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Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching Platform

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Printed from the original manuscript, with facsimile of title-page of original edition, Philadelphia, 1820. Excerpts from Heckewelder’s Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians (chapters 6-10) and Appendix (Names which the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians gave to Rivers, Streams and Localities, within the States of Pennsylvania…). Details concerning scanned edition: xi p., 3 l., [3]-616 p. incl. front. (port.) 2 facsim. : 2 port., 3 maps (1 fold.) 2 facsim. ; 33 x 25 1/2 cm. Cleveland: The Burrows brothers company, 1907.
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, near the market, MDCCLVII [1757]. Minutes of the treaty proceedings between the province of Pennsylvania and neighboring Indian tribes. Includes annotations from Benjamin Franklin, as noted in: The collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the Curtis Publishing Company (Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1918), 2, 137-138, 142. Signatures: [A]2 B-H2. Title vignette: province seal. With: Minutes of conferences held with the Indians at Harris's Ferry, and at Lancaster, in March, April, and May 1757. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757. -- Minutes of conferences held with the Indians at Easton, in the months of July and August, 1757. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757. -- Minutes of conferences held at Easton in October 1758. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1758. Cited in: Evans 7923; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1538; Miller, C.W. Franklin, 676.
London: printed for the author and sold by J. Millan ..., MDCCLXVI [1766]. Signatures: A-G. A dramatization of Pontiac's conspiracy. Title vignette; head-piece on p. [3]. Price from t.p. in square brackets: "Price 2 s. 6d." Printer's advertisement on final leaf. Culture Class Collection copy half-bound in red morocco over marbled boards; five raised bands on spine; six gold-tooled spine panels; brief title stamped in gilt in second spine panel; author stamped in gilt in third spine panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at base of spine; top edge gilt. Cited in: Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 253; Sabin, 72729.