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A year's residence in the United States of America; treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and, of the institutions of the country, civil, political and religious

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Author: Cobbett, William,

Date of Publication: 1818-

Call Number: 917.73 N532Y 1818

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Author: Cobbett, William,

Place of Publication: New-York

Publisher: Printed for the author by Clayton and Kingsland,

Date of Publication: 1818-

Physical Description: v. illus. 19 cm.

Notes: Library has: v. 1.; Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham, no. 1558.; William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.

Subjects: Agriculture - United States.; United States - Description and travel.; United States - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 917.73 N532Y 1818

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Mnemonika: or, Chronological tablets; : exhibiting, in a methodical manner, the most remarkable occurrences, from the creation of the world to the present period. Comprehending brief accounts of inventions and discoveries in every department of science; biographical and historical sketches; post-offices of the United States; discoveries of countries; foundations of empires, &c. &c. : To which are added, several valuable tables

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Date of Publication: 1812.

Call Number: Book 1036 1812

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: Published by John F. Watson, Philadelphia; and E.J. Coale, Baltimore. B.W. Sower, & Co. printers.,

Date of Publication: 1812.

Physical Description: vi, [3], 20-346 p., [1] folded leaf ; 15 cm.

Notes: "The Tablet of memory, which forms the ground-work of this book, has been published for many years successively in London and Edinburgh ..."--Preface, p. vi.; Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 26107, which records an edition with Baltimore imprint only.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-Tâ¹ UÂ².; Error in paging: p. 339 misnumbered 393.; Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.; "Calendar for the nineteenth century. Published by Edward J. Coale, for Mnemonika."--Folded leaf.; Apparently from the personal library of Yeates.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 1036 not assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Mnemonics.; Chronology, Historical.; Leather bindings (Binding); Illegible markings (Provenance); Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Watson, John F.; Coale, Edward Johnson,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: B.W. Sower & Co.,

Additional Title: Tablet of memory.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.; United States Maryland Baltimore.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1036 1812

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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Geologic notes on the Pequea Silver Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : A brief history of the Pequea Silver Mine Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Date of Publication: 1947.

Call Number: 550 F686

Responsibility: Richard M. Foose.

Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. : Franklin and Marshall College

Date of Publication: 1947.

Physical Description: [13 p] ; 25 cm.

Notes: From the proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science : Vol. XXL, 1947.; Includes index.

Summary: Refers to several mines in a half mile square area in Lancaster County marked by Pequea Creek in the south, Silver Mine Run in the east , and an unnamed tributary to Pequea Creek to the west.

Subjects: Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mines and mineral resources - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Silver mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Price, John W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 550 F686

Culture of a contemporary rural community. The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Date of Publication: 1941-1943.

Call Number: 630.973 U58

Corporate Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Place of Publication: [n.p.]

Date of Publication: 1941-1943.

Physical Description: 6 v. illus.

Series: Rural Life Studies: 4

Notes: LCHS has v.4 (Sept. 1942) The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Contents: Contents: v. 1. El Cerrito, N.M.--v. 2. Sublette, Kan.--v. 3. Landaff, N.H.--v. 4. Lancaster County, Pa.--v. 5. Irwin, Iowa.--v. 6. Harmony, Ga.

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

Additional Author: Kollmorgen, Walter M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 630.973 U58

Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-fourth. : Volume XX

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Date of Publication: 1809 [i.e. 1810].

Call Number: Book 32a 1809

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: William Greer, printer--Lancaster.,

Date of Publication: 1809 [i.e. 1810].

Physical Description: 569, [3], 27, [1] p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Journal of the session which began Dec. 5, 1809 and concluded Mar. 20, 1810.; Last page blank.; Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.; Signature of Yeates at top of title page.; Book number 32 as assigned by Yeates.; "Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania. Session 1809-10. William Greer, printer. 1810"--27 p., 2nd count.; Shaw & Shoemaker

Subjects: Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.; Legislative journals.; Politics and government; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Pennsylvania.; Full leather binding with gold lettering on maroon leather on spine.

Additional Author: Greer, William,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Title: Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania, session 1809-10.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 32a 1809

History of the classis of Lancaster of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1852-1940

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Author: Glass, Daniel G.

Date of Publication: [1942].

Call Number: 285.7 G549

Responsibility: Editors: Rev. Daniel G. Glass, Rev. C. George Bachman, Rev. Harry E. Shepardson, Rev. John F. Frantz, Rev. J.N. Le Van.

Author: Glass, Daniel G.

Place of Publication: New Holland, Pa

Publisher: Printed by The New Holland Clarion,

Date of Publication: [1942].

Physical Description: xiv, 431 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 420.

Subjects: Reformed Church in the United States. - Lebanon Classis.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 285.7 G549

The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Date of Publication: 1948

outstanding characteristic of corporate development in the United States. This is especially true in the growth of public utilities. Practically all the many gas companies, as well as the electric lighting companies, which were formed in Lancaster County be- ginning with the gas industry in 1849, and 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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Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original

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Author: Brackenridge, H. H.

Date of Publication: 1814.

Call Number: Book 264 1814

Responsibility: by Hugh Henry Brackenridge.

Author: Brackenridge, H. H.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: P. Byrne,

Date of Publication: 1814.

Physical Description: 579 pages ; 23 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 264 as assigned by Yeates.; Memorandum as to errata of this publication on back of page 579.

Subjects: Blackstone, William, - 1723-1780.; Law - Pennsylvania.; Law - Great Britain.; Law.; Great Britain.; Pennsylvania.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Smith, Charles,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 264 1814

The self-taught conveyancer, or, Farmers' and mechanics' guide : being a compilation from the most approved authorities, of the various instruments of writing, which are found necessary in the common concerns of the farmer, mechanic and man of business : arranged in so clear and concise a manner, that the most ignorant may with ease, by referring to it, execute bonds, leases, deeds, indentures, notes, articles, of agreement, &c. without application to an attorney

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Author: Gentleman of the bar.

Date of Publication: 1819.

Call Number: 347.055 Y93 1819

Alternate Title: Self-taught conveyancer.; Farmers' and mechanics' guide.

Responsibility: by a Gentleman of the bar.

Author: Gentleman of the bar.

Place of Publication: [York, Pa.]

Publisher: Printed and published by P. Hardt, York, Penn., and to be had of Shaeffer and Maund, Baltimore,

Date of Publication: 1819.

Physical Description: iv, 91 p. : forms ; 17 cm.

Notes: On flyleaf: John Wilsons Book: Price 12 1/2 cents.; Shaw & Shoemaker; Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,

Subjects: Forms (Law) - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 347.055 Y93 1819

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Geologic notes on the Pequea Silver Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : A brief history of the Pequea Silver Mine Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Culture of a contemporary rural community. The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-fourth. : Volume XX

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History of the classis of Lancaster of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1852-1940

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The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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