Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Monday, the first day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ... Published by authority
An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition : [Three lines in Latin from Tacitus]
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, : being the first session of the Third Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, December 2d, 1793. And in the eighteenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Fifth Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, December 3d, 1798. And in the twenty-third year of the sovereignty of the said United States
A dictionary of the English language. : In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which is prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar
by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. This edition contains a standard of correct pronunciation, and an historical account of the author's life, not in any former one: embellished with a most-striking likeness of Dr. Johnson. In two volumes ...
Edition: imprint to vol. 2 gives Marchbank's address as no. 18 Chancery-Lane and is dated 1798; a later issue of this edition has this imprint in both volumes (see copy at OLS L-5-188-189).
Subscribers' list present, [a]2; note at end states that as not enough subscriptions were received Marchbank had to relinquish a half share in the edition to William Gilbert and Jeremiah Sullivan.
Issued in parts (see nos. in signature lines: 26 in vol. 1 and 27 in vol. 2).
Alston, R.C. Engl. language V,
English language
Imperfect: lacks portrait and historical biography.
Apparently from the personal library of Jasper Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Signature of Catherine Yeates under that of Jasper Yeates on title pages, on the first page of the preface in vol. 1 and on the first page of the dictionary in vol. 2.
Books numbers 1050 and 1051 not assitned by Yeates.
Journal of the first session of the ninth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-third
Errors in paging: p. 209, 429 misnumbered 109, 329.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1798, both days inclusive."--61, [1] p., Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year M, DCC, XCVIII."--17, [1] p. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the arrears of taxes due from th eseveral counties, of the state of Pennsylvania, and some remarks thereon.-8 p. [p. 8 lacking] Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799.
