![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Declaration of his Intentions in selling a horse to British just prior to the Battle of Concord and his sentiments concerning spreading rumors of Negro revolt expressed in conversation with Katherine Adams, wife of Jonathan Adams [manuscript] - Adams, Elisha
Holograph, signed
Keywords: Adams, Katherine; Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775; African Americans; Slave insurrections
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| Novanglus, and Massachusettensis; or, Political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies - Adams, John, 1735-1826
John Adams Library copy inscribed: "Most respectfully presented to President Adams by his most humble servants the Printers."
Keywords: United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes; Massachusetts -- Politics and government 1775-1783; Great Britain -- Colonies America
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| Three hundred Æsop's fables - Aesop
Boston Public Library (R-B) copy is in fragile condition; cover is detached; gift of Milton Lord
Keywords: Fables
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| History and reminiscences of the Philadelphia almshouse and Philadelphia hospital .. - Agnew, D. Hayes (David Hayes), 1818-1892
Contains also: Clinical teaching and clinical teachers in the Philadelphia hospital, by Roland G. Curtin; Address delivered at the opening of the new clinical lecture room of the Philadelphia hospital, by J.L. Ludlow; List of the former resident physicians of the Philadelphia hospital, by E.R. Stone and W.A.N. Dorland
Keywords: Philadelphia General Hospital
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 2) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 3 pt.1) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 1) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 7) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 9) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 6) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 2) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 10) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 3) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 8) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 5) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 3 pt.2) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... (Volume 4) - Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Papers on human culture - Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888, compiler
A volume composed of portions of books excised and bound together by A. Bronson Alcott and presented to F.B. Sanborn in 1885
Keywords: Education; Social change
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| La Fayette's second expedition to Virginia in 1781. A paper read before the Maryland historical society, June 14th, 1886 - Allen, Edward M
Bound volume includes: no. 31a. Maryland, independence, and the confederation -- no. 31b. A reminiscence of the troublous times of April, 1861 -- no. 32. La Fayette's second expedition to Virginia in 1781 -- no. 33. Maryland and North Carolina in the campaign of 1780-1781 -- no. 34. The Calvert papers. Number two
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| Grammatica Ebræa Martinio-Buxtorfiana. : Seu, Grammatica Petri Martini Navari, quam ex accuratissimis alio- rum Grammaticis, præcipuè verò Cl. Buxtorfii, - Amama, Sixtinus, 1593-1629
Half bound over brown mottled boards
Keywords: Hebrew language
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| Thirty-second anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society - American Anti-Slavery Society
Consists of the lyrics to four anti-slavery hymns and an announcement for an upcoming program on May 10 featuring a speech entitled "The martyred president" by Anna E. Dickinson, apparently a memorial meeting for President Lincoln (who died April 15, 1965)
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| Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII - Ammianus Marcellinus
Engraved t.p. and title vignette
Keywords: Coins, Roman; Emperors
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| Lettre du Commandant du Régiment de Châteauvieux, adressée à M. de Lullin de Châteauvieux, Colonel-Commandant dudit Régiment, lue à l'Assemblée dans la séance du 16 Octobre - An-der-Matt
Caption title
Keywords: France. Armée. Regiment de Chateauvieux
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| The letter of Appomatox [sic] to the people of Virginia : exhibiting a connected view of the recent proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the subject of the abolition of slavery; and a succinct account of the doctrines broached by the friends of abolition, in debate: and the mischievous tendency of those proceedings and doctrines - Appomattox, pseud
Attributed to B.W. Leigh by Swem
Keywords: Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831; Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875; Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates; Slavery; Slave insurrections; Southampton Insurrection, 1831
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| An address, delivered at Chester, before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, on the 8th of November, 1851 - Armstrong, Edward, 1846-1928
Boston Public Library (Research Library) copy ex libris (inscription): Francis Lieber
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| A serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest : in two parts - Astell, Mary, 1668-1731
Each volume has special t.p.; pt. 1, 4th ed. London, 1701; pt. 2 has sub-title: Wherein a method is offer'd for the improvement of their minds. London, 1697
Keywords: Women; Conduct of life; Women
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| Tipos y costumbres de la isla de Cuba : colección de artículos - Bachiller y Morales, Antonio
Introduction signed: Antonio Bachiller y Morales
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| Relaciones de algunos sucesos de los últimos tiempos del reino de Granada - Baeza, Hernando de, 15th/16th cent
Prólogo.--Las cosas que pasaron entre los reyes de Granada desde el tiempo de el rrey Don Juan de Castilla, segundo de este nonbre, hasta que los catholicos reyes ganaron el rreyno de Granada, scripto .. por Hernando de Baeça ...--Relacion circunstanciada de lo acaecido en la prision del rey Chico de Granada, año de 1483.--Documentos relativos al desafío de D. Alonso de Aguilar y D. Diego Fernandez de Córdoba.--Notas
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| Handbook for the use of boards of directors, superintendents, and staffs of institutions for dependent children - Barger, Ada Ethel
"The report ... is especially the work of A. Ethel Barger ... and Emma O. Lundberg"--Letter of transmittal
Keywords: Children; Child welfare
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| A daughter of Thespis : a novel - Barry, John D. (John Daniel), 1866-1942
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| The West Church and its ministers : fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Charles Lowell, D.D - Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900
Keywords: West Church (Boston, Mass.)
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| Camfield gardens: site analysis - Basnett, Carl
...concerns a federally subsidized housing project in Boston's South End neighborhood; includes neighborhood description, demographic information, development history, site and structure descriptions, etc.; this report was probably done as a course assignment for a class at Harvard University Graduate School of Design or the MA Institute of Technology Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; this item is part of Sidney Diamond addition to the BRA collection..
Keywords: Housing; Camfield Gardens, Boston (Mass.); Development Projects; Housing Projects; Population Characteristics; Urban renewal
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| Official bulletin and scrap book of the League of American Wheelmen (Volume 1920-1921 (v.18-19)) - Bassett, Abbot, ed
Official publication of: League of American Wheelmen
Keywords: League of American Wheelmen; Cycling; Bicycles
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| Official bulletin and scrap book of the League of American Wheelmen (Volume 1918-1919 (v.16-17)) - Bassett, Abbot, ed
Official publication of: League of American Wheelmen
Keywords: League of American Wheelmen; Cycling; Bicycles
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| Official bulletin and scrap book of the League of American Wheelmen (Volume 1914-1915 (v.12-13)) - Bassett, Abbot, ed
Official publication of: League of American Wheelmen
Keywords: League of American Wheelmen; Cycling; Bicycles
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| Official bulletin and scrap book of the League of American Wheelmen (Volume 1916-1917 (v.14-15)) - Bassett, Abbot, ed
Official publication of: League of American Wheelmen
Keywords: League of American Wheelmen; Cycling; Bicycles
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| The wall between - Bassett, Sara Ware, b. 1872
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| Flood Tide - Bassett, Sara Ware, b. 1872
"By Sara Ware Bassett": p. [2] of preliminary p
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| Organization, by-laws and list of members of The Beacon Society of Boston : organized 1881 - Beacon Society
Beacon Society emblem gilt stamped on cover
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| Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ : traduit en françois sur l'original grec : avec des notes literales, pour éclaircir le texte (Volume 2) - Beausobre, Isaac de, 1659-1738
Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p., v. 1-2
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| Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ : traduit en françois sur l'original grec : avec des notes literales, pour éclaircir le texte (Volume 1) - Beausobre, Isaac de, 1659-1738
Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p., v. 1-2
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| Remarques historiques, critiques et philologiques, sur le Nouveau Testament - Beausobre, Isaac de, 1659-1738
Includes: "Vie de monsieur de Beausobre [par Boisbeleau de la Chapelle]": v.2, p.[253]-330
Keywords: Bible; Bible; Bible
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| Courts in the United States hearing children's cases : results of a questionnaire study covering the year 1918 - Belden, Evelina
"Miss Evelina Belden had charge of the planning of the study and the collection and analysis of the material. The material for the report was assembled by Miss Belden and was completed for publication by Miss Emma O. Lundberg."--P. 5
Keywords: Juvenile courts
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| Antonia - Belden, Jessie Perry Van Zile, 1857-1910
Keywords: New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction
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| The case of our fellow-creatures, the Oppressed Africans, : respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the legislature of Great-Britain - Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784
Attributed to Benezet by Evans, et al
Keywords: Slave trade
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| Some historical account of Guinea, : its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants, with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature and lamentable effects - Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784
"Fourth edition."--Cf. Nat. union cat., pre-56 imprints
Keywords: Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784; Slavery; Slavery
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| Harmonia cœlestis : a collection of church music in two, three, and four parts : with words adapted to each, comprehending not only the metres in common use, but the particular metres, in the Hartford collection of hymns : the tunes correctly figured for the organ and harpsichord : with an introd. to music : chiefly collected from the greatest masters in Europe, and never before printed in America - Benjamin, Jonathan
Boston Public Library (Music Department) copy: contemporary penmanship practice on preliminary page and title page; ex libris (inscription) Simon Lathrop, Lisbon [Conn.?]
Keywords: Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
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| The seven Weld brothers : six generations of descendants of William Fletcher Weld, George Richards Minot Weld, Stephen Minot Weld, Thomas Swan Weld, Christopher Minot Weld, Francis Minot Weld, John Gardner Weld : 1800 to 2000 : a contemporary genealogy - Benton, Nicholas, 1926-
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Weld family
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| Occult chemistry; clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements; - Besant, Annie Wood, 1847-1933
"I have contributed an entirely new preliminary chapter...From the beginning of chapter III to the end the book in its present form is simply a reprint of the original edition."--Pref
Keywords: Occultism; Alchemy
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| A juvenile guide, or, Manual of good manners. : Consisting of counsels, instructions & rules of deportment, for the young. - Bishop, Rufus
Compiled by Rufus Bishop, Garrett Lawrence and Isaac Newton Youngs. Revised by Giles B. Avery
Keywords: Shakers; Conduct of life
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