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1746

225 Reflections on Courtship and Marriage: In Two Letters to a Friend. Wherein a Practical Plan is laid down for Obtaining and Securing Conjugal Felicity. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin. M,DCC,XLVI. Sm. 4to. (H. 976.)

Attributed to Dr. Franklin by Benjamin Rush. If this statement is correct it must be classed as one of Franklin's unsuccessful schemes for benefiting mankind.

1747

226 Plain Truth: Or, Serious Considerations on the present state of the City of Philadelphia, and Province of Pennsylvania. By a Tradesman of Philadelphia. Printed in the Year MDCCXLVII. 8vo. (H. 1010.)

Dr. Franklin's essay in favor of defensive warfare, to which the Quakers, then the controlling political power in Pennsylvania, were opposed.

1751

2261⁄2 A Letter to a Friend: Containing Remarks on a Discourse proposing a preparation of the Body for the Small-Pox. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall. MDCCLI. 4to. (H. 1224.)

By Dr. John Kearsley of Philadelphia.

1755

227 Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. The First, containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America; and of the Country of the Confederate Indians. Philadelphia; Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. MDCCLV. 4to. (H. 1412.)

1757

228 The Charter, Laws, and Catalogue of Books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. MDCCLVII.

8vo. (H. 1521.)

The only known copy.

1766

229 A Morning and Evening's Meditation, or, a Descant on the Times. A Poem, by T. L. London, Printed. Philadelphia, Re-printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. 1766. 8vo. (H. 2232.)

By Thomas Letchworth of London, a prominent Quaker minister of the eighteenth century. It is the last book issued with Franklin's imprint.

Books Printed in New-Jersey.

Perth Amboy,

WILLIAM BRADFORD.

230 Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis. At a Session of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-Jersey begun the Twenty-fourth day of September, 1723, the following Acts were published. Printed by William Bradford in the City of Perth-Amboy. 1723. Folio. The first book printed in New Jersey.

Woodbridge.

JAMES PARKER.

1758

231 The New American Magazine, No. 1. For January, 1758. By Sylvanus Americanus. Woodbridge, in New-Jersey. Printed and Sold by James Parker. The first magazine published in New Jersey.

1760

232 The History of North America, from the First Discovery thereof: Vol. I. By Sylvanus Americanus. Woodbridge, in New-Jersey: Printed by James Parker. MDCCLX. 8vo.

"Published piece-meal in the New American Magazine, from January 1758, to March 1760: and designed to be continued in several volumes down to the present time in the same manner; but for want of suitable encouragement, the remaining volumes are suspended, together with the said Magazine."

233 A Complete Introduction to the Latin Tongue. Published principally for the use of the Grammar-School at NassauHall, in Prince-Town. The Second Edition. Woodbridge, in New-Jersey: Printed by James Parker, at the Expence of the Trustees of the College, 1760. Sm. 8vo.

By the Rev. Robert Ross; and known as the Princeton Latin Grammar. The first edition was printed in New York in 1752.

1761

234 The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the year 1753 to the year 1761. Collected and published by order of the General Assembly. By Samuel Nevill: Volume the Second. Woodbridge, in NewJersey: Printed by James Parker, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province. M. DCC. LXI. Folio.

The first volume was printed in Philadelphia by William Bradford the second.

1764

235 Conductor Generalis: or the Office, Duty, and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High Sheriffs, &c. Compiled by James Parker. Woodbridge, in NewJersey: Printed and Sold by James Parker: 1764. 8vo.

1765

236 Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, quinto. At a Parliament begun &c. at Westminster, the Nineteenth Day of May, 1761, and from thence continued to the Tenth Day of January, 1765, &c. London: Printed &c. And re-printed by James Parker in the Province of NewJersey.

The celebrated "Stamp Act." It was reprinted in various form in all the American colonies immediately after its passage.

SAMUEL F. PARKER.

1766

237 The Claim of the Inhabitants of the Town of Newark; in virtue of the Indian Purchase made by the first settlers of Newark, in 1667, stated and considered. Woodbridge, in New-Jersey: Printed by Samuel F. Parker, M. DCC. LXVI. 8vo.

By David Ogden, one of the justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. One of two copies known.

Burlington.

JAMES PARKER.

1765

238 The History of the Colony of Nova Cæsaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, an account of its first settlement, pro

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