Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Cabinetmaker's Account
Author: Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9780871692719
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9780871692719
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.
The Worcester Account
Author: Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
Publisher: Chandler House Press
ISBN: 9780963627797
Category : Dramatists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fond look back at a time gone by - a personal account of a writer's coming-of-age in immigrant America.
Publisher: Chandler House Press
ISBN: 9780963627797
Category : Dramatists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fond look back at a time gone by - a personal account of a writer's coming-of-age in immigrant America.
The king of pirates, being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, with lives of other pirates and robbers
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
Author: Elphinstone Mountstuart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
The Rhetorlogue
Author: John Demosthenes N. Ruffin
Publisher:
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
An Account of the Life of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson
Author: John Richardson
Publisher:
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An Account of the Tribes on the Neilgherries by J. Shortt, and a Geographical and Statistical Memoir of the Neilgherry Mountains by Colonel Ouchterlony
Author: John Shortt (Botanist?)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
British Conchology, Or an Account of the Mollusca which Now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas
Author: John Gwyn Jeffreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Zingali, Or an Account of the Gipsies of Spain with a Collection of Her Songs
Author: Borrow
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Historical Memoirs, Relating to the Housatunnuk Indians: Or, An Account of the Methods Used, and Pains Taken, for the Propagation of the Gospel Among that Heathenish-tribe, and the Success Thereof, Under the Ministry of the Late Reverend Mr. John Sergeant
Author: Samuel Hopkins
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description