xix, 442 p., [79] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes
click on table of contents for list of 78 plates found in book
Contents
William Riddle--William Penn--Adam Reigart--John F. Steinman--Rev. Samuel Bowman--Benjamin Franklin--Franklin College--Dr. John L Attlee--Dr. Samuel Humes--Christopher Hager--Lancaster School Building--John Baer--J. Barrett Kerfoot's Address to Lafayette--William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D.--Dr. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg--General Lafayette--Amos Slaymaker--James Buchanan--Thaddeus Stevens (1835)--George Wolf, Governor from 1829 to 1835--Joseph Ritner, Governor from1835 to 1839--Samuel F. Dale--The Old Court House-1787-1853--John King Findlay--George Musser-- Louis C. Jungerich--Old School Buildings, South Duke Street--John Mathiot--Robert Moderwell--John W. Forney--John Zimmerman--Peter O'Conomy--George M. Steinman--Rev. John S. Crumbaugh--Common School Celebration Program--Evening Program, Common Schools Diploma--John Piersol McCaskey--Rev. John Baxter--Samuel O. Nourse--Hon. Thomas H. Burrowes--William B. Wiley--Rev. Bernhard Keenan--Hon. A.L.Hayes--Newton Lightner--H.S.Gara--Hon. J.B.Livingston--William P. Brinton--Frederick S. Pyfer--Miss Christie Musser--The Children's Home--William A. Morton--John W. Jackson--Charles F. Eberman--John I. Hartman--Boys' and Girls' High School, 1876--John B. Warfel--William O. Marshall--City Superintendent R. K. Buehrle--East Lemon Street School, 1881--Daniel G. Baker--Dr. John Levergood--George W. Zercher--J. M. Johnston--Thomas F. McElligott--Miss Maria E. Gill--Hon. J. P. Wickersham--Dr. D. R. McCormick--Dr. E. E. Higbee--Siuth Duke Street School Building, 1892--South Mulberry St. School, 1892--Hon. David McMullen--George Forrest--Interior Strawberry Street School--H. A. Schroyer--Miss Matilda Zug--The Stevens High School--Thaddeus Stevens--Nathan C. Schaeffer-Lancaster High School Orchestra
Fabulae Aesopi selectae, or Select fables of Aesop : with an English translation, more literal than any yet extant, designed for the readier instruction of beginners in the Latin tongue
Printed for C. and A. Conrad and Co. B.B. Hopkins and Co. Johnson and Warner, M. Carey, Bennett and Walton, T. and W. Bradford, Edward Earle, and Stephen Pike, booksellers : Lydia R. Bailey, printer,
History of the United States, from their first settlement as English colonies, in 1607, to the year 1808; or, the thirty-third of their sovereignty and independence
Published by M. Carey and son, no. 126, Chesnut street: for the sole benefit of the heirs of the author.
Date of Publication
May 1st, 1818.
Physical Description
3 v. 24 cm.
Notes
"The additions made to this work, commence with the thirty-sixth chapter, page 118 of this volume [v. 3] All the preceding part was written by ... Dr. Ramsay." - Note, v. 3, p. [viii]
Forms a part of the author's "Universal history Americanised".
"Biographical memoir of David Ramsay. " By R. Y. Hayne; v. 1, p. [5]-27.
Biblia, das ist : die ganze Heilige Schrift alten und neuen Testaments : nach der deutschen Uebersetzung von Doctor Martin Luther : mit lehrreichen Vorreden, und vielen nützlichen und seltenen Registern versehen ; nebst dem dritten Buch der Maccabäer, und Zugabe des dritten und vierten Buchs Ezra : imgleichen, eine kurz gefasste Biblische Geschichte und Lebensbeschreibung Doctor Martin Luthers
Loose items removed to MG-399, Eby-Weaver/Weber family bible includes: "This German Bible belonged to Anna Eby, first wife of Abraham Weaver who was a direct descendant of the Webers (Weavers) original settlers of Weber Thal or Weaverland. This book presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society by Elizabeth Weaver and Gertrude M. Weaver, Jan. 1953."
Hand-decorated genealogy of Daniel Eby on back endpaper.
Four pages of Weaver and Eby genealogy laid in before the back endpaper.
Stamp of Henrich Miller, Buchbinder, In der Ost-Oranien=Strasse, gegenü̈ber der Deutsch Reformirten Kirche, Lancaster.
Full-page hand-drawn Taufschein for Anna Eby; second full-page hand-drawn Taufschien for Anna Eby precedes title page of the New Testament.
Laid in before p. 235 are a color engraving with poem of Jesus coming into Jerusalem (34 x 23 cm), a color drawing of a horse (10 x 8 cm), color drawing of flowers with note "Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, Harrisgurg, Pa. (9 x 10 cm), and tract No. 19 "Heavenly Tidings.
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