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viii, 399 p.; 24 cm.  Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title.  Illustrated dust jacket. Includes epilogue, abbreviations, notes, and index.  First Edition.   Part of the series The American Social Experience, under the general editorship of James Kirby Martin.  The author examines the development of colonial Pennsylvania's diverse culture, the American colonies' most pluralistic society.  ISBN: 0-8147-7873-9.   Book is in Fine Condition.  Dust Jacket is in Fine Condition.
"A Mixed Multitude": The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania
Schwartz, Sally
New York: New York University Press, 1988.
Price: $27.50
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Noble David Cook and W. George Lovell, editors. xxiii, 283 p.: 1 double-page and 9 full-page maps; 22 cm.  Burgundy cloth with red-printed spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. Includes glossary, bibliography, and index. No price listed. Stated First Edition. Volume 205 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series; this volume comprises selected and edited papers from the 46th International Congress of Americanists held at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1988.  The contributors are: Woodrow Borah, Hanna J. Prem, W. George Lovell, Linda A. Newson, Juan A. and Judith E. Villamarin, Brian M. Evans, Suzanne Austin Alchon, Fernando Casanueva, and Noble David Cook [from the dust jacket].  ISBN: 0-8061-2372-9.   Book is in Fine Condition.  Dust Jacket is in Fine Condition.
"Secret Judgments of God": Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America
Cook, Noble David, Editor
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Price: $18.25
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"In which the historical events are brought down to the year 1827."  432 p.: frontispiece portrait of George Washington and 12 leaves of plates; 18 cm. (7 inches).  20th-century? marbled wrappers.  Inscriptions on blank leaf preceding frontispiece: "Daniel Eisen, F.B. Eisen, May 24 1843" and in a different hand "Walter Nuss."  Faintly above the portrait on the frontispiece: Mary Ann Eisen.  The back of the frontispiece contains a list of 14 people named Keller.  In the first quarter of the 19th century, American writers produced textbooks intended to teach the history of the United States while creating virtuous and patriotic citizens.  One of the most popular such histories was this text by the Reverend Charles A. Goodrich.  This edition does not include the list of study questions found in some editions.   In Good Condition: foxing throughout, heavy in places; edges of first leaf (blank) and frontispiece chipped, with old repair to first leaf; lower corner of plate facing p. 25 lacking, without loss of image; old dampstain on last pages; otherwise pages are clean and tight.
A History of the United States of America
Goodrich, Charles A.
Hartford, Conn.: D.F. Robinson & Co., 1830.
Price: $35.00
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2 volumes paged continuously (viii, [2], 456, [4], [457]-981, [1] p.); 25 cm. (10 inches).  Original dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and blind-ruled borders on front boards.  A few pages unopened.  Includes index.  Name of former owner, historian Craig Horle, on title page of vol. 1.   In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; otherwise clean and bright.
Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle: 1688-1748
Keith, Charles Penrose
Philadelphia, Pa.: Patterson & White Co., 1917.
Price: $45.00
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Edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole.  ix, 508 p.; 23 cm.  Paperback with illustrated front cover. Includes notes on the contributors and index.  Third printing.  Contains 15 original essays by American, British, and Canadian scholars, who seek to summarize and evaluate recent historiography on colonial America and to suggest new directions for research.  Essays are by Jack Greene, J.R. Pole, Joyce Appleby, T.H. Breen, Richard L. Bushman, Richard S. Dunn, David D. Hall, James A. Henretta, Stanley N. Katz, James T. Lemon, John M. Murrin, Gary B. Nash, Jim Potter, Jacob M. Price, Richard B. Sheridan, and W.A. Speck.  "Together they cover such diverse fields as historical demography, social geography, social organization, and the distribution of wealth, ethnic relations, economic history (both internal and external), law, politics, and cultural values" [from the back cover].  ISBN: 0-8018-3055-9.   Book is in Very Good+ Condition: spine lightly sunned; lower edge of front cover creased; pages are clean and tight.
Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era
Greene, Jack P., Editor
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Price: $6.50
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