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Ciphering Book of a Colonial Schoolboy. by EVANS, CADWALLADER (sic) - 6 April – 26 July 1763

by EVANS, CADWALLADER (sic)

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Ciphering Book of a Colonial Schoolboy.

by EVANS, CADWALLADER (sic)

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[Philadelphia, PA], 6 April – 26 July 1763. Cardboard covers. Good +. Sm. Folio. Original red linen cover on boards with author’s initials ‘C.E.’ in black on front cover; wear and minor loss along edges; ink stains on worn covers. Collation: [37] leaves of brown and black ink manuscript text and diagrams with numerous exercises. These include Geometry and Trigonometry (leaves 1-6); land surveying (leaves 7-19); and plain, traverse, oblique, Mercator sailing (leaves 20-37). Abundant with many rather sophisticated and detailed drawings in ink and watercolor, including caricatures, peacocks and various other fowls, and mariners' compasses; also includes one fold-map in ink and watercolor depicting an imagined topography. Attractively toned throughout, with some original ink bleed-through, text block shaken, final three leaves loose with some chipping and minor loss of text. Inscribed by the (presumed) teenaged author on front pastedown.

The Cadwalader family had a number of prominent members some politicians and others physicians and surgeons. Dr. Evans Cadwalader (1716-1773), presumably father of the writer of this manuscript was a Philadelphia physician and friend of Benjamin Franklin.
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  • Date Published 6 April – 26 July 1763
American Psychological Association: A Historical Perspective
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American Psychological Association: A Historical Perspective

by Evans; Sexton; American Psychological Association; Evans, Rand B [Editor]; Sexton, Virginia Staudt [Editor]; Cadwallader, Thomas C [Editor];

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American Psychological Association (APA). hardcover. Good. 115x16x164. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. RF tag removed from the back of the book which took some paper with it. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
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A Big Family; Being a collection of tales, anecdotes, and sketches concerning the ancestry, the...
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A Big Family; Being a collection of tales, anecdotes, and sketches concerning the ancestry, the upbringing, the education, and the diversions of the family of Cadwallader Evans and Margaret Brown Evans, as they grew up in Pittsburgh in the decades following 1872

by Evans, Cadwallader; Margaret Brown Evans; Henry Harrison Null, III

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1945. First edition. Paperback. Good. First edition, 1945. Not much publication information. Softcover, 86 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, straining to the front inner hinge, a bit of discoloration to the covers, edges of the covers with wear including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss. Uncommon book.
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100 Years. American Psychological Association: A Historical Perspective

100 Years. American Psychological Association: A Historical Perspective

by Evans, Rand B., Viriginia Staudt Sexton, and Thomas C. Cadwallader, Editors

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Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1993 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 415 pp. Photographs, references, index. Very minor bump to the bottom corner of the rear board. The jacket has some minor edgecreasing, light rubbing to spine ends and top and bottom of flap folds. Near Fine/Very Good.
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A Big Family; Being a collection of tales, anecdotes, and sketches concerning the ancestry, the...

A Big Family; Being a collection of tales, anecdotes, and sketches concerning the ancestry, the upbringing, the education, and the diversions of the family of Cadwallader Evans and Margaret Brown Evans, as they grew up in Pittsburgh in the decades following 1872

by Evans, Cadwallader; Margaret Brown Evans; Henry Harrison Null, III

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1945. First edition. Paperback. Good. First edition, 1945. Not much publication information. Softcover, 86 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, straining to the front inner hinge, a bit of discoloration to the covers, edges of the covers with wear including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss. Uncommon book (only 3 copies on OCLC).
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A STATEMENT OF EXPERIMENTS UPON THE TEMPERATURE OF STEAM, THE OPERATIONS OF THE COMMON SAFETY...

A STATEMENT OF EXPERIMENTS UPON THE TEMPERATURE OF STEAM, THE OPERATIONS OF THE COMMON SAFETY VALVE, AND UPON GOVERNMENT ALLOYS: with a Description of a Newly Invented Safety Valve, &c

by EVANS, Cadwallader

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Pittsburgh, [PA]: Keenan & Hopkins, 1854. First edition. 21 cm. 36 pp. Extensively illustrated. Disbound. Scattered foxing. OCLC: Univ. of MI, NC State at Raleigh, Lib. Company, Lib. of Congress, Cincinnati & Hamilton Cnty Pub Lib.
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A TREATISE ON THE CAUSES OF EXPLOSIONS OF STEAM BOILERS, WITH PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR...
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A TREATISE ON THE CAUSES OF EXPLOSIONS OF STEAM BOILERS, WITH PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR PREVENTION: to which is added A Description of Evans' Improved Safety Guard, or Engineers' Assistant

by EVANS, Cadwallader

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Pittsburgh, [PA]: Printed by William H. Whitney, Third Street, 1850. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 71 pp., folding frontispiece of the Evans' Improved Safety-Guard. Scarce. OCLC locates only 5 copies: Linda Hall Lib., LOC, Univ. of MI, Pub. Lib. of Cincinnati, Lib. Co. of Phila.
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