London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1775. Title continued: "within the Province of Quebec, in America." [2], 1227-1228 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in... More about An Act for Amending and Explaining an Act, passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign,...

London: Thomas Baskett and the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1758. Title continued: "and the the Encouragement of the Trade of the Sugar Colonies in America; and to the Landing of Rum or Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations, before the Duties of Excise are paid thereon; and for regulating the... More about An Act for continuing certain Laws therein mentioned relating to British Sail Cloth, and to the...

London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1764. Title continued: "subject to the like Duty as is now paid on the Exportation of Rice from the said Colonies, to Places in Europe situate to the Southward of Cape Finisterre." [2], 411-418, [2] p.; 33 cm. (folio). Three stab-holes... More about An Act for Granting, for a Limited Time, a Liberty to Carry Rice from His Majesty's Provinces of...

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign... More about An Act to Impower His Majesty to Secure and Detain Persons Charged with, or Suspected of, the...

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1775. Title continued: "in the West Indies; and to Prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from Carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, or other Places therein mentioned, under certain Conditions and Limitations." [2], 295-307, [1] p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page... More about An Act to Restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of Massachuset's Bay and New...

Philadelphia: Edmund Morris, 1831. Hardcover. 400 p., 12 leaves of engraved plates: illustrations; 26 cm. Modern spine of bonded leather, with gilt-tooled spine label. Contemporary marbled paper over boards. Older repair of hinges. Error in pagination: adjacent but different pages are numbered 306 and 307. Contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction... More about The Ariel: A Semimonthly Literary and Miscellaneous Gazette [bound volume containing vol. 5, no....

Lancaster, Pa. Pennsylvania-German Society, 1908. Paperback. First published in 1893; reprinted 1908. 292 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of H.L. Fisher, 1 tissue-guarded leaf of a portrait of Geo. C. Heckman: 1 full-page illustration; 25 cm. Original brown wrapper printed in black. Title page printed in red and black. Pages are... More about Birth and Baptismal Register of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. [in The...

Philadelphia: Filadelfijas Brivo Latvju Biedribas, 1982. Paperback. 76 p.: illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Stapled paperback with brown cover with silver cover title. The history of the Brivo Latvian Society in Philadelphia from 1892 to 1982. Known today as the Philadelphia Society of Free Letts, the Society is the oldest Latvian... More about Brivo Latvju Biedriba, Filadelfija, 1892-1982

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901. Hardcover. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge. xliii, [1], 205, [1] p., engraved frontispiece; 24 cm. Brown linen spine with red spine title: "Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Catalogue of Authors." Brown paper over boards with paper label on front board printed in red and... More about A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Prefaced by a...

Cleveland, Ohio: Tarr Publishing Co., 1902. Paperback. 151, [1] p.: illustrated advertisements; 15 cm. Brown card covers printed in black, with "J.S. Pushaw," who has an advertisement inside the front cover as bookseller, news dealer, and stationer. Includes illustrated advertisements for Gustav Schaefer, buggies and wagons; Oscar Klotzbach, chiropodist; Dainz... More about The Cleveland Pocket, Business and Street Directory 1902

Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, 1819. "Printed by order of the House of Representatives." 24 p.; 24 cm. Unopened and untrimmed. Disbound. The section on slaves provides that the state's General Assembly could not emancipate slaves without the consent of their owners or without paying "a full equivalent in money."... More about Constitution of the State of Alabama: December 6, 1819

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly, 1820. Hardcover. "Printed for the Trustees of the Assembly by R.P. McCulloh." 391 p.: 1 form; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: The Assembly's Digest. Two paper labels... More about A Digest, Compiled from the Records of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the...

Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1849. Paperback. 31, [1] p.; 22 cm. Yellow wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter, along with wood and coal. The... More about Eighteenth Annual Report of the Executive board, and of the Ladies' Board of Managers of the...