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Books on exhibition
Spring semester 2008, at the University of Mississippi Museum
- Augustine, Saint, City of God, 1494
- Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologiae Pars Secunda, 1475
- Articles of Confederation, 1782
- Blackstone, William, Blackstone Commentaries (four books), 1771
- Blackstone, William, Blackstone’s Magna Carta, 1759
- Boston Massacre, The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, 1770
- Calvin, John, The Institutes, 1578
- Crevecoeur, Michel-Guillaume St. Jean De, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
- Crockett, David, Crockett Almanac of 1839
- Crockett, David, Crockett Almanac of 1842
- Dartmouth, Case of Dartmouth College, 1819
- Domesday Book, 1862
- Douglass, Frederick, My Bondage & My Freedom, 1855
- Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life and Times of F. Douglass 1893
- Franklin, Benjamin, Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Document, 1787
- Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1801
- Lincoln, Abraham, Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
- Madison, James, Letters on the Constitutionality of the Power to Impose Tariff, 1828
- Magna Charta (Carta), ca 1350
- Malthus, Thomas Robert, Essay on the Principle of Population, 1803
- Minutes of the 2nd Continental Congress, 1778
- Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, 1776
- Penn, William, Great Case of Liberty of Conscience, 1670
- Smith, Adam, Theory of Moral Sentients, 1790
- Smith, Adam, Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America,1836
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1782
- Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet, Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733
- Zenger, John Peter, The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1738
Thirty five books/artifacts total. The oldest book is a 1350 copy of the Magna Carta.
For more information about specific books go to http://www.theremnanttrust.com