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An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum
An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum. The sixth edition, corrected. Sunderland [Eng.] : Printed and sold by T. Reed, Bookseller, High-Street, Sunderland, 1791.
"Price 1d. or fourteen for a shilling."
"N.B. Persons wanting a larger Number to give away may be supplied at Five Shillings per Hundred, by applying to T. Reed."
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Roger Sherman
Engraved portrait of Roger Sherman by Simeon Smith Jocelyn after a painting by Ralph Earle.
Roger Sherman was a merchant, surveyor, publisher and politician. He served in the Connecticut General Assembly before attending the Continental Congress in 1774. He was present during the debates over independence, serving on the committee of five which drafted the Declaration of Independence. He voted for independence and signed the Declaration. After the Revolution, Sherman served in the Connecticut legislature and the United States Congress. He was instrumental in getting the "Connecticut Compromise" adopted by the Constitutional Convention which gave states equal representation in the U.S. Senate.
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A view of the controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies : including a mode of determining their present disputes, finally and effectually; and of preventing all future contentions : in a letter, to the author of A full vindication of the measures of the Congress, from the calumnies of their enemies
A view of the controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies : including a mode of determining their present disputes, finally and effectually; and of preventing all future contentions : in a letter, to the author of A full vindication of the measures of the Congress, from the calumnies of their enemies / by A.W. Farmer, author of Free thoughts. New York, printed ; |a London : Reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, 1775.
Dated on p. 90: December 24, 1774.
Originally published: New York : Rivington, 1774.
"That ... Seabury was the author of the ... [three] pamphlets signed A.W. Farmer, there is no longer any doubt; but through an error of judgment ... their authorship has been attributed to some of his contemporaries, notably to Isaac Wilkins."--Samuel Seabury. Letters of a Westchester farmer ... ed. ... by C.W. Vance. 1930, p. 19.
Sometimes attributed to Seabury and Wilkins jointly.
Rockefeller Library copy lacks half-titlte.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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Six favorite overtures adapted for the harpsichord or organ
Six favorite overtures adapted for the harpsicord or organ / composed by C. F. Abel. London : Printed & sold by Longman, Lukey & Co. No. 26, Cheapside ...[3 lines of advertisement].
Date from Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980 .
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Thoughts on the letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to the sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America
Thoughts on the letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to the sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America / by the Earl of Abingdon. Oxford, Printed for W. Jackson : sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly, and J. Bew, in Paternoster-Row, London ; and by the Booksellers of Bristol, Bath, and Cambridge.
"Price one shilling" within square brackets on title page.
Marginalia and corrections in a contemporary hand appear throughout the volume.
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The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country
The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXV [1775].
Page 102 wrongly numbered 101.
Pages 1-220 contain arguments on the descent of the American Indians from the Jews; pages 221-374 contain accounts of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah nations; pages 376-448 contain general observation; pages 449-464 contain an appendix, "Advice to statesmen; shewing the advantages of mutual affection between Great Britain and the North American Colonies.
"A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining to the Missisippi, West & East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia. &c." engraved by John Lodge.
Signatures: {*}2, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Nnn4
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A collection of easy genteel lessons for the harpsicord, book II : to which is added Vivaldi's celebrated 5th. concerto, set for the harpsicord
A collection of easy genteel lessons for the harpsicord / composed by Giovanni Agrell, book II. To which is added Vivaldi's celebrated 5th. concerto, set for the harpsicord. London : Printed by Mess. Randall and Abell successors to the lat Mr. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand, [1 line and 4 columns of advertisement], [1767].
Date from British union-catalogue of early music printed before the year 1801 and Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.
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VIII sonate per cembalo : opera prima
VIII Sonate per cembalo : opera prima / da Dominico Alberti. London : Printed for I. Walsh, in Catharine Street, in the Strand.
Date from Walsh, no. 15.
Virginia association: 1755 Ogle inventory, "Albertis 8 Sonatas 5s."
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The harpsichord miscellany : book second
The harpsichord miscellany : book second / composed by Alberti, Pasquali and Nardini. Printed and sold by R. Bremner, at the Harp and Hautboy, opposite Somerset-House in the Strand ... [advertisement], [1763].
Date from Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.
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Receipt for tuition, 1854 December 21
Receipt for the tuition of the daughter of Mrs. B. Wise signed by S.M. Allen. -
An answer to the Considerations, occasioned by the Craftsman upon excise, so far as it relates to the tobacco trade
An answer to the Considerations, occasioned by the Craftsman upon excise, so far as it relates to the tobacco trade. London : Printed for E. Nutt at the Royal Exchange, MDCCXXXIII [1733].
Listed under the pseudonym Caleb D'Anvers by Jerome E. Brooks in George Arents' Tobacco, its history, v. 3, no. 672, with a note stating that it was written by Nicholas Amhurst or William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. The Dict. of national biography, in its article on Amhurst, ascribes the pamphlet to him. Both Amhurst and Pulteney wrote for the Craftsman.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of William Tarun Fehsenfeld with his bookplate.
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The right method of addressing the Divine Majesty in prayer : so as to support and strengthen our faith in dark and troublesome times : set forth in two discourses on April 5, 1770 : being the day of general fasting and prayer through the province : and in the time of the session of the General Court at Cambridge
The right method of addressing the Divine Majesty in prayer : so as to support and strengthen our faith in dark and troublesome times : set forth in two discourses on April 5, 1770 : being the day of general fasting and prayer through the province : and in the time of the session of the General Court at Cambridge / by Nathaniel Appleton, Pastor of the first Church in Cambridge. Boston : |b Printed by Edes and Gill, Printers to the Honorable House of Representatives, MDCCLXX [1770].
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