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William L. Clements

(Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934)

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• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Ahiamihewintuhangan = The prayer song, / (New York : Published by Edward Dunigan & Brother, (James B. Kirker,) no. 371 Broadway, 1858), by Eugene Vetromile and Thomas W. Strong, also contrib. by Edward Dunigan & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain. : b A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American government. And a postscript, containing new arguments on the subject; a draught for a bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring peace and harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: together with the essential materials for a proposed Grand British League and confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the states of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond denial or doubt, that by granting the colonists an unrestrained civil freedom and legislative independence, we may most effectually secure their future commercial dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the interest and support the glory of, Great-Britain. [Nine lines from Trenchard]. (London : Printed for the author, by H.S. Woodfall. Sold by J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and at the Pamphlet-Shops, MDCCLXXV. [1775]), by John Cartwright, J. Wilkie, H. S. Woodfall, and George Savile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A briefe and true relation of the discouerie of the north part of Virginia; : being a most pleasant, fruitfull and commodious soile: made this present yeere 1602, by Captaine Bartholomew Gosnold, Captaine Bartholowmew Gilbert, and diuers other gentlemen their associats, by the permission of the honourable knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, &c. / (Londini, : Impensis Geor. Bishop., 1602), by John Brereton, George Bishop, Thomas Harriot, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Richard Hakluyt, and Edward Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: : of the commodities there found and to be raysed, as well marchantable, as others for victuall, building and other necessarie vses for those that are and shalbe the planters there; and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants: discouered by the English colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the yeere 1585. which remained vnder the gouernment of Rafe Lane Esquier, one of her Maiesties Equieres, during the space of twelue monethes: at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight, Lord Warden of the stanneries; who therein hath beene fauored and authorised by her Maiestie and her letters patents: directed to the aduenturers, fauourers, and welwillers of the action, for the inhabiting and planting there: / (Imprinted at London : [By R. Robinson], 1588), by Thomas Harriot, also contrib. by Henry Huth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A briefe description of the whole world. : Wherein are particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: with their seuerall titles and situations thereunto adioyning. (At London : Printed by T. Iudson, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at the signe of the Bible in Fleete-streete, 1599), by George Abbot, John Browne, and Thomas Judson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Bucaniers of America: or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, both English and French. : Wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama. &c. / (London : Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar, 1684-1685), by A. O. Exquemelin, William Crooke, and Basil Ringrose, trans. by Alonso de Bonne-Maison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The case of Edward Drewe, late major of the Thirty-fifth Regiment of Foot. / (Exeter: [England] : Printed by B. Thorn and Son, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]), by Edward Drewe and Great Britain. Army. Court-martial (Drewe : 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Cosmographiae introdvctio : cvm qvibvsdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis Insuper quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes. Vniuersalis Cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido q[uam] plano eis etiam insertis que Ptholom[a]eo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt. Disthycon cum deus astra regat/& terrae climata Caesar nec tellus nec/eis sydera maius habent. (Vrbs Deodate [Saint-Dié] : [Gualtherus & Nikolaus Lud], Finitu[m] iiij. k[a]l[endas] Septe[m]bris anno supra sesquimillesimu[m] vij. [29 August, 1507]), by Martin Waldseemüller, James Hayday, Nikolaus Lud, Gualterus Lud, and Amerigo Vespucci, also contrib. by Gustave Chartener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The decades of the newe worlde or West India, : Conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean, perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. : In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, the sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be know[n]e to al such as shal attempte any nauigations, or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderful woorkes of God and nature. / (Londini. : In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell., anno 1555), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, William Powell, Francisco López de Gómara, Antonio Pigafetta, Gonzalo Fernádez de Oviedo y Valdé, and Pope Alexander VI, trans. by Richard Eden, also contrib. by Grenville Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery just arrived from the Elysian Fields; and an American delegate, in a wood near Philadelphia. ([Philadelphia] : Printed, and sold by R. Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by Robert Bell and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, : made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer understanding of the whole matter. ([London] : Imprinted at London for Thomas VVoodcocke, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signs of the blacke beare., 1582), by Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Dawson, and Thomas Woodcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Epistola Christofori Colom cui [a]etas nostra multu[m] debet: : de Insulis Indi[a]e supra Gangem nuper inuentis. Ad quas perquirendas octauo antea mense auspiciis [et] [a]ere inuictissimo[rum] Fernandi ac Helisabet Hispania[rum] Regu[m] missus fuerat: ad magnificum d[omi]n[u]m Gabrielem Sanchis eo[r]und[em] serenissimor[um] Regis Tesaurariu[m] missa: / ([Rome : Stephen Plannck, after 29 April 1493]), by Christopher Columbus, Stephan Plannck, Leonardus de. Epigramma ad invictissimum regem Hispaniarum Carninis, and Gabriel Sánchez, trans. by Leandro di Cosco, also contrib. by Henry Huth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: An explication of the first causes of action in matter; and of the cause of gravitation. / ([London] : New-York: printed in the year, MDCCXLV. And London reprinted: for J. Brindley, bookseller to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, at the Feathers in New Bond-Street, 1746. (Price one shilling.)), by Cadwallader Colden and John Brindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The fall of British tyranny: or, American liberty triumphant. : The first campaign. A tragi-comedy of five acts, as lately planned at the Royal Theatrum Pandemonium, at St. James's. The principal place of action in America. Publish'd according to act of Parliament. [Three lines of quotation]. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, near Arch-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by John Leacock and printer Styner and Cist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A genuine detail of the several engagements, positions, and movements of the Royal and American armies, : with an accurate account of the blockade of Boston; and a plan of the works on Bunker's Hill, at the time it was abandoned by His Majesty's forces, on the seventeenth of March, 1776. In a series of letters to a friend. / ([London] : Printed for the author, and sold by him. Price half a crown, [1784?]), by William Carter, also contrib. by Henry Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934: Journal of Major Robert Rogers. (Worcester, Mass. : The Society, 1918), also by Robert Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A journal of the operations of the Queen's Rangers, from the end of the year 1777, to the conclusion of the late American war. / (Exeter [England]: : Printer for the author., [1787]), by John Graves Simcoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps of discovery, : under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States, from the mouth of the River Missouri through the interior parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean, during the years 1804, 1805 & 1806. : Containing an authentic relation of the most interesting transactions during the expedition,--a description of the country,--and an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities and vegetable and animal productions. / (Pittsburgh : Printed by Zadok Cramer, for David M'Keehan, publisher and proprietor.........., 1807), by Patrick Gass and Zadok Cramer, also contrib. by David McKeehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A letter to a friend. Giving a concise, but just, representation of the hardships and sufferings the town of Boston is exposed to, and must undergo in consequence of the late act of the British-Parliament; which, by shutting up it's port, has put a fatal bar in the way of that commercial business on which it depended for it's support. : Shewing, at the same time, wherein this edict, however unintended, is powerfully adapted to promote the interest of all the American colonies, and even of Boston itself in the end. / (Boston, N.E. : Printed and sold at Greenleaf's Printing-office, in Hanover-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]), by Charles Chauncy and Joseph Greenleaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Letters from a farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British colonies. ([London] : Philadelphia printed; and London re-printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in Piccadilly, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]), by John Dickinson, also contrib. by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro-slave poet of Boston., by Phillis Wheatley, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Obour Tanner, and printer John Wilson and Son, ed. by Charles Deane, also contrib. by Charles Eliot Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934: Library (University of Michigan) records, 1837-2013 (bulk 1920-2000)., also by University of Michigan. Library, H. W. Wilson, William Allen White, Robert M. Warner, Genevieve Maria Julia Walton, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Henry Munson Utley, Ralph Adrian Ulveling, Albert May Todd, Eugène Tisserant, Adam Julius Strohm, William Ambrose Spill, Mary Clare Wilson Spencer, Thomas M. Spaulding, Alexander Grant Ruthven, Leo S. Rowe, Frank Egleston Robbins, Donald E. Riggs, Herbert Putnam, G. Flint Purdy, Eugene B. Power, Stellanova Osborn, Chase S. Osborn, Truman Handy Newberry, Giovanni Mercati, Archibald MacLeish, Grace McClure, Clarence C. Little, Francis W. Kelsey, Charles H. Keating, Albert Kahn, Harry B. Hutchins, William A. Gosling, Lucius L. Hubbard, Loleta D. Fyan, Mary E. Frankhauser, Richard M. Dougherty, John Cotton Dana, Genevieve M. Casey, Marion Le Roy Burton, Clarence Monroe Burton, R. R. Bowker, James Burrill Angell, Robert H. Muller, Samuel Wilson McAllister, Francis Lee Dewey Goodrich, Frederick H. Wagman, Andrew Ten Brook, Warner Grenelle Rice, Theodore Wesley Koch, R. C. Davis, and William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Memoirs of Major-General Heath. : Containing anecdotes, details of skirmishes, battles, and other military events, during the American War. / (Printed at Boston, : by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street. Sold by them; by I. Thomas, Worcester; by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, Albany; by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore; and by the booksellers throughout the continent., Aug. 1798), by William Heath, Henry Wright Smith, H. Williams, Gilbert Stuart, John Rubens Smith, Andrews & Butler Thomas, Andrews & Penniman Thomas, and printer Thomas & Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The military history of Great Britain, for 1756, 1757. : Containing a letter from an English officer at Canada, taken prisoner at Oswego. Exhibiting the cruelty and infidelity of the French, and their savage Indians, in times of peace and war. Shewing their superior advantages, and the only means of redress. Impartially delineating the present state of our colonies in America, with some hints for their future regulation. Also, a journal of the siege of Oswego, the articles of capitulation. With a particular table of their inhabitants. Likewise of the loss and retaking of Bengall. A journal of the siege of St. Philip's in Minorca. With a plan of the fortification of St. Philip's its Environs, &c. [Four lines from Shakespeare]. (London: : Printed for J. Millan, near White-Hall., 1757. (Price 3 s. bound, or 2 s. stitch'd.)), by John Millan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A new essay (by the Pennsylvania farmer) on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America; : with the resolves of the committee for the province of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives in Assembly. ([London] : Philadelphia printed; and London re-printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1774), by John Dickinson, also contrib. by Charles Melish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: An ordinance for regulating the Militia of New Jersey. : Passed at a sitting of the Provincial Congress, held at Trenton in the month of October 1775. To which is annexed, the continental articles of war. Published by order. (Burlington [N.J.]: : Printed and sold by Isaac Collins, MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by New Jersey, Isaac Collins, United States Continental Congress, and New Jersey. Provincial Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Paris papers; or Mr. Silas Deane's late intercepted letters, to his brothers, and other intimate friends, in America. : To which are annexed for comparison, the Congressional Declaration of Independency in July 1776, and that now inculating among the revolted provinces, with the never-to-be-forgotten orders of the rebel general in August 1776, for preventing a pacification. (New-York : Re-printed by James Rivington, [1782]), by Silas Deane, James Rivington, and United States. Declaration of Independence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The particulars of an Indian treaty at Conestogoe, between His Excellency Sir William Keith, bart. Governor of Pennsylvania, and the deputies of the Five Nations. : Published at the request of the gentlemen who were present, and waited upon the governor in his journey. (Dublin : Re-printed, by Elizabeth Sadleir, for Samuel Fuller, at the Globe and Scales, in Meath Street, MDCCXXIII. [1723]), by Pennsylvania, Samuel Fuller, Elizabeth Sadleir, William Keith, -1682? Ockanickon, etc. 1722 Pennsylvania. Treaties, and Five Nations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A plan for settling the unhappy dispute between Great Britain and her colonies. ([London] : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXV. [1775]), by Edmund Jenings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A relation of a discovery lately made on the coast of Florida, : (from lat. 31. to 33 deg. 45 min. north-lat.) by William Hilton commander, and commissioner with Capt. Anthony Long, and Peter Fabian, in the ship Adventure, which set sayl from Spikes Bay, Aug. 10. 1663. and was set forth by several gentlemen and merchants of the island of Barbadoes. Giving an account of the nature and temperature of the soyl, the manners and disposition of the natives, and whatsoever else is remarkable therein. Together with proposals made by the commissioners of the lords proprietors, to all such persons as shall become the first setlers on the rivers, harbors, and creeks there. (London : Printed by J.C. for Simon Miller at the Star neer the West-end of St. Pauls, 1664), by William Hilton, Simon Miller, James Cottrel, Roger L'Estrange, Peter Fabian, and Anthony Long, also contrib. by Henry Huth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Rules and regulations for the Massachusetts army. : Published by order. (Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, 1775), by Massachusetts. Provincial Congress and printer Samuel and Ebenezer Hall (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Sir Francis Drake reuiued: : calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeares 72. & 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and 52. others only in his company, surprised. Faithfully taken out of the reporte of M· Christofer Ceely, Ellis Hixon, and others, who were in the same voyage with him. By Philip Nichols, preacher. Reviewed also by Sr. Francis Drake himselfe before his death, & much holpen and enlarged, by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr. Francis Drake Baronet (his nephew) now liuing. (London : Printed by E. for Nicholas Bourne, dwelling at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626), by Philip Nichols, Nicholas Bourne, and Edward Allde, ed. by Francis Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Strange and dangerovs voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. : VVherein the miseries indvred both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities obserued, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this iournall of it. Published by His Maiesties command. To which are added, a plat or card for the sayling in those seas. Diuers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. VVith an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand, astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London. And aduise concerning the philosophy of these late discoueryes, by W.W. (London, : Printed by Iohn Legatt, for Iohn Partridge., 1633), by Thomas James, John Partridge, John Legate, active 1633 W. W. (William Watts), and Henry Gellibrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: The tenth muse lately sprung up in America. or Severall poems, compiled with great variety of vvit and learning, full of delight. : Wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year. Together with an exact epitomie of the four monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious poems. / ([London] : Printed at London for Stephen Bowtell at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1650), by Anne Bradstreet and Stephen Bowtell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: Thackeray / (New York : Harper & Brothers, [1879]), by Anthony Trollope, also contrib. by Harold B. Wilson, John Wright Watling, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A treatyse of the newe India, with other new founde landes and ilandes, aswell eastwarde as westwarde, as they are knowen and found in these oure dayes, after the descripcion of Sebastian Munster in his boke of vniuersall cosmographie: : wherin the diligent reader may see the good successe and rewarde of noble and honeste enterpryses, by the which not only worldly ryches are obtayned, but also God is glorified, & the Christian fayth enlarged. / (Imprinted at London, in Lombarde Strete, : by Edward Sutton., 1553), by Sebastian Münster and Edward Sutton, trans. by Richard Eden, also contrib. by British Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A trve relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony, : which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the last returne from thence. / (London : Printed for Iohn Tappe, and are to bee solde at the Greyhound in Paules-Church-yard, by W.W., 1608), by John Smith, John Tappe, William Welby, and Edward Allde, also contrib. by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, contrib.: A trve relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discouery of the land of Virginia: : where he discouered 60 miles vp a most excellent riuer; together with a most fertile land. / (Londini : Impensis Geor. Bishop., 1605), by James Rosier and George Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934: Uncommon, scarce and rare books relating to American history during the discovery and colonial periods, together with other Americana from the library of William L. Clements, Bay City, Michigan. ([n. p.], 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934: The William L. Clements Library of Americana at the University of Michigan. (Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

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