Annotated almanac, 1758

Almanac containing sporadic annotations and entries in the hands of John and Hannah Winthrop on both the calendar pages and three additional leaves. Hannah Winthrop's entries include notes on the weather, deaths in the community, and amounts of "Island butter." An entry with burial statistics for the first parish in Cambridge appears to be the only entry in John Winthrop's hand.

A flora of North America :containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico, arranged according to the natural system /by John Torrey and Asa Gray.

v.2 (1841-1843)

Receipt book for legal services, 1798-1810

A receipt book containing fees charged for legal services of John Rowe who practiced in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Record of cases, 1738-1758

Contains summaries of cases brought before the court of appeals with the judgment rendered by Edward Trelawny and transcribed by Samuel Williams.

Letter from John Pickering to William Tudor,

One letter explaining his decision to decline membership in the Anthology Society, critiquing Rees’s Cyclopaedia, and discussing the North American Review.

Letters to Ebenezer Hancock from his mother, Mary Perkins, and his stepfather, Daniel Perkins, 1758 June 27 and 1758 November 16

These two letters were written to Ebenezer Hancock while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. His stepfather, Daniel Perkins, wrote on June 27, 1758 and his mother, Mary Perkins, wrote on November 16, 1758. Both letters were sent from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where the Perkins lived. The letters contain general greetings and wishes for Hancock's well being, as well as parental advice regarding his behavior and comportment.

Proceedings in Tanner vs. Hall, 1758, June

Copy of the proceedings in the case of Benjamin Tanner vs. Jasper Hall of Kingston (Jamaica), relating to various lands, etc. With the autographs of Henry Moore, governor, and John Arnold, registrar of the high court.

Landmarks of Canada : What art has done for Canadian history; a guide to the J. Ross Robertson historical collection in the Public reference library, Toronto, Canada. This catalogue of the collection covers three thousand seven hundred illustrations and includes originals and reproductions in every form of art of all known pictures in connection with Canadian history from the landing of Wolfe at Louisburg in 1758 to the present time /

Includes brief biographical sketches of the subjects of the portraits in the collection.

Aus Oesterreichs stillen und bewegten Jahren, 1810-1812 und 1813-1815. I. Zeitgeschichtliche Studien. Aus dem Tagebuche Erzh. Johanns von Oesterreich, 1810-1812. II. Hormayrs Lebensgang bis 1816 und seine Briefe an den Vorgenannten 1813-1816.

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Oeconomical and medical observations, in two parts : from the year 1758 to the year 1763, inclusive : tending to the improvement of military hospitals, and to the cure of camp diseases, incident to soldiers : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing a curious account of the climate and diseases in Africa, upon the great river Senegal, and farther up than the island of Senegal : in a letter form Mr. Boone, practitioner in physic to that Garrison for three years, to Dr. Brocklesby /

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