed MaterialA bill to restrain the trade and commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the West Indies, … Title from docket, p. [2] at end. Drop head title. Signatures: A² B1 C². English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), N49393 Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., vol. 4, page 170, column 1 LC copy 2 formerly: Bound broadsides. Gt. Brit. Restraint on trade of southern colonies. 1775 LC copy with call number: LAW Great Britain Law 1775…
- Contributor: Great Britain. Parliament
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialAn argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro, lately determined by the Court of King's Bench : wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of domestic slavery in … Signatures: [A]1 B-L⁴. Errata on p. 82. ESTC T22378 Sabin 30374 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hargrave, Francis - Sommersett, James - Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled. The 6th broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. Cf. Michael J. Walsh. Contemporary broadside eds. of the Declaration of Independence, in the Harvard Library Bulletin, 1949. Sometimes attributed to the New York printer, Samuel Loudon. Cf. Gathering history, the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana, 1999, p. 54. In two columns, 65 lines in the first.- Contributor: United States - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1776
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