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FIREFIGHTING

The FRANKLIN Company

Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Act of incorporation and by-laws of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia: No publisher or printer, 1829]. 12mo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). 12 pp.
$325.00

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• Sabin 61675; not in Shoemaker. Original plain blue-green wrappers, chipping over spine, front wrapper with inked title and numeral. Sewing going, with signatures loose in wrappers. Title-page with three-digit stamped number and with pencilled notation in upper margin. A very scarce publication.

Philadelphia-AreaFIRE Insurance

(Mutual Assurance Company). The deed of settlement of the Mutual Assurance Company, for insuring houses from loss by fire, in and near Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Pr. by W. Fry, 1818. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
$275.00

• Early and uncommon American insurance item, with a nice woodcut title-page vignette of a tree. The company was originally founded in 1784 and incorporated in 1786; it produced its first deed of settlement in 1801, the text of which is here amended to conform with changes made to the original act of incorporation.

In libraries, this is a common item on microfilm—very uncommon, as a reality.

• Shaw & Shoemaker 44957. Stitched in paper wrappers, front wrapper with printed paper label; pencilled notations to upper margin of front wrapper, small smudge to back wrapper. Ownership inscription to front fly-leaf. A little foxing only.

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