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The Newsman's Address To His Master Customers, Author Unknown Dec 1835

The Newsman's Address To His Master Customers, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Christmas wish in verse with newspaper titles cleaverly intermingled


An Address On Education, As Connected With The Permanence Of Our Republican Institutions, Lucian Minor Jan 1835

An Address On Education, As Connected With The Permanence Of Our Republican Institutions, Lucian Minor

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A Faithful Account Of The Life, Depredations, Confession And Execution Of That Notorious And Desperate Villain John Young, The Murderer Of Mr. Richardson!, Author Unknown Aug 1834

A Faithful Account Of The Life, Depredations, Confession And Execution Of That Notorious And Desperate Villain John Young, The Murderer Of Mr. Richardson!, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Article detailing the trial and execution of John Young for killing Mr. Richardson. Also details Young's past criminal history.


Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun, (Vol. 2), Arthur Conolly Jan 1834

Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun, (Vol. 2), Arthur Conolly

Books in English

Travel description of author's overland journey from England through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan


The Moral Causes Of The Welfare Of Nations: An Oration, Delivered 1st November, 1834, In The Chapel, Before The Society Of Graduates Of The College..., J. Adams D.D. Dec 1833

The Moral Causes Of The Welfare Of Nations: An Oration, Delivered 1st November, 1834, In The Chapel, Before The Society Of Graduates Of The College..., J. Adams D.D.

Rare Books

The Rev. Jasper Adams, Episcopal minister, President of the College of Charleston, and (ex-officio) Horry Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy delivered this oration on November 1, 1834 before the Society of Graduates of the College of Charleston. Noting that moral causes of the prosperity of nations had been ignored, Rev. Adams reviews and examines the effect of morality on the advancement of nations.


Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun (Vol. 1), Arthur Conolly Dec 1833

Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun (Vol. 1), Arthur Conolly

Books in English

The author describes his overland travel from England through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan.


Historical And Descriptive Account Of Persia, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time : With A Detailed View Of Its Resources, Government, Population, Natural History, And The Character Of Its Inhabitants, Particularly Of The Wandering Tribes, Including A Description Of Afghanistan And Beloochistan, James Baillie Fraser Dec 1833

Historical And Descriptive Account Of Persia, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time : With A Detailed View Of Its Resources, Government, Population, Natural History, And The Character Of Its Inhabitants, Particularly Of The Wandering Tribes, Including A Description Of Afghanistan And Beloochistan, James Baillie Fraser

Books in English

The book includes a chapter on Afghanistan in which the author writes about he history of the country from the dethronement of Shah Shuja to the adventures of Fateh Khan. For the account of Afghanistan he used the work of Mr. Elphinstone, as well as, the facts communicated to him while in Khorasan.


Address On The Right Of Suffrage, Seth Luther Dec 1832

Address On The Right Of Suffrage, Seth Luther

Pamphlets: Contemporary Assessments of the Dorr Rebellion

No abstract provided.


Committee Room, Mollard's, Author Unknown May 1831

Committee Room, Mollard's, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

The poor are paying their share and more for the country.


Extension Of Suffrage, B. Hazard Jan 1829

Extension Of Suffrage, B. Hazard

Pamphlets: Contemporary Assessments of the Dorr Rebellion

No abstract provided.


David Cusick’S Sketches Of Ancient History Of The Six Nations (1828), David Cusick, Paul Royster (Editor & Depositor) Dec 1827

David Cusick’S Sketches Of Ancient History Of The Six Nations (1828), David Cusick, Paul Royster (Editor & Depositor)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This very early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth, written and published in English by an Indian, is valuable on that score alone. This online electronic edition (in pdf format) was transcribed from digital images of the 1828 edition in the Library of Congress. No attempt has been made to correct or regularize spelling and punctuation or to standardize the language of the original; some typographical errors have been corrected, and these are listed in the notes.

The history begins at the Creation, with the twin brothers Enigorio and Enigonhahetgea (the good spirit and evil …


Notes Geographical And Historical, Relating To The Town Of Brooklyn, In Kings County On Long-Island. (1824) An Online Electronic Text Edition., Gabriel Furman, Paul Royster (Transcriber & Depositor) Dec 1823

Notes Geographical And Historical, Relating To The Town Of Brooklyn, In Kings County On Long-Island. (1824) An Online Electronic Text Edition., Gabriel Furman, Paul Royster (Transcriber & Depositor)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Furman’s work is one of the earliest compilations of historical documents (with commentary) about an American city, in this case his native Brooklyn. It is an invaluable source of information on the early Dutch and English settlements of Brooklyn, Flatbush, Bushwick, New Lotts, Canarsie, Bedford, New Utrecht, Jamaica, and New Amsterdam, and their controversies with one another and with the Governors of New York and the crown of England. Included are original documents relative to the Indian purchases, original boundaries, water rights, ferry rights, wood rights, and forms of town government. Sections include: Situation of the Town of Brooklyn, Ancient …


Three Goddesses In Pursuit Of Paris, Author Unknown Dec 1819

Three Goddesses In Pursuit Of Paris, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Three women discovered the prettiest


South Gates, Author Unknown Jan 1815

South Gates, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Calming fears about a bank failing


Moore's Prophecies For The Year 1813, Author Unknown Dec 1812

Moore's Prophecies For The Year 1813, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Prophesies of the year 1813 in relation to Britians effort in the Napoleonic Wars.


Verses Addressed To A Certain Duke, Author Unknown Oct 1812

Verses Addressed To A Certain Duke, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

An opposition to the election of George Eden to the House of Commons.


Parody On The Bee Proffer's Honey, Author Unknown Feb 1812

Parody On The Bee Proffer's Honey, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

A woman turns down the advances of two men.


John Hobbs, John Hobbs, Author Unknown Aug 1811

John Hobbs, John Hobbs, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Details the troubled marriage of John and Jane Hobbs


Bonaparte, Author Unknown Mar 1811

Bonaparte, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Song concerning Napoleon Bonaparte and the British


The Hunting Of Chevy Chace, Author Unknown Dec 1810

The Hunting Of Chevy Chace, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Song probably describing the Battle of Otterburn during border disputes between England and Scotland


Baron Donder-Dronk-Dickdorf And Miss Quoltz, Author Unknown Mar 1810

Baron Donder-Dronk-Dickdorf And Miss Quoltz, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

No abstract provided.


The Ghost Of A Scrag Of Mutton, C. Dibdin Jan 1809

The Ghost Of A Scrag Of Mutton, C. Dibdin

Broadside Ballads: England

Moral related to the Napoleonic Wars and British might.


The Life And Surprising Adventures Of Mary Ann Talbot, In The Name Of John Taylor (1809), Mary Ann Talbot, Paul Royster (Transcribed And Edited By) Dec 1808

The Life And Surprising Adventures Of Mary Ann Talbot, In The Name Of John Taylor (1809), Mary Ann Talbot, Paul Royster (Transcribed And Edited By)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

"Comprehending an Account of her extraordinary Adventures in the Character of Foot-Boy, Drummer, Cabin-Boy, and Sailor. Also of her many very narrow Escapes in different Engagements, while in the Land and Sea Services, and of the Hardships which she suffered while under cure of the Wounds received in the Engagement under Lord Howe, June 1, 1794, &c. &c. &c."

An important document in the history of cross-dressing, transvestism, male impersonators, and women soldiers, this autobiographical narrative tells the life story of an orphan girl who was trapped into service in the British army and …


Paddy M'Shane's Seven Ages, Major Downs Apr 1807

Paddy M'Shane's Seven Ages, Major Downs

Broadside Ballads: England

Details the life of a fictional lad from Ballyporeen (Ireland)


Rosabell, John Mayne Dec 1806

Rosabell, John Mayne

Broadside Ballads: England

Details the love between a departing soldier his love, Rosabell


Five Miles Off, Author Unknown Sep 1806

Five Miles Off, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Narrative of a relationship between a man and a woman with another lover


Elijah's Mantle, Author Unknown Feb 1806

Elijah's Mantle, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

A song about Prime Minister William Pitt securing Britain's nationhood.


Lines On The Funeral Procession Of Britannia's Favorite Son, Author Unknown Dec 1805

Lines On The Funeral Procession Of Britannia's Favorite Son, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Lines on the Funeral Procession of Britannia's Favorite Son, Lord Viscount Nelson, Late Admiral of the White, Baron of Thope in the County of Norfolk, and of the Nile, Duke of Bronti in Sicily etc. who was mortally wounded in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805, and interred in St. Paul's Cathedral, with every mark of National Respect, on Thursday, January 9, 1806.


The Loyal Briton's Song, Author Unknown Jul 1803

The Loyal Briton's Song, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Verse concerning British nationalism circa the Napoleonic Wars


The Royal Stag-Hunt, J. West Dec 1802

The Royal Stag-Hunt, J. West

Broadside Ballads: England

Song concerning a merry stag (deer) hunting and honoring Kings & Queens