An act to incorporate the city of Lancaster with the several subsequent acts relating thereto; and the ordinances for the regulation of the said city, passed by the Select and Common Councils
Inscription on back of front cover: C. A. Breneman, Sunday School Premium April 21, 1839; in different hand: Chas A. Breneman was born October 9, 1834.
Free-masonry unmasked, or, Minutes of the trial of a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County : wherein Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. was plaintiff, and Jacob Lefever, defendant
On back of cover: Marked Exhibit B. At the Execution of a Commission for the examination of witnesses between Thaddeus Stevens (Plf) and Jacob Lefever (Deft) this Book was shewn to Israel Pickney, Jason[?] Hanksile [?], Avery Allyn, and by them deposed unto, at the time of their examination. Before me Henry Cotheal, Henrytana Ward, Levi H Clarke, Commissioners.
Contents
York Rite, Royal Arch, Royal Master, Select Master, Ark and Dove, Knights of Constantinople, Secret Monitor, Heroine of Jericho, Knights of Three Kings, Knights of Red Cross, Knights Templars, Knights of Malta, Knights of the Christian Mark, Gaurds of the Conclave, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Order of the Cross, Ineffable degrees.
Johann Friedrich Starck's ... Tagliches Handbuch in guten und bosen Tagen : enthaltend: Aufmunterungen, Gebate und Lieder, zum Gebrauch gesunder, betrubter, kranker und sterbender Christen : welchem beygefugt ist ein tagliches Gebatbuchlein fur Schwangere, Gebarender und Unfruchtbare
Johann Friedrich Starck's ... Daily handbook in good and bad days:containing: encouragements, buildings and songs, for the use of healthy, dejected, sick and dying Christians: which one is a daily one Booklet for pregnant women, women in labor and sterile / looked through, changed and increased, by M. Johann Jacob Starck ... with five pictures
Responsibility
durchgesehen, verandert und vermehrt, von M. Johann Jacob Starck ... mit funf Bildern.
538, 106 p., [4] leaves of plates (incl. frontis.) : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
Notes
Tagliches Gebaet-Buchlein fur Schwangere, Gebarende und Sechswochnerinnen. Harrisburg, 1830. has special t.p. and separate paging, collation continuous.
Plates bear the page number of the pages they face.
Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
Inscription on back of front cover: Dieses schone Gebat-Buch, isi: das Eigentbum, der Witwe, Elizabeth Neff in Manor Township -- Lancaster County-- Pennsylvanien. Du erhorest Gebath darum komt alles Fleisch zu dir. -- Die wahrhaftizen Unbaten, Gott im Geist imd Wahrheit an. Bittet so wird euch gegeben. Der herr ist nahe denen, die Ihn aurufen, allen, die ZIhn Ernst nurufen.
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.
