The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryN015587Attributed to William Bollan.London: printed, and sold by J. Almon, 1772. 2],47, 1]p.; 4

Title: Britannia libera, or, A defence of the free state of man in England: against the claim of any man there as a slave: inscribed and submited to the jurisconsulti and the free people of England.Author: William BollanPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03977700CollectionID: CTRG02-B443PublicationDate: 17720101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Attributed to William Bollan--cf. NUC pre-1956. Not listed as such by Sabin, but see Sabin entry 6220 for another Bollan work, where Sabin notes that he was also the author of "Britannia liberia" sic]Collation: 47 p

Title: A succinct view of the origin of our colonies: with their civil state, founded by Queen Elizabeth, corroborated by succeeding princes, and confirmed by acts of parliament: whereby the nature of the empire established in America, and the errors of various hypotheses formed thereupon may be clearly understood with observations on the commercial, beneficial and perpetual union of the colonies with this kingdom: being an extract from an essay lately published entitled The freedom of speech and writing, &c.Author: William BollanPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00625700CollectionID: CTRG10186817-BPublicationDate: 17660101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Attributed to William Bollan--NUC pre-1956.Collation: 2], 46 p.; cm

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

Also Authored By Andrew Oliver, James Otis Jr., And Others. With A Preface By Charles G. Washburn.

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

Also Authored By Andrew Oliver, James Otis Jr., And Others. With A Preface By Charles G. Washburn.