Library and Surgeons Hall, in Fifth Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$2,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 19 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . The view looks along Fifth Street above Walnut Street, with the red brick Library Hall dominating the left side of the composition. Founded by Benjamin Franklin and others in 1731, the Library Company of Philadelphia became one of the central institutions of learned life in the early republic. Its Fifth Street home, built in

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