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Title
Historia Naturale
Description
Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator
Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date
1476.
Title
Works
Description
Given to the Loganian Library in 1776 by William Logan of Bristol. Inscribed in 1553 by John Dee, first English translator of Euclid.
Creator
Euclid, creator
Date
1533
Title
Works
Description
James Logan's copy, originally bound for Henry, Prince of Wales, with his arms and feather insignia.
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, creator
Date
1602
Title
Selenographia
Description
With movable volvelles. Purchased 1955.
Creator
Hevelius, Johannes, creator
Date
1647
Title
The Homilies of Michael
Description
Ethiopian manuscript. Gift of Countess Van Cuelenbroeck, 1900.
Date
ca. 1682.
Title
Mechanick Exercises
Description
Franklin's copy of the first printer's manual. Purchased 1986.
Creator
Moxon, Joseph, creator
Date
1683
Title
The Spectator
Description
Franklin's copy; gift of Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 1801. Franklin taught himself to write by copying the style of this English periodical.
Date
1711.
Title
Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking.
Description
Benjamin Franklin's copy, given to the Library Company in 1733. In his Autobiography Franklin said that this book helped him form "an Exactness of Judgment."
Creator
Antoine Arnaud and Pierre Nicole, creator
Date
1717
Title
American Weekly Mercury
Description
Joseph Breintnall's copy, and the only known copy of the first issue.
Date
December 22, 1719.
Title
The South East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia.
Description
Oil on canvas, ca. 1720. Gift of George Mifflin Dallas. The earliest painting of a North American city, found in a London curiosity shop in 1857.
Creator
Cooper, Peter, creator
Date
ca. 1720.
Title
History of the Jews
Description
Gift of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1980.
Creator
Ben Gurion, Joseph, creator
Date
1722
Title
Air-Pump Case
Description
Built to house a gift of scientific glassware from John Penn, which Franklin used in his electrical experiments. It is the earliest surviving piece of architectural furniture in the Palladian style made in America.
Creator
Harrison, John, creator
Date
Philadelphia, 1739.
Title
Nature Prints of Leaves
Description
Provenance: Gift of his widow.
Creator
Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date
1746
Title
A Catalogue of Books
Description
Manuscript. In the Library at Westover. William Mackenzie bequest, 1828. The Library Company published a critical edition of this catalogue in 1995.
Creator
Byrd, William, creator
Date
ca. 1751.
Title
Discourses on Several Public Occasions
Description
The pencilled shelfmark, C113 N20, on the pastedown endpaper was the key to Edwin Wolf's reconstruction of Franklin's library., Provenance: Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator
Smith, William, creator
Date
1759
Title
Musiciens d'un Calinda
Description
Ink and wash drawing. Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugéne, creator
Date
ca. 1760.
Title
The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Part of Virginia and Carolina.
Description
Purchased 1823 at the sale of the library of Benjamin Smith Barton. Barton previously lent this copy to Meriwether Lewis, who took it on the famous expedition. Inscription on fly-leaf by Meriwether Lewis, Philadelphia, May 7, 1807.
Creator
Du Pratz, Antoine Simon Le Page, creator
Date
1774.
Title
Sketch of a Meschianza Costume
Description
The Meschianza was an extravagant fete orchestrated by Major André for the British officers on the eve of their withdrawal from Philadelphia., Provenance: Gift of John Fanning Watson, 1830.
Creator
André, John, creator
Date
1778.
Title
Peace, Liberty, and Independence
Description
Only known copy of the first announcement of the preliminary peace agreement ending the Revolutionary War. Anonymous gift, 1992.
Date
1783
Title
For Sale at Public Vendue
Description
Broadside announcing the post-mortem sale of the Pierre Eugene Du Simitière Collection.
Date
1785.
Title
For the Young Ladies' Academy
Description
Printed cover of an exercise book. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
[Rush, Benjamin], creator
Date
1787.
Title
U. S. Constitution
Description
First printed draft. John Dickinson's copy with his manuscript notes. Gift of Robert R. Logan, 1943.
Date
August 7, 1787
Title
Manuscript Journal
Description
Page for November 1790 listing fees charged various patients, including the family of Vice President John Adams. James Rush bequest, 1869.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, creator
Date
1790
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