American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States
The life of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin / written by himself ; together with a number of his humorous, moral, and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator
Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C., on the tenth of June, 1811, in the fifty-second year of her age : with extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers, and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776
"A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy." [from WorldCat.org]
by his friend Cadwallader D. Colden. Read before the Literary and philosophical society of New York. Comprising some account of the invention, progress, and establishment of steam boats ... With an appendix.
"A monthly magazine, embracing every department of literature embellished with original engravings, and music arranged for the piano-forte, harp and guitar."
Description based on: Vol. 11 (May 1839); title from caption.
Lancaster County Historical Society has 1842 only.
Geographical dictionary of North America and the West Indies
Responsibility
compiled from the most recent and authentic sources by Bishop Davenport.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
G. M'Dowell,
Date of Publication
1832.
Physical Description
471 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes
Corrections and additions p. 469-471.
Includes index of statistical tables (p. 459).
Contents
I.A general description of North America. -- II. A general description of the United States; the Declaration of Independence and constitution of the United States. -- III. A description of all the states, counties, cities, towns, villages, forts, seas, harbors, capes, rivers, lakes, canals, rail-roads, mounts, &c. connected with North America; with the extent, boundaries and natural productions of each state; the bearing and distance of remarkable places from each other and of each from the City of Washington, with the population according to the census of 1830. -- Containing likewise many tables relating to the commerce, population, revenue, debt, and various institutions of the United States.
x, [2], [17]-292 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Notes
Publication date suggested by the Preface (p. [v]-vii), signed "Philadelphia, October, 1835."
The Gift was published annually in eight issues dated 1836 to 1845, with none for 1838 and 1841.
Faded inscription on second fly leaf.
Library has 1836 volume.
Faxon, F.W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books,
Thompson, R. Annuals,
BAL,
Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe,
Eliza Leslie was a writer of fiction and nonfiction works for juveniles and adults. Almost yearly, between 1836-1845, she edited an annual gift book called The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present, with contributions from Edgar Allan Poe , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other authors.
