Fabulae Aesopi selectae, or Select fables of Aesop : with an English translation, more literal than any yet extant, designed for the readier instruction of beginners in the Latin tongue
Printed for C. and A. Conrad and Co. B.B. Hopkins and Co. Johnson and Warner, M. Carey, Bennett and Walton, T. and W. Bradford, Edward Earle, and Stephen Pike, booksellers : Lydia R. Bailey, printer,
A plan with proposals for forming a company to work mines in the United States; and to smelt and refine the ores, whether of copper, lead, tin, silver, or gold
History of the United States, from their first settlement as English colonies, in 1607, to the year 1808; or, the thirty-third of their sovereignty and independence
Published by M. Carey and son, no. 126, Chesnut street: for the sole benefit of the heirs of the author.
Date of Publication
May 1st, 1818.
Physical Description
3 v. 24 cm.
Notes
"The additions made to this work, commence with the thirty-sixth chapter, page 118 of this volume [v. 3] All the preceding part was written by ... Dr. Ramsay." - Note, v. 3, p. [viii]
Forms a part of the author's "Universal history Americanised".
"Biographical memoir of David Ramsay. " By R. Y. Hayne; v. 1, p. [5]-27.
translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. ; With marginal references.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no. 41, South Second Street,
Date of Publication
1799.
Physical Description
[752] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill., 2 maps ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Includes the Apocrypha. The New Testament (p. [589-735]) has separate title page.
Made up of the sheets of the 1796 edition printed by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. (Evans 30065), the title page and title page to the New Testament having been reprinted. The plates are the same as those found in the 1796 issue, save the frontispiece ("A scheme of the lives of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Moses inclusive. By Jas. Purves. 1786.").
Signatures: [A]² B-7I² [7K]² 7L-9D².
Printed in two columns. Plates engraved by Alexander Anderson, Cornelius Tiebout, William Rollinson, and Amos Doolittle.
Note on back of photocopy of genealogical record: Lancaster Journal, Wed. Oct 30, 1799, James Armstrong ad on "A Stray" on p. 2.
Genealogical material available in family file.
Viewing bible contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
"An index to the Holy Bible ..."--P. [737-748]. Tables, p. [748-750]. "List of subscribers' names."--p. [751-752].
Loose items removed to MG-399, Armstrong family bible including: a birthday post card, an evelope postmarked Saint Louis, Mo., and paid stamp addressed to Miss Lizzie Armstrong, Lancaster, Penna; a blue cutout valentine with blue ribbon and verse on reverse; a program of the Price Literary Society, C. S. N. S. Lock Have, Pa, November 30, 1883; a calling card of Jno. F. Shenk, Class of '84, Central State Normal School; a manuscript describing flowers by Mattie C. Hess, November 5, 1875, and a manuscript describing water by Mattie C. Hess, February 16, 1876.
Genealogical material on both sides of front flyleaf, 1796 - 1911
Evans
Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer.,
Full leather binding with marbled end papers and maroon leather title on spine; covers detached from spine.
Biblia, das ist : die ganze Heilige Schrift alten und neuen Testaments : nach der deutschen Uebersetzung von Doctor Martin Luther : mit lehrreichen Vorreden, und vielen nützlichen und seltenen Registern versehen ; nebst dem dritten Buch der Maccabäer, und Zugabe des dritten und vierten Buchs Ezra : imgleichen, eine kurz gefasste Biblische Geschichte und Lebensbeschreibung Doctor Martin Luthers
Loose items removed to MG-399, Eby-Weaver/Weber family bible includes: "This German Bible belonged to Anna Eby, first wife of Abraham Weaver who was a direct descendant of the Webers (Weavers) original settlers of Weber Thal or Weaverland. This book presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society by Elizabeth Weaver and Gertrude M. Weaver, Jan. 1953."
Hand-decorated genealogy of Daniel Eby on back endpaper.
Four pages of Weaver and Eby genealogy laid in before the back endpaper.
Stamp of Henrich Miller, Buchbinder, In der Ost-Oranien=Strasse, gegenü̈ber der Deutsch Reformirten Kirche, Lancaster.
Full-page hand-drawn Taufschein for Anna Eby; second full-page hand-drawn Taufschien for Anna Eby precedes title page of the New Testament.
Laid in before p. 235 are a color engraving with poem of Jesus coming into Jerusalem (34 x 23 cm), a color drawing of a horse (10 x 8 cm), color drawing of flowers with note "Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, Harrisgurg, Pa. (9 x 10 cm), and tract No. 19 "Heavenly Tidings.
Viewing contingent on staff availibility, an appointment may be required.
Jacob Denners Christlich-und erbauliche Betrachtungen über die Sonn-und Festtags-Evangelia des ganzen Jahrs, nebst einem Anhange verschiedener Predigten über besondere Texte, sowohl aus dem Alten als Neuen Testamente; und einer Vermehrung von dreyen Predigten über das heilige Vater Unser. Durch Gottes Gnade in öffentlicher Versammlung in Altona mündlich vorgetragen, und auf Begehren dem Druck überlassen
Neue, auf Kosten Johannes Herrstein und Johannes Schmutz gemachte Aufl.
Place of Publication
Frankenthal am Rhein
Publisher
Ludwig Bernhard Friedrich Gegels,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
[14] 1502 [52] pages 21 cm
Notes
Cf. Mennonite Encyclopedia II, 37.
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Two loose items removed to MG399; Christian Herr family bible.
Name of Christian Herr 1798 inscribed on back of front cover.
Pasted on back of front cover below inscription: To the Lancaster County Historical Society from Lloyd Espenschied, 99 82nd Road (Newbold Place), Kew Gardens, New York 11415, 18 Sept., 1970.
Full blind-tooled leather binding with clasps intact.
