An historie for young & olde about the beginnings of paper-making : including the founders, in America, with histories of their lives & illustrations, with especial reference to William Rittenhouse. From many worthy sources

You might also be interested in

• Image not available

  Trajan : the history of a sentimental young man, with some episodes in the comedy of many lives' errors, a novel

  Rare Books

  320038

• Image not available

  The history of the Saracens; : comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the eleventh caliph. With an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, revolts, &c collected from authentic sources, especially Arabis mss

  Rare Books

  635459

• Image not available

  The history of the Sevarites or Sevarambi: : a nation inhabiting part of the third continent, commonly called, Terrae australes incognitae. With an account of their admirable government, religion, customs, and language. Written by one Captain Siden, a worthy person, who, together with many others, was cast upon those coasts, and lived many years in that country

  Rare Books

  142768

• Image not available

  The pageant of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire ; being a lively account of that ancient town in Great Britain: its beginning and its later history: in especial those ... events that marked the great siege and surrender, in ... 1646, of its ... castle. Set forth ... from divers ... records

  Rare Books

  223553

• Image not available

  The history of the Turks. : Describing the rise and ruin, of their first empire in Persia; the original of their second. Containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors, from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683. Being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners; with what else is worthy of note, in that great empire

  Rare Books

  348013

• Image not available

  The marrow of ecclesiastical history, : divided into two parts: the first, containing the life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ; with the lives of the ancient fathers, school-men, first-reformers, and modern divines. The second, containing the lives of Christian emperors, kings and sovereign princes. Whereunto are added the lives of inferiour Christians, who have lived in these latter centuries. And lastly, are subjoyned the lives of many of those, who by their vertue and valor obtained the sir-name of Great. Divers of which, give much light to sundry places of Scripture; especially to the prophecies concerning the four monarchies. Together with the lively effigies of the most eminent of them cut in copper. The third edition, corrected and somwhat enlarged

  Rare Books

  434542