Annual Report, Volumes 55-5837th report, 1889, has atlas of plates (35 cm.) illustrating new building. |
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Page 23 - Plan offered by the EARL of CHATHAM, to the HOUSE OF LORDS, entitled, A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
Page 61 - A Relation of the Labour, Travail and Suffering of that faithful Servant of the Lord Alice Curwen.
Page 28 - ... to the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston.
Page 22 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies, as revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at a Convention of the said Church in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina...
Page 28 - Bible faithfvlly translated into English, ovt of the avthentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With Argvments of the Bookes, and Chapters : Annotations.
Page 73 - EDWARD LAWRENCE, of Charlestown. The following clause from his will explains its purpose : "To hold and apply the income, and so much of the principal as they may choose, to the purchase of special books of reference, to be kept and used only at the Charlestown branch of the said Public Library.
Page 73 - The income only of this fund is to be, each and every year, expended in the purchase of such books of permanent value and authority as may be found most needful and most useful.
Page 77 - LORING, the income of which is to be expended for the purchase of books for the West End branch. Received in 1896. Invested in City of Boston Four per cent Bond . . . $500 00 CHARLES MEAD FUND.— Bequest of CHARLES MEAD, to constitute the CHARLES MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST FUND...
Page 76 - AKTZ, of Chicago; the income of this sum to be employed in the purchase of valuable rare editions of the writings, either in verse or prose, of American and foreign authors. These books are to be known as the "Longfellow Memorial Collection.
Page 74 - The interest on which is to be annually devoted to the maintenance of a Free Public Library. Both of these items are payable to the Mayor of the city for the time being.