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The beginnings of artificial roads in Pennsylvania

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Author: Landis, Charles Israel,

Date of Publication: 1919

contribute to characterize the present age to Pos- terity so much as the Improvements that have been made in Public Roads. We need not carry our Enquiries into the State of England more than Half a Century backward, before we shall be able to trace the dull Marches of our Ancestors through Mire and Clay, not

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Responsibility: by Hon. Charles I. Landis.

Author: Landis, Charles Israel,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1919

Physical Description: 99-107 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 6

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 23, number 6 (1919), p. 99-107Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.23

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A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art. Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons

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Author: Wise, John,

Date of Publication: 1850.

Call Number: 629.13322 W812

Responsibility: By John Wise ...

Author: Wise, John,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J.A. Speel,

Date of Publication: 1850.

Physical Description: xvi, [17]-310 p. front. (port.) plates. 23 cm.

Notes: An enlarged edition was issued in 1873 under title "Through the air."

Access Restrictions: Restricted acess;

Subjects: Aeronautics; Balloon ascensions; Balloons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 629.13322 W812

Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aeronaut. Comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time. With an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons

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Author: Wise, John,

Date of Publication: 1873.

Call Number: 629.13322 W812t

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Responsibility: By John Wise. Profusely illustrated.

Author: Wise, John,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, New York, [etc.]

Publisher: To-day publishing company,

Date of Publication: 1873.

Physical Description: 650 p. incl. col. front., plates, ports., facsim. 24 cm.

Notes: An enlarged edition of the author's "System of aeronautics", issued in 1850.; John wise was an accomplished 19th century balloonist who lived in Lancaster, PA.

Subjects: Aeronautics; Balloons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 629.13322 W812t

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An Act for making an artificial road from the city of Philadelphia to the borough of Lancaster

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Date of Publication: 1807]

Call Number: 388.1 P 544 1807

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia?

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1807]

Physical Description: 22 p.

Notes: Note on title page: John Price, [?] 1/2 square from Rail Road; Shaw & Shoemaker,

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 388.1 P 544 1807

Lancaster County communities : Slaymakertown to Sun Flower

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 2007.

Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: p. 44 - 52 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 109, no. 1 (Spring 2007).

Notes: Continues : Lancaster County ommunities : Abbeville to Bettlehausen (v. 105, no. 3 Fall 2003) ; Lancaster County communities : Byerland to Cordelia Post Office (v. 106, no. 1, Spring/summer 2004) ; Lancaster County communities : Coulter's Corner to Frogtown (v. 106, no. 2, Fall 2004) ; Lancaster County communities : Fruitville to Guthrie's Ford (v. 106, no. 3, Winter 2004) ; Lancaster County communities : Gypsy Hill to Indiantown (v. 106, no. 4, Spring 2005) ; Lancaster County communities : Intercourse to Landis Valley (v. 107, no. 1, Summer 2005) ; Lancaster County communities : Landisville to Marietta Junction (v. 107, no. 2, Fall 2005) ; Lancaster County communities : Mars Hill to New Haven (v. 107, no. 3, Winter 2005) ; Lancaster County communities : New Holland to Oreville (v. 107, no. 4, Winter 2005-2006) ; Lancaster County communities : Oyster Point to Pickadila (v. 108, no. 1, Spring 2006) ; Lancaster County communities : Pigeontown to Rohrerstown (v. 108, no. 2, Summer 2006) ; Lancaster County communities : Rome to Slate Hill (v. 108, no. 4 Winter 2006-2007).

Subjects: Names, Geographical - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cities and towns - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 109, number 1 (2007), p. 44-52Lancaster History Library - Journal974.815 L224 v. 109

Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

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Date of Publication: 1792.

Call Number: Book 666 1792

Alternate Title: Conductor generalis; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace

Responsibility: compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed for Robert Campbell,

Date of Publication: 1792.

Physical Description: xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: A-2Gâ¸.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,

Subjects: Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.; Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.; Coroners - Early works to 1800.; Constables - Early works to 1800.; Jury - Early works to 1800.; Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.; Constables.; Coroners.; Fines and recoveries.; Internal revenue law.; Jury.; Justices of the peace.; Militia.; Sheriffs.; United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.; New York (State); Pennsylvania.; United States.; Early works.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Parker, James,; Gentleman of the law.; Burn, Richard,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 666 1792

The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self : haec ego grandaevus posui tibi candide lector

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Author: Coke, Edward,

Edition: The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].

Date of Publication: 1703.

Call Number: Book 755 1703

Alternate Title: Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self

Responsibility: authore Edwardo Coke, milite.

Author: Coke, Edward,

Uniform Title: First part of the institutes of the laws of England

Edition: The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street and J. Walthoe in Vine-Court, Middle-Temple, adjoyning to the Cloysters,

Date of Publication: 1703.

Physical Description: [5] leaves, 88 p., 394, [32] leaves, [1] folded leaf, [2] leaves of plates ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Notes: A reprint of Littleton's Tenures, with a translation in English from Anglo-Norman (Law French), and commentary. Printed in parallel columns.; Some errors in foliation.; Signatures: pi1 [superscript pi]Aâ´ a-yÂ² A-3Dâ´ [superscript chi]3DÂ² 3E-5Eâ´ 5Fâ¶ Â²A-Â²Eâ¶.; "Le Reading del mon Seignior Coke, 34 Eliz. anno 1592, sur lestatute de 27 E.I. appelle lestatute de finibus levatis" and "A treatise of bail & mainprize, written by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 1-27 of the 88 p. sequence; "The compleat copy-holder, being a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, with all things thereunto incident by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 29-88 of the 88 p. sequence.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; John Yeate's signature at top of title page under that of former owner J. Hartleys; Book number 755 as assigned by Yeates.; Includes bibliographical references, and index: "A table to the first part of the institutes of the laws of England."; ESTC

Subjects: Land tenure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Bail - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Manors - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Copyhold - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Bail.; Copyhold.; Fines and recoveries.; Land tenure; Manors.; Real property.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Spine title missing (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Littleton, Thomas,; Coke, Edward,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 755 1703

A new Spanish and English dictionary : collected from the best Spanish authors, both ancient and modern : containing several thousand words more than any other dictionary, with their etymology; their proper, figurative, burlesque and cant significations, the common terms of arts and sciences , the proper names of men, the surnames of families and an account of them, the titles of the nobility of Spain, together with its geography, and that of the West Indies, with the names of such provinces, towns and rivers in other parts which differ in Spanish from the English : also above two thousand proverbs literally translated ... : to which is added, a copious English and Spanish dictionary, likewise a Spanish grammar, more complete and easy than any hitherto extant

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Author: Stevens, John,

Date of Publication: MDCCVI [1706]

Call Number: Book 1045 1706

Alternate Title: Spanish and English dictionary; Dictionary English and Spanish; New Spanish grammar

Responsibility: The whole by Captain John Stevens.

Author: Stevens, John,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for George Sawbridge, at the Flower-de-Luces in Little Britain,

Date of Publication: MDCCVI [1706]

Physical Description: [526] 70 (i.e. 72) pages ; 40 cm (fol.)

Notes: The English-Spanish dictionary has special t.p., dated 1705; the grammar has special t.p. and separate paging.; Dictionary printed in three columns.; Signatures: piÂ² AÂ² aÂ² (-a2) B-Zâ´, *â´, 2A-2Zâ´, *2a-*2eâ´, 4a-4nâ´ 4oÂ², 5a-5iâ´.; Devices on special title pages.; Apparently from the personal library of Jasper Yeates.; Yeates's signature at top of title page and writ large on front flyleaf.; Book number 1045 not assigned by Yeates.; English short title catalogue

Subjects: Spanish language - Early works to 1800.; English language - Early works to 1800.; Cant - Early works to 1800.; Proverbs, Spanish - Early works to 1800.; Names, Spanish - Early works to 1800.; Cant.; English language.; Names, Spanish.; Proverbs, Spanish.; Spanish language.; Spanish language; Dictionaries.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Stamped title on spine.

Additional Author: Sawbridge, George,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: Great Britain England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1045 1706

The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index

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Author: Sheridan, John.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXXXV [1785]

Call Number: Book 985 1785

Responsibility: by John Sheridan ... ; with the assistance of other gentlemen of the law.

Author: Sheridan, John.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for W. Flexney ... and J. Walker ...,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXXXV [1785]

Physical Description: [3], 16-614, [18] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² D-2Zâ´ Â²2A-Â²2Zâ´ 3A-3Kâ´.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 985 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC

Subjects: Courts - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Court rules - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Courts; Civil procedure.; Court rules.; Criminal procedure.; Pleading.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 985 1785

The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. publish'd in his life-time : together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England, first publish'd by the present Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1695 : together with the life of the author

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Author: Spelman, Henry,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [i.e. 1723]

Call Number: Book 85 1723

Alternate Title: Reliquiae Spelmannianae

Responsibility: now revised by His Lordship ; to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, one, of the admiral-jurisdiction and the officers thereof, the other of antient deeds and charters ; with a compleat index to the whole.

Author: Spelman, Henry,

Uniform Title: Works.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for D. Browne, Sen. & Jun., W. Mears, F. Clay ... and Fletcher Gyles ...,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [i.e. 1723]

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : ill., 2 geneal. tables, 1 port. (engraving) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Vol. 1: [28], xxvj, 39, l-lxv, [1], 67-194, [168] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: [16], 256, [24] p., [1] folded leaf of plates.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeate's signature at top of title page.; Book number 85 as assigned by Yeates.; Ex libris previous owner's name struck out and J. Yeates written in, price 1lb, 7sh, 8pe, 1722.34191000148434; ESTC

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Admiralty - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Deeds - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; England - Antiquities.; Great Britain - Gazetteers - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Gibson, Edmund,; Yeates, Jasper,; Spelman, Henry,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 85 1723

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