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Clement Humphreys papers [Vol. 2]
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The papers of Clement Humphreys, agent to France during the John Adams administration, include: Humphreys' letter book, 1798, containing material on his official missions, with detailed accounts of events; "list of Staple Articles of Commerce between…
Clement Humphreys papers [Vol. 1]
The papers of Clement Humphreys, agent to France during the John Adams administration, include: Humphreys' letter book, 1798, containing material on his official missions, with detailed accounts of events; "list of Staple Articles of Commerce between…
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…
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.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania schoolbook collection [Am. 8240 Susannah Barton]
This collection is comprised of 34 volumes of miscellaneous school notebooks and texts, mainly mathematics, bookkeeping, surveying, French lessons...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Society small collection [Box 8 (Co-Cu), folder 3, Cobbett to Senate & House of Reps of PA (Petition), Jan 2, 1819]
This is an artificial collection created by HSP staff, containing manuscript materials from many sources. The collection is arranged alphabetically and primarily by individual, but unlike the "flat" collection, is far smaller in extent. Within this…
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…
Hannah Griffitts papers [Box One, "Nature of Reason, 1775" Yi 2 7422 F42]
Collection of verses, primarily religious and reflective in nature, by Hannah Griffitts of Philadelphia, often signed "Fidelia." Many of the poems were written on the anniversary of her parents' deaths. There are also miscellaneous letters and some…