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Balbi, Giovanni, -1298.

PML 15/60

Classification

Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [George Thomson], [1793 early Sept.].

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.

[1793 early Sept.].

MA 47.27

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Anne Morgan's War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917–1924

September 3 through November 21, 2010

This exhibition brings to life the extraordinary work undertaken by a small team of American women volunteers who left comfortable lives in the United States to devote themselves to relief work in France during and after World War I.

The Scots gard'ner : in two parts, the first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues, groves, with new and profitable wayes of levelling, and how to measure and divide land : the second of the propagation & improvement of forrest, and fruit-trees, kitchen hearbes, roots and fruits, with some physick hearbs, shrubs and flowers : appendix shewing how to use the fruits of the garden : whereunto is annexed The gard'ners kalendar / published for the climate of Scotland by John Reid ...

Reid, John, Gardener.

Edinburgh : Printed by David Lindsay and his Partners ..., 1683.

PML 55616

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The appeal to the public answered, in behalf of the non-Episcopal churches in America; containing remarks on what Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler has advanced, on the four following points: the original and nature of the Episcopal Office; reasons for sending bishops to America; the plan on which it is proposed to send them; and the objections against sending them obviated and refuted. Wherein the reasons for an American Episcopate are shewn to be insufficient and the objections against it in full force. .

Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.

Boston, Printed by Kneeland and Adams for T. Leverett, 1768.

PML 3505

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A short treatise on the application of steam : whereby is clearly shewn, from actual experiments that steam may be applied to propel boats or vessels of any burthen against rapid currents with great velocity great velocity [sic] : the same principles are also introduced with effect by a machine of a simple and che[a]p construction, for the purpose of raising water sufficient for the working of grist-mills, saw-mills, &c. and for watering meadows and other purposes of agriculture / by James Rumsey ...

Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.

Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph James ..., 1788.

PML 7833

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Annals of Philadelphia, : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, & incidents of the city and its inhabitants from the days of the Pilgrim founders. Intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements. : To which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York City. : [Five lines of verse] / By John F. Watson, member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860.

Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart; ; New York, : G. & C. & H. Carvill., 1830.

PML 75516

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Book

Department

Printed Books

For the curious young gentlemen and ladies, that study and practice that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning, : a new and compleat drawing-book ... / being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c. ...

Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740.

London : Printed for B. Dickinson, at the corner of Bell-Savage-Inn, on Ludgate Hill, 1752.

PML 86181

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The house that Jack built : a diverting story for children of all ages. To which is added, some account of Jack Jingle. Shewing by which means he acquired his learning, and in consequence thereof got rich and built himself a house. With a collection of riddles written by him. The whole adorned with a variety of cuts by Master Collett. And set forth at large for the benefit of those, who from being quite destitute, friendless, and poor, would have a fine house, and a coach at the door.

London : Printed and sold by John Marshall, at No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard in Bow-Lane; and no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, [between 1787 and 1798]

PML 87403

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Book

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Printed Books

War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness : a dialogue, discovering the corruption and vanity of youth; the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man : also, a definition, power, and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion : to which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor : worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort / by B. Keach ...

Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.

London : Printed for E. Johnston, in Ludgate Street, 1776.

PML 81775

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Book

Department

Printed Books