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  The Enchanting humming-bird; one of the most pleasing and delightful collection of songs now extant--as sung with universal applause at the Theatres-Royal Vauxhall, Drury-Lane, Mary-Bone, Ranelagh, &c. : Including also the most admired musical productions of America, Ireland, and Scotland; : catches and glees: : together with a curious selection of toasts, sentiments, and hob-nobs.
  Date of publication:
  1788-1791
  

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  Unknown author
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  Henry Taylor printed in Philadelphia from 1788 until 1791. Evans suggests that the date of publication was 1791. Error in paging: p. 82 misnumbered 28.
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  The World in a string, or Money toss'd in a blanket.
  Date of publication:
  1790-1799
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Not in Evans or Bristol. READEX NOTE: This is not the Bennington, Vt. edition recorded by Evans as 26511, but it was filmed as 26511.
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  A history of New-England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Containing the first principles and settlements of the country; the rise and increase of the Baptist churches therein; the intrusion of arbitrary power under the cloak of religion; the Christian testimonies of the Baptists and others against the same, with their sufferings under it, from the begining [sic] to the present time. : Collected from most authentic records and writings, both ancient and modern. / By Isaac Backus, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Middleborough. ; Vol. I[-III]. ; [Four lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1777-1796
  

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  Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. and Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. Church history of New-England.
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  Title and imprint vary: v. 2, A church history of New-Engand. Vol. II. Extending from 1690, to 1784. Including a concise view of the American war, and of the conduct of the Baptists therein, with the present state of their ...
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  The Articles of Confederation; the Declaration of rights; the Constitution of the Commonwealth, and the articles of the definitive treaty between Great-Britain and the United States of America. Published by order of the General Assembly.
  Date of publication:
  1784-1785
  

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  Virginia. General Assembly. ; United States. Articles of Confederation. ; Virginia. Declaration of rights. ; Virginia. Constitution (1776). and Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 Sept. 3.
  Description:
  Ordered printed by the Virginia Assembly. The authorization for printing is dated Dec. 8, 1784.
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  Letters on the French Revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a friend in England; containing, various anecdotes relative to that interesting event, and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F--. / By Helen Maria Williams.
  Date of publication:
  1791-1792
  

  Author(s):

  Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.
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  Title and imprint of v. 2 vary: Letters from France: containing many new anecdotes relative to the French Revolution, and the present state of French manners. By Helen Maria Williams. Vol. II. Boston: Printed for Thomas ...
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  The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; : with an introduction, respecting, the life of the late W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers; --with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. : To which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general state, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770. : The whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : With an appendix. / Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin] ; Volume I[-II].
  Date of publication:
  1797-1798
  

  Author(s):

  Proud, Robert, 1728-1813. ; Barralet, John James, ca. 1747-1815, engraver. ; Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver. and Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.
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  Imprint of v. 2 varies: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut-Street, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America. 1798. Frontispiece portrait of William Penn (v. 1) signed: J.J. ...
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  Travels of Jonas Hanway, Esq. through Russia into Persia, and afterwads [sic] through Russia, Germany, & Holland.
  Date of publication:
  1797-1806
  

  Author(s):

  Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.
  Description:
  Joseph and James Crukshank printed at 87 High Street from 1797 to 1806. Dated [1799] by Evans.
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  The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; : with an introduction, respecting, the life of the late W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers; --with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. : To which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general state, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770. : The whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : With an appendix. / Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin] ; Volume I[-II].
  Date of publication:
  1797-1798
  

  Author(s):

  Proud, Robert, 1728-1813. ; Barralet, John James, ca. 1747-1815, engraver. ; Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver. and Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.
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  Imprint of v. 2 varies: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut-Street, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America. 1798. Frontispiece portrait of William Penn (v. 1) signed: J.J. ...
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  A history of New-England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Containing the first principles and settlements of the country; the rise and increase of the Baptist churches therein; the intrusion of arbitrary power under the cloak of religion; the Christian testimonies of the Baptists and others against the same, with their sufferings under it, from the begining [sic] to the present time. : Collected from most authentic records and writings, both ancient and modern. / By Isaac Backus, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Middleborough. ; Vol. I[-III]. ; [Four lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1777-1796
  

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  Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. and Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. Church history of New-England.
  Description:
  Title and imprint vary: v. 2, A church history of New-Engand. Vol. II. Extending from 1690, to 1784. Including a concise view of the American war, and of the conduct of the Baptists therein, with the present state of their ...
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  Art of contentment; with several entertaining pieces of poetry, descriptive of the present times, in the U. States of America. / By John Searson, formerly a merchant of Philadelphia. ; [Six lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1797-1799
  

  Author(s):

  Searson, John. and Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee.
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  "The prose part of the 'Art of contentment,' is chiefly selected from the first European writers. Several of the pieces (those descriptive of America particularly) are my own ..."--p. vi. Dedicated to George Washington. ...
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  Fortune's foot-ball: or, The adventures of Mercutio. Founded on matters of fact. : A novel, in two volumes. / By James Butler. ; Vol. I[-II].
  Date of publication:
  1797-1798
  

  Author(s):

  Butler, James, 1755?-1842.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. Vol. 1: 192 p.; v. 2: 191, [1] p.
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  A history of New-England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Containing the first principles and settlements of the country; the rise and increase of the Baptist churches therein; the intrusion of arbitrary power under the cloak of religion; the Christian testimonies of the Baptists and others against the same, with their sufferings under it, from the begining [sic] to the present time. : Collected from most authentic records and writings, both ancient and modern. / By Isaac Backus, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Middleborough. ; Vol. I[-III]. ; [Four lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1777-1796
  

  Author(s):

  Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. and Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. Church history of New-England.
  Description:
  Title and imprint vary: v. 2, A church history of New-Engand. Vol. II. Extending from 1690, to 1784. Including a concise view of the American war, and of the conduct of the Baptists therein, with the present state of their ...
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  The Dying declaration of James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and William Brooks, who were executed at Worcester, July 2, 1778, for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner.
  Date of publication:
  1801-1820
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Bristol B4652 and McDade 897 suggest the imprint: [Worcester, Mass.? : Isaiah Thomas?, 1778?]. However, typography and publication on wove paper suggest an early 19th-century printing.
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  A very remarkable narrative of Luke Swetland, who was taken captive four times in the space of fifteen months, in the time of the late contest between Great Britain and America; showing how and when taken, whether carried and how treated until his return to his family; with a concise account of the exercise of his mind during his trials; a short account of the manners of the Indians; and a short sketch of the rarities of the Indian country. / Written by himself.
  Date of publication:
  1780-1789
  

  Author(s):

  Swetland, Luke, 1729-1823.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N33375) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 43753) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  Description of the sufferings of those who were on board the Jersey and other prison ships in the harbour of New-York, during the struggle for our glorious independence. by an American who was a prisoner on board one of them.
  Date of publication:
  1781-1786
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
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  By Philip Freneau. For a discussion of the three known texts of this poem, see "A broadside of Freneau's The British Prison Ship," by Philip Marsh and Milton Ellis, in American literature, v. 10, no. 4, Jan. 1939, p. ...
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  By His Excellency Collonel Benjamin Fletcher captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] Whereas it hath graciously pleased Almighty God to crown the constant great courage and conduct of our Most gracious Soveraign Lord King William during the war, with an honourable peace ... I have therefore thought fit to appoint, that Thursday the tenth day of March next ... and Thursday the twenty fourth day of the same moneth ... be kept solemn days of thanksgiving to Almighty God ... Given at New-York, the 26th day of Februrary ... annoq; Domini 1697 [1698 N.S.]
  Date of publication:
  1697-1698
  

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  New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher). and Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703.
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  Signed: Ben. Fletcher. God save the King. Royal arms at head of title.
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  A discourse concerning paper money, in which its principles are laid open; and a method, plain and easy, for introducing and continuing a plenty, without lessening the present value of it, is demonstrated. : Humbly offered to the consideration of the honourable representatives of the freemen of the province of Pennsylvania. : Numb. I. : [Seven lines in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1742-1743
  

  Author(s):

  Webbe, John.
  Description:
  Attributed to John Webbe by Hildeburn. Advertised as 'Just published' in the Pennsylvania journal, Jan. 4, 1742/3. No more issued.
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  Tribute to Caesar, how paid by the best Christians, and to what purpose. With some remarks on the late vigourous expedition against Canada. Of civil government, how inconsistent it is with the government of Christ in his Church. Compared with the ancient just and righteous principles of the Quakers, and their modern practice and doctrine. With some notes upon the discipline of their church in this province, especially at Philadelphia. / By Philalethes. ; [Three lines]
  Date of publication:
  1713-1715
  

  Author(s):

  Rakestraw, William. and Maule, Thomas, 1645-1724.
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  Occasioned by a sermon preached by Thomas Story, Sept. 16, 1711, urging the Quakers to pay the tax for the expedition to Canada in 1711. Attributed to William Rakestraw by J.D. Marietta in "William Rakestraw: pacifist ...
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  A Collection of tracts from the late news papers, &c. Containing particularly The American Whig, A whip for the American Whig, with some other pieces, on the subject of the residence of Protestant bishops in the American colonies, and in answer to the writers who opposed it, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1768-1769
  

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  Unknown author
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  Title of v. 2 varies: A Collection of tracts from the late news papers, &c. Containing particularly, The American Whig, A whip for the American Whig, The centinel, A kick for the whipper, The anatomist ... New-York : Printed ...
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  A Collection of tracts from the late news papers, &c. Containing particularly The American Whig, A whip for the American Whig, with some other pieces, on the subject of the residence of Protestant bishops in the American colonies, and in answer to the writers who opposed it, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1768-1769
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Title of v. 2 varies: A Collection of tracts from the late news papers, &c. Containing particularly, The American Whig, A whip for the American Whig, The centinel, A kick for the whipper, The anatomist ... New-York : Printed ...
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