An account of the founding and initial operation of the first hospital established in the English colonies, with a revealing autograph letter of transmittal and solicitation to one Thomas Worth signed by Hospital managers John Smith and John Reynell. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the.....
Third American edition of Hannah More's classic moral saga contrasting the lives of two apprentice shoemakers. Each numbered part begins with a caption title and a woodcut. Jack Brown comes from a non-religious family and (as a result) is dishonest. James Stock is a religious, honest, and hardworking man. As.....
A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher’s manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a “New Edition, with considerable Additions,” this first American edition provides concise instructions on.....
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The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas’ newspaper The Massachusetts Spy, a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements. In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed “The tax.....