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  • A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings / by Jesse Torrey, Jun. physician, author of a series of essays on morals and the diffusion of knowledge.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.
    • 1817
    • 3 Items

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    Text SEKK (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery)Offsite
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    Text SEKK (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery)Offsite
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    Text Sc Rare 326.4-T (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery. 1817)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • The Prize for youthful obedience.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Published by Jacob Johnson, no. 147 Market Street, 1807.
    • 1807
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KH 1807 Prize 11-129 pt. 2Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [electronic resource] : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return to Europe; with notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home; being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; [t]he port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam; the coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knigh of the Bath, His Majesty's embassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. By Sir George Staunton, Baronet. Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Oxford, fellow of the Royal Society of London, His Majesty's secretary of embassy to the Emperor of China, and minister plenipotentiary in the absence of the embassador. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].

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    • Philadelphia : Printed for Robert Campbell, by John Bioren, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Resource

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  • A history of the life and death, virtues and exploits, of General George Washington. [electronic resource] : Faithfully taken from authentic documents, and, now, in a second edition improved, respectfully offered to the perusal of his countrymen; as also, all others who wish to see human nature in its most finished form. Price, 25 cents. [Four lines of verse] By the Rev. M.L. Weems, of Lodge No. 50--Dumfries.

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    • Philadelphia : Re-printed by John Bioren, no. 83 Chesnut Street, for the author. (Entered according to law.), [1800?]
    • 1800
    • 1 Resource

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  • Description of the principles and plan of proposed establishments of salt works [electronic resource] : for the purpose of supplying the United States with home made salt. By James Fennell.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
    • 1798
    • 1 Resource

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  • A collection of songs, selected from the works of Mr. Dibdin [electronic resource] : To which are added, the newest and most favourite American patriotic songs. [Six lines of quotations].

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Printed by J. Bioren for H. & P. Rice, and sold by J. Rice, Baltimore, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Resource

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  • New views of the origin of the tribes and nations of America / by Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., correspondent-member of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, member of the American Philosophical Society, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, corresponding member of the Masschusetts Historical Society, and professor of materia medica, natural history and botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.

    • Text
    • [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1797]
    • 1797
    • 1 Resource

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