The Good Samaritan: An Oration Delivered on Sunday Evening, May 22d, 1796, in Behalf of the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries
Philadelphia, Pa. Lang & Ustick, 1796. Paperback. 20 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: pi1 A-B4 [C]1 (8vo). Half title: Oration, &c. &c. Includes the constitution of the society, under the name of the society president, John Swanwick. Disbound from a nonce volume. Early American Imprints, 1st series (Evans), 31087. The author, Morgan J. Rhees (1760-1804), praises the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries, or Emigrant Society, for its work for all emigrants, unlike the pre-existing societies that aided specific ethnic or religious groups. Rhees, a Baptist minister, had himself arrived in Philadelphia from Wales only two years earlier, possibly benefiting from the aid of the society, formed in 1794. A very scarce late 18th-century Philadelphia publication. In Fair Condition: disbound; lacking lower corner of pp. 9-10, with loss of text; section lacking along fore-edge of pp. [5]-6 without loss of text; old dampstain along top page edges; foxed; outer leaves are soiled. Fair. Item #001589
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