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Society of the Sons of St. George records [Vol. 1: 1772 meeting minutes]
The Society of the Sons of Saint George was organized in Philadelphia in 1772 for the purpose of "giving advice and assistance" to Englishmen in distress. Included here are: minute books, 1772-1949; stewards' records, 1861-1938; treasurers' account…
Society of the Sons of St. George records [Vol. 2: 1815 meeting minutes]
The Society of the Sons of Saint George was organized in Philadelphia in 1772 for the purpose of "giving advice and assistance" to Englishmen in distress. Included here are: minute books, 1772-1949; stewards' records, 1861-1938; treasurers' account…
Foreign pauperism in Philadelphia : a memorial to the legislature of Pennsylvania exhibiting reasons for the amendment of certain laws in relation to the poor and to foreign emigrants, with the bill annexed
"Resolved, that H.A. Stephens, Esq. be requested to prepare a memorial and bill to be presented to the legislature of Pennsylvania, praying that some provision may be made for defraying the travelling expenses of destitute emigrants into the…
Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland [membership certificate] [graphic] / J. J. Barralet invet. et delt.; H. Houston sculpt.
Membership certificate for the relief society, later the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, organized in Philadelphia in 1771. A large central oval contains an allegorical scene showing the classical figures of Hope, Columbia, and Concordia near a column…
Nicolai Fontani Commentarius in Sebastianum Austrium, medicum Cæsareum, De puerorum morbis. : In frontispicia adjecti Aphorismi Hippocratis, noviter natorum adfectus enarrantes. [annotations]
Library Company copy inscribed: Henr: Vaughan Siluris Balus mea ex Agno. With his ms. notes on preliminary blank leaves.
Hermanni Grube de arcanis medicorum : non arcanis commentatio ex inventis recentiorum Harvejanis, Bartholinianis, Sylvianis, Willisianis & ceteris in gratiam tyronum breviter concinnata, observationibus nonnullis illustrata, & tota ad praxin medicam directa : cui praefixa Thomae Bartholini de transplantatione morborum epistola. [annotations]
Library Company copy inscribed: Vaughan [i.e., Henry Vaughan]; includes one page of manuscript note on blank leaf following text. This copy also contains Grube’s Analysis mali citrei compendiosa (Copenhagen, 1668) inserted following Bartholin’s De…
Hercules medicus; sive, Locorum communium liber ex probatissimis autoribus laborioso studio collectus, propriisque observationibus & experientiâ confirmatus & illustratus ... Nunc denuò ex autoris autographo recognitus, locisque innumeris auctus, nec non consiliis aliquot, ac sub finem annexâ etiam ipsi olim Medicationum familiarium farragine locupletatus, ac ... in lucem editus. [annotations]
Library Company has v. 1 only; inscribed: Vaughan [i.e., Henry Vaughan]; manuscript note on p. 322.