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An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition : [Three lines in Latin from Tacitus]

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Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Book 606 1794
  1 website  
Place of Publication
--New-York-- : No. 37, Hanover-Square
Publisher
Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell ;
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
148 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 24 cm (8vo)
Notes
"To the public." signed by the editor, James Robertson.
Frontispiece portrait of Muir engraved by John Scoles.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Muir, Thomas, - 1765-1799.
Muir, Thomas, - 1765-1799
Sedition - Scotland.
Trials (Sedition) - Scotland.
Sedition.
Trials (Sedition)
Scotland.
Portraits.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Robertson, James.
Scoles, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Scotland. High Court of Justiciary.
Place
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 606 1794
Websites
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Forensic eloquence. : Sketches of trials in Ireland for high treason, etc. : Including the speeches of Mr. Curran at length: accompanied by certain papers illustrating the history and present state of that country. : [Two lines in Latin]

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Date of Publication
1804.
Call Number
Book 597 1804
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Published by G. Douglas, bookseller.,
Date of Publication
1804.
Physical Description
iv [i.e. vi], [2], 40, 351, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Copyright July 26,1804, by George Douglas.
Error in paging: p. vi misnumbered iv.
"Mr. O'Connor's address to the Irish nation."--Page 323-326.
"To the reader."--Page [327].
"Mr. Grattan's letter to the citizens of Dublin, on his declining to represent them in Parliament."--Page 328-351.
"Erratum"--Page 351.
"In the press, a collection of the most approved speeches and orations selected from English, Scotch, Irish, and American authors. With biographical anecdotes."--Page [352].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 597 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Subjects
Curran, John Philpot, - 1750-1817.
Trials (Treason) - Ireland.
Trials (Treason)
Ireland - History.
Ireland.
Stained leather (Binding)
Gold tooled leather (Binding)
History.
Publishers' advertisements - Maryland - Baltimore.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Fillet tools (Binding)
Lettering pieces (Binding)
Additional Author
Curran, John Philpot,
Grattan, Henry,
O'Connor, Arthur,
Douglas, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Maryland Baltimore.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 597 1804
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ; with Canne's marginal notes and references ; to which are added, an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins, &c

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Edition
Kimber and Sharpless' stereotype ed.
Date of Publication
[1835?]
Call Number
220 W363 1835?
Edition
Kimber and Sharpless' stereotype ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : New York
Publisher
Kimber and Sharpless ; Stereotyped by E. White,
Date of Publication
[1835?]
Physical Description
4 (6), 5-570, 112, [8], 573-768, 18, 54 pages, [8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Notes
At head of title: Kimber and Sharpless Ì“ stereotype edition.
New Testament has special t.p.: ... The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek ...
Plates engraved by Anderson after illustrations by Bruegel, Guercino, Craig, Coning, Bloemart, Dominichini, and B. Picart.
Includes Apocrypha and Psalms of David in metre.
"Apocrypha" (112 p.) inserted after Old Testament.
T.p.of Old Testament precedes t.p. of entire bible.
Some water damaged and/or mold on most pages.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an aqppointment may be required.
Weaver family bible.
Twelve loose items including one minature of a young woman removed to MG399 Family History Collection.
Genealogy of Isaac Weaver family 1824-1863.
With this is bound: Brown, John. A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia : Kimber and Sharpless, n.d.
Damaged tree binding with maroon spine title.
Subjects
Weaver family - Genealogy.
Weaver, Isaac, - 1824 .
Weaver, Martha, - 1825.
Additional Author
Canne, John,
Anderson, Alexander,
White, Elihu,
Brown, John,
Additional Corporate Author
Kimber & Sharpless,
Additional Title
Bible.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 W363 1835?
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Jachin and Boaz: or An authentic key to the door of Free-Masonry, ancient and modern. : Calculated, not only for the instruction of every new made Mason, but also, for the information of all who intend to become brethren. : Illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece of the regalia, jewels and emblematical ornaments belonging to Masonry; and an accurate plan of the drawing on the floor of a lodge. : Interspersed with a variety of notes and remarks, necessary to explain and render the whole clear to the meanest capacity

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Author
Gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge.
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
366.1 P544 1811
Responsibility
By a gentleman, belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge; a frequent visitor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-yard; the Horn, in Fleet-Street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-Street. ; Try me--prove me.
Author
Gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge.
Place of Publication
Poughkeepsie [N.Y.]
Publisher
Printed by C.C. Adams, for Richard Scott, bookseller, New-York.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
107, [1] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Notes
Caption title: An authentic key to the door of Free-Masonry.
"Advertisement," p. [6], signed: R.S.
Last page blank.
"Odes, anthems and songs, sung in the best lodges."--p. 81-100.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Freemasons - Rites and ceremonies.
Masonic music.
Songs.
Relief prints.
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Additional Author
Adams, Charles Chauncey,
Scott, Richard,
Place
United States New York Poughkeepsie.
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
366.1 P544 1811
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Journal of the second session of the Senate of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of New-York, January 4th, 1790; and in the fourteenth year of the independence of the said states

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XC [1790]
Call Number
Book 538 1790
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, in Maiden-Lane,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XC [1790]
Physical Description
224 pages ; 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
1st Cong., 2d sess., Jan. 4 to Aug. 12, 1790.
P. 222-224 wrongly numbered 122-124 in some copies.
Errata statement, p. 224.
Signatures: [A]² B-3K².
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790: p. 5-8.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 835 as assigned by Yeates.
"Acts and resolutions passed the second session of the Congress of the United States": pages 222-224.
Evans,
ESTC,
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
Place
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 538 1790
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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]⁴ B-T⁹ U².
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
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of Vermont. : With cases of practice and rules of the court. Commencing with the nineteenth century. : Vol. I-[II]. To be continued

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Corporate Author
Vermont. Supreme Court.
Date of Publication
1809[-10].
Call Number
Book 359 1809
Responsibility
by Royall Tyler, chief judge of the Supreme Court. ; [Two lines in Latin from Horace].
Corporate Author
Vermont. Supreme Court.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed and published by I. Riley.,
Date of Publication
1809[-10].
Physical Description
2 v. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes cases heard from Jan. 1800 to Feb. 1803. No more published.
Vol. 1 copyright Oct. 27, 1809 by Isaac Riley; v. 2 copyright Nov. 30, 1810 by Isaac Riley.
Dedicated to "His Excellency the governor, His Honour the lieutenant-governor; the honourable Council; and the honourable House of Representatives of the state of Vermont."
Vol. 1: vii, [1], 496 p.; v. 2: iv, [4], 488 p.
With an index to each volume.
Library lacks volume 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbaer 359 as assigned by Yeates/
Shaw & Shoemaker
BAL
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Vermont.
Court rules - Vermont.
Court rules.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Vermont.
Full blind tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Tyler, Royall,
Tichenor, Isaac,
Brigham, Paul,
Riley, Isaac,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Vermont. Supreme Executive Council,
Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives,
Place
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 359 1809
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A treatise on the law of war

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Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Date of Publication
1810
Call Number
Book 806 1810
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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
Websites
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