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BROADSIDE-Advertisement. We do hereby certify, That Mr. Francisco Torres, a Native of France, has brought with him some snake-stones, which he bought amongst the Spaniards, come from China, which snake stones have the Virtue of curing the Bites of any venomous or poisonous creatures. * * * * This we testify for Truth. Thos. Saquin, Wm. Hatton, & Samuel Hobert. Rhode-Island in New-England Oct. 12, 1740. Small 4to.

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This was evidently Printed at Philadelphia, as at the Bottom is the notice, "Philadelphia, April the 5th, 1743. One of Robert Jones's Sons of Merion told me, that a man, who was bit, was cured in an Hour, by applying one of these Stones to the wound. This I certify, Anthony Duche.

BROADSIDE, 1777. "In Congress, Resolved, that the Commissioners of the Loan Office be directed to receive the Bills of Credit, hitherto emitted by the States in which they respecttively hold their offices for such Sums as shall be ordered by the Commissioners of the Treasury, of the Continental Treasurer, from Time to Time for Continental purposes, within such States respectively. Charles Thomson, Secty.". With circular from Auditor-General William Govett, dated Treasury Office, Baltimore, Jan. 30, 1777. With autograph address to Thomas Smith, Commissioner for Pennsylvania. I page. Folio. Baltimore. Baltimore. Printed by M. K. Goddard, 1777.

BROADSIDE. In Congress, April 14, 1777 : Whereas, The State of Pennsylvania is threatened with Immediate Invasion, and from the adjournment of this Legislature and Executive Authorities of the Commonwealth. Resolved, That his Excellency, the President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be requested forthwith to convene the Legislature and Executive Authorities of this State, in order that PROPER MEASURES MAY be Pursued for THE DEFENSE OF THE SAME. Philadelphia. Printed by John Dunlap, 1777. Folio.

Broadside. An address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of America: "Friends and Countrymen -Three years have now passed away since the commencement of the present war-a war without parallel in the annals of mankind. On one side we behold Fraud and Violence labouring in the Service of Despotism; on the other Virtue and Fortitude supporting and establishing the Rights of human

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Nature," etc. By order of Congress, Henry Laurens, President. Folio Broadside. Philadelphia, May 9, 1778.

An excessively rare and highly interesting revolutionary broadside. BROADSIDE. To The Freemen, Citizens of Philadelphia. Signed in Philadelphia, June 16, 1773.

Complaining of the injustice of the corporation, owning the Ferry of the Schuylkill River at High Street, towards the People.

Philada.

BROADSIDE- Conclusion of Dr. Morgan's Remarks on Doctor Shippen's feeble attempts to Vindicate himself. Jany 4, 1781. Folio.

Dr. Morgan accused Dr. Shippen of malpractice in office, whilst employed in the Medical Department of the Army in the Revolution.

BROADSIDE.-Supplement to the Pennsylvania Journal No. 694, March 1706. Folio 2 pp.

Containing "A True State of the Disputes now subsisting in the Province of Pennsylvania," against Proprietary Government and in favor of Military Defence.

BROADSIDE-Philadelphia, June 10th, 1773. To My Fellow Citizens and Enemies of Despotism. Signed, Andrew Marvell.

Against the Building of Market Stalls in the Streets of Philadelphia. BROADSIDE. First Page of the Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan 7, 1764, containing The Governor's Message to The Assembly of Penna., & Benj. Franklin's answer as Speaker, in reference to the "Supply Bill" for the maintenance of his Majesty's Soldiers.

125 BROADSIDE. Fiction Found Out. To my Esteemed Friends, call'd Quakers, on occasion of two copies of Verses Printed and Subscribed W. P. Signed, Wm. Penn. Worminghurst-place, the last of the 2d Month, call'd April, 1685. Very rare. Wm. Penn's denial of the Authorship of Verses on the King, attributed to him.

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BROADSIDE. A Vindication of William Penn, Proprietary of Pennsilvania, from the late Aspersions spread abroad on purpose to Defame him. Written by Philip Lord. London, 1683.

Very rare.

Vindicating Penn from the horrible crime and misfortune of being a Roman Catholic, of which he was accused by Thos. Hicks. In poor condition.

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BROADSIDE. Forgery Detected, and Prophane Romancing Reprehended. In a Brief Account, 1st, Of Thos. Hicks, his Last Legacy to the Quakers (pretended), 2dly, Of an Idle Romance, stiled, The Quaker's Art of Courtship. London, about 1685. Folio. Soiled.

BROADSIDE. The Way to Wealth, and a Plan by which every Man May Pay his Taxes. By Richd. Saunders. Large folio. Philadelphia. Printed by Daniel Humphreys, in Spruce-Street, near the Drawbridge, N. D.

Very rare. By Benj. Franklin.

BROADSIDE. By the King. A Proclamation, For a Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving throughout the Kingdom, for His Majestie's late Victories over the Rebels. Given at our Court at Whitehall, July 11, 1685. Folio. London. Printed by the assigns of John Bill, deceased. Cut close at bottom. Very rare. Stained.

Broadside. A Proclamation of the King's Majestie's most Gracious and General Pardon. Given at our Court at Whitehall, March 10, 1685. 3 pp., large folio. London. Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1685.

King James the First's Pardon to those who took part in the late rebellion. Rare.

BROADSIDE. Contemporary Manuscript copy of a Proclamation by King Charles I, to Restrain the Spreading of false News and Licentious talkings of Matters of State and Government. Given at Whitehall, June 24, 1672. Folio.

BROADSIDE. Letter from M. Lambert, Councellor of State and of the council royal of Finance and Commerce, Comptroller general of finance to M. Jefferson, Minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the Court of Versailles. Dec. 29, 1787. 4to 4 pp. Paris, 1787.

For encouraging the Commerce of the United States of America in France.

BROADSIDE. A list of names of the Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, containing 120 names of the most prominent citizens during the Revolutionary War. About 1778. 4to. Printed.

BROADSIDE.-Reward for the Detection of the Counterfeiters of Five Dollar and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States. Philadelphia, March 28. N. Y. folio.

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On Andrew Jackson and Governor Wolf. & The Pennsylvania Farmer. Joseph Ritner, with Caricatures, engraved on Wood. Folio.

Very rare. In German.

CARICATURE. A Peep into the Anti-Federal Club: New York, Aug. 16, 1793. Large folio.

Exceedingly scarce. Democratic Clubs were formed in 1793 for the ostensible purpose of preserving_civil liberty, but for the real purpose of overawing the Government. They approved of all the excesses of the French Revolution. Washington felt these combinations as being destructive of all social order, and is supposed to have alluded to them in his farewell address, in speaking of "secret societies." They extended themselves over the whole country, and took a most active and offensive part against the Administration, assuming that "the people" had the right to dictate to the Government the measures to be pursued, and that they were The People." These Societies were attacked in various ways, in the accompanying plate by satire. They gradually became odious and disappeared.

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RARE CARICATURE BY DAVID JAMES DOVE.

CARICATURE. Labour in Vain; or, An Attempt to Wash a Black-Moor white.

Excessively rare. "Washing the Black-Moor White" is a bitter attack written on the occasion of Wm. Moore's arrest by the Assembly (of Pennsylvania) in 1757, by David James Dove. J. F. Fisher in his Early Poets, says, "I do not know that a copy of a single piece of his (Dove's) is now to be found." Dove was also a Caricaturist and one of the earliest of Philadelphia Engravers, his sketches are now a treasure to the Antiquary. See Watson's Annals, vol. 1, p. 351 and vol. 2, p. 490.

CARICATURE. Liberty Triumphant; or, the Downfall of Oppression. Folio.

Very rare. Against the Tea Tax, representing the British Nobles and East India Merchants, expressing horror and condemning and threatening the American People for destroying the Tea. The Sons of Liberty are represented by American Savages, over whom is the figure of Liberty and Fame, the former telling Fame to Trumpet their Noble Action from Pole to Pole. To the left is a representation of the Tea Ships in Boston Harbour, Etc., Etc.

RARE CARICATURE BY DAVID JAMES DOVE. CARICATURE. The Election, a Medley, Humbly Inscribed to Squire Lilliput, Professor of Scurrility. Four columns of Poetry, with large caricature as a heading. Published 1764. Large folio.

One of the Rarest of all American Caricatures Engraved by David James Dove. Published to ridicule the Pennsylvania Election of 1764, being a sarcastic and bitter at tack on the Presbyterians and Quakers. Mentions Franklin several times.

136d MAP. Plan of the Position which the Army, under Lieut. General Burgoyne took at Saratoga, on 10th Sept., 1777. Published by C. Smith. New York. Colored folio. Engraved by Martin.

136e MAP. The Engagement on the White Plains the 28th Oct., 1776, between the American and British Forces. Colored. Published by C. Smith. New York. Engraved by Martin. 4to. 136f MAP. A Plan of the Action at Breed's Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775, erroneously called Bunkers' Hill. Colored. Published by C. Smith. New York. Engraved by Martin. 4to.

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Plan of the Siege of Charlestown in South Carolina.
Published by C. Smith. New York. Folio.

Plan of the Siege of Savannah. Colored. Published by C. Smith. New York. Engraved by Martin. 4to.

1361 MAP. A Map of the River Mississippi and Territory adjacent to New Orleans, Illustrating the Military Position and Camp at Terre au Boeuf. Folio.

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PORTRAIT. William Penn, First Proprietor and Founder of Pennsylvania. Drawn by Du Simitiere from a bust in Alto. Relievo, done by Sylvanus Bevan; said to be a good likeness. Philadelphia, October, 1770. Engraved by John Hall. London, 1773. Line. Folio. Very rare.

PORTRAIT. William Penn. J. J. Barralet, Direxit, Lawson, sculp. Drawn from the original in the Loganian Library, Philadelphia, Nov., 1797. 4to. Large Paper. 22 copies.

Original Impression of the Portrait in Vol. 1 of Proud's History of Pennsylvania. These are Printed on 4to. Paper, much heavier than that in the History, and were struck off for the Author.

PORTRAIT. Nicholas Waln. Engraved by Edwin, restrike on folio sheet.

PORTRAIT. Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, of Graem Park, Philadelphia. Private Plate. Very rare. 4to.

PORTRAIT. Contemporary Pen Portrait of Robert Proud, The Historian of Pennsylvania.

CERTIFICATE OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.

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ORIGINAL PARCHMENT Certificate of John Davidson's Membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. Signed by Gen. Washington and Gen. Henry Knox, July 27, 1793. Folio.