Books That Shaped America
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Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751) (001.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America. London: E. Cave, 1751. Benjamin Franklin Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved (1732) (002.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved (1732) and The Way to Wealth (1785)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). Poor Richard Improved: An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1758. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1757. American Almanac Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). The Way to Wealth, and a Plan by Which Every Man May Pay His Taxes. Philadelphia: Daniel Humphreys, 1785. Printed Ephemera Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (103.00.00)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) (003.00.00)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809). Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776. American Imprint Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)

Noah Webster, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (1783) (004.00.00)

Noah Webster, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (1783)
Noah Webster (1758–1843). A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1783. John Davis Batchelder Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00–005.00.00)

The Federalist (1787) (006.01.00)

The Federalist (1787)
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution. vol. 1. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788. Thomas Jefferson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible (1788) (007.00.00)

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible (1788)
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments. . . . Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. American Imprint Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)

Christopher Colles, A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America (1789) (008.00.00)

Christopher Colles, A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America (1789)
Christopher Colles (1738–1816). “From Annapolis to Alexandria.” A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America. New York: Colles, 1789. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin, The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. (1793) (009.00.00)

Benjamin Franklin, The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. (1793)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to France, &c. London: J. Parsons, 1793. Benjamin Franklin Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)

Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796) (010.00.00)

Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796)
Amelia Simmons [n.d.]. American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables . . . and All Kinds of Cakes, from the Imperial Plumb to Plain Cake, Adapted to This Country, and All Grades of Life. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1796. American Imprint Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)

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