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Title: The Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, continue to be published, accompanied with the plates necessary for the illustration of the respective memoirs. Two volumes, containing thirty-six plates, and nearly 900 pages letter press, are now completed
Identifier(s): text:1915; local: APSimg6629; local: 98
Description: Volume 1 of the Annals was published in 1823. In 1876 the Lyceum of Natural History was transformed into the New York Academy of Sciences.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1160, no. 10.
Creator: Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Natural history
Date: 1828

Title: Proposals, by Abraham Small, no. 165, Chestnut Street, 2nd door below Fifth Street, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. New series--volume II
Identifier(s): text:1417; APSimg6424; Goodman Number: 89; 973 C683 No. 503
Description: On obverse, includes manuscript addition apparently indicating several of the subscribers: "David Hosack of New York, [Edm.-François] Jomard of Paris, the 'editor of the Am. journal of medical sciences,' Edward Everett of Boston, H. Niles of Baltimore, and [Severin] Lorich."; Broadside contains partial tear at top of page.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1823

Title: Just published, in crown octavo, price four shillings in boards, (chiefly intended as the sequel to A father's instructions;) Moral and literary dissertations...
Identifier(s): text:152; APSimg6436; Goodman Number: 100; 973 C683 No. 676
Description: Among the subjects to be treated in the work is "On the alliance of natural history and philosophy with poetry." Also advertises Essays medical, and experimental, Essays philosophical, medical, and experimental, and Observations and experiments on the poison of lead by the same author.
Creator: Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Books; Moral & ethical aspects; Natural history
Date: 1784

Title: Paris, ce 24 janvier 1773. Monsieur, Les savans ne cessent de se plaindre de la tardive communication des découvertes & des nouvelles relatives aux arts & aux sciences
Identifier(s): text:598; APSimg6603; Goodman Number: 103
Description: Circular letter prospectus for a periodical publication, Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts (more commonly known as Rozier's Journal) for which François Rozier had purchased the publishing privilege in 1771. In 1773, the year this letter was published, Rozier changed the journal's format and began vigorously promoting his publication as an alternative to the slow, restricted-access publications of learned societies. Includes autograph signature of Rozier and one page manuscript letter indicating that communications to be considered for publication may be received by Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Magalhaens [John Hyacinth de Magellan?], and Mr. [Peter] Elmsley, bookseller, all three residing in London.
Creator: Rozier, François, 1734-1793
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Periodicals
Date: 1773

Title: Notice de livres au rabais qui se trouvent chez Saugrain, libraire, quai des augustins, jusqu'au premier juin prochain; passé lequel temps on les paiera leurs prix ordinaires
Identifier(s): text:785; APSimg6678; Goodman Number: 105
Description: Notice and list of reduced-price books for sale by seller Saugrain. Includes Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756) by de Brosses and Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Prusse (1768).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 77.
Creator: Saugrain
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Bookselling
Date: 1781

Title: S'il es une enterprise qui puisse espérer de trouver une protection spéciale dans le sein des sociétés savantes
Identifier(s): text:596; APSimg6602; Goodman Number: 93
Description: Prospectus for periodical attempting to establish a regular international communication between "savans, l'industrie, et la librairie de diverses contrées civilisées." Signed in type: Le Directeur général du Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie, with the autograph signature of Bar[on] de Férussac. Ferussac's Bulletin, as the work came to be popularly known, was published from 1824 to 1831.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; International communication; Organizations
Date: 1824

Title: Union encyclopédique pour la propagation des connaissances utiles, par la publication de l'Encylcopédie portative
Identifier(s): text:153; APSimg6425; Goodman Number: 90; 973 C683 No. 398
Description: Manuscript addition indicates that this prospectus and subscription form was sent "sous les auspices de M. Warden," undoubtedly David Bailie Warden (1772-1845), an American citizen who lived in France for over 40 years, serving first as a member of the staff of the America delegation there and when he left that post in 1814, as an unofficial liaison between the French scientific community and American scientists traveling abroad.
Creator: Bailly, C. (Charles), 1800-1862
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: 1830

Title: Laussane, le _____ 178_. M-----[,] Nous avons l'honneur de vous donner avis, d'une entreprise que nous venons de faire, & ...
Identifier(s): text:798; APSimg6679; Goodman Number: 107
Description: Prospectus sent to Benjamin Franklin on December 28, 1783.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 69.
Creator: Société Typographique
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Encyclopedias & dictionaries
Date: 1783

Title: Direction générale du Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie, Établie à Paris, rue de l'Abbaye, no. 3. ...Paris, ce 1er. janvier 1824
Identifier(s): text:134; APSimg6432; Goodman Number: 94; 973 C683 No. 343
Description: Prospectus for periodical attempting to establish a regular international communication between "savans, l'industrie, et la librairie de diverses contrées civilisées."; A different version of Goodman #93.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Periodicals; Science
Date: 1824

Title: Catalogue of books, French and English, late the property of A. J. Dallas, Esquire, dec'd. ...April 11, 1817
Identifier(s): text:140; APSimg6435; Goodman Number: 99; 973 C683 No. 336
Description: Books available for auction. Includes several science-related publications.; Contains numerical annotations.
Creator: Passmore & Birckhead
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Auction catalogs; Books
Date: 1817

Title: Salem, Mass., Feby. 28, 1866. Your address has been received for publication in the Naturalists' Directory and will appear in the second part, now in press. To assist in securing accuracy your attention is called to the enclosed slip relating to yourself, and you will confer a favor on the editor of the "Directory" by correcting any errors and returning it to him as soon as possible.
Identifier(s): text:1386; APSimg6431; Goodman Number: 92; 973 C683 No. 607
Description: Signed in type by F[rederic] W[ard] Putnam, superintendent of the museum of the Essex Institute and editor of parts I and II of the Naturalists' Directory published by the institute and appended to its Proceedings in 1865-66. After a hiatus of over 11 years, the Naturalists' Directory resumed publication in 1877 under the editorship of Samuel E. Cassino and has been irregularly published up to the present.
Creator: Essex Institute
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Organizations
Date: 1866

Title: Dr. Rees's New cyclopedia. Samuel F. Bradford is preparing to publish by subscription the New cyclopedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences, in twenty volumes quarto
Identifier(s): text:337; APSimg6734; Goodman Number: 102; 973 C683 No. 406
Description: Prospectus for an American edition of a new dictionary of arts and sciences based upon Chamber's Dictionary, also edited by Abraham Rees. Includes a lengthy list of contributors to the dictionary.; Oversized.
Creator: Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

Title: The Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University. Vol. I.
Identifier(s): text:138; APSimg6433; Goodman Number: 96; 973 C683 No. 609
Description: Prospectus for a periodical issued under the editorship of Herrick. Originally enclosed in a letter form Herrick to J. P. Lesley, February 17, 1886.
Creator: Herrick, C. L. (Clarence Luther), 1858-1904
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Science; Periodicals
Date: ca. 1866

Title: Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second Street, Philadelphia, having happily completed the American edition of the Encyclopedia, in eighteen volumes, has been repeatedly urged, by many of his most zealous patrons of that work, to offer a proposal for publishing a supplement to the Encyclopedia; in which the mistakes of former volumes might be corrected, and some account given of the recent discoveries of greatest importance
Identifier(s): text:1603; APSimg6628; Goodman Number: 91
Description: According to the broadside, the supplement was to be based on the work of the Rev. George Gleig, the editor of the "last six volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica." Specifically mentions mechanics, chemistry, engines, machines, mills, watch and clock making, dynamics, astronomy, electricity, and magnetism as subjects areas to be brought up to date in the supplement.; Item call number: 308 Pam., no. 69
Creator: Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823
Source: Pamphlet Collection (308 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

Title: Prospectus of the second series of the American journal of science and arts
Identifier(s): text:990; APSimg6700; Goodman Number: 106
Description: Originally enclosed in a letter written from Benjamin Silliman, Jr. to Charles Wilkes on December 20, 1845.
Creator: Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885 Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895
Source: Benjamin Silliman Collection (Mss.B.Si4);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Periodicals
Date: 1845

Title: Paris et ses environs...dictionnaire historique, anecdotique, descriptif et topographique; religieux, politique, militaire, commercial et industriel...
Identifier(s): text:132; APSimg6437; Goodman Number: 104; 973 C683 No. 90
Description: According to this prospectus the following are among the areas to be treated in the descriptions of the various locations: ancient and modern geography, astronomical observations, museums, libraries, academies, natural productions, state of the agriculture, mines, rivers, canals, commerce, industry, and manufactures.
Creator: Saint-Edme, Edme Théodore Bourg, known as, 1785-1852
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Cities & towns
Date: n.d.

Title: Prospectus of Lippincott's Magazine. On the first of January, 1868, will be published the first number of this new monthly magazine of literature, science, and education
Identifier(s): text:141; APSimg6434; Goodman Number: 97; 973 C683 No. 342
Description: Prospectus of Lippincott's Magazine announcing the creation of a new magazine to be published in 1868 that will include coverage of topics in literature, science, and education.
Creator: J.B. Lippincott Company
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Periodicals; Science; Education; Literature
Date: ca. 1867

Title: Prospectus d'un supplément à l'Encyclopédie alphabétique, extrait de l'Encyclopédie par order des matieres. ...ce 10 decembre 1783
Identifier(s): text:788; APSimg6677; Goodman Number: 101
Description: Prospectus for a supplement to an encyclopedia sent to Benjamin Franklin in 1783. See also Goodman #107 (Mss.B.F85: vol. 77, no. 69).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 70.
Creator: Société Typographique
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Encyclopedias & dictionaries
Date: 1783

Title: The following books, neatly bound, are to be sold at the store, No. 61 North Front-Street. Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104, North Second-Street
Identifier(s): text:697; APSimg6578; Goodman Number: 95
Description: Includes numerous science publications among the 139 works listed for sale.
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Bookstores; Science
Date: ca. 1790s