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Prospectus of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Oil Company of Pennsylvania.
[142600] (PENNSYLVANIA - OIL - PETROLEUM HISTORY) [The Company].
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. Octavo, 7, [1, blank] pages. First Edition. Original printed wraps, letterpress printing. Former vertical crease line down covers and pages, lightly soiled, else near fine. OCLC locates three copies. The year of 1864 culminated in a critical mass of speculation and oil fever that dominated the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio. With the success of Cherry Run and Pithole Creek, early joint stock companies organized and the rush to purchase drilling sites in the region began [Williamson & Daum, pp. 120-124]. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Oil Company of Pennsylvania was situated in Venango county, Pennsylvania and Morgan county, Ohio. This prospectus describes five properties held by the company and their glowing characteristics. A capital stock of one million dollars is listed as are 100,000 shares available at ten dollars apiece. $300
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1825 American Seaman's Protection Certificate for Thomas Hill.
[141330] (PENNSYLVANIA - PHILADELPHIA - NAVAL HISTORY) [Richard Renshaw].
: , . DS. April 25, 1825. Philadelphia. 6½ x 7¾ inches. Old stains to document, else good. Partly-printed document signed with manuscript accomplishments identifying an American seaman name Thomas Hill (1807? - ?) as being an American sailor and a resident of Philadelphia. Witnessed by Samuel Halverstadt and attested to by Richard Renshaw. Renshaw autographs the document in his capacity of notary public in the Southwark District of Philadelphia. This certificate served to protect American sailors such as Thomas Hill from impressment by the navies of other countries. $75
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 Snarl of a Cynic: A Rhyme. By a Pennsylvania Teuton.
[141499] (PENNSYLVANIA - POETRY) Benneville Ottomar Hoffman.
Ephrata: P. Martin Heitler, 1868. 24mo, 40 pages. First Edition. Original cloth-backed spine and printed yellow boards. Title page browned as seems endemic with this book. Covers with mild overall soiling. Internally, a very good clean copy. This self-professed “obscure county printer” offers this work as original rhyming by a “Pennsylvania Dutch” American. $45
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 Ingratitude. A Political Murder in Pennsylvania Unparalled in Politics, when John P. Elkins, was Dropped by Quay. The Working of the Quay Machine.
[141930] (Pennsylvania - Political Bosses) [Anon.].
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [n.d. ca. 1902]. Octavo, 15 pages. First Edition? Self-wraps, stapled binding. Light soiling to wraps; very good. Hyperbolic-drenched political pamphlet slamming Boss Quay during the 1902 campaign season on Pennsylvania for the governorship nomination by Republicans. Not on OCLC. $85
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 1763 Quaker Marriage Certificate for Thomas Hall and Sarah Holland. [Goshen Meeting House, Chester County, Pennsylvania.]
[140902] (PENNSYLVANIA - QUAKERS - CHESTER COUNTY) [Thomas Hall & Sarah Holland] .
: , . [Goshen Meeting House, Chester County, Pennsylvania., 1763.] 1763 Quaker marriage certificate entirely in manuscript, executed on laid paper, approx. 15" x 12½", recording the marriage of Thomas Hall of Williston and Sarah Holland, widow of John Holland of Whitehead. Over fifty other members of the meeting house have signed the certificate and represent many familiar Quakers names of the region: Hoopes, Garrett, Hibberd, Griffith, Smedley, Ashbridge, Todhunter, Beale, Towsend, etc. Normal folds, now with expert mends. $200
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A Report Relative to the Survey of a Rail Road from Chambersburg to Pittsburg, and the Survey of the Raystown branch of Juniata river, with estimates of the cost of the work ... A Report of a Survey and estimate of the cost of constructing
[142819] (PENNSYLVANIA - RAILROAD - ENGINEERING HISTORY) Hother Hage [and] Charles de Hass.
Harrisburg: Printed by E. Guyer, 1839. Octavo, original printed wraps, stitched, [1-3], 4-122, (4, blank) pages. First Edition. AI 57832. Goldsmiths'-Kress 31079.18 OCLC, one physical copy only. Front wrapper detached, dust-soiled, and with chipping causing loss to first two words in title; a good number of pages curled at corners. Over two hundred and fifty mind-numbing “sections” of the survey are detailed with their proposed methods of excavation, method of embankment, need for bridges or drainage and cost, etc. are detailed: e.g. “A rough bluff continues for the first third of a mile; for the remainder of the section the towing-path will necessarily be made on a gravely beach, lying low and requiring much embankment. The grubbing is light. On this section their will be a dam....” Early Pennsylvania rail road engineering that began to muscle in on the paradigm of canal networks. $350
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A Memorial for the Repeal of All Sunday laws. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. [Caption title]
[142200] (PENNSYLVANIA - RAILROAD - SUNDAY LAWS) William Logan Fisher.
[Philadelphia?]: [s.n.], [1850]. 12mo, 12 pages. First Edition. Orig. pale green unprinted wraps, sewn. Contemporary presentation inscription to Eli K. Price from E.M. Davis to front wrap. Very good clean condition. OCLC finds one copy. William Logan Fisher (1781-1862), Quaker, Philadelphia woolen merchant and partner in the Duncannon Iron Works. Among his arguments against Sunday laws and their constitutionality (of which Fisher wrote notably upon) Fisher argues that the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company’s decision to close its lines on Sunday jeopardized the safety of citizens who were unable to traverse the roads. Fisher also notes the railroad company's monopoly and has other anti-railroad sentiments. $45
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Plain Talk: Consisting of Questions for the Clergy; Comparing the Teachings of Christ! As Recorded in the Four Gospels, with the Teachings of Our Evangelical Ministers, on the Subjects of Works and Atonement: By Their Patient Listeners and
[142628] (PENNSYLVANIA - RELIGION) [Anon.].
Titusville [Pennsylvania]: Long Roll Book and Job Print., 1870. 16mo, orig printed wraps, stitched, [1-3], 39 pages. First Edition. Some chipping to spine, foxing, good. Unlisted on OCLC. An unrecorded Titusville, Pennsylvania imprint; an anonymous effort. We can find no recorded efforts attributed to the press of the Long Roll Book and Job Print. [ers] of Titusville, Pennsylvania. Created by oil and railroad, Titusville was a boom town that made millionaires overnight. $125
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The Word of God, Systematical and Daily.
[140950] (PENNSYLVANIA - SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY?) [Rev. G.C.H. Hasskarl] .
[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania?]: , [Copyrighted 1883 by the author Rev. G.C.H. Hasskarl]. 15½ x 6 inches. A large ribbed silk ribbon bookmark [?] with gold metal-thread tassels along the top, perhaps for a quarto family bible. Each side is printed in blue ink with a grid chart showing vertical religious events during the seasons, with horizontal and tabular column headings for the days of the week. Each intersecting block then shows a passage from the Bible to be studied, i.e. Heb. 4: 1-11, Rev. 19: 1-9, etc. One side is noted for morning prayer studies, the other for evening. A curious and possibly unique production. There is overall mild to moderate soiling to the cloth and small stains. Reverend Gottlieb Christopher Henry Hasskarl (1855-1929) was a graduate of the Philadelphia Seminary and Gettysburg College. Hasskarl seems to have earned his reputation for his classification of blacks as subhumans. His work entitled “What of the Negro race?” quickly received a retort from local Chambersburg Pastor B.J. Bolding, a black minister, entitled, “What of the Negro race? : Bolding vs. Hasskarl.” Hasskarl also authored a work entitled, “Missing Link, or the Negro's Ethnological Status.” (1898). [Richards, “Closing the Door to Destitution...” p. 70. ] $125
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 Report of the Minority of the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Causes of Disturbances at the Seat of Government, in December, 1838... [Caption title]
[141934] (Pennsylvania - The “Buckshot” War) [John K. Zeilin].
Harrisburg: Boas & Coplan, 1839. 12 pages. Self-wraps. Leaves browned with some stains, foxed, tiny t.p. hole, small clip and pinned along center fold, a good copy. The contentious election of 1838 in Pennsylvania resulted in Whig and the Democratic parties each claiming sole control of the House of Representatives. A mob formed upon Harrisburg, Legislature dispersed, business stopped. But even with the threat of violence, President Van Buren refused Governor Ritner's request for Federal troops. Instead, Ritner called out the Pennsylvania Militia, providing them with thirteen rounds of buckshot cartridges, hence the “Buckshot” War. Order was finally restored. This is the report from the committee's minority in which they complain that the press prostituted itself shamelessly to the “rebel party.” They also complained that the Hall in which the rebel orators spoke “...would have smoked, smoked!! I will not say with what, but it should have smoked!!! I will not say with fire - but it should have smoked!!! aye, it should have smoked, not with fire but with blood!!!” [OCLC, three physical copies. Cf. Howes P-206 and Sabin 60488 for majority's report. See DAH.] $250
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