Harvard College Master of Arts diploma of Samuel Mather, 1701 July 3

This diploma was awarded to Samuel Mather on July 3, 1701, when he received an A.M. from Harvard College. It is signed by Increase Mather (then-President of Harvard), Samuel Willard, Henry Flynt, Jabez Fitch, and Nathaniel Saltonstall.

Laws made and past by William Penn: Absolute Proprietary and Governour in Chief of the province of Pennsylvania and territories thereunto belonging, with the advice and consent of the freemen thereof in genrall assembly met at Newcastle...1700....and [as amended] at Philadelphia...1701

Contains one of the few original copies of Penn's laws as first passed and as revised and extended in the following year. During the interval between the two Assemblies, while Penn was absent in England, the first series of laws were found to be impracticable, and new amendments were made for which Penn had no choice but to agree to.

The royal charter of King Charles the Second to William Penn, esquire, proprietor of the province of Pennsylvania, 1701

A copy of the charter giving William Penn land in the colonies. Also contains Penn's "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America", the laws he established, and the charter of the city of Philadelphia.

Compendium logica in quatuor partes, 1701

Small hardcover notebook containing a manuscript copy of William Brattle's abstract of René Descartes' "Compendium Logicae" copied in Latin by Harvard student Joseph Metcalf between April 29th and May 7th, 1701. The text includes an ornately decorated title page and drawings and notes on the flyleaves. The covers are unattached. The inside front cover is inscribed: "Joseph Burbeen Walker 1845."

The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.

Bibliography: p. 312-325.

Anales eclesiásticos y seculares de la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de Sevilla metrópoli de la Andalucía, que contienen las más principales memorias desde el año de 1701... hasta el de 1800... Continuación de los que formó D. Diego Ortiz de Zuñiga hasta en ano de 1671 y siguió hasta el de 1700 D. Antonio M. aEspinosa y Cárcel.

Mode of access: Internet.

Two centuries' growth of American law, 1701-1901 : by members of the faculty of the Yale law school.

Mode of access: Internet.

Records relating to the early history of Boston ...

Editors: 1876-1890, W. H. Whitmore and W. S. Appleton, record commissioners; 1893-1896, W. H. Whitmore, city registrar; 1894, W. S. Appleton; 1898, E. W. McGlenen; 1900-1909, E. W. McGlenen, city registrar; 1903 (v. 32) W. H. Whitmore, W. K. Watkins, and E. W. McGlenen.

Archaelogic and historic fragments. Containing, inter alia, a facsimile of a rare ms. page dated 1638, having reference to two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, with notes thereon.

On a ms. list of plays of the year 1638. -- Sir Anthony Browne, standard bearer to king Henry VIII, and his descendants. -- On the source and nomenclature of the river Thames. -- On Sir Philip Sidney and his father, Sir Henry Sidney, in relation to Ludlow castle. -- Episodes in the career of Humphrey duke of Gloucester, and his first duchess, and their connection with the abbey of St. Albans. -- On the involuntary visit of Philip of Austria and Juana of Spain to Weymouth in 1506, and its consequences. -- Recuiver, the Regulbium of the Romans. -- Appendix.

New Sweden, 1638-1938:

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Newfields, New Hampshire, 1638-1911,

Mode of access: Internet.

Ludovici Carterii vocontii ... Iusta expostulatio de P.M. Xantes Mariales Ord. Praedicatorum, authore Bibliothecae interpretum ad Summam D. Th. quatuor voluminibus distinctae, Venetiis editae ann. 1660 & per antichronismum anno 1638.

Mode of access: Internet.

Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Am��rique m��ridionale : depuis la côte de la Mer du sud, jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil & de la Guyane, en descendant la rivière des Amazones /

Incluye referencias bibliográficas.