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Pennsylvania and the Civil War : a handbook

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4485
Author
Higginbotham, Sanford Wilson,
Date of Publication
1961.
Call Number
974.8033 H635
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Sanford W. Higginbotham, William A. Hunter, Donald H. Kent ; artwork by Florence Vinyard.
Author
Higginbotham, Sanford Wilson,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
22 p. : maps, port. ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Suggestions for reading and research": p. 16-17.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Additional Author
Hunter, William A.
Kent, Donald H.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8033 H635
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American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13728
Date of Publication
1819.
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
  1 website  
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by S.W. Conrad,
Date of Publication
1819.
Physical Description
43 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Meeting convened in Philadelphia, October 15, 1819.
Report from the Columbia, Pa. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p. 11-14.
Subjects
Slavery - United States
Abolitionists - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
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The life of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin / written by himself ; together with a number of his humorous, moral, and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13845
Author
Franklin, Benjamin,
Date of Publication
ca.1817.
Call Number
923.2 F831
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Life of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin.
Author
Franklin, Benjamin,
Uniform Title
Selections.
Date of Publication
ca.1817.
Physical Description
303 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes Stueber's continuation of Franklin's Life.
Title page missing; information from 1823 ed. in Library of Congress.
Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography,
Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin, - 1706-1790.
Statesmen - United States - Biography.
Additional Author
Stueber, Henry,
Franklin, Benjamin,
Martin, William
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.2 F831
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Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C., on the tenth of June, 1811, in the fifty-second year of her age : with extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers, and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13896
Author
Ramsay, Martha Laurens,
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
920.7 P544 1811
  1 website  
Responsibility
by David Ramsay.
Author
Ramsay, Martha Laurens,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
James Maxwell, printer,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
308 p. ; 15 cm.
Notes
LCHS copy lacks title page.
Summary
"A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy." [from WorldCat.org]
Subjects
Ramsay, Martha Laurens, - 1759-1811.
Autobiography
Additional Author
Ramsay, David,
Laurens, Henry,
Maxwell, James,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
920.7 P544 1811
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The life of Robert Fulton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5143
Author
Colden, Cadwallader D.
Date of Publication
1817.
Call Number
926 F974c
  1 website  
Responsibility
by his friend Cadwallader D. Colden. Read before the Literary and philosophical society of New York. Comprising some account of the invention, progress, and establishment of steam boats ... With an appendix.
Author
Colden, Cadwallader D.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Published by Kirk & Mercein, no. 22 Wall-street.
Date of Publication
1817.
Physical Description
vi, 371, [1] p. front. (port.) fold. tab. 22 cm.
Subjects
Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815.
Naval architects - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
926 F974c
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Postage stamps of the United States : an illustrated description of all United States postage and special service stamps issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847 to December 31, 1961

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2846
Corporate Author
United States. Post Office Dept. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General.
Date of Publication
1962.
Call Number
383.22 U58
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The Fair Play settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784: a study of frontier ethnography

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3083
Author
Wolf, George D.,
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
974.80069 W853
  1 website  
Responsibility
by George D. Wolf.
Author
Wolf, George D.,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
x, 122 p. map. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 113-118.
Contents
Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Lycoming County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80069 W853
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Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15816
Date of Publication
1887-c2000.
Call Number
905.748 CHS
  1 website  
ISSN
0002-7790
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1887-c2000.
Physical Description
109 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 23-25 cm.
Publication Frequency
Twice a year, <1998>
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1 (1884-86)-v. 109, no. 3-4 (fall-winter 1998).
Notes
These volumes are in the "library work room". They are not on the open shelves. However, there is an index on the open shelves. Its call number is 905.748 CHS Index. Patrons should consult the index first. If there is a volume that they want to see, the library attendant should pull the volume from the shelves in the "library work room".
Library has: Vol. 1 (1884-1886) - Vol. 109, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998)
Vols. 1 (1884-86)-31 (1920). 1 v.; Vols. 32 (1921)-41 (1930). 1 v.
Subjects
Catholic Church - History - Societies, etc. - Periodicals.
Catholic Church - United States - History - Periodicals.
Catholic Church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Periodicals.
Additional Corporate Author
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 CHS
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The Christian's defence against the fears of death : with seasonable directions how to prepare ourselves to die well

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16178
Author
Drelincourt, Charles,
Edition
From the 22nd London ed.
Date of Publication
1818.
Call Number
242.4 D772
  1 website  
Responsibility
written originally in French by Charles Drelincourt ; to which is prefixed The life of the author, and his behaviour in his last moments.
Author
Drelincourt, Charles,
Uniform Title
Consolations de l'ame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort.
Edition
From the 22nd London ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and published by Simon Probasco,
Date of Publication
1818.
Physical Description
612 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Les consolations de lame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort.
Inscribed Jno. N. Woods on title page.
Subjects
Death.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
242.4 D772
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A treatise on the law of war

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21852
Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Date of Publication
1810
Call Number
Book 806 1810
  1 website  
Responsibility
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Uniform Title
De rebus bellicis.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : Boston : Baltimore : Albany : Portland : Middlebury, (Vt.)
Publisher
Published by Farrand & Nicholas ; Farrand, Mallory & Co. ; P.H. Nicklin & Co. ; D. Farrand & Green ; Lyman, Mallory & Co. ; Swift & Chipman,
Date of Publication
1810
Physical Description
[2], xxxiv, 218, [2] p. ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-d⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E² (last leaf blank).
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
Subjects
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van, - 1673-1743.
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van, - 1673-1743
War (International law)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Farrand & Nicholas,
Farrand, Mallory and Co.,
Philip H. Nicklin & Co.,
D.W. Farrand & Green (Firm),
Lyman, Mallory, and Co.,
Swift & Chipman,
Fry and Kammerer,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
United States Maryland Baltimore.
United States New York Albany.
United States Maine Portland.
United States Vermont Middlebury.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 806 1810
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