Search Results: a letter to the citizens of by logan george

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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Philadelphia: Patterson & Cochran, 1800. Disbound. Good binding. Octavo. 30, [2] pp. Second edition. Removed from nonce volume. Final blank leaf is detaching; text us otherwise loose but holding together; original stitching holes in the inner margin; pencil note and 5-digit ink stamp on the title page; the top corner of the recto of each leaf has manuscript paging likely indicating placement in the nonce volume. This second edition follows a Lancaster, PA imprint issued the same year. The letter is accompanied by "The Constitution of the Lancaster County Society, for Promoting of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts" and "An Act for the Promotion of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts." Logan was an gentleman farmer, briefly a physician, and a politician. He invested a great deal of energy making his family farm near Philadelphia a model of innovated agriculture. "Over time, for example, he conducted and reported on fourteen experiments to determine the best way to rotate… Read More

Philadelphia: Patterson & Cochra, 1800. 30pp. Dbd. Light foxing and toning. A good copy. The second edition, following the first printed in Lancaster the same year, of this pamphlet promoting economic development in Pennsylvania. Logan, a thorough-going Jeffersonian farmer, was also a physician, author, and senator. According to the DAB he was "said to have been the only strict Quaker who ever sat in the United States Senate." The son of a wealthy merchant, Logan was forced to give up his medical practice when the family fortune was seriously reduced by war. He subsequently dedicated himself to cultivating his five-hundred-acre estate, advancing the study of agriculture and promoting international peace. In this letter to his fellow citizens in Pennsylvania, Logan stresses the benefits of citizens joining together for the common good: "In a state of civil society, man must be considered as a member of a great political family. He is connected with his fellow-citizens, by ties of interest and… Read More

Lancaster, PA: W. & R. Dickson. First Edition. 28 pp. as called for in Evans. The front wrapper is present; the rear wrapper is not. Rebound in simple grey boards with a cloth spine. "Property of H. J. Carman" and "Logan Letter" in ink on front board. "Property of H. J. Carman" in ink on front wrapper. From the library of Harry J. Carman, Dean of Columbia College and Chair of the History Department--after whom Carman Hall at Columbia University is named. Carman was a historian of agriculture. Foxing on front wrapper, two brief and faint pencil notations on front wrapper, rear wrapper missing, Good. Following the Logan Letter are The Constitution of the Lancaster County Society for Promoting of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts and An Act for the Promotion of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts. The First Edition is rare. Evans 37841. . Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 1800.