Fascinating periodical of the time with detailed, often very lengthy articles or series of articles on a great variety of themes relevant to early Americana researchers and collectors. 

Hazard, Samuel [ed.] The Register of Pennsylvania. Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania. July 1831 to January 1832. Philadelphia. Wm. F. Geddes. 1831. 432pp.

Contents include:

*First Annual Report of the Bucks County Academy of Natural Sciences

*An Essay on Hydrophobia and the Affections Supposed to Result from the Bites of Animals and Known by the Appellation of Hydrophobia by J. C. Rousseau before the Philadelphia Medical Society

*The Horticultural Society

*Governor Wolf's Visit

*The Swedes in Pennsylvania

*The Presbytery of Philadelphia [Series]

*The Diary of a Naturalist in Pennsylvania

*Anthracite - A Fuel for Steamboats

*A Relict of Wyoming [PA]

*Thoughts on Emigration 

*A Description of Bald Eagle Valley

*A Description of Juniata River

*Temperance

*Pennsylvania Silk Worms

*Fayetteville Sufferers

*General Braddock's Defeat

*Bethlehem [PA] from a Traveller's Note Book

*Thoughts on Emigration from Europe to the United States [Series]

*Numbers of Free Colored Persons and Slaves in Philadelphia

*Indian History from the Pemberton Manuscripts [Series]

*Emigration to the West

*Free Trade Meeting

*A Speech of William Penn

*Fire Companies in Philadelphia

*Revolutionary 1768

*The Culture of Silk

*Annual Oration before the Zelosophic Society y Joseph Hopkinson

*Pittsburg in 1759

*Some Account of Early Poets and Poetry of Pennsylvania [Series]

*Steamboat Explosions

*Black Lead Mines

*Pennsylvania Temperance Society

*American Silk

*The Temperance Convention

*The Cause of the Poles

*Governor Mifflin's Message

*Major Biddle

*The Free Trade Convention [Extensive Series]

*Indian Affairs [Series]

*The Quaker Objections to War Given in Philadelphia, 1775

*General Wayne's Telescope

*An Indictment for Murder

*Early American Proceedings on Slavery, etc. etc. etc. 

Very attractive ex library buckram; one of the better library bindings we have seen. Rather minor ex library marks on interior.