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Title: Historia Naturale
Description: Mackenzie bequest, 1828.
Creator: Secundus, Caius Plinius, creator
Date: 1476.

Title: Das Buch der Schatzbehalter
Description: Purchased 1878.
Creator: [Fridolin, Stephan], creator
Date: 1491.

Title: Hortus Sanitatis
Description: Collins Collection, 1832.
Date: 1497.

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: Instructions for Sr Arthure Chicester.
Description: Manuscript on vellum. Gift of Henry Cox, 1799.
Creator: James I, creator
Date: June 5, 1614.

Title: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles.
Description: Gift of the naturalist Peter Collinson, with his manuscript notes.
Creator: Smith, John, creator
Date: 1624.

Title: Le Theatre Du Monde Ou Nouvel Atlas
Description: Bequest of Samuel Preston, 1803.
Creator: Janzoon, Willem and Jan Blaeu, creator
Date: 1644-46.

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: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a
Creator: Newton, Isaac, creator
Date: 1687

Title: William Penn's William and Mary Secretary Desk.
Description: England. Displayed at the Great Central Fair, 1864., Provenance: Gift of John Jay Smith, 1873.
Date: ca. 1700

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: Articles of Association.
Description: Manuscript on vellum.
Date: July 1, 1731

Title: Letter to Thomas Hopkinson
Description: The first order of books
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: March 31, 1732.

Title: Receipt for a Library Company share
Date: January 20, 1733

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: A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Description: The earliest extant catalogue of the Library Company; Franklin also printed broadside catalogues in 1733 and 1735, of which no copies have survived.
Date: 1741

Title: Original Charter, signed on behalf of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania.
Description: Manuscript on vellum.
Date: Maarch 25, 1742

Title: Nature Prints of Leaves
Description: Provenance: Gift of his widow.
Creator: Breintnall, Joseph, creator
Date: 1746

Title: Tin Suggestion Box
Date: ca. 1750

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: A View of the State House in Philadelphia.
Description: Engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine,
Creator: Heap, George, creator
Date: 1752

Title: Valentine Poem to Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
Description: Transcribed in Ferguson's Poemata Juvenilia. Gift of Mrs. Howard Aley, 1985.
Creator: Smith, Rev. William, creator
Date: 1759

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: Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduc'd.
Description: Only known copy; Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, creator
Date: London, 1765-1766.

Title: Bookplates of the Amicable Library, the Association Library, and the Union Library Company.
Description: These early subscription libraries were absorbed by the Library Company in 1769.
Date: 1769

Title: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of...George Whitefield.
Description: Only known perfect copy; Du Simitière Collection, 1785.
Creator: Wheatley, Phillis, creator
Date: 1770

Title: The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and The Bahama Islands.
Description: Purchased 1722.
Creator: Mark Catesby, creator
Date: 1771

Title: A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Description: With Jefferson's manuscript corrections, acquired before 1789.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, creator
Date: [1774]

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: Journal of the Proceedings of Congress.
Description: Provenance: Gift of Owen Biddle, 1779.
Creator: United States, Continental Congress., creator
Date: 1774

Title: Common Sense
Creator: Paine, Thomas, creator
Date: 1776

Title: A Chart of the Harbour of Rhode Island [from] The Atlantic Neptune
Description: This atlas was taken as a prize from a British brig and was used by the Continental Congress during the Revolution., Provenance: Gift of Joseph Parker Norris, 1824.
Creator: Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet, creator
Date: 1777

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: Leviathan, Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth.
Description: John Dickinson's copy.
Date: 1781.

Title: Library Company Loan Slip for Common Sense.
Description: Signed by George Walton.
Date: 1781.

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: Taufschein for Elisabeth Romich
Description: George Allen Collection, purchased 1959.
Date: 1786.

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: Original Cornerstone of the Library Company's Building on Fifth Street.
Date: 1789

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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