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The charter, laws, catalogue of books, list of philosophical instruments, &c. of the Juliana Library-Company, in Lancaster : To which are prefixed, some reflections on the advantages of knowledge; the origin of books and libraries, shewing how they have been encouraged and patronized by the wise and virtuous of every age. : With a short account of its institution, friends and benefactors. ... Published by order of the directors

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Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers.,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Physical Description: [4], xi, 12-56 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Notes: Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; Winans, R.B. Book cats.,; The earliest library in Lancaster, known as the "Juliana Library," was established in 1759, under the name of "The Lancaster Library Company." It was the third subscription library established in Pennsylvania. In 1763 it was chartered, and, out of compliment to Lady Juliana Penn, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret, and wife of Thomas Penn, one of the proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, it was called the Juliana Library. The library at one time had about 800 books on its shelves and was fairly prosperous. Its most flourishing period was from 1760 to 1775.; On back of cover: "#532 Hinkels Sale Mar 31 1920 --$61.00. Purchased by Chas. I. Landis July 14 1920 from Nevin F. McGirr fpr $25."; Marbled wrappers.

Subjects: Juliana Library Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Proprietary libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Subscription libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Libraries.; Library catalogues - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

The Amish of Lancaster County : a brief, but truthful account of the actual life and customs of the most unique class of people in the United States

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Author: Steinfeldt, Berenice.

Date of Publication: c1940.

Call Number: 289.71 S819

Responsibility: by Berenice Steinfeldt.

Author: Steinfeldt, Berenice.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Conestoga Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: c1940.

Physical Description: 32, [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: "Published in Lancaster County, Pa. by Arthur G. Steinfeldt.; c. 1 copyright 1940 "9th printing"; c. 2 copyright 1937 "2nd printing".

Subjects: Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 S819

The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Date of Publication: 1948

. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

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Responsibility: by Horace Richards Barnes.

Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1948

Physical Description: [101]-131 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 5

Subjects: Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - History.; Lancaster Gas Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Lancaster (Pa.); Electric utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Public utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Gas companies - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 5 (1948), p. 101-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52

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Plan of Bangor Episcopal Church and Churchyard : Churchtown, Lancaster County Pennsylvania showing the relative position of the tombstones as they were in October, 1940

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Date of Publication: 1940.

Call Number: 974.815 CAER 700

Responsibility: William Frederic Worner.

Place of Publication: [s.l.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1940.

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 75 cm x 105 cm.

Notes: Shows location of numbered burial plots.; Rineers "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", page 51, #1.; Tombstone numbers corrolate with the names numbered in Vol. 8, page 185 of Worners "Tombstone Inscriptions from Graveyards in Lancaster County Pennsylvania".

Subjects: Bangor Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery (Churchtown, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Caernarvon Township; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Caernarvon township

Additional Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 CAER 700

Map of Shreiner's Cemetery, West Chestnut and North Mulberry Streets, Lancaster, Pennsylvania : showing the relative positons of the tombstones as they were in October 1941

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Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 704

Responsibility: prepared by William Frederic Worner.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.] ,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy ; 106 x 54 cm.

Notes: Blue line print. Gives lot numbers. Thaddeus Stevens is buried in lot 49.

Subjects: Shreiner's Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 704

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

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Date of Publication: 1944.

Call Number: 388.4 L574

Responsibility: compiled by Harry David Lentz, Jr.

Place of Publication: Lebanon [Pa.]

Publisher: Lentz,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties.

Subjects: Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company - History.; Lancaster Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Additional Author: Lentz, Harry David,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 L574

The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

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Author: Mercer, Henry Chapman,

Edition: Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.

Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 749 D754 1914; 749 M554

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Author: Mercer, Henry Chapman,

Edition: Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.

Place of Publication: Doylestown, Pa

Publisher: Bucks County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: [6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;

Notes: Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870); Bibliography: p. 206-208.

Contents: Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves

Summary: Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.

Subjects: Stoves.; Stove-plates.; Christian art and symbolism.; Germans - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 749 D754 1914; 749 M554

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Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britaniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, quinto : at a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1764, in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. : and from thence continued by adjournments to the eighteenth day of May, 1765

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXV [1765]

Call Number: Book 463 1765a

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Uniform Title: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1765 Feb.)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New-Printing-Office, near the market,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXV [1765]

Physical Description: [2], 413-428 p. ; 30 cm (fol.)

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book numbr 463 as assigned by Yeates.; Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1760 (Evans 8705).; Evans,; ESTC,

Contents: An act for opening and better amending, and keeping in repair, the public roads and highways within this province -- A supplement to the act intituled, "An act for the prohibiting the importation of Germans, or other passengers, in too great numbers, in any one vessel."

Subjects: Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Law - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Law.; Session laws.; Pennsylvania.; Early works.; Blind-tooled suede (Binding)

Additional Author: Franklin, Benjamin,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 463 1765a

The famed markets of Lancaster : with a taste of tomato, and a sip of cider

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: c1949.

Call Number: 641.3 H473

Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Date of Publication: c1949.

Physical Description: 30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Vegetables - Pennsylvania.; Truck farming - Pennsylvania.; Central Market (Lancaster, Pa.); Northern Market (Lancaster, Pa.); Eastern Market (Lancaster, Pa.); Western Market (Lancaster, Pa.); Southern Market (Lancaster, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 641.3 H473

The English pilot: describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers. The bays, roads, harbours and ports. In the Oriental navigation: shewing the property ande nature of the winds and monsoons in those seas; with the courses and distances frtom one place to another; the setting of the tides and currents; the ebbing and flowing of the sea. Also, a new talble of variations; and a correct table of longitudes and latitudes. With many other things necessary to be known. Containing several large draughts of ports, islands, and descriptions; collected from the practice and experience of divers able and expert navigators of our own and foreign nations

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Date of Publication: 1761.

Call Number: Book 1 1761

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill,

Date of Publication: 1761.

Physical Description: 70 p, [43] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill, maps; 51 cm.

Notes: Divided into three parts. the first, shewing the nature and properties of the winds and monsoons in the navigation from England to the East-Indies, and the whole Oriental Ocean, and thereby how to shape a course from one port to another, according to the time of year in those seas. The second, containing necessry instructions for sailing between England and the East-Indies, in the spring and autumn. The third, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, shoals, rocks and dangers. The islands, bays, roads, harbours and ports from Cape Bona-Esperance, to all parts of the Oriental Ocean, being corrected and augmented, with several additions, not before publish'd.; Depths shown by soundings.; Includes charts, coastal profiles, illustrations, maps, and plans.; All pages tipped in.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Signature of Jasper Yeates at top of title page, 1766.; Book Number 1 as arranged by Yeates; Mount, John,; Full blind-tooled leather binding; covers loose repaired with leather strips top and bottom

Contents: Charts: [1] A new map of the world according to Wrights alias Mercators projections &cc --[2] A new and correct chart of England Scotland and Ireland -- [3] A correct chart of the chanel between England and France -- [4] A large draught of the Isle of Wight and Owers -- [5] A new and correct large draught of Plymouth Sound Catt-water and Hamowse --[6] A chart of the coasts of Ireland and part of England -- [7] A chart of the sea coast from England to the Streights -- [8] A correct chart of the coast of Portugal & Barbaria -- [ 9] A chart of the coast of Guinea from Cape de Verd to Cape Bona EsperanÃ§a -- [10] A general chart from England to Cape Bona Esperance with the coast of Brasille -- [11] A draught of Cape Bona Esperanca -- [12] A new mappe of Saint Hellena -- [13] A draught of the south part of Africa from Cape Bona Esperance to Delagoa -- [14] A chart of the western part of the East-Indies -- [15] A new draught of the island of Madagascar ats St. Lorenzo with Augustin Bay and the island of Bombals at large -- [16] The lslnad of Diego Rays, latitude South 19Â°.40Â¹ -- [17] A chart of the island of Mauritius -- [18] A chart of the Striats of Babelmandell and Moha -- [19] A large draught of the coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar -- [20] A large draught of the Golf of Persia -- [21] A large chart of part of the coast of Guzaratt & India from Diu Head to Bombay -- [22] A new mapp of the island of Bombay and Sallset -- [23] A large draught of part of the coast of India from Bombay to Bassalore -- [24] A large draught of the Mallabar coast from Bassalore to Cape Comaroone -- [25] A new mapp of the island of Zeloan -- [26] A large chart of part of the coast of Coremandell from Point Pedro to Armegon -- [27] A new chart of part of the coast of Coremandell from Armegon to Binnlepatam -- [28] A new chart of the coast of Orixa and Galconda --[29] A new and correct chart shewing the goeing over the Braces with the sands shoals depth of water and anchorage from Point Palmiras to Hughley in the Bay of Bengall -- [30] A map of the River English in the Bay of Delagoa -- [31] A new and correct chart, shewing the sands, shoals, mud-banks, depth of water & anchorage. With the going of the Braces, from P. Palmiras to Calcutta in the Hughley in the Bay of Bengall -- [32] A mapp of the great River Ganges as it emptieth it selfe in the Bay of Bengala -- [33] A chart of the easternmost part of the East Indies and China, from Cape Comarine to Iapan, with all the adjacents islands -- [34] A new and corrrect chart of Mergui with the islands adjacent & shewing the sands, shoalds, banks depths of water and anchorage &c. -- [35] A new and correct chart of part of the island of Java from the West End to Batavia with the Streights of Sunda -- [36] A large draught of the coast of Iava from Bantam Point to Batavia -- [37] A large draught of the east end of Java and Madura shewing the Streights of Bally -- [38] A large chart describing streights of Malacca and Singapore -- [39] A large draught of the coast of China from Amoye to Chusan with the harbour of Amoye at large -- [40] A large draught of the north part of China shewing all the passages and channels into the harbour of Chusan -- [41] A large draught from Benjar on the island of Borneo to Macasser on the island of Celebes shewing the streights of Bally with the islands to the eastward thereof -- [42] A large draught of the south part of Borneo -- [43] A draught of the coast of New Holland and parts adjacent.

Additional Author: Mount, William,; Page, Thomas,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: W. & J. Mount & T. Page & Son.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1 1761

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