The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version ; with notes by Tobias Smollett, rev. and modernized ; new translations by William F. Fleming and an introd. by Oliver H. G. Leigh. A critique and biography /

At head of title: Edition säns soucï.

The dramatic works and poems of James Shirley, now first collected : with notes by the late William Gifford, esq., and additional notes, and some account of Shirley and his writings /

v. 1. Some account of Shirley and his writings. Commendatory verses on Shirley. Love tricks, or, The school of complement. The maid's revenge. The brothers. The witty fair one. The wedding.--v. 2. The grateful servant. The traitor. Love's cruelty. Love in a maze. The bird in a cage. Hyde park.--v. 3. The ball. The young admiral. The gamester. The example. The opportunity. The coronation.--v. 4. The lady of pleasure. The royal master. The duke's mistress. The doubtful heir. St. Patrick for Ireland. The constant maid. The humorous courtier.--v. 5. The gentleman of Venice. The politician. The imposture. The cardinal. The sisters. The court secret.--v. 6. Honoria and Mammon. Chabot, admiral of France. The Arcadia. The triumph of peace. A contention for honour and riches. The triumph of beauty. Cupid and death. The contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the armour of Achilles. Poems.

Sir William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts, 1692 to 1694.

Read before the Maine Historical Society at Portland, May 15, 1879.

"An attentive Ear, a watchful Eye, and a Calm judicious Pen": William Samuel Johnson, the Colonial Agents, and the Transformation of the British Atlantic World

By looking at Great Britain and the American colonies in conjunction with the larger British Atlantic Empire, historians can better understand the political, social, and cultural transformations that occurred when transatlantic actors met. William Samuel Johnson is an example of an "ordinary" agent who nonetheless had extensive contacts with numerous British and American thinkers. While acting on Connecticut's behalf in London between 1767 and 1771, he sent reports back to Connecticut governors Jonathan Trumbull and William Pitkin on parliamentary proceedings while corresponding with the people who traveled around the Atlantic world during this critical period-merchants, seafarers, emigrants, soldiers, missionaries, radicals and conservatives, reformers, and politicians. He is also representative of the late eighteenth-century empire writ large. Agents, who had once been a source of stability in the far-flung colonies, became a destabilizing force as confusion and conflict grew over conceptual ideas of what constituted "the empire" and who was included in it. Johnson was a sane observer in the midst of the ideological and administrative upheaval of the 1760's and 1770's. His subsequent loyalism and political obscurity during the war years was in many ways a result of his attempts to reconcile various factional interests during his tenure as an agent. Although he did his best to resolve these divisions and provide an accurate account of the powerful nationalistic forces gathering on both sides of the Atlantic on the eve of the American Revolution, the agents' collective failures as transatlantic mediators helped bring about the collapse of an imperial community. This disintegration had dramatic effects on the whole of the Atlantic world.

Enchiridion ethicum ad theses contractiores redactum in usum pupillorum, p. D. J. L., 1694

Forty-six-page notebook in modern hardcover binding containing John Leverett's edited version of Henry More's "Enchiridion ethicum" transcribed in Latin in 1694. The last page of the document includes entries in Leverett's hands: "Colom // January 17 1690/1," "Winth // January 31 1692/3", and "Vaug // Marty 10 1695/6." The inscriptions and notes likely refer to Benjamin Colman (Harvard AB 1692), Adam Winthrop (Harvard AB 1694), and George Vaughn (Harvard AB 1696).

Letter book : manuscript, 1764-1771

Tryon's official letter book containing copies of letters and documents relating to his work as colonial governor of North Carolina; with references concerning drawing a boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina; talks with the Cherokee Indians; the establishment of a postal service; working with the Propagation of the Gospels in Foreign Parts; establishing the Church of England in North Carolina; strengthening the defenses of the colony; maintaining better communication with Great Britain; and other events.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1806 March 31

Two folio-sized leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley discussing world geography and asking for news about the African expedition of Scottish explorer Mungo Park (1771-1806).

Bill, 1771 August 23

Handwritten bill from William Manning to Sarah Bordman for "mending shoes for her negro Cato," from May 9, 1770 to July 4, 1770. Payment acknowledged on verso by William Manning, August 23, 1771.

The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version with notes /

Accompanied by: Voltaire, index to his works, genius, and character / by Oliver H.G. Leigh. 302 p.

History of Paris, Maine, from its settlement to 1880, with a history of the grants of 1736 & 1771, together with personal sketches, a copious genealogical register and an appendix.

"Genealogical registers" : p. 491-778.

The history of England, from the first invasion by the Romans to the accession of William and Mary in 1688.

Mode of access: Internet.

Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssynie, pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 /

El tomo 14 es: Quatre voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie, en 1777, 1778 & 1779 / par... William Paterson. Es la traducción de la obra cuya primera edición es : A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottents and Caffraria / by William Paterson. - London : printed for J. Johnson, 1789.