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The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800
by Smith, Billy G.
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780801422423
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Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 249 pp. w/ 1 map, 10 b&w plaes, and many figures and tables. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the author "re-creates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center dung the second half of the 18th century."… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Mixed Multitude: The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (American Social Experience Series)
by Schwartz, Sally
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good Plus
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- 1st Edition
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780814778739
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New York NY: New York University Press, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 396 pp. Examines how a diverse group, religiously (Quaker, Anglican, Mennonite, Moravian, Reformed, Lutheran) and ethnically (German, English, Welsh, Scotch,Swedish), coalesced into a tolerant society over the course of several decades in the Delaware Valley. Book Condition :… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Parrys of Philadelphia and New Hope: A Quaker Family's Lasting Impact on Two Historic Towns
by Ziegler, Roy
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- Near Fine
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- 2011
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- Hardcover
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- 9781450285810
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iUniverse, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author on title page. Hardcover, 135 pp. Self published. Studies the Parry family from c. 1765-1865, their influence in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and eventually Philadelphia as the city expanded. The author uses the Parry family as an example of how hard work and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Early Pennsylvania Medicine: A Representative Early American Medical History, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1682-1799
by Louise Alois Meier
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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Boyertown PA: Gilbert Printing Co., 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author, Limited Edition 753/1000. Hardcover, 264 pp. w/ 27 b&w illustrations and photos. With special emphasis on Quaker, Moravian, and Schwenkfelder physicians in colonial Pennsylvania, this work details some of the early medical practitioners and those pressed into… Read more about this item Item Price
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West Chester to 1865: that elegant & notorious place
by Harper, Douglas R
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- Very Good
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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- 9780929706115
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West Chester PA: Chester County History Society, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 767 pp. w/99 b&w illustrations and photos. Presumed 1st Edition. Significant history from Native Americans, to Quaker arrivals, the Revolutionary War (Battle of Brandywine, Valley Forge), the growth of the city, through the Civil War. Book Condition : Very Good;… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
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- No Dust Jacket
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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Philadelphia PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Book. Illus. by J. G. Chapman. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1/4 Leather hardcover with sewn-in bookmark ribbon and gilt text block. 246 pp. w/ illustrations by J.G. Chapman. Edited by John Bigelow. Book Condition : Fine; unmarked. No Dust Jacket as issued.. Item Price
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Swords & Blades of the American Revolution
by George C. Neumann
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- 1973
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- Hardcover
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Greenwich CT: Promontory Press, 1973. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Promontory Press reprint. Oversize hardcover, 288 pp. w/ 1600 illustrations. Comprehensive study of bladed weapons (bayonets, swords, polearms, knives and daggers, and axes) with 700 examples from private collections and institutions. Details tactics, production, and evolution from European and Colonial models. Book Condition : Good;… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia & Its Neighborhood
by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Horace Mather Lippincott
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- Used - Good Minus
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- Limited Edition
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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Philadelphia PA: Lippincott, 1912. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by author (Eberlein) on front free end paper. Hardcover, 366 pp. w/ c. 70 b&w plates. Green boards w/ front illustration and gilt top text block. Survey of significant Philadelphia colonial homes also delves into the different families who… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some Aspects of the Social History of Pennsylvania, 1760--1790
by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
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- 1st Edition
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- 1938
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- Paperback
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Harrisburg PA: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1938. Book. Good Minus. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover offprint, 27 pp., from the July 1938 issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Reflections on education, literature, art, and other cultural and social pursuits in Pennsylvania around the time of the Revolution.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chambersburg : Frontier Town 1730 - 1794
by Havens, Paul Swain
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- Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Chambersburg, PA: The Craft Press, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bicentennial narrative of the origin and growth of Chambersburg and Franklin County in Pennsylvania. The book begins with a young man of 21 who arrived in the Cumberland Valley...and with the earliest settlement of 1730. Blue cloth boards, white pictorial jacket,… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Image of Peace: The Penn Treaty Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin
by Blackaby, Anita D.; Showalter, Michael S.; Kashatus, William C.; Stevens, N. Lee
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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- 9780892710690
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Harrisburg PA: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1997. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Oblong softcover, 44 pp. illustrated with color and b&w plates throughout. Issued to accompany exhibit of the same name held at the Pennsylvania State Museum. Includes three essays and two additional short pieces on images of the Lenape Indians,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of William Penn Illustrated: The Founder of Pennsylvania in Pictures
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- 1st Edition
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- 1973
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Harrisburg PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1973. Book. New. Loose leaf. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Educational item published by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.20 loose leaf b&w photos accompanied by text below, on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, in an envelope. Primarily portraits of Penn, his family, leading political figures; also, several prints… Read more about this item Item Price
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Around the Oak : The Borough of Oxford, East Nottingham Township, West Nottingham Township, Upper Oxford Township, Lower Oxford Township, Elk Township
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1982
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- Paperback
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Oxford PA: Oxford Area Tricentennial and County Fair Committee, 1982. Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Side-stapled softcover, 98 pp. w/ b& w photos throughout. Oxford, Pennsylvania area observance of William Penn's arrival at Upland (Chester) in 1682. Organized geographically, covers roads, villages, churches, industries, and more icluding Hopewell Village, Lincoln University, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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General Greene (Great Commanders Series)
by Francis Vinton Greene
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- Used - Good
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- Limited Edition
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- 1893
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- Hardcover
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New York NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1893. Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Limited Edition, No. 918/1000. Library Binding, 332 pp. w/ 9 b&w illustrations and maps. Full lenght bio with focus on Greene's Revolutionary War service - Brandywine and Germantown, Quartermaster General, West Point, and command of the Southern continental forces (including… Read more about this item Item Price
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George Washington, colonial traveller, 1732-1775
by George Washington; John Clement Fitzpatrick
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- 1927
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- Hardcover
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Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 416 pp. w/ frontispiece map. Edited diary/journal entries by Washington from his childhood to just before the Declaration of Independence. Organized chronologically into sections including : A frontier Command; The Farmer Burgess; Mount Vernon Days; Western Lands; The Ohio River Journey; and more. Book… Read more about this item Item Price
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William Penn (Riverside Biographical Series)
by George Hodges
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- 1st Edition
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- 1901
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- Hardcover
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Boston MA: Houghto, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Riverside Press Biographical Series, No. 6. 140 pp. w/ b&w frontispiece portrait. Biography and assessment of Penn's "Holy Experiment". Chapters include : A Puritan Boyhood; At oxford; In France and Ireland; Persecution and Controversy; The Settlement of Pennsylvania; and more. Book… Read more about this item Item Price
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Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures (Now First Collected), 2 Volume Set
by Junius
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- 1836
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Philadelphia PA: Walker, 1836. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fair, Ex-College Library. set commonly known as Woodfall's Junius. Title continues "To Which Are Added His Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes and His Private Letters Addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall." Reflections and exhortations on politics in England around the time of the American Revolution.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Picket Post : A Record of Patriotism (Bi-Centennial Issue 1976)
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- 1976
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Valley Forge PA: Valley Forge Historical Society, 1976. Journal. Good. Softcover (Side-stapled). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This special Bi-centennial issue includes brief biographical summaries of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, an article on the Battle of Brandywine, and a detailed record of the first annual celebration (held in 1828) of the Valley Forge encampment. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flame : A Pageant in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of Washington's Birth
by Miller, Helen L. and Beulah M. Bradley
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- Used - Good Plus
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- Probable First Edition
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- 1932
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- Paperback
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York PA: York Chamber of Commerce, 1932. Book. Good Plus. Softcover (Side-stapled). Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Program for Washington Bicentennial Pageant in York PA on July 4, 1932. Includes dialogue and song lyrics. Book Condition : Good+; some light creasing to paper edges; small area of spotting on front cover; otherwise in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bi-Centennial Celebration commemorating the Birth of George Washington 1732 - 1932. Reading and Berks County
by Nolan, J. Bennett (intro)
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- 1932
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Reading County, Pennsylvania: Bi-Centennial Committee, 1932. Book. Good Plus. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A program for activities taking place in 1932 to celebrate George Washington. Includes a biographical sketch, Washington's two visits to Berks County, Reading and Berks County in early American history, and the names of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Berks County. Lists officers… Read more about this item Item Price
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