[Rarebooks] FA: 1834 Mound Builders + Ben Franklin

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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1834 Mound Builders & ancient travel in North America -

"AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST... "  By Josiah Priest. 
Published in Albany by Hoffman & White: 1834. 4th edition.  "Being an 
exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially 
civilized nations differently entirely from those of the present Indians 
peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and 
inquiries into their origins, with a copious description of many of their 
stupendous works, now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have 
become of them. Compiled from travels, authentic sources, and the 
researches of antiquarian societies".


"A LETTER FROM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Passy, April 21, 1785, to Benjamin 
Vaughan, containing some observations on the prodigal practices of 
publishers"  Published in Princeton by the Friends of the Princeton Library 
in 1949.  A facsimile of Franklin's famous letter denouncing the practices 
of English publishers, together with a line-by-line transcription, and 
introductory remarks by Carl Van Doren and Julien P. Boyd.


"THE PARABLE AGAINST PERSECUTION. A PROPOSED NEW CHAPTER FOR THE BIBLE. By 
Benjamin Franklin"  Published in Boston by Brad Stephens & Co. in April, 
1927, for the American Institute of Graphic Arts as their Keepsake Number 23.

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