Historical nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana or A descriptive account of my collection of rare books relating to America, H. Stevens (and H.N. Stevens).

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Página 596 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Página 544 - Essay on the Constitutional Power of GREAT-BRITAIN over the Colonies in AMERICA; with the RESOLVES of the COMMITTEE for the Province of PENNSYLVANIA, and their INSTRUCTIONS to their REPRESENTATIVES in Assembly.
Página 763 - A poetical epistle to His excellency George Washington, Esq. commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, from an inhabitant of the state of Maryland.
Página 734 - Fittest to Decide, whether a connection with, or a separation from the Continental Colonies of America, be most for the National Advantage, and the lasting benefit of these Kingdoms.
Página 685 - An: 1584 to this present 1626. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine John Smith sometymes Governour in those Countryes & Admirall of New England.
Página 570 - A LETTER addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the affairs of North America : in which the mistakes in the Abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up.
Página 654 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Página 685 - The Atrocities of the Pirates; being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the Pirates of the Island of Cuba; with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of those Inhuman Freebooters. By Aaron Smith (Who was himself afterwards tried at the Old Bailey as a Pirate, and acquitted).
Página 616 - Proud (Robert). 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 \V.
Página 771 - Nevv-Fovnd-Land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. TOGETHER WITH THE LAYING OPEN OF CERTAINE ENORMITIES and abuses committed by some that trade to that Country, and meanes laide downe for reformation thereof.

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