An 18th century Philadelphia manuscript documenting the activity of Berniaud Dumas, & Jacques, French china and glass merchants who were located on South Second Street... Read More
![[Collection of 18th Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian Samuel Breck]. Samuel Breck, 1771–1862.](/pictures/thumb/146343_1.jpg?v=1539123806)
Sixty-four individual musical compositions. A bound volume of eighteenth-century French sheet music for contra dance, guitar, etc. collected by Samuel Breck (1771–1862), noted Philadelphia merchant... Read More
![You’ll Find Old Dixieland in France [sheet music]. lyrics Grant Clarke, music Geo. W. Meyer, French lyrics Louis Delamarre.](/pictures/thumb/3727075_1.jpg?v=1540246015)
Unusual small format sheet music celebrating African-American soldiers fighting in France in the First World War. With lyrics in both English and French, the song... Read More
A study of the issues of politics, slavery, and slave insurrections in the French colonies in the West Indies. Includes much on Saint-Domingue (today Haiti)... Read More
![The Knight Robert Surnamed the Brave, a posthumous work of the Count de Tressan. Translated from the French by Joseph Wilson, Junr. [manuscript caption title]. Joseph ? Wilson Jr., 1788 or 1792–1872 or 1875.](/pictures/thumb/144768_1.jpg?v=1534362271)
Impeccably transcribed, the complete translation by Joseph Wilson, Jr. (1788 or 1792–1872/1875) of a French chivalric romance betrays none of the difficult labor associated with... Read More
