by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
"The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.
Summary
"A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]
Debates and other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia : convened at Richmond, on Monday the second day of June, 1788, for the purpose of deliberating on the Constitution recommended by the grand Federal convention ; to which is prefixed the Federal Constitution
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Harrisburg the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-eighth. : Volume XXIV
Journal of the session which began Dec. 7, 1813 and concluded Mar. 28, 1814.
Error in paging: p. 24, 2nd count, misnumbered 42.
"Index to the Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, session 1813-14"--24 p., 2nd count. Recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 32469.
"Members of Senate, whose seats will be vacated."--Page 560.
Journal of the twenty sixth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Commenced at Harrisburg, Tuesday the fifth of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the commonwealth the fortieth
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Harrisburg the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the fortieth. : Volume XXVI
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law ; as also the law and practice , under the proper heads and titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. Adapted to the use of barristers, students and practicers of the law, etc
Printed for James Williams, at No. 5, in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Physical Description
1 volume (no pagination) ; 40 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Loose inside back cover: an advertisement of J. E. Barr & Co, 27East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. for the Sunday School Department,(60 x 45 cm.) undated.
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.
A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason
