thomas mifflin (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Mti. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Mti. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Mti. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Berkeley Williams Jr. (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Berkeley Williams Jr. (illustrator). Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. 1988. No Edition Stated. 92 pages. Paperback book. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners, with soiling and creasing to covers and spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. Berkeley Williams Jr. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 150 pages; 1897 Estes & Lauriat, Boston. HC 2nd printing. Soundly bound and clean in original dark green cloth lettered and bordered in gilt. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Illustrated from b&w reproductions on glossy stock plates of Moran landscapes done and selected for this work, captioned with a line from Mifflin's poem on facing page. Mifflin in his time as a landscape painter studied under Moran in Philadelphia and they maintained a long friendship. This collection is Mifflin's second published collection of poems. Laid in at front is a publishers small one-sheet with press notices for the book. Corners lightly bumped and a little softened at bottom front. Cloth lightly pulled and crimped at spine ends with superficial fraying. Some scattered light pencil marginalia relating to metre and emphasis in the verses - which could be erased. A few mild stray pen marks. Solid copy superficially marked. VG-.

Rare collection of printed and manuscript documents, signed by the first 28 (of 29) GovernorsÂofÂPennsylvania, being a near continuous representation of the office from its establishment in 1790 with the first Governorship of Thomas Mifflin, up until the 1930s with the 29th Governorship of Gifford Pinchot. Quarto, each document is tipped in to a paper folder with calligraphic title (many with engraved portraits), and housed in a quarter blue gilt morocco presentation box with a gilt gift inscription to the 30th Governor of Pennsylvania, George Howard Earle III (1890-1974), from the "Wizard of Washington" and Democratic Party politico, Emil Hurja (1892-1953). Includes documents signed by: Thomas Mifflin (1st governor, 1790-99); Thomas McKean (2nd, 1799-1808); William Findley (4th, 1817-20); Joseph Hiester (5th, 1820-23); John A. Shulze (6th, 1823-29); George Wolf (7th, 1829-35); Joseph Ritner (8th, 1835-39); David R. Porter (9th, 1839-45); Francis R. Shunk (10th, 1845-48); William F. Johnston (11th, 1848-52); William Bigler (12th, 1852-55); James Pollock (13th, 1855-58); William F. Packer (14th, 1858-61); Andrew G. Curtin (15th, 1861-67); John W. Geary (16th, 1867-73); John F. Hartrauft (17th, 1873-79); Henry M. Hoyt (18th, 1879-83); Robert E. Pattison (19th, 1883-87 and 1891-95); James A. Beaver (20th, 1887-91); Daniel H. Hastings (21st, 1895-91); William A. Stone (22nd, 1899-1903); Samuel W. Pennypacker (23rd, 1903-07); Edwin S. Stuart (24th, 1907-11); John K. Tener (25th, 1911-15); Martin G. Brumbaugh (26th, 1915-19); William C. Sproul (27th, 1919-23); Gifford Pinchot (28th, 1923-27 and 1931-35); John S. Fisher (29th, 1927-31). This set was gifted to 30th Governor George Howard Earle III from Emil Hurja, likely upon the former's election in 1935. Raised a Republican, Earle joined the Democratic Party in the 1930s after his dissatisfaction with the Republican Party's handling of the Great Depression. A prominent supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Earle campaigned for him during the 1932 presidential election, where he most likely met Hurja, who was an executive and chief pollster for the Democratic National Committee. For his service to the successful campaign FDR appointed Earle Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Austria, where he early on sounded the alarm over the rise of Nazism, but resigned the office in 1934 to run for Governor ofÂPennsylvania. As the first elected Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Earle ledÂPennsylvania through the height of the Great Depression, and during his one term instituted a series of programs that has come to be known as the "Little New Deal." In Earle's first two years in office state legislators introduced a record 3,514 bills, many of which targeted economic recovery, labor laws, and unemployment. Among the many bills passed were ones that introduced Child labor laws, the institution of a 40-hour work week, the abolishment of private police forces used by the coal and iron industries, the institution of unemployment compensation, and the funding of numerous public works and infrastructure projects. Considered the first modern pollster, Hurja was executive director and chief pollster for the Democratic National Committee from 1932-37, and helped gauge public support for FDR and the New Deal. His often accurate polling and electoral predictions earned him the moniker, the "Wizard of Washington." In near fine condition. A unique collection representing nearly every Governor ofÂPennsylvania, from the office's creation in 1790, up until the Great Depression years of the mid-1930s.Â.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good-. First Edition. [With] Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 246 pages; [1790] Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Philadelphia. Folio; full leather. Includes 2 of the 3 parts which recorded minutes and notes of the deliberations, votes and texts of the changes to the PA State Constitution at the Convention in Philadelphia, which began on Nov 24, 1789 and continued well into the year of 1790. This copy includes "The Minutes of the Convention [First Session]" and "The Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Convention." Bound thus - with Minutes of the Grand Committee preceding the Minutes of the Convention [First Session]. 101; 146 pp. Though paged continuously the Minutes of the Second Session are not found in this example. Recased in full tan goat skin with red leather label, title tooled in gilt at spine. Borders chained in blind to board edges with gilt ruling to spine. Endpages refreshed and the full title page for Minutes of the Grand Committee supplied in a high quality and convincing facsimile. Text pages bright and supple with only occasional general toning to some pages of the Minutes [First Session], presumably from variability of paper stock. Leaf Oo in Minutes [1st Session], pages 145/146 has been backed with japanese kozo to stabilize fragility at edges. Important and uncommon record of the fraught and difficult negotiations involved in changing the unusually egalitarian 1776 PA Constitution into the more traditional republican form of constitutional government. In place of the weaker plural executive branch, the new Constitution empowered a single elected executive with broader powers; the egalitarian unicameral legislative body was replaced with the more traditional bi-cameral Senate and House style of Legislative government. Rebound and quite handsome thus. Complete with respect to the 2 parts recorded by Evans as 22764 and 22766. VG thus. . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

Irregular piece of paper c. 14 x 5 at most, good condition. Pencil note identifying signature.

Benjamin Chew was a prominent attorney in Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War era. He represented the interests of the Penn family, served as Pennsylvania Attorney General, and rose to the position of Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in 1774. With the post war adoption of a Pennsylvania constitution, Governor Thomas Mifflin in 1791 appointed Chew to the High Court of Errors and Appeals, a post he held until 1806. Chew was also noted as a friend of George Washington and John Adams. Chew?s home, called Cliveden, is today a tourist attraction.Mifflin signed the United States Constitution, was the first governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799.Document signed, September 3, 1796, confirming a transfer of land to Chew in the county of Cumberland for the sum of 855 pounds.There is also a land document signed by Chew dated April 12, 1804, transferring the land to the King family.