"Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Late eighteenth-century billhead of Benjamin Harbeson was printed from a plate engraved by Henry Dawkins, who was one of the earliest engravers in America. The importance of this item lies in its portrayal of the styles of vessels made at that time."(see same picture as a trade card #HK02-03-08)
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. Description from page 36, "Earlhy American Copper, Tin & Brass, Henry J. Kauffman, 1995.
Early trade card of Benjamin Harbeson from Philadelphia, dates 1754. Obviously a very globular tea kettle.
(See billhead on HK-02-03-02)
Description on above referenced billhead: ""Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Late eighteenth-century billhead of Benjamin Harbeson was printed from a plate engraved by Henry Dawkins, who was one of the earliest engravers in America. The importance of this item lies in its portrayal of the styles of vessels made at that time."
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. . Description from page 36, "Earlhy American Copper, Tin & Brass, Henry J. Kauffman, 1995.
Reports of cases determined in the Court of King's Bench : together with some other cases : from Trin. 12 Geo. I. to Trin. 7 Geo. II. [1726-1734] with tables of the names of the cases and of the principal matters
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney General against John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Commons : tried in the Court of King's-Bench Westminister, on Wednesday, the ninth of December 1789 : before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England
"Argument in support of the rights of juries" by the Hon. T. Erskine: p. [121]-228.
Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.
LC copy wanting the [16] p. of advertisements called for in ESTC.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS copy has bound between pages121 and 122: The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday, August the Sixth, 1784...London: H. Goldney, 1874.
With: Briton. Four letters on the subject of Mr. Stockdale's trial for a supposed libel on the House of Commons ... London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1790. Bound together subsequent to publication?
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine : for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established : and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and parliament of this kingdom, and upon the king : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.