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The works of Monsieur de St. Evremond made English from the French original by Saint-Evremond

The philosophical principles of natural and revealed religion. Unfolded in a geometrical order by the Chevalier Ramsay Author of the Travels of Cyrus by Andrew Michael Ramsay

The universal penman; or, The art of writing made useful to the gentleman and scholar, as well as the man of business. Exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship; with some necessary observations on the excellency of the pen, and a large number of select sentences in prose and verse; various forms of business ... by George Bickham

The book M: or, masonry triumphant. In two parts. Part I. containing, the history, ... of free masons; ... Part II. containing, the songs usually sung in lodges, ... by William Smith

A letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, on occasion of the late earthquakes by Thomas Sherlock

A new martyrology : or, The bloody assizes, now exactly methodized in one volume, comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants, who fell in the west of England, and elsewhere, from the year 1678, to this present time ; to this treatise is added The life & death of George L. Geffreys ; with an alphabetical table annex to it by John Tutchin

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TagsHistory (17), Religion (13), Biography (11), Great Britain (11), Literature (9), Science (8), Travels (8), Politics and Government (6), Law (4), Philosophy (4) — see all tags

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About meThe Providence Athenaeum was founded in 1753 as the Providence Library Company (which merged in 1836 with the Providence Athenaeum). This library is the fourth-oldest membership library in the United States.

About my libraryThe books included here are those from the original library of the Providence Library Company, purchased 1753-1758. A fire at the Providence Court House destroyed most of the collection on Christmas Eve, 1758; some seventy volumes out on loan at the time survived the fire.

Those titles from the Founders' Collection still in the collections of the Providence Athenaeum are included here with the Athenaeum's call number in the Comments field. Other titles which survived the fire (as designed in a 1768 catalogue of the collection) but which no longer are held by the Athenaeum are also included here.

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More on the Founders' Collection can be found here.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Do you know of additional books which should be included here? Please contact Libraries of Early America coordinator Jeremy Dibbell.

Homepagehttp://www.providenceathenaeum.org/

Real nameProvidence Library Company

LocationProvidence, RI

Emailprovidenceathenaeumgmail.com