Poor Richard's Books: An Exhibition of Books Owned by Benjamin Franklin Now on the Shelves of the Library Company of PhiladelphiaThe Library Company of Phil, 1990 - 32 sivua |
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American Philosophical Society Athenaeum of Philadelphia B.F. Bache Bache list Bache sale Benjamin Franklin Bache bequeathed bequest in 1828 Books for B.F. bought from Dufief collection colonial America Company of Philadelphia Duane pamphlets Dufief by William edition EDWARD NAIRNE Edwin Wolf Elias Ashmole estate in 1828 Franklin books Franklin bought Franklin Institute Franklin provenance Franklin wrote Franklin's library French given by Zachariah indication of Franklin Jefferson JOSEPH MOXON l'Imprimerie letter List of Books London Mackenzie bequest Magna Carta Manasseh Cutler marginal notes mark Paris pencilled Philadelphia in 1822 political pamphlets Poor Richard's Books Poulson in 1801 Printed Printer purchased by BF Purchased from Dufief purchased from William Ralph sale reconstruction of Franklin's Royal Society shelf shelfmark Shelfmark C61 shelves Shipley signature table of contents Temple Franklin's hand title-page titles tracts purchased Uncle Benjamin Unorthodox Jigsaw Puzzle vols volume of tracts William Duane William Mackenzie's estate William Temple Franklin Wolf found
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Sivu 20 - Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Sivu 7 - After it was dark, we went into the house, and the Doctor invited me into his library, which is likewise his study. It is a very large chamber, and high studded. The walls were covered with book-shelves filled with books ; besides, there are four large alcoves, extending two-thirds of the length of the Chamber, filled in the same manner. I presume this is the largest, and by far the best, private library in America.
Sivu 19 - An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...
Sivu 16 - Full many a peevish, envious, slanderous elf Is, in his works, benevolence itself. For all mankind, unknown, his bosom heaves; He only injures those with whom he lives.
Sivu 31 - Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick. An Ode wrote in honour of St. Cecilia by Mr. Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr. Handel.
Sivu 23 - PREDICTIONS for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as they will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being further impos'd on by vulgar almanackmakers.
Sivu 30 - Fasciculus Chemicus: or, Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science, out of the Choisest and most Famous Authors.
Sivu 21 - The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted, in the Tryal of William Penn, and William Mead, at the Sessions held at the Old-Baily in London, the first, third, fourth and fifth of Sept.
Sivu 24 - Bp. of St. Asaph, A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Feb.
Sivu 20 - The Very Copy of a Paper Delivered to the Sheriffs upon the Scaffold on TowerHill, on Friday December 7. 1683. By Algernon Sidney, Esq; Before his Execution there.
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