The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Analysis of West Lampeter Township School District, six years of financial operations 1939-40 through 1944-45 and the budget for 1945-46 together with an analysis of pupil transportation costs: a report prepared for the board of school directors of West Lampeter Township
Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors
History of Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company, Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company, Lancaster, Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company : and any other trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania
Patriotic background : an address by Hon. William H. Keller, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, St. James Church, Lancaster (Pa.) May 28, 1944 : under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor
A system of pleading : including a translation of the Doctrina Placitandi, or, The art and science of pleading : originally written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at law, and now first translated from the obsolete Norman French : shewing where, in what cases, and by what persons, pleas, as well personal, or mixed, may be properly pleaded, with references to, and extracts from, the most approved writers on the subject, carefully digested under their proper titles, and brought into one collective point of view : together with an introduction, explaining the different terms made use of in the proceedings of each respective court : also a preface and table
A catechism and confession of faith, which containeth a true and faithful account of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers. To which is added, The ancient testimony of the said people reviv'd, with some of the rules of the discipline established among them. Extracted from the minutes of their yearly meetings
"A catechism and confession of faith" (4 p. ø., 147 [3] p., ) and "The ancient testimony of the people called Quakers" (64 p.at end) have special title-pages.
