J,M^ ^fWl lB'?5i-,-.-j;»-*l fe-*.*--" ^N7/9' --'^ ^^'^'^% \^A ■:#) 1 :3^«7 :5' -9 <^ <; /^ i o (Qotnell Intweraity Uibcarg Sttfaca, Nem fork B^-3 3^^ BENNO LOEWY LIBRARY COLLECTED BY BENNO LOEWY 1854-1919 BEQUEATHED TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY ^m^^ -sJi} ))> ...-^ .32, ^^ ^ ^L^^^L^ ^i'^^K D>^ 72gX_jj3 ^3X> 2*- > :;:> ^ "5> -*> .0 Cornell University Library Z987 .W98 Private libraries of New York / by James olln 3 1924 029 545 286 >-> ■-^ -^^ "^^ >> -■■ ?^7 Cornell University Library The original of this bool< is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029545286 I X T E R T O R OF THE LIBRARY OF W M . CURTIS NOTES. PRIVATE LIBRARIES NEW YORK, J A m: E s WYNNE, m: . D NEW YORK: B. FRENCH, 120 NASSAU STREET, MDCCCLX. £^ Kutered according- to Act of Congress, in the year IStiO, by JAMBS WYNNE, M. D., la. the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. C. A. ALVOUD, PHINTER, NEW YORK. PREFACE The greater part of the sketches of Private Libraries to be found in this vohime, were prepared for and published in the Evening Post, about two years since. Their origin is due to a request on the part of Mr. Bigelow, one of the Editors of tlie Post, to the writer, to examine and sketch the more prominent private collections of books in New York. As the writer had but recently changed his residence from Baltimore to New York, and was quietly awaiting such favors as the public were willing to award him as a prac- titioner of Medicine, he was entirely unac- quainted with the extent or value of the private collections, and hesitated about undertaking a duty so congenial to his feelings, under the IV PREFACE. apprehension that the articles would be too meag-re to repay perusal. After an urgent solicitation he was finally induced to visit the library of the Rev. Dr. Wilhams, the first described in the newspaper series, and was so charmed with the collection, and the urbanity and learning of its possessor, that its description was an almost sponta- neous result. This was followed by a second and a third, until the series had attained the number of twenty-six. The work once commenced was continued as a labor of love, and furnished the writer, who confesses to the weakness of an ardent admiration for good books, a sufficient reward in the pleasure derived from its prosecution. The accounts make no pretensions to nice bibliographical knowledge, but present the reflections which a scholar, who has given a somewhat wide range to his studies, has derived from an examination of the numerous excellent works in these varied collections. Nor are they presented in any spirit of boastfulness, or with a belief of the completeness of the collections PKEFAC'K. V described. The writer, in common with the possessors of these libraries, is too well aware of the difficulties to be met with in making;- a complete collection upon any subject, and lias too often found himself at fault for want of authorities, even in the largest public libra- ries in the United States, to entertain any other than the most diffident opinion in regard to the collections described. As the labors of private individuals they are creditable — beyond this, praise would be worse than useless. One circumstance, which at the time ex- cited the surprise of the writer, in common with most others, and probably more than their literary merit attracted attention to the articles as they appeared in the Post, was the comparatively little knowledge possessed of the contents and value of the separate collections. This was often as much a matter of surprise to the owners of other libraries as to the community at large, and is probably to be accounted for on the ground that the collec- tors are for the most part studious men, who VI PREFACK. are content to enjoy their own acquisitions, without allowing their thoughts to extend far beyond the confines of their own particular associations. The separate articles have all undergone a careful revision, while many have been en- tirely rewritten, and a few new ones added. As it now stands, the work may be consid- ered as giving a tolerably fair account of most of the private collections in New York, and will be a sufficient guide to the student as to the sources from which be may hope to derive information, not to be found in the public libraries. This has been a prominent object in the preparation of these articles, and has operated in a no less degree with the collectors of the various libraries in frankly permitting an account of them to be given to the public. Fifth Avenue, Mueeay Hii-l, Jinii' I860. CONTENTS, I'rttJE John Allan's Collection .... 1 Hbnet J. Andbeson's " 15 Peofbssok Anthon's " 27 Geoege Banceoft's, "..... 43 Thomas P. Baeton's " 59 Rev. De. Bethune's " . . . . . 97 J. Caeson Beevooet's " 105 Joshua Beookes's " . . . . . 125 Wm. E. Bueton's " 135 Rev. De. Chapin's "..... 155 Alexandbe I. Cotheal's " 161 Wm. J. Davis's " 173 Daniel Embtjet's " 179 D. W. FisKEs's " 187 Geoege Folsom's " 197 Rev. De. Foebbs's " 221 De. J. W. Feancis's " 231 A. W. Geiswold's " 245 Aechbishop Hughes's " . . . . .257 RiCHAED M. Hunt's " 269 Judge Kent's " . . . . .281 D. ISr. Loed's " 287 Rev. De. Magoon's " 299 Wm. JMenzies's " * 313 Heney C. Muephy's " 335 vni cc)NTi';N'is. PAGI-: Wm. Crirris Noyes's Coi-lkl'tiox . - • 347 Geo. W. Peatt's " 301 Geo. T. Steoxg's " . . • • 377 R. L. Stuart's " 385 CiiAs. M. Wiieatley's " .... 405 Ki('HAi;i) Grant White'.s " . . . . .411 Kev. De. Williams's " .... 433 MJfciOELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, Wm. B. Astok's Collection .... 447 J. W. Ashmead's " .... 447 J. R. Beodhead's " 448 Chaeles I. Bushnell's " .... 448 F. W. CozzENs's " 448 Alexander J. Davis's " . . . . 449 W. Butlee Duncan's " . . . . . 449 Chaeles W. Feedeeickson's " .... 450 James L. Graham, Je.'s " . . . . . 450 Campbell Moeeit's " . . . . 450 J. B. Morbau's " 451 A. J. Odell's " . . . . 451 Dr. Purple's " 454 Dr. Maetyn Paine's " .... 454 Anson G. Phelps, Je.'s " 454 J. Austin Stevens's " .... 454 Benj. M. Stillvs'bll's " . . . . . 454 Samuel J. Tilden's " .... 455 John Van Bueen's "... . . 455 THE LIBRARY OF JOHN ALLAN, ESQ. This collection, which, numbers between three and fotxr thousand volumes, is perhaps the most curious in character, and peculiar in selection, of any in the city. Its limited extent necessarily precludes all idea of a general library, which, indeed, has not so much been the purpose of its possessor, as the bringing together of those curiosities of literature which from being unique, rare, or associated with circumstances of literary note or importance, are endowed with more than ordinary interest. It thus happens that, within the limited space assigned by Mr. Allan for himself in the formation of his collec- tion, he has managed to include a larger number of those literary curiosities so much admired by the lover of virtu, or those who are affected in the least degree with that singular yet fascinating character- istic termed bihliomania, or hook-madness, than is usually found in the more extensive private collec- tions. Notwithstanding Bruyere's humorous account of 1 •2 LIBRARIES OF NKW YORK. this class of persons, as those who are " fond of superh bindings alone," and who " nearly cause one to faint by the strong smell of morocco leather," or that of Peignot, who defines this to be " a passion for possessing books, not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them," and is satisfied with dates and titles so far as the contents are concerned ; yet the book of especial interest, first pointed out in every collection, either public or private, and chiefly remembered by the casual visitor, belongs exclusively to this class. Thus the British Museum possesses a number of books which owe their chief value to the circumstance of once having belonged to the library of Henry VII. A copy of Lord Bacon's Essays, published in 1798, in the library of the Earl of Spencer, is placed above all price, because it is one of five copies printed on royal folio. It is apprehended that no person would give one thousand dollars for a copy of the first folio edition of Shakspeare's works, or £56 14s. for a copy of a single play, scarce fifty leaves in thickness, as mentioned in the description of Mr. Barton's library, without the associations con- nected with them, which bestow on many of the cifriosities in Mr. Allan's collection their chief value. In Lord Spencer's collection there is an octavo edition of Shakspeare, bequeathed to him by Mr. ME. Allan's collection. 3 Stevens, illustrated by many curious specimens of graphic art by the present possessor, which would, if brought to hammer, bring a price even greater than the sums already named. In a subsequent chapter, an illustrated edition of this great poet's writings will be noticed, which, in point of cost, and number and magnificence of illustrations, probably surpasses any thing of the kind in existence. Mr. Allan possesses a large and valuable collection of illustrated works, or those in which plates have been inserted which do not belong to the volume, but are pertinent to the subject treated, comprising upward of one hundred and twenty-five volumes, many of which are illustrated and bound in the very best style of the art. Among these is a copy of Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, Pope's Rape of the Lock, and Cowper's Task, inserted in sheets extended to the size of a quarto, and illustrated with a large number of engravings. The Pleasures of Memory, by Rogers, similarly arranged, containing an auto- graph letter from the author to Mr. Bellamy, editor of the Monthly Mirrm\ dated January 4th, 179*7 ; a unique quarto copy of Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, from the dispersed library of William Upcott, of London, a celebrated collector of curious books, illustrated with portraits and auto- graph letters of the chief persons noticed in the LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. work. The autograph letters include those of Lord Byron, Lady Byron Gordon, the poet's mother, Wil- liam Cobbett, the poets Samuel Eogers, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Rev. W. L. Bowles and James Montgomery and Joseph Cottle, John Murray, Byron's publisher; T. Sheridan, Mr. Constable, Sid- ney Smith, and William GifFord, the editor of the London Quarterly. All of these volumes, which have been illustrated with great care by engravings brought together in this connection for the first and only time, are bound by binders of considerable note in their best manner. In addition is a unique copy of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, in two volumes, illustrated by the inserted engravings of the likenesses of most of the distinguished English jihilosophers contemporary with Sir Humphrey Davy, and containing autograph letters of Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Anthony Carlisle, P. M. Cruikshank, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Count Rumford, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Sinclair, Wil- berforce, Earl of Spencer, Sir Ralph Milbank, the father of Lady Byron, Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society, Sir Everard Home, Sir James Mackintosh, and numerous others ft-om persons who had distinguished themselves for scientific attain- ments. To the scientific man this work possesses more interest than any other in the collection, and MK. Allan's collection. there is none whicli appears to associate tte reader so intimately with these distinguished savans as this unique copy of the life of one of the most gifted among their niimber. There is also an illustrated Life of Mary Queen of Scots, by Buckingham, in four volumes, bound by Tarrant. A copy of the Catalogue JRaisonne of select engravings, by Wilson, on large paper, illustrated by engravings collected by Mr. Allan; likewise a copy of the same work, enriched by engravings col- lected in London for Mr. Allan, by Evans, the cele- brated print-seller, bound by Hayday, and a third copy of the same catalogue now being completed by its possessor. This work is considered as a highly valuable catalogue of the best engravings by nearly all the celebrated masters, both ancient and modern, and is arranged with much care. Its price, without illustrations, is one and a half guineas. The engrav- ings, however, add largely to the interest and the pecuniary value of the Catalogues in this collection. Akin to this is The Print Collector, by Maberly, a gentleman of fortune and excellent taste, who amused himself by collecting a choice gallery of engravings by the ablest artists, distinguished for rarity or beauty of design or execution. Many of the engravings in this gallery (since sold) are de- scribed in this volume. The work contains an b LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. account of tlie works of tlie noted engravers, from tlie inception of the art down to the present time, and is held in high repute by those who are most conversant with engravers and their works. The present cojdj contains seventy-two inserted specimens of the engravings of the artists named in the text, and is riclily bound in morocco by Mackenzie. A very remarkable work in the illustrated depart- ment of the collection is an edition of Robert Fulton on Canals, which contains, in addition to the engrav- ings, all the original drawings executed by Fulton himself, from which the engravings were afterward made. Fulton, it will be remembered, was in youth an artist, and for a time not only assisted Benjamin West in his studio, but was an inmate of his family. The sketches in water-color in this volume, although not elaborate, give evidence of the free and rapid hand of one habituated to the use of the pencil of the designer. In addition to these drawings the volume contains the original joint letter of Fulton and his colleague and generous patron. Chancellor Livingston, asking the undisputed right to the use of steam navigation upon the waters of the state for a specified term of years. There are those still living who witnessed the first experiment of Fulton in the harbor of New York, and many by whom this relic of a great inventor and a courteous gentle- JIK. ALLAX S COLLECTION. man will be looked upon as a curious and valuable remembrancer. Besides the works already enumerated are three editions of the Works of Robert Burns ; two copies of Chattos on Wood Engraving ; Chinese Courtship ; Hogg's Queen's Wake ; HoUan's Catalogues ; Wash- ington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York, and Rip Van Winkle, illustrated by Mr. Allan; Putnam's Journal; several copies of Ram- say's Gentle Shepherd ; Scribbleomania ; Trumbull's Life and Times ; and Pickering's edition of Walton and Cotton's Angler, in which the inserted illustra- tions extend two volumes to four. But perhaps the most curious work in the col- lection, as a mere illustrated volume, although far inferior to some others as a work of literary merit, is Dibdin's Bibliomania, of the edition of 1811, illustrated with two hundred and eleven engravings, many of which are excellent impressions, and some from private plates. This copy, which is in two volumes, belonged to and was illustrated under the superintendence of Mr. William Turner, of Islington, England, of whom Dibdin says : " That of all the worshippers of bibliomania, he was the most ardent, the most constant, the most generous, sparing noth- ing wherewith to decorate her person, or add to the treasures of her wardrobe." Every leaf in this 8 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. volume has been inserted, and the whole extended to the size of an imperial octavo. It is bound in green morocco, by Charles Lewis, Sen., and is an excellent specimen of his workmanship. Upon the decease of Mr. Turner, it was purchased by Evans, the print-seller, and by him sold to the late Mr. TowTi for one hundred and fifty dollars. Upon the dispersion of this collection, it fell into the hands of its present owner. All of the works enumerated as illustrated are unique, and contain inserted engravings, or engrav- ings and autograph letters. The origin of this fancy for books containing inserted engravings representing characters or circumstances mentioned in the work, has been ascribed to the publication of Granger's Biographical History of England, in 1766, 1804 and 1806. " His History of England," remarks Dibdin, " seems to have sounded the tocsin for a general rummage after, and slaughter of old prints. Venerable philoso^ihers and veteran heroes, who had long reposed in unmolested dignity within the mag- nificent folio volumes which recorded their achieve- ments, were instantly dragged from their peaceful alwdes, to be inlaid by the side of some spruce modern engraving mthin an Illustrated Granger. From these it has glanced off in a variety of direc- tions, and the passion, or rather this sym]itom of ME. Allan's collection. bibliomania, still rages with undiminislied force. If judiciously treated, it is of all the symptoms the least liable to mischief; as to possess a series of well-executed portraits of illustrious men, fi'om blooming boyhood to phlegmatic old age, is suffi- ciently amusing." The department of Fine Arts is supplied with nearly two hundred volumes, some of which are works of much merit. Among these are the Cabinet de Ohoisetd, Cabinet de Poullain, Livia Doria Gar- affa, Chinese Illustrations, Albert Dui'er's Designs, and Gubitz's Etchings on Wood, and a description of the works of Wenceslaus Hollar, containing a par- ticular account of each of his engravings, many of which were in the collection made by Charles I. This celebrated engraver was born in Prague, in 1607, and bred to the pursuit of law. Driven from home by civil commotions, he became at Frankfort a pupil of Merian, and made such prog- ress that at eighteen he published his Ecce Homo, and Virgin and Child. He attracted the attention of the Earl of Arundel, with whom he went to England, where he executed most of his superior designs. The department devoted to emblems, which con- tains about one hundred volumes, is probably the most curious, and perhaps the most extensive, in the 1(1 LIBKAKIES OF NEVf YOKK. United States. In it are found Iselhnrgli Bmhlem- atica Politica Morulia, publislied at Nuremberg in 1590; Jacob Cat's folio works, containing Ms Em- blems, published in 1656 ; TJieatrum Ml mica Politico Historicnm. Meisner's Emblems, containing vieAVS of tlie chief cities and palaces in the world, with emblems in the foreground, and proverbs in Latin and German ; Emblems by Crispin de Pass, a rare copy ; and Wither's Emblems, containing a valuable portrait of the author, by Payne, and a frontispiece by Marshall, one of the best engravers of his day, for a copy of whose likeness of Lord Stirling, £50 were given; also. Monastic Symbols and Mono- grams, being the original drawings and manuscript ; and a curious manuscript work, entitled Paradoxa Emhlemata, by Dionysius Andreas Freher. The collection contains about one hundred vol- umes of Scrap Books made up of drawings, some of which are of much merit. Of these books some consist entirely of beautiful drawings, others of col- ored engravings, and others still of the best speci- mens of engraving executed within the last fifty years the collector could possess himself of There is a collection of one hundred and twenty-nine Fac- similes of scarce and curious prints by the early masters, illustrative of the history of engraving, by Wm. Young Ottley, in folio ; also, Shaw's Dresses MK. Allan's collectkim. 11 and Decorations of the Middle Ages, in two volumes folio, on large paper ; Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments of the Middle Ages, in like condition; Lyndsay's Fac-simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript, Edin- burgh, 1822, of which 100 copies only were printed; Ovid's Metamorphoses, with plates by Picart, pub- lished at Amsterdam, a copy of which was sold in New York for $45 ; the original edition of Bums's Poems, published at Kilmarnock in 1786, now so rare that there are probably not more than five or six copies in the whole country ; Whetstone's " Eng- lish Myrror" in black letter, beautifully bound, published at London in 1586, and very rare; Trac- tatns Yerbaruin, a small trad^ prui/ed by Wytilyn de Woj'de and bound by 2Iachenzie, with no date; Curtes's Navigation, by Eden ; The Sim])le Cobbler of Aggawam, London, 1647; Spenser's Collin Clout, London, 1595; Holland's Horologia Angliea ; the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1st edition; the Gospels of the Four Evangelists, in Saxon and English, black letter, 1571; the black letter edition of Reynard the Fox, three parts, quarto, published in 1681 ; and a very curious little work called " The Byrth of Mankind," in black letter, which is the first treatise on Obstetrics ever printed in English, published in 1540. The copy in Mr. Allan's collection once belonged to Dr. Robert Bland, and contains his 12 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. crest, witli an autograph note ai^pended by this distinguished physician, with an account of the work, which is here given : "It is a translation of Eucharius Ehodion, Be Partu liominis, published originally in German, and first translated into Latin and printed at Fearnslu- ford, in the year 1532. This was again translated in 1545, and published, with considerable additions not in the original, by Thomas Eaynauld, physician, of Avhich there have been since printed some more editions. Of this translation, which is exceedingly scarce, there never was another edition. — R. B." An account of this may be found in Vol. III. of Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain, and in the GentlemarH s Magazine for 1*752, p. 78. There are at least thirty specimens of Missals, illuminated manuscripts, and books of an early date printed on vellum, some of which are very beautiful and valuable. The collection of Bibles, Testaments and Psalms, is large ; among them is a Bible in man- uscript on vellum, of the fourteenth century; the Vulgate, printed in 1493 ; the English Breeches Bible, as it was termed, because in the translation " breeches " was used for " apron," published in 1589 ; and an Indian translation, printed at Cam- bridge, Mass., in 1663, styled, Eliot's Indian Bible, the first edition of the Bible published in America. MR. Allan's collection. 13 A copy of this Bible was recently sold at the sale of Mr. Corwin's collection, for two hundred dollars, inferior to this in point of condition. The collection possesses an elegant copy of Numi-s- mati Virorum Illustriu7n JBarhadici, published in 1723, at the expense of Cardinal Barbadici, whose family medals it delineates. The whole is executed with a magnificence of style in printing and engrav- ing, which nothing short of the most lavish expendi- ture could have enabled its projector to accomplish. A second part was added after his decease, but in a style far inferior to the portion of the work executed at the command of the cardinal. There is an excellent copy of Anderson's Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatutn Scotice Tliescmrus^ 15 I'ictiiros :i,'ll7 11 Prints and drawings I, DOS 11 I) (Joins and iiiodals 1,977 17 Anti<|uitios .■i,2l(i I.") Xl(i,(M7 1^! A ('(nisideralde sum to expc^nd in works of this kind; ami yet Dr. Mead was not a i-ich man. THE LIBRARY OF HEXRY J. IXDERSOX, LL. D. De. Axdeesox's Collection, wticli contains about seven thousand volumes, is one of marked character, and bears a strong impress of the various pursuits which at different periods of its collector's life, intensely occupied his attention. Bred to the pro- fession of medicine, afterward a professor of mathe- matics and astronomy in Columbia College, with a strong attachment for geological and classical studies, an amateur in chess, and fortunate in the possession of means to enable him to collect works at his pleasure, he has enriched his libraiy with many of the most erudite authors in each of these depart- ments. That of mathematics, however, the teaching of which was the pursuit of his life for fifteen yeais, is by far the most complete and valuable. In this department are most of the treatises of D'Alembert, Condorcet, Camot, Bossut, Legendre, Bailly, Ai-ago, Ampere, and most of the French mathematicians of this period. Among these are D'Alembert's Essai (Tun Xo^ii'dle Theorie de la Resi-stance de-s FluirJt-s. 16 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Paris, 1752, 4to. D'Alembert's entire works, in five volumes, published at Paris, 1821-2. D'Alembert's Traits de Dynamique, Paris, 1*796. Condorcet's I)u Calcul Integral^ Paris, 1Y68, 4to. Du Problem des Trois Cm'ps, Paris, 176Y. Essai sur V Application (le V Analyse a la Probahilite des Decisions^ Paris, 1785. Bailly's Astronomie Modern^ Paris, 1782-4; and Histoire de V Astronomie Ancienne jusqu'a V PJtablissement de VJEcole d'' Alexandrie^ Paris, 1775, 4to., a work of the most exact information and profound erudition. It is written in a style of much elegance, and compares favorably in this respect with the writings of Fontenelle, who was the first to introduce a graceful style into scientific writings in France. Some objections made by Vol- taire to the view taken of the philosophy of the Brahmins, whom he ranked as the inventors of all the sciences, involved Bailly in a discussion on this subject which gave rise to the Lettres sur VOrigine des Sciences, and the Atlantide de Platan, in which he alleges that the creation of all the arts is due to an ancient people who inhabited the elevated plains of eastern Tartary, and who being dispersed by the revolutions of nature over the globe, left among the people with whom they were thus brought into con- tact, the elements of this knowledge, the evidence of which is to be traced in the traditions and obscure I3K. Anderson's collection. 17 memorials of most of the eastern nations. In this manner the arts are supposed to have passed into China, the Indies, Chaldea and Greece, and through this latter channel into Rome, and from thence to the various civilized nations of the western world. The recent developments in China clearly show, that this exclusive people are in the possession of many arts, which among Europeans are supposed to be of modern origin, and give a new significance to the views of Bailly, upon whose theory their existence is of easy and practical solution. In fact, among the academicians of France, whose varied contribu- tions to science at this period have never been surpassed, Bailly occupied a prominent position. His observations upon the moon, the zodiacal stars and the satellites of Jupiter, Avith the tables of their movements, contributed to the Academy, at once raised him to the foremost rank of astronomical observers. He was associated with Franklin in the commission appointed to inquire into the delusion of animal magnetism ; was the friend and supporter of La Fayette, in his attempts to curb the atrocities of the French revolutionists ; and finally fell a victim to their fury by a death upon the scaffold, in Novem- ber, 1793. A very valuable work in this connection is Sou- ciet's Observations Mathematiques^ Astronomiques^ 3 18 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Geograjyhiques, Ohronologiqtoe-s et Physuques, tirees des anciem Uvres Ohinois, on fait nouvellement aux Indes et a la Chine par Us Peres de la Co'nvpagnie de Jesus, 3 vols., Paris, 1'729-1Y32, 4to., wHcli demon- strates the possession of a considerable amount of exact information in regard to these sciences, at the time when the Jesuits first began their missionary labors among them. In this department of the library are Aetius's Prinnim Mobile Astronomice, Sciographice, Geome- trice et Hydrograpliice, Nova Metliodo Explicatum in V partihxis^ 4to., Amsterdam, 1631 ; Borellius's De vera Telescopii Inventor e cum hrevi omnium con- spiciliorum Historia, Hague, 1655 ; Borellius's Ele- menta Conica Apollonii Pergm., et Arcliimedis Opera, Rome, 16Y9 ; Boscovich's De Inequalitatibus quas Sattirnus et Jupiter sihi mutuo videntur indu- cere, proesertim Circa Tevipus Conjunctionis, Rome, 1756, 4to. ; Lorgna's Mathematical and Physical Works, published at Verona, 1770, 4to. ; Lorgna's Dissertation on the Summation of the Infinite Con- verging Series with Algebraic Divisors, London, 1799, 4to. ; Mac Laurin's Geometricc Organica, Lon- don, 1720; Mac Laurin's Treatise of Fluxions, Ed- inburgh, 1742, 4to. ; Merius's De Phcenomenis in Orhe Limw Telescopii usu a Galileo Stiscitatis, Venice, 1612; and Pitiscus's Thesaurus Mathemat- DR. Anderson's collection. 19 wus, Frankfort, 1613. This work, wMck is tke most extended in existence on the sinus, is very rare. Delambre knew of tut three copies, one in the library of the Institute, one in that of Baron de Zach, and the third in his own. It was originally prepared by Rheticus, but the manuscript was found with the papers of Valentine Otho, the first editor of the Opus Palatinum, and confounded with his writings. There is a copy of Bougainville's Calculi Infini- tesimalis Pars 11.^ sen Calcuhts Integralis^ 1Y64, 4to. This treatise was first published in 1754, when its author was but twenty-five years of age. He appears to have been of a very adventurous tiu"n of mind, and instead of continuing in France to follow up the reputation his work had gained for him, embarked the following year for Canada, where he served with distinction as a captain and adjutant to Montcahn. Upon the decease of his superior oflicer he returned to France, and obtained permission to colonize the Falkland Islands, where he remained about three years. He made many discoveries of islands, and was the first French captain who circumnavigated the globe. Among the most ancient of the mathematical and astronomical works is Ptolemy's Almagest, edited by Peter Liechtenstein, published at Venice, 20 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. 1515, folio. Ptolemy was without doubt the most distinguished astronomer of antiquity. In such high esteem was he held "by his contem- poraries that they always associated such titles as " admirable " " astonishing," and " divine," with his name. He enriched the school of Alexandria with his labors, and on this account Synesius, in speaking of it, calls it " the divine school." He affixed to his treatise on astronomy the modest title of Syntaxis Mathematical or Mathematical Composi- tion, but his editors changed this to " The Very Great (ji ii^yiorrj^ Composition," out of which the Arabic translators made, by coiTupting the Greek, their '■'■Almagest^ There is found in this great work, wi'itten at the time when Egypt was the centre of science, and the western world was enshrouded in the most profound intellectual darkness, a clear exposition of the system of the world, the arrangement of the heavenly bodies and their revolutions, a complete treatise on Trigo- nometry, both rectilinear and spherical, and all the phenomena of diurnal movement explained and calculated with the most remarkable precision; which appears the more extraordinary when it is considered how imperfectly arithmetic and trigo- nometry were understood at a later period among the Greeks. The AhnaqeM gives a description DR. Anderson's collection. 21 of all tlie instruments necessary for a great observ- atory, and describes the celebrated " armilles ," used in observing the obliquity of the ecliptic, the equi- noxes and the solstices. One of these " armilles," being placed upon the plane of the meridian, served to determine the declension of all the stars; the other, being placed upon the plane of the equator, gave the equinoxes and the length of the year. Ptolemy conceived a movable quarter of a circle, vv^hich he was enabled to turn at will to the different quarters of the horizon. With this instrument he asserts that he was enabled to measure an arc of the great circle of the terrestrial globe, without being obliged, as his predecessors were, to change it within the plane of the meridian. In this work is to be found the first description of the equatorial. For more delicate observations, Ptolemy invented a species of sector, of greater radius, in which the degrees were susceptible of a much more minute subdivision than in any of those of preceding astron- omers. Following the example of Hipparchus, and without having seen the instrument of this great astronomer, he constructed an astrolabe, to compose a new catalogue of stars, and to follow easily the course of the sun, moon, and the planets. For astronomical researches in all ages, he constructed a celestial globe, movable at the poles, upon which -'- LIBEAEIES OF NEW YORK. he placed all the tlien known stars, with their lati- tude and longitude. In short, but for the lahors of this great philosopher, as developed in the Alma- gest, it is very certain that astronomy would be far less advanced than it is at the j)resent day, and it is not at all improbable that the discoveries of Kepler and Newton, which flowed as a conse- quence from them, might have remained as pro- found mysteries as they were before the days of these great philosophers. The annexed remarkable expression is aflixed to his works : " I know that I am mortal, and that my career will not be of long duration, but when I follow in spirit the course of the stars, my feet do not touch the earth. Seated near to Jupiter, like to a god I am nourished on heavenly nectar." Among the works of the German astronomers and mathematicians, are those of Bode, Doppelmayr, Encke, Euler, Eytehvein, Gauss, Huygens, Hensius, Hell, Idler, Kant, Juni, Kastner, Kautsch, Kinder- mann, Kircher, Lehmann, Leibnitz, Leonelli, Muller, and Ozanam, including the AstronomiscTies Jalirhuch of Bode, and Berlin Astronomisclie tTalirhuch, con- ducted by Encke, as well as the Epliemerides Astro- nomicce, anno 1765, in 17 vols., by Hell. This latter writer, who was a native of Hungary, and a member of the order of Jestis, occupied the post of astrono- DK. andebson's COLLECTIOJS. mer to tlie observatory at Vienna for thirty-six years, during wMcli time he went to Lapland to observe the transit of Venus, an account of which, entitled Ohservatio Transitus Veneris^ ante discum Solis, die 3 Jimii, 1769, is in the library. In 1YY6, he pub- lished the " Almanach Vienese," which furnished the basis of the celebrated Almanach de Gotha, under which title it is at present continued. These works include Bode's Yon dem 7ieuen, Zivisvlien 2Iars und Jupiter^ entdec'kten, &c., Berlin, 1802 ; Erlauter- ting der Stenikunde und der Dazugelwrigen Wisse7i- scliaften^ 2 vols., with eleven copperj)late engravings, Bei'lin, 1808 ; Doppelmayr's Atlas JVovus Cwlestis^ Nuremburg, 1*742, folio ; Historisclte Kacliriclit von Nurnhergisclien Matliematisclien und Kanstlern, JVu- Temherg^ 1*730, folio; Encke's AstronomiscJie Beo- hachtungen aus der KonigJiclien Sternwarte zu Ber- lin, Berlin, 1840, folio; Huygens's KoafioOiiopog sive de Terris celestibus earftmque ornata conjecturce, Hague, 1698 ; Klilber's Sternwarte zu Manlieim, Manheim, 1811, quarto ; Klugel's Dioptric\ Leipsic, 1*778 ; Lambert's Zusatze zu den LogaritTimiselien und Trig- onometrischen Tahellen, Berlin, 1Y70 ; and Leibnitz's Dissertatio de Arte Comhinataria, Leipsig, 1666. Among the more recent publications are most of the writings of La Place, including an excellent copy of the Traite de Mecaniqne Celeste, in 4 vols., 4to., LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Paris, 1S25, with a supplement, published in 182*7, and a translation by Bowditcb ; Lacroix's Works, in 1 vols., published in 1816 ; Garnier's Geometrie Ana- litique, 1831 ; Ltcons de Ccdcul Integral, 1812 ; Reciproques de la Geometrie, 1810 ; Discussion dm Racines des Equations determinees du Premier Degre a Plusieurs Inconnues, et PJliminations entre deux Egiiations de Degres quelcongues d deux inconnues, Paris, 1813 ; Biot's Traite de Physique, Experimentale et MatJiematique, 4 tomes, Paris, 1816; and the greater part of the other works of this author; Delambre's Works, including his Histoire de V Astronomie Ancienne, of which Cuvier, in a discourse pronounced over his tomb, says: " Before him, the history of astronomy had its fables, corresponding to the history of the people among whom it was cultivated. Superficial minds, so far from stripping it of these mythological asso- ciations, had embarrassed it still more by the most fantastic conceptions. Delambre appeared, and without effort he dissipated the clouds that envel- oped it. Reading all languages, and familiar with the foundations of all authority, he presented each fact as it existed disembarrassed of all conjecture and imagination. With a simplicity the most orig- inal, he has made each person recount his own dis- coveries. It is they who speak, in their own proper DE. AXDEESON S COLLECTION. 25 language. Eacli of their ideas is presented to the reader as tlieir own, clothed ia the same images, surrounded by the same assemblage of preparatory ideas and accessories, and in this manner ^ye are enabled to trace in each age its particular develop- ment, to study in each generation the formation of new ideas, and thus to form in our o^wu minds a view of the development of this admii-able science, the first creation of the genius of man, and that which he has been enabled to carry to the greatest perfection." The collection is rich in mathematical and other works of the XVIth centui'v, among Avhich are Ap- pianus's Co-smof/raphia, Cologne, 1574, ito. ; AreJihne- dis, Pliilosoplii ac Geometri, opera qiue extant om- nia, edited by Thomas Gechauff, Basle, 1544, folio ; Aristotle's Etliica, Frankfort, 1596 ; Diogenes De Vitis, Dogm. et A2?opld]i. Clarorum Pliilosaplio- rum, lihri X., Greece et Latine, 1593 ; Eusebius's Ecclesiastica Historia, Amsterdam, 1595, folio, 3 vols. ; 'EvkXelSov arpLxdcov p[(3Xia tre ruv Qeuvog avvovoMV ] AJjecta Priefat/uncida in qua de Di-s-ciplinis JIatlt- ematici-s nonniJid, Basle, 1533, folio; the works of Pliny the younger, 1506, folio; Baptista Porta's Z>e Refractione Optices, ISTajDles, 1593, 4to. ; and Schlam- merdorf's Htconditce Pliilosoplue Monumenta, '2 vols, folio, 1599, and a very curious work in manu- script on Geomancy, Chiromancy, 'EVV YORK. W.,for Thomas Millington^ (&r., 1600. 2d edition, extremely rare. From Sotheby's sale, May 21, 1857. Of the first edition, printed in 1595, only 07ie copy is known, which produced at Chalmers's sale J6131. This is not Shakespeare's play. Chalmers and others have assigned it to Christopher Marlowe, while Collier attributes it to Robert Greene. On it Shakespeare built the Third Part of Henry VI., re- taining much of the language. The Whole Contention hetweene the two Famous Houses^ Lancaster^ and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duhe Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and. King ITenrie the Sixt^ &c. Printed at London, for T. P. (1619). This is a reprint of the preceding, and of another play, by an unknown author, entitled. The first part of the contention bettoixt the two famous houses, &c., and which ap- peared in 1594. Upon the last-named play, Shake- speare built the 2d Part of Henry VI. The Tragedie of King Richard the Third, 1634. A later edition, and the only one of this play in the collection. The first was printed in 1597. Titus Andronicios, 1611. 2d edition. (^The title supplied in facsimile hy Harris^. There are two editions. Of the first, printed in 1600, but two coj)ies are known, one of which is in the collection ME. BAK'J'ON S COLLEOTKJ.N. 71> of the late Earl of EUesmere, and tlie other in the Signet Library, at Edinburgh. Romeo and Julid. Two editions are here, viz. : the quarto without date, but printed in 1607, and which is the 3d, and another, dated 1637. For a copy of the first edition, printed in 159*7, and which is extremely rare, Mr. J. P. Kemble gave £30 — an enormous price in those days. It is now in the Duke of Devonshire's collection. Hamlet. The reprint^ made in 1825, from a copy then svipposed unique, of the first edition, printed in 1603, and which is imperfect (wanting the last leaf). This copy is in the Duke of Devonshire's collection. A second copy (now in the British Museum), was discovered in 1856, witli the last leaf, but ivanting tlie title-page. The other editions here are : — The quarto, printed for John Smethwicke, IST. D., but jDrobably 1607 {tlie title-page of whicli is supplied in facsimile hy Harris^ ; and those of 1611 and 1637, the last with o^ougli leaves tlirougli- out. Besides these, are the later editions of 1676, 1683, 1695, and 1703. In the edition of 1676, many passages are marked for omis- sion in the representation, in which it has been followed by the others. Amongst these passages are the advice of Polonius to his son, the first part of Hamlet's address to the Ghost, and the whole of 80 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. his instructions to tlie Players ! This piece of van- dalism has teen often attributed to Garrick. It was perpetrated forty years before his birth. The Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear^ &c. Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1608. Two editions (if not three) were printed in 1608, of which this is the second — a very fine copy from Heber's library. They are all extremely rare. Do. Printed by Jane Bell, 1655. The rarest of the later quartos. (Sotheby, May 21, 1857). OtMlo. Printed by N. O., for Thomas Walkley, 1622. First edition, extremely rare. Phodes's copy sold for £42, and Bindley's for £56 14.s. Do. 1630. A very valuable edition according to Collier, being " unquestionably printed from a manuscript diff'er- ent from that used for the quarto of 1622 or for the folio of 1623." Do., 1655. A republication of the preceding. From the fact of this edition being called the " fourth" on the title-page, and the additional cir- cumstance of Pope having spoken of an edition without date, it has been conjectured that an edi- tion preceded that of 1622. None such has been discovered ; so that the series, so far as known, is here complete. Here are also the later editions of 1681, 1687, 1695, 1705. Class II. — The Second Class consists of the ancient collected editions of the Plays, commonly called the ilK. BAKTUN S CULLECTHIX. Sl Four FoJiO'S: In these, Avliicli resjiectively appeared in 1623, 1632, 1G63, lOOi, and 1685, the collection /.y complete. The extreme rarity of tlie first folio is well known. Very feAv copies of it, ]iei'fect throngh- out, are in existence. Most of those ottered for sale are either avowedly imperfect, or, which is more frequently the case, falsified in st>nie wa)- or other. Deficient leaves have teen reprinted from the first folio, or supplied fi'om the second. The title-page (so often wanting) has teen reprinted, Avitli a hlanh space left for the insertion of the portrait, which is then taken from the 2d, 3d, or 4th folio. The leaf of verses facing the title (generally wanting) has been more than once reprinted ; and both this leaf and the portrait have been supplied b}- the pen in fac-simile, ttc. Persons desii'ous of obtaining further information on this point, may consult an amusing note of George Steevens, written in the last cen- tury.* With respect to the pi'esent copy, it will be suflicient to quote the following passage from a letter, addressed to its OAvner, liy Mr. Thomas Eodd, the late eminent London bookseller : " On jour Shakespeare of 1623, I pin my reputation, moral as well as bibliographical. If you do not find it in every respect perfect and genuine, I Avill make yoii a present of the book, and will, in addition, forfeit * Malone's Edit, by Boswell, ISil, vol. ii., p. 658. 11 8:^ LIUKxVHlES OF KEW YOKK. ten pounds a leaf for every one that is not genuine." In another letter, Mr. Eodd ol3serves : " Of all the copies of this folio which have passed under my in- spection, al)Out forty in number, perfect and imper- fect, but three take precedence of this in point of size and condition. They respectively belong to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville (novs^ in the British Museum), Mr. Daniel, and Lord Francis Egerton (the late Earl of EUesmere)." A copy, said to be the best ever offered at j)ublic sale, produced, in 1854, £250. There is a peculiarity in the present copy which is worthy of notice. In the play of " As You Like It," tivo cancelled leaves have been retained, in addi- tion to those printed to supply their place. On the first, the signature is Il2 (instead of K), and the pagination is 203 (instead of 193). On the second, (E,6), verso^ the pagination is 194 (instead of 204). After a careful examination, no other differences have been discovered. In red morocco, hy C. Lewis. The copy of the folio of 1632, a very fine one, bound by Roger Payne, is from Col. Stanley's library. It originally wanted the leaf with Ben Jonson's verses, which was supplied by Mr. Rodd from another copy. This edition also contains only 36 plays. Though much more common than the first folio, it is notwithstanding a rare book. MR. barton's collection. 83 Of the third impression there are two varieties. The first has, like the 1st ^and 2d folios, only 36 plays, and tears on the title-page — " London, Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663." The portrait, which occupies the same place as in the other two folios, viz. : on the title-page, is not inserted in all the copies, the space in some of them heing left blank. The present copy, a very large one, is from Sothe- by's Sale, December 9, 1858. It lias the verses oppo- site the title inlaid^ and the margins of title and first leaf of dedication neatly restored. In red morocco, gilt edges., Ilarleian style. In the second variety, the space usually occupied by the portrait has the following words: "And unto this impression is added seven Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz. : Pericles Prince of Tyre. The london Prodigall. The History of Thomas L* Cromtvell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cohham. The Puritan Widoiv. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.'" And the imprint is — " London, Printed for P. O. 1664." The plays mentioned on the title are placed at the end of the volume, with two separate pagina- tions, one for Pericles, a second for the other six plays ; and a leaf, containing the portrait, with Ben Jonson's verses underneath, is made to face the title. Ped morocco., gilt edges, ivith arms. It has been frequently asserted that the greater '"^•i LIBRARIES OF NEAV YORK. part of this impression was destroyed in tlie fire of London ; but this is doubted by Lowndes, Knight, and others. It is very questionable whether this edition be of much rarer occurrence than the second. The fourth edition, 1685, is a rej)etition of the second variety of the third, with the Seven Plays. In a literary point of view it is without value, nor is the book one of very uncommon occurrence. In appearance it is totally unlike the others ; amongst other differences, the forms beino- one inch taller. There is a magnificently bound, uncut copy of the reprint of the first folio, made in 1808 ; and another copy of the same reprint, illustrated, and bound in four volumes. The modern editions form another class, com- nlencing with that of Rowe, 1Y09-10 (the edition next in succession to the fourth folio), and end- ing with that of Halliwell (in course of publica- tion). As these editions may now be counted by hundreds, it would have been an easy matter to ac- cumulate a great number of volumes without any corresponding advantage. Selections have been made, in which the first object was to obtain the different texts of the several editors in their own authorized editions. To these a few have been added, remarkable for beauty of typograj)hy, plates, or other adventitious circumstances. The collection MR. BxVKTO^; S COLLECTIOX. 85 now contains thirty-nine modern editions of the entire i.o(>rh\ (excluding numerous separate por- tions) ; and al)out eight or ten are still wanting to render the series sufficiently complete. Amongst those of less common occurrence which are here, may be enumerated the followino;, viz. : those of Kowe, 1709-10, and Theobald, 1733, both on hoye paper; Johnson, 1765, Capell, 1708, Malone, 1790 (yfine jnqwr), and Malone 1)y Boswell, 1821, all unet/t ; Tyas's Illustrated Shakespeare, printed eutirehj on Indict paper ; Boydell's folio edition ; Halli^v ell's folio edition ; and three volumes iu Svo. without titles or date, but printed by James Ballan- tyne and Co., containing twelve plays, being all those Avliich are called " Comedies " in the folios, witlithe exception of the Tempest and ^y inter 8 Tale. They Avere obtained from ]\Ir. Rodd, who has writ- ten in one of them a long and interesting note, com- mencing with these words : " I purchased these three volumes from a sale at Edinburgh. They were entered in the catalogue as ' Shakespeare's Works, edited by Sir AValter Scott and Lockhart, vols. 2, 8, 4, (all published), unique.'' That Scott entertained the design of editing Shakespeare, I know from A. Constable, who mentioned it to me more than once, and I sent him a little book of mem- oranda for Scott's use." After which follows a 86 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. severe criticism on the performance, botli editorial and typograpliical. In the separate editions of the Poems, the collection is not rich. There are but two decided rarities, viz. : The Poems, 1640, with the portrait, and the two titles; from Mr. Rodd, who has added (Dec. 1839) : " No copy in the British Museum." The other is the Rape of Im- crece, 1655, lQva.o., front. There are several editions of more modern date. Of the Doubtfal and Sj)urious Plays there are nineteen early editions, viz. : Pericles, 1609 (first edition, Steevens's copy), 1619, 1630 (two copies, with variations on the title-page), and 1635. Sir John Oldcastle, 1600 (one of the two printed that year — the first, according to Lowndes, but probably the second), a beautiful copy, from Heber's library. The Puritaine, 160Y (the title and last leaf in fac- simile). A Yorh-shire Tragedie, 1619. It is some- what singular, that while an edition dated 1608 is given by Lowndes, with collation, date of sale, <&c., Mr. Rodd, a good Shakespearian bibliographer, in one of his letters to Mr. Barton, positively asserts that no such edition is in existence. The trovblesome Raigne of John, I^ing of England, 1611, (Sotheby, May 21, 1857), and 1622. Fair Em, 1631. The Birth of Merlin, 1662. The Tivo Nolle Kinsmen, by Fletcher and Shakespeare, 1634. Mii,cednrv.s, ill:. BAKTO.X S COLLECTION. S7 1613, 1639, 1663, and 1668. Tlie 2Ien'y Devil of Edmonton, 1626 and 1631, together with tlie Spu- rious Tract — " A compendious or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints, — By W. S." 1581. The W. S. are now admitted to stand for William Stafford. The class next in order comprehends the very numerous Alterations of Shakespeare's Plays, by Davenant, Dryden, Otway, Shadwell, Tate, Crowne, Raveuscroffc, Sir Charles Sedley, Lord Lansdowne, Dennis, Betterton, Hill, Thomson, Gibber, Garrick, Sheridan, Kemble, and many others. These are fol- lowed hj Imitations, either of Shakespeare's general style, or of particular passages ; under which head are found the names of Milton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Sir John Suckling, Kowe, Young, with other Eng- lish authors; and of German and French, Schiller, Goethe, Destouches, Voltaii-e, Ducis, and others. The class concludes with the Parodies. The Seventh Class, numerically considered, would stand at the head of the list. It embraces A^-ithin its extensive range all the early works which con- tain mention of, or allusion to, the Poet or his Avi'it- ings, with a few othermse illustrative of them; criticisms, whether professedly Shakespearian, or simply incidental ; biographies of Shakespeare ; cat- alogues of Shakespeariana and bibliographical no- 88 LIBKAKIES OF NEW YOKK. tices ; ttec, and includes the whole field of periodical literature. All these works are jolaced in chronolog- ical succession, with a view to exhibit at one glance the progress of Shakespearian Literature. A simjale enumeration of the titles of the several works of this class alone, which are in the collection, would fill a small volume. With Spenser's Teares of tlie M\ises 1591 (the first in date), the following names and titles are found here : — Greene's Oroatswortli of Wit (later edition of 1629) ; Slialetlieia, 1598 {Bel- dornie press reprint) ; Barnefield's Poems, 1598 {^Roxburgh Cliib reprint) ; Ben Jonson, three plays, 1600-1609; AUot's EnglancVs Parnassus, 1600; Jache Drimi's Entertainment, 1601 ; Decker, three plays, 1602-36; Middleton, two plays, 1602-8; Davies, Microcosmos, 1603 ; Marston, two plays, 1604-6; Heturne from Parnassus, 1606; Daniel, Queene^'s Arcadia, 1606; Chapman, Monsieur cV Ol- ive, 1606 ; Reynolds, Dolamfs Primerose, 1606 ( Poxbtirgli Clui reprint ) ; Barnes, DeviVs Gharter, 160Y ; A Jewes Propiliesy, or Neioes from Home. By W. W. 1607. " Only one other coj)y known. See at the end a curious allusion to a Jew named Shijlockr (Sotheby, June 13, 1859); Beaumont and Fletcher, five jdays, 1607-19 ; Forman's Diary, {printed 1849); Painful Adventures of Pericles, 1608 (Professor Mommsen\s rejyrini); Decker, The MR. barton's collection. 89 GulVs Home-look, 1609 {rejyrint); Armin, TJie Italian Tailor and Us Boy, 1609 (^reprint, 4to.) ; A Mirror for Magistrates, 1610, 3 volumes; Hey- wood's Apology for Actors, 1612 ; Scaliger, De Subtilitate, 1612; Robert Tailor, The Hogge Jiath lost Ms Pearle, 1614; Tomkis, Alhumazar, 1615; Haughton, EnglisTimen for my Money, 1616; May, The Heire, 1622; Massinger, ten plays, 1623-39; Ford, seven plays, 1629-39 ; Eandolph, Aristipinis, 1630; Shirley, fourteen plays, 1630-40; Lipsii (J.), Monita et JExempla, 1630; Donne, Polydoron, 1631; Rowley (Wm.), A Match at Midnight, 1633; Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, 1633; Meres, Wits Acad- emy, 1636 ; Heywood (T.), A Challenge for Beauty, 1636 ; Mynshull (G.), Essayes and Character of a Prison, <£r. 1638 (second editioii) ; Cooke (John), Vindication of the Professors and Profession of the Law, 1646 ; Cartwrigkt (Wni.), Comedies, Tragi- comedies, with other Poems, 1651; Brome (Rich.), Jovial Crew, 1652, wi\AFive new Plays, 1653. The plays not named are invariably in first editions. The above list will show the extent to which the illustration of Shakespeare has been carried; and yet within the period embraced, not a few works are wanting to complete it. It is only toward the close of the seventeenth century that the series of work^ prof essedly /Shakespearian commences. They 12 90 LIBKAKIES OF :S!EW YORK. do not become numerous, however, till about the middle of the eighteenth. After that period the increase is rapid ; and during the latter part of the last century, and the whole of this, their name is legion. In the present collection, this class alone contains upward of five hundred volumes, exclusive of portions detached from periodical literature, which are very numerous. Amongst the minor curiosities, are several unique copies of the later tracts on vellum^ and on India or colored paper. Two separate but subordinate classes are devoted respectively to the Ireland Forgery, and to the sev- eral Jubilees held at Stratford-upon-Avon, and else- where, in honor of the Poet. Next in order are the Translations, which are here in eleven different languages. Of the whole worTis, there are in German seven translations, viz. : those of Eschenburg; Schlegel and Tieck; Voss and Sons; Korner; Doring, and others, Leipzig, 1838-9; Bottger, Fischer, and others, ih., 1842; Keller and Eapp ; Ortlepp ; with numerous por- tions, and supplementary volumes, by Kaufmann and others. In French, there are three translations, viz.: those of Letourneur (edition 1821); Laroche; Hugo (in course of publication) ; and portions, by Laplace in his Theatre Anglois, 1Y46-9. In Dan- ish, one translation by Foersom ; in Swedish, one 91 by Hagberg ; in Italian (in great part), by Leoni ; while in three of tlie above languages (German, French and Italian), there are numerous translations of the separate plays by other authors. Besides these, there are also of translations of separate plays, seventeen in Russian, three in Polish, three in Span- ish, one in Latin, and one in modern Greek. The Hungarian translation of Dobrentei, has not yet found its way into the collection. The Pictorial Illustrations which follow embrace a number of fine works, including a superb copy of Boydell's large -plates, pi'oqfs on India j^aper tJirongh- out ; a complete set of Retzsch's outlines in first editions; and the beautiful illustrations of Kaulbach, on large paper. Most of the works of this class, which were published in a collected form, are in the collection ; but the number of separate engravings is not great, except the detached portraits of Shake- speare, which are numerous. Most of those called cAara;'/«;!.5' are barely represented. There is a fine cast from the monumental bust at Stratford; and some medals. The last, and in some respects the most interest- ino- class, is entitled Sluikespearian Sources. It comprehends all those works, in every department of literature, to which may be traced, directly or re- motely, the several plots, incidents or allusions, to 92 LIBRARIES OF NEW YOKK. be found in those of the Poet. This part of the col- lection is not, and probably never will be, even moderately complete. Such an assertion can sur- prise no one who considers the extreme rarity of many of the works in question. Not only ought all the editions to bear date anterior to those of the works Avhich they respectively illustrate, but also, whenever, as is often the case, a plot or incident is traced through a succession of writers, the same rule should be observed. In every instance, an effort is made to obtain the first edition of a work. When this cannot be had, another, but early, edition is used ; while in some cases it has been found neces- sary here, as well as in a former class, to substitute a modern reprint. The following works, in which the story of a play, or a part of it, is found, are in the collection : For the Eiiglisli Historical Plays., the Chronicles of Hall and Holinshed. Greek and Roman Plays. — Plutarch, translated by North, London, 1595, folio ; Narratio, eorum quae contigerunt, ApoUonio Tyrio, August. Vindel. 1595, 4to. ; ApoUonio di Tiro, Historiato, Venetia, 1555, 8vo. (both for Pericles) ; L'Amore di Trolio, et Griseida, Di Angelo Leonico, Venetia, 1553, 4to. Hamlet. — Saxo Grammaticus, Danica Historia, Francof ad Moenum, 1576, folio. T%oo Gentlemen of Verona. — Jorge de Montemayor, ME. barton's collection. 93 Diana, Anvers, 1575, 12mo. Merchant of Venice. — Alexandre Vanclen Bussche, dit le Sylvain, Ej)itome de Cent Histolres Tragiques, Paris, 1581, 8vo., Alex. Silvayn. The Orator, London, 1596, 4to., a transla- tion of the preceding. Tarn ing of the Shrew. — Induc- tion. Lud. Ariosto, Gli Soppositi, Vinegia, 1525, Svo. ; La Comedie des Supposez, trad, par de Mesmes, Paris, 1552, Svo. a translation of the preceding; Sir Richard Barckley, Kt. Discourse of the Felicitie of Man, London, 1598, 4to. ; The Waking Man's Dreame, a fragment from a book printed about 1630, but supposed to be a reprint of an earlier work which is lost, 4to. Romeo and Juliet. — Le cinquanta novelle di Massuccio Salernitano, Vinegia, 1535, 8vo. The story is found here under the names of Mariotto and Gianozza. The first edition is that of Naples, 1476. Novella novamente ritrovata d'uno Lmamoramento : II qual successe in Verona nel tempo del Signor Bartholomeo de la Scala : Hystoria locondissima (in fine) : Qui finisse lo infelice In- namoramento di Romeo Montecchi & di Giulietta Capelletti. Stampato in Venetia per Benedetto de Bendoni, a di x. Giugno. MDXXXV, small Svo. The author of this novel is Luigi da Porto, but his name does not appear. He took the story from Masuccio, changing the names of the lovers. This is supposed to be the second edition ; the other, also y-t LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. printed at Venice, is without date, but is supposed to have been printed about 1510-15. L'infelice amore de i due fedelissimi amanti Giulia e Romeo, scritto in ottava rima da Clitia nobile Veronese ad Ardeo suo, Vinegia, Giolito, 1553, small 8vo. Matth. Bandello, Le Novelle, Lucca, 1554, 4to. 3 vols, e Lione, 1573, 8vo. First edition, the Roxburglie copy. Porto's story is copied, witli some alterations in tlie language, by Bandello, wlio is also quoted for the origin of Much Ado about Nothing, and Twelfth ISTight. The Palace of Pleasure, by William Painter, London, 1813, 4to. 3 vols. Mr. Haslewood's reprint of the second edition of 1575. The first was printed in 1566-7. This book is quoted as the source of other plays of Shakespeare. Otliello. — Degli hecca- tommithi di M. Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio nobile ferrarere parte prima (e la seconda parte). Nel Monte lieijale Appre^so Lionardo Torrentino^ 1565, 8vo. 2 vols. The original edition, complete. As You Like It. — Euphues Golden Legacie. Found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra. Bequeathed to Philantus Sonnes, nursed up with their Father in England. Fetcht from the Canaries, by T. L. Gent. London, 1624, 4to. The author of this work was Thomas Lodge, M. D. The first edition was in 1581? Twelfth Night. — Gli Inganni, Gli Ingan- nati, II Sacrificio, II Viluppo. Several Italian com- MR. BARTON S COLLECTIUX. edies, so entitled. See Briglit's Catalogue, No. 1393. Secondly. Of works which furnished Incidents, Passages, or Allusions, the titles are briefly given. The Tragedie of Solimon and Perseda, London, 1599, 4to. ridiculed in King John. Vincentio Savi- olo his Practise, London, 1595, 4to. cdluded to in As You Like It. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, ie-Petree and D'Olisson's TaUeaii General de V Empire Othoman. This latter work, wliicli is admirably executed so far as it goes, was unfortunately never brought to completion. The first two volumes treat of the religion and the leg- islation of the Mussulmans. The first part of the third volume completes the legislation, while the second part of the third volume is devoted to the state of the Ottoman empire. The history of the Ottoman empire, which forms the second division of this great work, still exists in manuscript. The author, Mouradja (D'Ohsson) was of Armenian par- entage, and born at Constantinople, and consequently in a jiosition to obtain the most reliable information concerning the peojjle of Avhom he had the ambition to give to the civilized world a more just and detailed account than it had hitherto possessed. A familiar- ity with the chief officers of state, and the posses- sion of a considerable fortune, enabled him to examiae in detail the records of this jealous and ex- clusive people without exciting their suspicions, and after an ardent prosecution of his inquiries for twen- ty-two years, he j)roduced the present work, which has given him a ])ermanent reputation, and transmitted to the world more exact information in regard to the Ottoman empire than any other in existence. There is a fair collection of worlss on Natural ME. cotheal's collection. 163 Science, on Calligraphy, Topography, Technical Drawing, Civil and Military Engineering; also on Systematic and Economic Botany, including Lind- ley, Loudon, Donn, Miller, Torrey and Gray; En- dlicher's Genera Plantarmn, 2 vols, folio; Pros- peri AI^)im de plant. jEgyp..^ 1640 ; Joannis Ves- lingii, Mindani de plant, ^gyp., 1638; Bnlliard's HerUer de la France, in folio, with colored fig- ures ; Bulliard's Histoire des Champignons de la France, Paris, 1791-1812, 2 parts, folio. In this latter work, which is interesting not only on account of the subject selected, but also because of the manner in A^hich it is treated, is to be found the most complete account of the different varieties of the mushroom which had appeared up to the time of its publication. It is, however, surpassed in this respect at the present time by the work of Dr. Paulet on Champignons. There is Forskal's Descriptiones Animalium et Plantar ium etc. Fgyptiaca-Arabica. Forskal was sent by Frederick I. of Denmark, as the naturalist of the scientific expedition of which this work is one of the results, in company with Nie- buhr, Von Haven and Cramer. Unfortunately he was attacked with the plague and died in Egypt, after ascending the Nile, but before he could com- plete his work, which was arranged and given to the world by his companion and friend Mebuhr. Nie- 164 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YORK. buhr's Description de VArabie is likewise in the col- lection, in 4 vols. 4to. In Mathematics are the various works of Lacroix, Bourdon, Bouchardat, Francoeur, Legendre ; Media- o'tique Celeste de Laplace^ 4 vols. 4to., and Bowditch's translation ; French Encyclopedia, or Dictionnaire Maisonne des Sciences^ des Arts et des Metiers^ in above forty volumes folio, of which one-third are vol- umes of plates, besides a number of works of general literature in English, French, Sj)anish, Portuguese and Italian. In Spanish and Portuguese are the works of Feijoo, of Cervantes, of Padre Ysla, of Moratin, of Calderon, of Lope de Vega, of the Spanish Acade- my, &c. In Italian are the works of Goldoni, of Ariosto, of Bojardo, of Dante, of Petrarca, u. The first aud second are also in the Astor Librai'}', lint another copy of the Boolak edi- ition is not knoAvn to be in this city. Torren's literal translation of the first fifty nights from the Calcutta edition ; Lane's translation of the Thousand and One Nights from the Boolak edition, now quite scarce, and Lane's Modern Eg23}i;ians. These last two works of Lane's are abundantly and beautifully illustrated with exact representations of architecture, costume, furniture, implements, scenery, tfec, and embrace such a body of exact and truthful display of the modern Arabs, that most travellers of late days have used the scissors very freely in making up their narratives for publication. There are likewise the various translations of Gal- land, Scott, Von Hammer, Caussin, De Perceval, Chaves, and Habicht, and the commentary of Hole ; Hamilton's translation of a portion of the Bedawy Romance of Antar ; also the Tales of Shiekh El Moh- dy; Dr. Herklot's translation of Kanoon el Islam, con- taining a very complete account of the Mussulmans of India, and of all their observances and practices from the cradle to the grave ; Life of Mohammed (Arab text), by Abu'lFeda; Extraits des Mamtserlts^ by De Sacy, 12 vols, 4to. ; De Sacy's Arabic Gram- mar, Chrestomathy, and Anthology. The Araljic grammars include those of Erpenius, of Savary, of MR. COTHEAl's CULLECTIOX. 169 Caspari, of Schier, of Bombay, of Canes, of Caussin de Perceval, of Bresnier, of Laporte, and almost all the French publications of those authors, Cher- bonneau and others upon the Algerine dialect of the Arabic language. Among the Dictionaries are those of Bocthor, of Marcel, of Helot, of Berg- gren, and of Paulmier, all French- Arabic ; Giggeus, 4 vols, folio, and Freytag, 4 vols. 4to., Ai-abic-Latin ; Canes, 3 vols, folio, Spanish-Latin- Arabic ; Kasimir- sM, not yet finished, Arabic-French. There is no Arabic-English dictionary, except a small one by Catafago very recently published. Lane has been engaged many years on one, the appearance of which is looked for with great interest by oriental scholars. Of the Arabic works are almost all that have issued from the press at Beirut, including the well known Mahamat^ or Sessions of the learned Sheikh Naseef el Yazjy, of Mount Lebanon. Among the oriental MSS. are four Korans, all in Arabic in different styles of writing, from the beau- tifal Neskhy or copy-hand, through various modifi- cations, to the crowded semi-taleek of Southern Ara- bia on the one hand, and the Maghreby or Moorish character on the other ; also a Persian copy with a Persian interlinear translation ; for the Ajemy or non-Arab Moslems, never use the Koran except in the original language. There is the best commentary 170 HBRAEIES OF NEW YORK. on the Koran by Baidhawy, whicli is the principal authority on Mussulman law. The MS. is a very large folio of nine hundred and thirty-two closely- written pages. The Fassoolain, or the Two Divis- ions (of Law), is another great work and Moslem authority, by Bedr ad Deen Mahommed ben Israel, original date A. H. 813, and copied in the year 935 (A. D. 1529). Also a large folio of thirteen hundred and eighty-four pages of very compact writing. Both of these MSS. are in oriental binding, and in very good condition. There is a beautiful copy of the Makamat, or Fifty Sessions of Hariri, 1 vol. folio. The first thirty-five sessions have the harakat or vowel-marks, the re- mainder are without them. The Arabs usually write their language with consonants only, and the vowels when needed are placed above and beneath the consonants ; there is Ahmed ben Arabshah's life of Timoor (Tamerlane) ; the Koran of Mohammed, The Makamat of Hariri, and The Life of Timoor, by Ahmed Ben Arabshah, are the three great classics of Arab literature, and the models of the language. There are grammars by Ibn Malik, Khaled ben Abd- allah el Azhary, Jemal ed Deen Mohammed, and others. The collection possesses a MS. containing a portion of the One Thousand and One Nights, another small MS. containing the tale of Sinkhareeb and his ME. COTHEAL's collection. 171 Wezeer Hykar. This tale lias been published in English, but the original Arabic is not found in the printed texts. The Shah-nameh ; the Gulistan ; the Four Gospels ; Tutti Nameh, or Tales of the Panol Gulistan, or Rose Garden, and various other Persian manuscripts, are in the collection ; also Lataif a Fa- cetioB of Khoja Nusz-ed-Deen Effendi, in Turkish, and Narrader Jehhy, as well as the same in Arabic. This is apj)arently the prototype of the German Eulen- spiegel^ which, after sleeping a century or two in English garb, has lately appeared in London newly translated in the old quaint style of the original, with all the luxury of artistic embellishments and beautiful typography. Among the numerous other Arabic manuscripts, is one written by a Christian Arab, containing a letter from King Abjar to Our Saviour, praying him to come and cure him of his infirmities. Our Saviour replies that he is doing his Father's work and fulfilling his mission, but that he will send one of his disciples to heal him. King Abjar then sends a skilful painter to take the likeness of the Saviour, expecting to be cured by it. The painter not being able to make one, Our Saviour asks him for his handkerchief, and after washing his face, wipes it with the handkerchief, which he hands back to the envoy, bearing the impress of the Holy Countenance. 172 LIBRAKIES OF NEW YOKK. He immediately wends his way homeward, and with it cures the king his master. It may not be amiss to mention that one of the manuscript Korans in the collection was openly pur- chased from an Ai'alj book-peddler in the streets of Zauzebar, without any scruple on the part of the vender. The copy is fairly written on good paper, is in the usual coarse binding and was sold for two dollars, a price that the copyist probablj^ thought a sufficient compensation for a labor doubtless of two years. The literature of the Arabs is by no means an inconsiderable or insignificant one. The MoalciM, poems composed in the seventh century, are written in a language of great grammatical regularity and exhibit a high degree of cultivation. As poets, his- torians, and men of science, the Arabs occupied a prominent position, and were likewise well versed in the literature and scientific works of the Egyj)tians and Gi'eeks. A history of Arabic literature, which would be a great desideratum to the student, has yet to be written. WILLIAM J. DAVIS'S LIBRARY. This is a small collection, mainly devoted to American History, both general and local. Its chief specialties consist in works on the war of the Revolution, and the state and city of New York. It, however, possesses many of the standard histo- ries of the several states. 'Among the works on the early history of America, are Acosta's Natural and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies^ London, 1604, translated by Edward Grimstone; Blome's Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, London, 1687 ; Father Hennepin's New Discovery of a Vast Country in America ; Oldmixon's British Empire in America; Douglass's Summary, Historical and Po- litical ; De Solis's History of the Conquest of Mex- ico, folio ; and Col. Rodgers's Concise Account of North America. The French and Indian war has received due con- sideration, comprising a number of histories, jour- nals and tracts, among which may be found " A 174 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Complete History of the Late War, or Annual Reg- ister," published anonymously at Dublin in 1774. It is illustrated with maps, plans of fortifications and portraits, and appears to have been compiled chiefly from tlie newspapers of tlie day. There is also a coj)y of Capt. John Knox's Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America, in two vols., quarto. This work is considered one of the most authentic and reliable accounts of the events which resulted in the conquest of Canada. The author was present and an actor at the sieges of Quebec, Cape Breton, &c., and has detailed the several events of these campaigns with the utmost exactness and fidelity and with considerable literary ability. There is likewise a rare and valuable tract entitled " The Mystery Revealed, or Truth Brought to Light," a work supposed to kave been published by the au- thority of the Frencli government, in answer to a tract sent to most of tlie covu'ts of Europe by the English government, entitled " Observations on the Memorial of France." It contains extracts from public documents concerning Braddock's Campaign, Pepperall's Campaign to Cape Breton, and Major Washington's Journal, with an account of his march, Indian speeckes, and the capitulation of Fort Neces- sity. There are to be found in this collection all the MR. DAVIS 8 COLLECTION". 175 standard histories on the American Revolution, commencing with Gordon, in 4 "vols. ; Warren's, 3 vols.; Andrews's, 4 vols.; Ramsay's, 2 vols.; Mur- ray's, 2 vols. ; Steadman's, 2 vols., quarto ; Botta, 2 vols.; Sergt. LamVs, 1 vol.; Capt. Hall's, 1 vol.; Allen's, 2 vols. ; an Impartial History of the War, Dublin, 1119, 2 vols.; &c. Of biographies, are Marshall's and Washington Irving's Life of Wash- ington; Wilkinson's Memoirs; Lives of John Jay, Gen. Read, Elbridge Gerry, Arthur Lee, Gen. Lee, Gen. Greene, Sparks's Washington; Heath's Memoirs, Willet's Narrative, Thatcher's Journal, Simcoe's Journal, &c. There is likewise an exceed- ingly scarce book, entitled " Lieut. James Moody's Narraliive of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government." This copy is enriched with very copious autograph notes by the author, and may be considered unique. The author was originally a farmer in New Jersey, and on the breaking out of the revolutionary troubles took sides with the loy- alists, by which course he became obnoxious to his neighbors, and was obliged to seek refuge in New York. Being of an adventurous spirit, he, with a few others similarly situated, organized an independent company, and ultimately became one of the greatest scourges of NeAV Jei'sey. The simple report of his being in the neighborhood was sutfi- 1Y6 LIBRAEIES OF NEW YOKE. cient to cause the greatest alarm. It was he who made the attempt to abduct Gov. Livingston from his house near Elizabethtown, which a mere acci- dent prevented his accomplishing. He likewise en- deavored to steal the papers and documents of the Continental Congress from the State House at Phil- adelj)hia, in which affair his brother and another confederate were captured and executed, and Moody himself escaped with the greatest difficulty. (One of the MS. notes in this copy gives a very full ac- count of this escape). It was he who captured the dispatches of Washington, which misled Sir Henry Clinton, who supposed that New York was to be the point of attack of the combined American and French forces instead of Yorktown. In one of these marauding expeditions he was, however, captured by General Wayne, and sent to West Point, and, after a rigorous confinement, effected his escape. His book was first published anonymously, and the exploits were considered too marvellous for belief. He therefore issued another edition, much enlarged, containing several vouchers as to its authenticity, signed by a number of distinguished officers and clergymen. The copy in this collection is of the second edition, London, 1783. There is a fair collec- tion of tracts, among which are Galloway's, Wes- ley's, Sir Henry Clinton's, and Sir William Howe's- MK. DAVIS'S COLLECTION. 177 Among state histories are Stith's Virginia, of the Williamsburgli edition; Frond's Pennsylvania; Hut- chinson's and Minot's Massachusetts; Williams's Vermont; Sullivan's Maine; Du Pratz's Louisiana; and Barber and Howe's different state collections. On the state of New York are Smith's New York ; Moulton's History of New York (an exceedingly scarce work) ; Dunlap's ; and the recent ones of O'Callaghan, Brodhead, &c., together with the histo- ries of the counties. The city of New York has a prominent place in the collection, and exemplifies an assiduous desire to secure all that may show its past history as well as its gradual progress. The Guide Books, or Pic- tures of New York, are an interesting feature of this collection, and comprise all that have been pub- lished. The first in chronological order is entitled "The Picture of New York; or the Traveller's Guide through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States, 1807." This was written by Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill. The next in point of time is called a Concise Description of the City of New York, 1814. The author was the Eev. John Stanford, who interested himself in the welfare of those persons who were confined in prison, and officiated for many years as chaplain. This little book is quite rare; but one other copy is known 23 178 HBRAKIES OF :^KW YORK. to the writer.* Blunt's Stranger's Guide to tlie City of New York, 1817 ; The Picture of New York and Strangers' Guide, 1828 — the last published in 1854, are in this collection ; also a complete set of the " Man- ual of the Corporation of the City of New York," an interesting work published annually by the city, containing a list of the various offices and the per- sons employed therein, and historical matter taken from the old records, views, &c. There is likewise a collection of books on the Prison Ships of the Revolution, some of Avhich are of considerable rarity. Among these are Captain Dring's Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship, New York, 1831 ; Rev. Thomas Andross's Old Jer- sey Captive ; Memoirs of Andrew Sherbui'ne ; Eben- ezer Fox's Revolutionary Adventures; History of the interment of the remains of eleven thousand five hundred seamen and soldiers at the Wallabout, 1808. These narratives describe, with the simplicity of truth, the enormities to which their cruel keepers subjected them, and affi)rd a lively exemplification of patriotism over suffering. The collection contains a number of early Ameri- can works on general literature, such as Drake and Freneau, with many standard ones of a more recent date. The books are in good condition, and some are handsomely bound. * In Mr. Folsom's Librarj'. DANIEL EMBUEY'S LIBRARY. This Library, wHich. contains about four thousand volumes, has evidently been collected rather with the view of gratifying the demands of a cultivated taste, than from any purpose of mere display. It contains a number of valuable works of reference, upon such topics as are likely to arise in daily life, besides some specialties, which develop the tastes of its possessor. In the departments of Belles-Lettres, History, Biography, Antiquities and Mathematics, are to be found many excellent works. The Belles-Lettres Department, which, numerically considered, constitutes about one-fourth of the collec- tion, without pretending to be at all complete, com- prises many of the best English poets, historians, essayists, biographers, novelists, and miscellaneous writers. In this department may be named The Gen- tleman's Magazine, from its commencement in 1Y31, nearly down to the present time, in upward of 250 volumes ; Dicfionnaire de Bayle, 16 vols. 8vo. ; 180 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. JuArt de Verifier les Dates, 49 vols. 8vo. ; Causes Celebres, 10 vols. Svo. ; and an ample collection of dictionaries and lexicons in various languages. In French are tlie works of Moliere, Corneille, Racine, Montaigne, Saint Pierre, Marmontel, Le Sage, De Stael, Massillon, and many others. In Italian, those of Dante, of Boccaccio, of Petrarca, of Ariosto, of Tasso, of Giannone, of Vasari, of Galluzzi, of Tira- boschi, of Alfieri, of Botta, liques Itcdiennes, 8 vols. Svo. ; Precis de V Histoire de France, 3 vols. Svo. ; Histoire JRo- maine, 2 vols. ; Histoire de France, by Martin, in 12 vols. Svo. ; works of Augustin Thierry, in 5 vols. ; Amedee Thierry's Histoire de la Gaule sous les Ro- mcdns, 3 vols. ; Histoire des Gatdois, 3 vols. ; Histoire d'Attila, 2 vols. ; Fauriel's Histoire de la Gaule Me- ridionale, 4 vols. Svo. ; Gaillard's Histoire de Char- lemagne, 2 vols. ; Histoire de Frangois I., 4 vols. ; Me- zeray's Ohroniques Ahregees de V Histoire de France, 6 vols. 12mo. ; Memoir es Historiques, 2 vols.; La- vallee's Histoire des Frangais, 4 vols. ; Rapin's His- toire d'' Angleterre, published in lYSY, 10 vols. 4to., being the second edition, which comes down to the termination of the revolution — the period from the death of Charles I. to the end of the revolution being from the manuscript left by Rapin at his decease; Voltau'c's works in 75 vols. Svo.; Pieces Attrihuees, ffec, and a very curious affair in verse, entitled F^i- MR. folsom's collection-. 213 tre de Behebutli a PAuteur de laPuoelle^ published at Geneva in 1760, whicli begins witli tlie following apostrophe to Voltaire : " ! mon cher fils, ! moiti6 de moi-m6me, Que je choisis pour remplir mes dessins," How the author of Pncelle was pleased at this special designation as the chief envoy of the Prince of Darkness does not appear, but that the compli- ment was well merited there is little room to doubt, for no intellect of equal brilliancy dazzled half so brightly to destroy as that of the great and gifted, but dangerous leader of the French infidel school. Another curious work, although of a different char- acter from the one just alluded to, is the Advis Fidele, from the pen of Wicquefort, whose works have already been noticed. The story of Wicquefort is one of considerable interest. The son of an Amsterdam merchant, he took up his residence in France, and at an early age applied himself to the study of di^^lomacy with such success as soon to attract public attention. About 1626, the Elector of Brandenburg, whose suc- cessors have since been raised to the dignit}' of Kings of Prussia, appointed him as his minister resident at Paris, Avhich post he occupied ^vith much satisfaction to his employer for thirty-two years. But he at length incurred the displeasure of the French govern- 214 LIBEAEIES OP NEW YORK. ment by tlie revelation of some of his dispatches, in which he portrayed, in a lively manner, the fea- tures of society at the French court, and particularly the relations which he imagined to exist between Louis XIV. and the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, then at the head of affairs in France. He was ordered to quit France peremptorily, but having postponed his dejDarture for a few days, was arrested and thrown into the Bastile, from whence he was shortly taken, and under a military escort conducted to Calais. Upon his arrival in Holland he was taken under the protection of De Witt, the actual head of the gov- ernment, and made Historiographer to the United Provinces, and translator of dispatches in the ofl&ce of Foreign Affairs. He was at the same time selected by the Duke of Brunswick and Zell as his represen- tative at the Hague. The downfall of De Witt in 1672, was the pre- lude to the persecution of his friends, among the most obnoxious of whom was Wicquefort, who was loud in his disapprobation of the means by which his former patron had been sacrificed to the interests of the house of Orange. He was charged with far- nishing secret information to the enemies of the state, which his post, as translator, might have en- abled him to do, and upon this accusation was im- prisoned at the Hague, whence, after an incarcera- ME. FOLSOM's COLLECTIOlSr. 215 tion of some years, he was enabled to escape in pretty mucli the same manner as Grotius, tlirougli the instriimentality of a maid-servant in the family of the jailer. The cii'cumstances of his escape are thus narrated in Holland sclie Mercurkis of the fol- lowing year, 1680. In the absence of the jailer, and while her mistress was ill in bed, the maid man- aged to get possession of the keys of the prison, and restored Wicquefort to liberty. He escaped from town disguised in a wig and cloak, and was met by his own servant, who was in the secret, on the out- skirts, with a conveyance in which he went to Ley- den. In the mean time, the jailer returned, and retired to rest without suspicion, the servant remain- ing quietly in prison until the following morning, when she left at an early hour under the pretence of attending mass. The suspicion was still fiu-ther avoided by the early arrival of Wicquefort's daugh- ter, who remained outside of her father's apartment for some hours, as if waiting his rising. When the discovery was at last made, the refugee was far beyond pursuit. The name of the maid-servant through whom the historian was set at liberty has not, like the one who aided Grotius, been preserved. He was far advanced in life at the date of these events, and survived them but a few years. In addition to the usual standard works of Eng- 216 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. lish history, as Bacon, Camden, Clarendon, Burnet, Rapin, Lingard, Palgrave and Hallani, are many writers whose pages are illustrative of particular periods, and are quite essential to a comprehensive view of the subject. Of this class are the publica- tions of the Camden Society, which have reached fifty volumes, and will amply repay the reader who seeks them either for amusement or instruction ; and the works of Leland, the English antiquary, most of which were })ublished long after his death, from his manuscripts deposited in the Bodleian library, at Oxford. These are of great rarity and value, and contain the Collectanea de Hebiis JBritannicis^ 6 vols. 8vo. ; Commenta/iHi de Scriptorihus Brit. ; and Itinera/i'y^ 9 vols. 8vo. Bishop Bale, a contemporary of Leland, had ac- cess to his manuscripts, and probably compiled, with their assistance, his Centuries of British Authors. Bale flourished in the time of the Tudors, and was twice driven abroad by religious persecutions. He was originally a Carmelite monk of Norwich, and in changing his religion became a zealous Protestant. It is intimated, with much show of probability, that the inducement for this change was to enable him to marry "his faithful Dorothea," which he cer- tainly did soon after his conversion. There are copies of two editions of Bale's British ME. folsom's collection. 217 Authors in this collection. The first is quite rare, and contains only five Centuries^ or books, whereas the other contains fourteen. Bishop Bale was one of the earliest English dramatic writers. Several of his plays are extant, and one, hitherto unknown, has been recently brought to light and printed from the manuscript in the Camden Society's publications, entitled " Kynge Johan, a play in two parts, by John Bale, edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F. S. A." Among the works of Natural History is a variety of the Floras of America, England, France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece and Italy, in- cluding those of Smith, Baxter, DecandoUe, Wilde- now, Wahlenberg, Tenore, Pursh, and Nuttall. In this department are Buffon's works, 26 vols. ; Cuvier and Lac6pfede, in 12 vols. ; Dictionnaire Classique (THistoiTe Naturelle^ Paris, 1822, 17 vols. 8vo. ; Tem- minck's Manual d''Oiseaux; Anslyn's Birds and Fishes, Leyden, 3 vols. ; Macgillivray's British Birds, 3 vols. Svo. ; Theophrastus de Historia et Caiisis Plan- tarum, edited by Schneider and published at Leipzig, 1821; Jac. Cornuti Canadensium Plantarum His- t07'ia, Paris, 1635, 4to., which appears to be the earliest botanical work descriptive of the plants of IS'orth America — together with a variety of books on dif- ferent branches of Natural History. Thei*e is a choice collection of the Italian poets, 28 218 LIBKAKIES OF NEW YOKK. publislied at Venice in 56 vols. 12nio. ; Metastasio, in 10 vols. ; and tlie works of Petrarch and tlie other leading Italian poets, in separate editions. Besides the Italian editions of Petrarch's poems, are two copies of his collected works in Latin, one of which is the Princeps^ and was published at Basle in folio, in 1496 ; the other was published at Venice in 1503. There is a curious work entitled lA dve Petrarcliisti Dialoglii sopra il Petrarca^ published at Venice, 1623, which contains many particulars respecting Petrarch, and some of his letters. There is a copy of Platina's Lives of the Popes, in Latin, published at Cologne, 1626, and an Italian translation of the same work published at Venice, 1Y44; also Giuseppe de IS^ovaes Eletnenti della Sto- ria de Sommi Pontefici da S'' Pietro sino al Pio VII., Siena, 1802, 16 vols. 8vo. ; Vita e Geste di 8isto Quinto, Sommo Pontefice, dal Casimiro Tempesti, published at Eome, 1754, 2 vols, quarto ; the life of the same Pope, by Gregorio Leti, in Italian, French, Dutch and English, in 4 vols. ; Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Passi, di lodovieo Guicciardini, An versa, 1580, folio; Canina's Antique Edifices of Eome, in 4 vols, large folio; II Vaticano, in 8 vols, folio; Peal Museo Borhonico, 12 vols., large 8vo. ; Mbby's Poma ed Intorno di Poma, 6 vols. 8vo ; Mbby's Foro Romano; Tiraboschi's Historie della Lettera- ME. folsom's collection. 219 Hira Italiana^ 15 vols. 8vo. ; and Patria e Biocjrafia (li C. Colombo, published in Rome, 1854. Likewise a collection of Dutch books relating to Japan, together with Charlevoix and others on the same subject. Little attention has been paid in this notice to the numerous American and English publications in the collection, the chief object having been to direct the reader to those which are more rare, and less easy of access. In the department of American history, however, the library is particularly rich, embracing many rare and valuable works. In this class are found all the more recent documentary collections of an historical character, published under the auspices of the general and state governments, at the head of which is the " American Archives," edited by Peter Force, of Washington ; and the collections of various historical and antiquarian societies, together with local (to^^^l and state) histories of different parts of the United States. English colonial annals are well represented in numerous approved works, and Mex- ico and other Spanish and Portuguese provinces form a considerable portion of this department of the library. Southey's History of Brazil, 3 vols. 4to., and the more recent work of Netcher on the state of the same country under the Dutch (written in French), may be mentioned in this connection. It may lie added, in concluding this notice, that 220 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Mr. Folsom is engaged in constructing a library-room in a house now in the process of erection, wMcli will be likely to exhibit to great advantage his biblical treasures. REV. DR. FORBES'S LIBRARY. The remark seems just wlien applied to books as to men, " Show me your companions, and I will tell you what you are," and it is peculiarly so, when, as in the present case, each volume has been selected by its owner, for his own especial use and study. This is principally a Theological library, valuable for its choice selection of the best books on almost every subject connected with the great science. In works in the original languages of the Christian fathers, it is well supplied, comprising, in the Benedictine edition, the complete works of St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom, St. BasU, and St. Bernard, and side by side with these, though in less perfect forms, those of St. Clement of Rome, St. Polycarp, St. Justin Martyr, St. Ignatius, St. Cyril, St. Cyprian, St Atha- nasius, Origen, and Tertullian. But a book of rarer value than these, is a beautiful edition, from the Vatican press, of the works of St. Ephrem the Syrian ; Tov ev ayioig liarpog '/jfiuv E^patju tov l,vpov ra evpcaKOfieva navra. Comprised in 6 vols, folio, bound 222 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. in vellum, with rubricated title-pages and occasional engravings, they form a splendid set of books. As but little may be known by the general reader of this writer, the following account of him, and of the edition of his works to be found in this library, is copied from Rose's Biographical Dictionary. Having been present at the Council of Nice, A. D. 325, he afterward, it is said, embraced the monas- tic life, and retiring to a convent in one of the moun- tains near Edessa, there composed most of his works. " He wrote a commentary on nearly all the books of the Old Testament, which is extant, and one on the 'New Testament, which has been lost. He wrote in Greek and Syriac. A complete edition of his works, with prolegomena, notes, and prefaces, was published at Rome, in 1736 and following years, in six vol- umes ; the first under the editorship of Joseph Asse- mani and the five others under that of a Jesuit, named Father Benedict." This work cannot be passed without allusion to the fact that in the Necrosima sur Funebres Ganones of St. Ephrem, the scholar will often find all the elegance of Anac- reon with the chastest Christian tone and sentiment. Coming down from the writings of the early ages, the collection contains a curious work of the ninth century, entitled EpistolcB Deeretales Summorvmi Pontificvm. The edition is in 3 vols, folio, printed KEV. DE. FOBBES'S COLLECTION. 223 at Rome, in ^dibus Populi Bmnani, 1591. . These are tlie forged Decretals, now generally acknowl- edged to be frauds, but once of great reputation. Chillingwortli, Tillotson, and Mosheim lay great stress upon tlie influence they once exerted. Burns also, in his preface to his work on Ecclesiastical Law, refers to them. They were said to have been written by the Pontiffs of primitive times, in order that it might appear that the early bishops of Rome enjoyed those privileges which were afterward accorded to their successors. They were, however, actually the production of some later writer, who, in order to obtain respect for his invention, published them un- der the name and authority of Isidore, bishop of Seville in the seventh century. They have been refuted by Cardinal de Cusa, Baronius, Bellarmine, and Bina, and also by the pious and learned Fleury, in his Discourse sur VHistoire Ecclesiastique. They were originally published by James Merlin at Paris in 1524. Ceillier has given an extended analysis of them in the 8th volume of VHistoire Generale des Atcteu?'s JEcclesiastiques. Of writers of the middle ages, this library con- tains the Summa Totius TJieologim of St. Thomas Aquinas, in one huge folio, printed at Lyons in 1608, as well as the Ctirsus Theologice, juxta mentem Divi ThomcBj opera et Studio F. Caroli Renati Billum% in 224 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. 10 vols. 8vo., Lyons, 1847 ; and beside these stand the ponderous tomes JR. P. J. Poncii Commentarii in libi'os Sententiarum ad Mentem Scoti, 4 vols, folio, Paris, 1661. Thougli the philosophy of these men has been characterized as an unreal system, " a col- lection of principles, the data not of investigation and experience, but of a prescriptive authority," yet, as the master minds of a most important period of the world's history, they will always be held in respect. Of John Duns Scotus, Hooker has pro- nounced the eulogium in styling him " the wittiest of the school divines," whilst of Thomas Aquinas any age might justly be proud. The Encyclopedia Metropolitana, a witness not likely to be prejudiced in favor of the schoolmen, says of him, " If we are to judge of the philosopher from the intrinsic powers of mind displayed, independently of the results to be attained by him, which chiefly depend on the con- course of favorable circumstances, then may Aquinas be placed in the first rank of philosophy. If pene- tration of thought, comprehensiveness of views, ex- actness the most minute, an ardor of inquiry the most keen, a patience of pursuit the most unwearied, are among the merits of the philosopher, then may Aqui- nas dispute even the first place among the candidates for the supremacy in speculative science." As to Theological writers of a later date, with KEV. DR. FORBES'S COLLECTION. 225 the Theologiw Oursus Completus, in 28 vols, large 8vo., containing the best treatises on every point of Dogmatic and Moral Theology — ^with a very beau- tiful edition of the complete works of Benedict XIV. (Lambertini), in 14 vols, folio, and with works of Bel- larmine, Muzzarelli, Bouvier, Palma, Perrone, and Passaglia, this library has a very fair collection. On Moral Theology, however, besides some of the writers just named, there are the Sacrai Theologice Moralis Medulla Recens ad Mentem Celeberrimorum Patrum Salcrnianticensiuni, and the various works of Busenbaun, Ligorio, Scavini, Voit, Neyraguet, Gaume, Gury, Tronson, and Kenrick, in all thirty volumes. Of French divines are (Euvres Completes de Bos- suet, Eveque de Meaux, 63 vols. ; GSuvres Completes de Massillon, Eveque de Clermont, 14 vols. ; Dic- tionnaire de Theologie par JO Abbe Bergier, 4 vols. ; Explication de la Messe par Pierre Le Brun, 4 vols. ; Examens Particuliers sur divers subjects par M. Tronson- Sermons de Bourdaloue. Perpetuite de la foi Catholique, &g., 4 vols.; an armory whence many modern defenders of the Church of Rome have drawn their weapons. ]S"or is the collection of the best divines of the English church less complete. For the most part in the best English editions, are the works of Cranmer, 29 226 LIKE ARIES OF NEW YOEK. of Latimer, of Ridley, and of Jewell ; of Bp. Hall, Bp. Burnet, Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Barrow, Bp. San- derson, tlie " Judicious" Hooker, Dr. South, Stilling- fleet, Chillingwortli, Bull, Waterland, Bp. Home, Bp. Newton, Bp. Horsely, Bp. Hurd, Dr. Paley, Ardibishop Magee, Bp. Butler, Jones of Nayland; Leland's View of Deistical Writers ; the Boyle Lec- tures, "A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion ;" " The Scholar armed against the Error of his Times ;" and with these the Institutes of John Calvin, Dwight's Theology, Cecil's Remains, and kindred works. As aids to the study of the Sacred Scriptures, besides critical editions of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Vulgate and the Greek Testament, with various lexicons and concordances, are Jahn's Archseology of the Bible, Dixon's and Home's Intro- ductions, and the Commentaries of Cornelius k Lapide, in 20 vols.; of Maldonatus and Estius, in 12 vols.; and, in English, of Patrick, Lowth, Whitby, Trench, Macknight and others. In works of a Ritualistic character, are handsome copies of the Roman Missal and Pontifical and various editions of the Breviary ; a line edition of Renaudot's Oriental Liturgies, printed at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1847; the "Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England, according to the uses of Sarum, Bangor, KEV. DE. FORBES'S COLLECTION. 227 York and Hereford," by Maskell ; Eock's Ilierurgia ; Brett's Ancient Liturgies ; and in the way of Com- mentaries upon these, in addition to Le Brun's work, already mentioned, the valuable work of Gavantus and Merati entitled, " Thesaurus Sacrorum HituumJ'' printed at Venice in 1769, 2 vols, folio; Baldeschi's Ceremonial of the Roman Bite ; Cochin on the Mass ; Cardinal Wiseman's Holy "Week ; Oakley's Order and Ceremonial; Palmer's Origines Litur- gicce, and Keeling's LiturgicB Britannic(B • Whately and Plummer on the Book of Common Prayer. In the ancient Classics, Greek and Latin, there are to be found only the more noted authors, with however, an old and interesting copy of Plato, and beautiful editions of Lucretius and Horace. Accom- panying these are some of the best lexicons, Faccio- lati and Forcellini, 4 vols, folio; Hedericus, Wahl, Scott and Liddell, Eiddle and Arnold. On History is the great work of Natalis Alexan- der, Hlstoria Ecdesiastka. Parisiis, 1730, 8 vols, folio; Josephus, Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, The- odoret, Evagrius; Du Pin's Ecclesiastical History 6 vols, folio, comprising the writers and controver- sies of the seventeenth century, a volume not always to be had with the rest of the work ; Fleury's Ec- clesiastical History, 5 vols. 4to ; Bingham's works ; Mores Cailiolici; The Universal History, 45 vols. 228 LIBEAEEES OF NEW YOKK. 8vo ; Polano's History of tlie Council of Trent ; Froissart's Chronicles ; Ranke's Lives of the Popes ; Bede's History; Burnet, Strype, Collier, Mosheim, Milner, Lingard, Southey, JSTeal, Burton, Palmer, D'Aubigne, Maitland, Gibbon, y Buckley ; an Exterior View of St Peter's at Caen, by Charles Vacher, and the Interior of St. Germain (7e-9 jPt'S-s, at Paris, by Duval. 302 LIBEAKIES OF NEW YORK. In the monastery adjoining this church the French Benedictines wrote or supervised and published that splendid series of works known as the " Benedictine Editions." It is well known that no religious order has "been more indefatigable in the collection and preservation of whatever was valuable in art or learn- ing than this, and to it savans are indebted for the preservation of what remains of Sallust, Macrobius, and Pliny. " Whoever," says Sir James Stephen, in his elegant essays on Ecclesiastical Biography, " Avill consult the Historia Mei Literarim Ordinis Sancti JBenedictil^ by their historiographer, Hignoaldus Ziegelbauer, may rapidly accumulate the most con- clusive proofs that, by their order, were either laid or preserved the foundations of all the eminent schools of learning in modern Europe."* The wealth accumulated by the monasteries of this order often proved too tempting to be resisted by the sovereigns of Europe, who frequently usurped the patronage of these religious houses, and trans- ferred them to the government. In this manner the Abbey of St. Germain des Pres was bestowed in commendani by Louis the Debonnaire on a bishop of Poitiers, and by Louis XII. on the widow of the Duke of Lorraine. Its venerable cloisters are now * Stephen's Ecclesiastical Essays, p. 371. REV. DK. MAGOON's COLLECTION. 303 devoted to tte use of the Central Society of Agricul- ture, and "The walls for abbeys reared are turned to dens. The cowls to sacks choked up with musty meal.* There is also a superb interior view of the Amiens Cathedral, done in oil by Gennison. This cathedral is considered as the finest specimen of pure Grothic architecture extant. It was built in the Xlllth century, and about the same time with the Salisbury Cathedral in England, yet it is in advance of the latter structure at least a century. Its nave is par- ticularly remarkable, and is considered as a master- piece of architecture. Those who have not been enabled to institute a comparison between these two specimens of Christian architecture may readdy see their types imperfectly carried out in Grrace Church and Calvary, in this city, the former being a speci- men of Gothic art of the XlVth century, represented by the Amiens cathedral, although built in fact a century before, and the latter one of the Xlllth century, as developed in the cathedral at Salisbury. Peter the Hermit, whose impassioned eloquence aroused the monarchs of Europe to undertake the Crusade, under whose influence the Mohammedan power Avas prevented from overrunning the Christian * II Paradiso. 304 LIBEABIES OF NEW YORK. nations of the west, was bom at Amiens, and his statue, erected by the French government, stands in close proximity to the cathedral. Copies of the engravings, as well as of the originals of all the works of art just described are to be found in the collection, besides which are several other exem- plifications of continental monuments not yet en- graved. The collection is especially rich in the original drawings of a large number of the best engravings executed in England, many of which exhibit much excellence and great mechanical skill. Upward of two hundred of these drawings were made to illus- trate the Gentleman's Magazine, Clarke's Antiqui- ties, Coney's Continental Antiquities, Winkle's Ca- thedrals, The Archaeological Journal, Weale's Archi- tecture, Cities and Castles of England, Billings's Illustrated Scotland, Monuments in Ireland, Pugin's Examples, and Churches in Northamptonshire, Lei- cestershire, Cambridgeshire, and Durham county. The original interiors of Knole, by Joseph Nash, which form the basis for the litho-tints constitutiag the fourth series of the Mansions of England, by this artist, and a very elaborate drawing by Scandrett, exhibiting the north side of the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abl^ey, impart a correct idea of the best ecclesiastical art in England. The engraving of EEV. DK. MAGOON's COLLECTION. 305 this latter gem is to be found in the folio work en- titled Old England, in two volumes. Roberts's sketch of the Coronation of William IV., shows the Abbey in its regal dress. A large number of the original sketches just noticed were procured directly from the venerable John Britton, with whom the possessor of this col- lection remained on terms of great intimacy imtil his decease, which occurred on the 1st of January, 185Y, at the advanced age of eighty-six. He was an inde- fatigable publisher of illustrated works, many of which were produced at large cost, and possess great excellence. He is said to have vmtten or edited no less than ninety-six volumes, some of which, on account of their copious illustrations, required an outlay of twenty-five thousand dollars to bring them out. Among his works are the Beauties of England and Wales, in fourteen volumes; Memoii's of the Tower of London ; History of Westminster Abbey ; History of the late Houses of Parliament, and the Ancient Palace of Westminster and Cathedral Anti- quities of England. He was intimately acquainted with nearly all the eminent literati of his day, many of whom, from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Sir Walter Scott, contrib- uted to the interest of his diversified publications. But his acquaintance with artists was yet more ex- 39 306 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. tended and influential for good. Benjamin West, Frederick Nash, J. Varley, J. BucHer, Thomas Gir- tin, and J. M. W. Turner, were early employed to supply him drawings ; and these furnished occupa- tion for all the best engravers of the time, several of whom first rose to eminence under his fostering care. Mr. Britton secured the most skilful draftsmen living, and hj the superiority of their graphic illus- trations, his architectural works rapidly attained the highest degree of success. He first introduced Samuel Prout to the public, and drew George Cat- termole, when a very young man, from being an assistant in a rural school in Norfolk. William Alexander, Sir Jeflry Wyatville, John Sell Cotman, Joseph Gaudy, Charles Wild, William Westall, Copley Fielding, J. A. Kepton, Edward Blore, and Frederick Mackenzie, were all in his service, and many of them his pupils. The latter, perhaps the best architectural draftsman that ever lived, was first made known to popular esteem in connection with Britton's "Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain." Henry and John Le Keux, the most famous engravers in their line, were also first brought into general notice by the same work, and in the " Beauties of England." Not only does the library contain a considerable number of the printed volumes of this prolific EEV. DR. MAGOOn's COLLECTION. 30V author, but also, what is more curious and less attainable, a large number of the original drawings from which the engravings were executed, which are embodied in many of the most highly illustrated of these volumes, as the Cathedral Antiquities and Architectural Antiquities, as well as nearly all the drawings made by Billings and others for the His- tory of the Houses of Parliament. In all of these works, the original drawings are placed side by side with the engraved copies, and are bound with the letter-press which accompanies them. Another folio contains many of the originals of the engravings in " The Cities of England ; " " Memo- rials of Oxford and Cambridge ; " more than sixty drawings by Mackenzie of illustrations of King's College, with an exquisite interior view of this mas- terly piece of architecture, by John H. Le Keux, fill another folio. The father and uncle of Le Keux were both emi- nent engravers, and especially distinguished them- selves by their engravings of monumental art. A large number of the engravings illustrative of ruins and antiquities, which are to be found in Britton's England, were executed by them. The younger Le Keux, who has survived them, ranks at the present time, in his particular department, as the first en- graver of the age. Many of the engravings, from 308 , LIBEAEIES OF NEW YOEK. drawings by modern masters, wMcli adorn Ruskin's Stones of Venice, were executed loj him, and in this connection liis name stands closely identified with that of Turner. He has also an excellent reputation as a sketcher in water-colors, and has produced many of the fine things in this collection. But perhaps the most remarkable of the Britton collection is a large folio, containing all the original drawings, accompanied by the etchings, engravings, and letter-press which go to make up Britton's " Exeter Cathedral." This volume, which is entirely unique, can never be duplicated, because the execu- tors of it are now reposing in the sleep of the tomb. This part of the collection is enriched by six orig- inal drawings, from which plates have been executed for Petit's " Architectural Studies in France," and " Christian Architecture," presented by the author of these works to Dr. Magoon. The author is an English clergyman of the established faith, a gentle- man of fortune, and an enthusiastic admirer of works of art. With leisure, means, and great skill with the pencil, he has drawn and published many choice sj)ecimens of art in most of the cities of Europe. There is also in the collection an original drawing made by Birket Foster, the most voluminous, and, as a wood engraver, the most eminent artist of the time, drawn for this collection, and not engraved. EEV. DR. MAGOON's COLLECTIOJf. 309 This artist has illustrated a large number of the works of the leading English writers, both in prose and poetry, among which are those of Milton, Cow- per, Byron, Keats, Sir Walter Scott, and those of our own poet, Longfellow, and his illustrations in this connection are as familiar to most readers, as are the works of these distinguished writers. There is an original di'awing by Digby Wyatt, the author of an elegant work on the Alhambra, and the gold and silver ornaments of the middle ages ; and another by Henry Shaw, the author of a work on the illumi- nated mediaeval alphabet, and the furniture of these ages. There are many designs, by various artists, to illustrate Shakespeare's varied thoughts as well as the prose of Scott, not engraved; also the original drawing of the beautiful Annunciation, by John Martin, placed over Milman's Christmas Hymn, in the second volume of the book of gems, the original of the large Comus, by Richard Westall, engraved for the folio of Milton, and Thetis bringing Arms to Achilles, given by its author, Benjamin West, to John Britton, and engraved in his " Fine Arts of the English School." In the collection is also the "Funeral of Raphael," by Stothard, the engravuig of which is to be seen in Rogers's Illustrated Italy, at page 144. Many of the 310 LIBKAEIES OP NEW YORK. illustrations of this work are from tlie same artist who was a warm friend of Rogers, and all are ex- quisitely beautiful. The original of St. Bernard, by Turner, engraved for the same work, and found on page 16, is likewise in the collection. Accompany- ing this drawing by Turner, is Landseer's drawing of the two noble dogs of the St. Bernard breed, which Turner used in the composition of his sketch ; also, a drawing of Berne, and another of Bacharach, by the same artist, engravings from which were made to accompany Finden's Byron. There is another brilliant sketch by Turner, from nature, portraying land, river, inlet, and open sea, canopied by a clear sky, all aglow with the bright- ness of the morning sun, presenting a noble key to the " Rivers of France," " Southern Coast," " Rivers of England," " Harbors of England," and the admi- rable commentaries upon these works of this distin- guished artist by Ruskin. But of all these choice specimens of art, none is endowed with a deeper interest than the original "Sandy Knowe," or " Smaylholm," of Turner, made for Sir Walter Scott, and treasured by him as one of the choicest relics of his collection. The sketch represents a scene on the northern boundary of Roxburghshire, among a cluster of wild rocks, in the centre of which rises a solitary tower. REV. DE. MAGOOn's COLLECTION. 311 now in ruins, but whicli once served as a border-keep or fortification. The property belonged to Hugh. Scott, of Harden, a relative of Sir Walter's, with whom his earliest years were passed. He has made this scene the theatre of his first romantic poem, the Eve of St. John, founded upon a celebrated Irish tradition : " The baron of Smaylho'me rose with daj', He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way That leads to Brotherstone." In one of his last letters, dated at Naples in March, 1832, to Mrs. Scott, of Harden, he thus alludes to this drawing : " I envied your management of the pencil when at Malta, as frequently elsewhere ; it is quite a place made to be illustrated. By the way, I have got an esquisse of old Smaylholm Tower from the pencil of Mr. Turner." Four of the above Turners, together with the Stothard and Landseer, came into the collection di- rectly from the hands of Mr. Ruskin, who, in placing them in the possession of the present owner, re- marked : " In these drawings you have the essence of Turner." There are in the collection three handbooks, filled with the sketches of the English artist Harding, containing many drawings of castles, tombs, inscrip- 312 LIBRARIES OF NEW TOEK, tions, and weapons of war — among which, latter are representations of the swords worn by Robert Bruce and William Wallace. The collection contains a number of illustrated manuscripts, the most impor- tant of which is a rare Psalter of the XlVth century, which contains the readings of all the hymns quoted by Dante after its litanies. WILLIAM MENZIES'S LIBRARY. Tins collection contains foui' thousand volumes, and is for the most part in the English language. Its chief specialty consists in works on American History, and early American printed books. Among the latter may be mentioned a series of the earliest works issued from the press in New York. Of these is "A letter of Advice to a Young Gentle- man, by R. L. Printed and sold by William Brad- ford, in New York. 1696." Richard Lyon, the author, came early to this country, and officiated as a private tutor to a young English student at Cam- bridge, to whom the letter of advice was written. It is undoubtedly the earliest woi'k which issued from the press in New York, and is so extremely rare, that it is questionable whether another copy is to be found in the state. There is a collection of tracts comprised in seven volumes written by the Rev. George Keith, and published by Bradford, at New York, 1702-4. Keith was born in Scotland, and settled in East Jersey in the capacity of Sur- 40 314 LIBKAEIES OF NEW YORK. veyoi'-General, in 1682. Tlie several tracts in the collection are on religious subjects, and are contro- versial in their character. As early specimens of printing, and as models of the manner in which the religious controversies of the day were con- ducted, they are both instructive and curious. In addition to these is a work entitled " The Rebuker Eebuked, by Daniel Leeds. 1703;" "A Sermon preached at Kingston in Jamaica, by William Cor- bin. 1703;" "The Great Mystery of Foxcraft, by Daniel Leeds. 1705;" "A Sermon preached at Trinity Church, in New York, by John Sharp. 1706;" "An Alarm sounded to the Inhabitants of the World, by Bath Bowers. 1709;" and ''Lex Parliamentarian 1716. All the above works were printed by Bradford, the earliest New York pub- lisher, and one of the earliest printers in America. They constitute perhaps the most complete collection in existence of the publications of this early typog- rapher. The whole are in an excellent state of preservation, and are nearly, if not quite unique. Bradford was the founder of the press in Penn- sylvania as well as New York. In 1787 he pub- lished an almanac, the earliest issue of the Phila- delphia press. A copy is now in the Philadelphia Library. In the Bradford series in this collection, is a volume containing " The Temple of Wisdom for MK. MENZIES's COLLECTION. 315 the Little "World," followed by " Abuses Stript and Whipt," each having its separate title-page with the imprint of Bradford at Philadelphia, 1688. This is the first book printed in the city of Philadelphia. Montague, in his edition of Bacon's works, observes that " it is a fact not unworthy of notice, that the first book published in Philadelphia, consists partly of Lord Bacon's Essays. It is entitled ' The Temple of Wisdom,' printed by William Bradford, Philadel- phia, 1688." There are also in the collection "The Presbyterian and Independent Visible Churches in New England, 1689." George Keith's "Serious Appeal," 1692, and " Heresie and Hatred," also by George Keith, 1693, all printed and published by Bradford at Philadelphia. There are several vol- umes published at New York, 1726-38, by John Peter Zenger, the partner of Bradford, and the early asserter of the liberty of the press against the power of the Crown. There is also a collection of works from the press of Benjamin Franklin. Among these is "Anti-Paedo-Rantism." Philadelphia, 1747. This volume was wi'itten by Abel Morgan, pastor of a Baptist church at Middletown, in New Jersey. It is said to have been the first book written in America relating to the baptismal controversy, notwithstand- ing which it is but rarely mentioned in bibliograph- ical works ; also " Considerations on Keeping Ne- 316 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. groes," hj Jolm Woolman, Philadelphia, 1762 ; and Cicero's Discourse of Old Age," Philadelphia, 1744. This is the rarest, as it certainly is the most to be desired of all the works printed by Franklin, on account of its elegant typographical execution, which will not suffer in comparison with many of the finest productions of the modern press. Franklin states that it was the first Classic translated in America, apparently unaware that it had been anticipated a century, by Sandys's translation of Ovid. In the address to the reader, Franklin says : " This version was made by the Honorable and learned Mr. Logan," and expresses his "hearty wish that this first translation of a Classic in this Western World, may be followed with many others performed with equal judgment and success, and be a happy omen that Philadelphia shall become the seat of the American Muses." Logan accompanied Penn in his last voyage to this country, in the capacity of private secretary. He was an excellent classical scholar, and attained to the highest dignities in the colony. He possessed a library of some three thousand volumes, which he bequeathed to the citizens of Philadelphia, and thus laid the foundation of the Loganian library. Contemporary with these, and worthy a passing notice among the early productions of the New York colonial press, is a small and very rare volume enti- 3IR. MENZIES'S COLLECTION. 317 tied " An Explication of the First Causes of Action in Matter," New York, 1745, by Cadwallader Col- den, tlie last Lieutenant-Governor of tlie province of New York. Although this work was reprinted in London the year succeeding its production here, it has been said that no copy is to be found in any of the public libraries in this country. The work seems to have become scarce as early as 1786, for in January of that year, Mr. Jefferson writing to Fran- cis Hopkinson, observes : " Many, many yeare ago, Cadwallader Colden wrote a very small pamphlet on the subjects of attraction and impulsion, a copy of which he sent to Monsieur De Buffon. He was so charmed with it, that he put it into the hands of a friend to translate, who lost it. It has ever since weighed upon his mind, and he has made repeated trials to have it found in England. But in vain. He applied to me. I am in hopes if you will write a line to the booksellers of Philadelphia to rummage their shops, that some of them Avill find it. Or perhaps some of the careful old people of Philadel- phia or New Jersey may have preserved a copy." Whether Hopkinson was successful does not appear. Among the early works relating to America, is " An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pennsilvania and of West New Jersey in America," by Gabriel Thomas, Lon- 318 LIBRAEIES OF NEW YOEK. don, 1698. The chief value of this early descrip- tion written after a personal residence of fifteen years in the provinces described, consists in its rarity. Some few years since a lithograph was taken of the volume in this collection, and a number of fac-similes were produced. In this connection may be mentioned " Josselyn's New England Rarities," London, 16*72, which is the earliest work on the Natural History of New England. " Josselyn's Ac- count of Two Voyages to New England," London, 1674 ; " Frampton's Joyfull Newes out of the Newe- Found World," London, 1580; "Hakluyt's Princi- pal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation," London, 1589; "Acosta's History of the Indies," London, 1604 ; " Hakluyt's History of the West Indies," translated by Lok, London, 1612 ; " Gage's New Survey of the West Indies," first edition, London, 1648 ; " B. deLas Casas's Regi- ommn Indicarum per Hi-spanos^ c&c" Heidelbergh, 1664, and Lawson's "Journal of a Thousand Miles travelled through several Nations of Indians," Lon- don, 1714. This volume, which is of the greatest rarity, is seldom found complete. The copy in the collection is quite perfect, and contains all the plates of natural history, frequently wanting. Rich observes that "an American paper mentions a copy having been sold a few years ago in South ME. JIENZIES's COLLECTION. 319 Carolina for sixty dollars ;" and Judge James, auttor of the Life of Marion, writing in 1821, remarks that " there are but two copies of Lawson's Journal of One Thousand Miles known at present to be in exist- ence !" There are " A Description of Carolina," by Thomas Ash, London, 1682 ; " An Account of the Province of Carolina," by Samuel Wilson, London, 1682 ; " Virginia Impartially Examined," by Wm. Bullock, London, 1649 ; " Hennepin's New Discovery," London, 1698; "Las Casas's Voyages," London, 1699- Heylin's Chorography," London, 1703 ; " Joutel's Journal of La Salle's last Voyage," London, lYli ; "Herrera's General History," London, 1725; and " Charlevoix's Journal," London, 1761. There is likewise in the collection a Discourse on the Discovery of Newfoundland, by Captain Richard Whitbourne, which comprises the tract published by Captain Whitbourne, the earliest of the Newfound- land settlers, in 1620, with his discourse afterward written, London, 1622. The colony of Newfound- land was originally settled under the auspices of Sir George Calvert, afterward Lord Baltimore, and one of the secretaries of James I. of England. This nobleman selected Captain Edward Wynne as Gov- ernor of the colony, and some of his letters in that capacity appear in this volume. After a sufficient 320 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. trial to satisfy themselves of the impracticability of making a profitable settlement, it was abandoned for the more genial climate of Maryland, in which Lord Baltimore finally established himself under the governorship of his younger brother, Leonard Calvert. The Golden Fleece, which is a strange combination of truth and fiction relating to New- foundland, published in London, 1626 ; "A Concise Account of North America," London, 1765, and a Journal of the Excursions made in America by Major Robert Rogers, London, 1T65, which is quoted as authority by all writers on early Ameri- can history, are in the collection. Rogers was a na- tive of New Hampshire, and commanded a body of provincial rangers. He was intimately associated with Putnam and Stark, and with them engaged in an Indian warfare in which he accomplished such daring feats and underwent such hair-breadth escapes as to have made him the familiar theme at many a New England fireside. In addition to the works above noticed, he is generally admitted to be the author of a curious drama, entitled Ponteach, or the Savages of America, London, 1766. Mr. Park- man, in his admirable History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, remarks that " this work is very rare, and, besides the copy in my own possession, I know of but one other, which may be found in the library of MB. MENZIES'S COLLECTION. 321 the Britisli Museum." There is an excellent copy of this work in the collection. The collection contains the MS. Diary of the siege of Detroit recently printed by Mr. Munsell of Al- bany, in his Historical Series. Nothing is known concerning the author of this journal, although there is good reason to believe that he acted as secretary to, and was in the full confidence of the command- ant. The entire MS. is in one handwriting, and upon several different kinds and sizes of paper. It bears conclusive evidence of authenticity, and is be- lieved to luring a valuable accession to the knowl- edge already possessed respecting the interesting events to which it relates. Among the works re- lating to the French and Indian war of 1764, is an excellent large-paper copy of " Mante's History," London, 1*772, which gives a very satisfactory ac- count of the commencement of hostilities, and in the introduction has an interesting notice of Washing- ton's escape from assassination by an Indian, in De- cember, 1753 ; also, Knox's " Historical Journal," London, 1769. The author was an English officer, and took part in the scenes and events which he has attempted to describe. The work is in the form of a journal, in Avhich every occurrence, however mi- nute, is described, many of which are of the most interesting nature, particularly those which relate 41 322 LIBE ARIES .OF NEW YORK. to the death of Wolfe, and the siege of Quebec; "Boquet's Expedition against the Ohio Indians," published by Bradford, Philadelphia, 1765, and the English edition of the same work published in Lon- don, in 1766. This last edition contains plates en- graved by Grignion and Canot, after designs by Benjamin West. There is a choice collection of Avorks relating to New England previous to the Revolution, together with several early productions of the New England press, many of which are rare, as " A Discoui'se about Civil Government," by John Davenport, 1663; "Three Choice and Profitable Ser- mons," by John Norton, 1664 ; " A Letter to Mr. John Drury," 1664, and Eleazer Mather's "Serious Exhortation," 1671. The preceding were printed at Cambridge, where the first press was established in 1638. "The Happiness of a People in the Wisdom of their Rulers, by William Hubbard, minister of Ipswich, Boston, printed by John Foster, 1676." This rare volume is the first book printed at Boston. Previous to 1676, all the printing in the British American colonies Avas executed at Cambridge. In 1674, the General Court ordered "that there may be a printing presse elsewhere than at Cambridge." In compliance with this permission, John Foster, the first Boston printer, established his press during the year 1676. Thomas, in his "History of Printing," ME. MENZIES's COLLECTION. 323 alluding to Foster, observes, " The earliest book whicli I have seen from the press under his care, was pub- lished in 1676," while Mr. Drake, no inconsiderable authority in such matters, states, that " a printing house was first established in Boston this year (1676)." There is "A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England," Boston, 1677. This fine copy has the very rare wood-cut " Map of New England, being the first that ever was here cut ;" " Two Sermons on the Death of Lady Mildmay," by Leonard Hoar, Boston, 1680 ; " A Confession of Faith," Boston, 1680; "A Platform of Church Dis- cipline," Boston, 1680; "A Public Trial of the Quakers in Bermudas," Boston, 1682 ; " God's Eye on the Contrite," a Sermon by William Adams, Bos- ton, 1685 ; " New England's Tears for Old England's Fears," by William Hooke, London, 1641 ; "A Let- ter of Many Ministers in Old England," London, 1643; "The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in Amer- ica," London, 1647, by Nathaniel Ward, "Avhose wit," says Cotton Mathei', " made him kno-^vn to more Englands than one ;" " The Light appearing more and more towards the Perfect Day," London, 1651, hy H. Whitfield, the earliest pastor at Guilford, in Connecticut ; " A Brief History of the War with the Indians," by Increase Mather, London, 1676 ; a copy in the finest state of pres- 324 LIBRARIES OF KEW YORK. ervation, oiPletus et Gratalatio^ Boston, 1671. There is also "An Abstract of the Laws of New England as They are now Established," by John Cotton, London, 1641. This appears to have been the first printed collection of a fomi for laws in America. The laws are very concise, and each is based upon some quotation from the Holy Scriptures which accompanies it. As early as 1635, the people of Massachusetts, apprehending danger to the Common- wealth from the want of positive laws, prayed the Governor and Magistrates to cause a code of laws to be framed for the government of the colony. Little progress seems to have been made in the work until the following year, when Cotton, at the request of the General Court, delivered his model. The Gener- al Court, however, declined its acceptance, preferring " The Body of Liberties," prepared by Rev. Nathan- iel Ward, minister of Ipswich, which was adopted in its stead. This work is rare, and has been twice reprinted. It is curious as presenting in a forcible manner, the peculiarities of the early settlers of New England. In this department is Bishop's " New England Judged," London, 1661. A fine copy of the same work, both parts complete, with "Whiting's " Truth and Innocency Defended," London, 1*703 ; Morton's " New England Memorial," Boston, 1TV2 ; Wood's ME. MENZIES'S COLLECTION. 325 "New England Prospect," London, 1764; and Hooker's "Soul's Implantation," witli others, in four volumes, tlie first of whicli was published at London, in 1637, and the remaining three in 1638. These volumes contain a series of discourses deliv- ered by Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, and one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut, in which he settled at Hartford, with one hundred companions, among whom he exercised great influence. Dr. Allen, the former President of Bowdoin College, in his excellent Ameiican Biographical Dictionary, says of Hooker, that "he appeared with such majesty in the pulpit, that it was pleasantly said of him, that he could put a king into his pocket." There is likewise in the collection a cm'ious and extremely rare work by Thomas Morton, entitled "The New English Canaan," Amsterdam, 1637. The author of this Avork, who appears to have pos- sessed a jovial, and somewhat of a roystering tem- perament, found himself quite ill associated with the puritanical founders of New England. Allen says of him, " that he fell into great licentiousness, and liecame the lord of misrule;" he supplied the Indians with arms, that they might hunt for him, and was by this means, perhaps, an instrument in endangering the safety of the colonists. On the 326 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YOKK. occasion of giving to Pasonagessit the name of Mare- mont, under liis auspices a pine-tree, eighty feet in height, with buck's horns at the toj), was j)lanted in the ground, around which the company danced, with such hilarity, as the good cheer they had not failed to provide inspired, much to the dissatisfaction of the stricter colonists, by whom he was for this offence sent out of the colony as a prisoner. Duyckinck re- marks, with much show of probability, that, although the book professes to have been printed at Amster- dam, it was probably executed in London. Morton returned to the colonies after its appearance, and was imprisoned in Boston for a year, ostensibly on account of the libel it promulgated against the colonies. The collection contains a large-paper copy of Cot- ton Mather's Magnalia, in an excellent state of pres- ervation, published in London in 1*702. That portion of the collection relating to the period of the Revolution, embraces most of the standard and scarce works having reference to that event. Among the latter may be mentioned " Mm'- ray's Impartial History of the War," in three vol- umes, the third volume of which is rarely to be met with ; " Simcoe's Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers," Exeter, 178Y, a fine copy of the original privately printed quarto edition, but few copies of which are known in America ; also. Lieu- MR. JIENZIES'S COLLECTION. 327 tenant Moody's "Narrative of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government," second edi- tion, London, 1783.* There is Pownall's "Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe," London, 1780. Pow- nall was successively Governor of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and South Carolina. Being recalled, he was chosen a Member of Parliament in 1768, and strenu- ously opposed the measures of the administration against the colonies. The " Memorial" presupposes the independence of America, and is ^vritten A\'ith great clearness of information and strength of argument. It was published anonymously. The present copy is a presentation one, with a characteristic inscrip- tion to His Excellency, the Baron Albenslaber, is annotated in the hand-writing of the author, and has his signature at the end of the work; also " The Trial of James Aitken, commonly known as John the Painter," London, 1777. Aitken was a native of Scotland. He was condemned, executed, and hung in chains, for setting fire to the Royal Dock-yard and shipping at Portsmouth, in December, 1776. With the privity of Silas Deane, whom he met and conferred with at Paris, the attempt to destroy the government property, stores, and ship- ping at Portsmouth, was determined on, which, not- * A copy of this work is in the library of Mr. Davis. 328 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. withstanding its apparently desperate and impracti- cable character, partially succeeded. From Deane, wlio supplied him with a royal passport, and a sum of money in advance, he had assurances of a reward proportioned to the services he should render to the American cause. The Counsel for the King on the trial, publicly accused Benjamin Franklin of com- plicity in the enterprise, and expressed a hope that he might be called to account for it. The affair, says Gordon, created much confusion, apprehension, and suspicion throughout England at the time of its occurrence. The " Paris Papers," or Mr. Silas Deane's late Intercepted Letters, Kivington, New York, 1Y82, is of the greatest rarity, and consists of letters writ- ten by Deane at Paris in 1781, to his brothers and intimate friends in America. They were intercepted and published by the enemy, with a view, as Deane remarks, to ruin him in the eyes of his countrymen. There are in this division, " Burgoyne's state of the Expedition," London, 1780, accompanied by a com- plete collection of collateral works, to which the Northern Campaign and the capture and recall of Bur- goyne gave rise ; " Tarleton's History of the Southern Campaigns," London, 1781, with McKenzie's "Strict- ures on Tarleton's History," London, 1787 ; and Col- onel George Homger's Reply to McKenzie's Strict- ures, London, 1789. The collection of works relating JfR. JtENZIES's COLLECTION. 329 to the controversy between Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis is complete ; " The Narrative of Su* William Howe," London, 1781, with a series of the contemporary publications, also complete, by Gallo- way and others. There is also a complete set of " Force's American Archives" as far as published ; and several hundred pamphlets issued during this period, treating of the incidents connected with this eventful war, many of which are curious, some rare, and all valuable, as throwing light upon the motives of those who participated on one side or the other of the important struggle. The collection of the biographies of the revolu- tionary worthies is quite complete ; and embraces a collection of works relating to General Washington, containing nearly one hundi-ed volumes, among which are copies of all the biographies of Washington, from the cheap editions of Weems, to the nolde quartos of Irving. Among the more rare volumes in this series, is " The Letters of Valens," London, 1777, a waif from Washington's library, and bearing his book-plate. Another curious and rare work is the "Journal of Major George Washington, sent l>y the Hon. Robert Dinwiddle, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-chief in Vii'ginia, to the command- ant of the French forces in Ohio, Avith the Governor's 42 330 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. letter," and a translation of the Frencli officer's an- swer, accompanied by a very accurate map of the then western part of the colony of Virginia. This journal was originally published in Williamsburg, Virginia, and afterward reprinted at London in 1754. The immediate occasion of Washington's em- bassy, Avas the hostile attitude assumed by the Indi- ans toward the English settlers west of the Alle- gany mountains, incited, as it was supposed, by the French, who were accused of attempting to connect Louisiana Avith Canada by a chain of military posts, and thus, with the aid of the Indians, secure for themselves the whole of the fertile plains of the West. The Ohio Company, composed of English settlers, complained loudly to the Governor of Vir- ginia of the belligerent aspect of the French and Indians, and asked his interposition. Irving, speak- ing of this journal, remarks that it was printed and widely promulgated throughout the colonies and England, and awakened the nation to a sense of the impending dangers, and the necessity of prompt measures to anticipate the French movements. An- other remarkable work, and one not frequently met with, is the " Female Review ; or Memoirs of an American Young Lady, whose Life and Character are Peculiarly Distinguished, from the Fact that she Served as a Continental Soldier for nearly Three JIK. MENZIES'S COLLECTION. 381 Years." This young American Amazon, whose true name was Deborah Sampson, was a native of Plymp- ton, Mass., and joined the army at about twenty-two years of age, in the capacity of a common soldier, under the assumed name of Robert Shurtliffe. Dur- ing the time she was engaged, she gained the confi- dence of her ofiicers by her expertness and precision, and by her exemplary conduct. She ^vas a volun- teer in several hazardous enterprises, was twice Avounded by a musket-ball, and managed so well to conceal her sex that her companions in arms had no suspicion that the soldier by their side was a female, until at last a severe wound which she received in battle, and Avhicli nearly terminated her career, led to the discovery. On her recovery she quitted the army, was intimate in the family of General Wash- ington, and soon manied. There is a good collection of State histories, not the least important of which ai'e Neal's " History of New England," London, 1720; Beverly's "History of Virginia," London, 1722 ; Callender's "Discourse on Rhode Island," Boston, 1739 ; Stith's "History of Virginia," Williamsburg, 17-17; Hutchinson's " History of Massachusetts Bay," London, 1760, with the exceedingly rare vohmie of papers relating thereto, printed at Boston, 1769, and seldom found \\'[th the work ; Smith's " Nova Caesaria," Burling- 332 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. ton, 1765; Peters's " General History of Connecticut," London, 1781; Williams's "History of Vermont," Walpole, 1794 ; Proud's " History of Pennsylvania," Philadelphia, 1797 ; Burke's " History of Virginia," Petersburg, 1804-16, including the fourth volume, which is rarely found with the others, the edition having been destroyed by fire ; Ramsay's " History of South Carolina," Charleston, 1809 ; Belknap's " History of New Hampshire," Dover, 1812 ; Trum- bull's " History of Connecticut," New Haven, 1818 ; Moulton's "History of New York," 1824-43, the three parts, very rare, and seldom found complete ; with many others of minor importance. The collection also embraces a series of works re- lating to the Indians of North America, and includes among others, those of Adaii', Colden, Eastman, Mc- Kenny and Hall, Catlin, Schoolcraft, Drake, Simon, Halket, Tanner, Hunter, Worsley and Boudinot. There is also a department of old American poe- try, in which is found all the editions of the poetical works of Philip Freneau, who has with justice lieen styled the poet of the Revolution ; also the works of Trumbull, Hopkinson, Dwight, Barlow and Hum- phreys, the last a presentation copy from the author to the celebrated Dr. Jenner. In addition to these are the works of Mercy Warren, Phylis Wheatley, and Mrs. Bleecker, with many others. There is a respec- MK. JIENZIES's COLLECTION. 333 table collection of works relating to English Bibliog- rapliy, wMcli embraces a complete set of tlie biblio- grapHcal works of Dibdin, many of the volumes comprising the set being profusely embellished with additional plates and pertinent autograph letters from the author. There are also in this division, Watt's BihUotheca Britamiica ; Lowndes's Librarian's Manual; Clarke's Repertorimn BihliograpJiicum ' Brydges's Censura Literaria ; Brunet's Manual; Be- loe's Anecdotes of Scarce Books ; Brydges's Restitu- ta ; the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica ; Home's Bibli- ography ; Hartshorne's Book Rarities ; Edwards on Libraries ; Berjeau's Bihlia Pauper'U'm ; and Sothe- by's Prineipia Typographica. There is a collection of works on American Bibli- ography which contains many of the choice and rare works on that subject. Among these are Kennett's Bihliotheoa Americana Primordia, London, 1713 ; Homer's (^) Bibliotlieca Americana, London, 1*789 ; Warden's Bibliotheca America tSeptentrionalis, Paris, 1820; Rich's Bibliotheca Americana, London, 1832- 46, the three parts com^jlete ; Ternaux's BiUiotheque Americaine^VsiYis, 1837 ; Faribault's Catalogue d'Oti- vrages snr VHistoire de VAmeric/ue, Quebec, 1837 ; Warden's Bibliotheca Americana, Paris, 1840; Lude- ^vig's Literature of American Local History, NeA\- York, 1846, with supplement complete; Asher's 384 LIBRARIES OF NEW YOKK. " Bibliographical Essay," Amsterdam, 1855 ; and Stevens's " American Nuggets," London, 1858. To- gether with the Avorks of Eoorbach, Munsell, Triib- ner, and others. There is a good collection of standard English works. The department of Belles- Lettres in partic- ular is well selected, and embraces some of the best authors. One remarkable feature of this library is the excellent condition of the works, most of which are of the best editions, and many on large paper. All are well bound, many of them by Riviere, Hay- day, Bedford, McKenzie, and other noted binders. H. C. MURPHY'S LIBRARY. Mr. Murphy's library contains about five thousand volumes, fully three-fouiths of wliicli are devoted to works relating to America. It is susceptible of a division into works on early American history, local American history, later American history, and those of a miscellaneous character. Each of these divis- ions pretty fairly represents about one-fourth of the libi'ary, so far as numbers are concerned. A leading feature in the American department, considered as a whole, is the works it contains illus trative of local, traditional, and aboriginal history, which, as has been already stated, embraces some what more than one thousand volumes. Many, indeed most, of the works in this department are rare, and not a few are possessed of the highest value as accurate historical evidences of the past. Conspicuous among these are the Jesuit Relations Je ve qui s'' est passe dans la jVouvelle France. Mr. Murphy's library contains twenty-five of these rela- 336 LIBRAKIES OF NEW YORK. tions, beginning with, those made by Pere le Jeune, in 1634, wliicli are very rare, and ending with those of le Pere D'Ablon, made in 1670 or 1672. These include the relations made by Lemercier, Vimount, Lalemant, Ragueneau, and Qaens, and possess the highest value on account of the truthfulness of the statements and the accuracy of the observations. Besides these, are two relations made in 1627 and 1632, included in the Mercure Frangois^ making in all twenty-seven distinct relations.* As fit companion-pieces to the Jesuit relations, although far less accurate as general descriptions of passing events, are the early New England tracts, by Eliot, Shepard, Winslow, Whitfield, and others, published between the years 1643 and 1659, under the quaint titles, and in the quaint language, then much in vogue, of " New England's First Fruits ;" " The Day Breaking, of the Gospel, if not the Sun Rising, with the Indians in New England ;" " The Clear Sunshine of the Grospel breaking forth upon the Indians ;" " Strength out of Weakness ;" " Tears of Repentance;" "The Glorious Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in New England;" "A Further Account of the Progress of the Gospel in New England" — nine in number. The last was '' Mr. Bancroft's library contains, in a separate volume, the same relation made by Pere le Jeuno in 1632. MK. mitephy's collection. 337 published in 1659, and is perhaps the most curious of them all. It contains, in " Some Helps for the Indians in New Haven Colony," a specimen of the language of the Indians of the colony, by Abraham Pierson, a Puritan clergyman, and afterward one of the founders of Newark in New Jersey. The tract is extremely rare, and but one other copy is known to exist in America. The titles of these pamphlets, which are particu- larly valuable for the light they throw upon the early local history of New England, sufficiently indi- cate the chief object of the writers, and it unfortu- nately happens that in their highly laudable relig- ious zeal, for which no one was more celebrated than Eliot, often styled the Apostle to the Indians, they failed to narrate with sufficient accuracy the every- day incidents which fell under their notice, an account of which would at the present moment be considered, if possessed, as a treasure above all Y>rice. In this respect, the above tracts of the New Eng- land missionaries, are very far inferior to those of their Canadian co-laborers. The collection contains an excellent copy of the Bible published in the Massachusetts Indian tongue, under the auspices of Eliot, in 1663, to which refer- ence has already been made ; " Sagard's Vocabulary of the Ancient Huron ;" " Eoger Williams's Key 43 33 S LIBEAEIES OP NEW YORK. into the Language of America. 1643 ;" Francois Bre- ton's Dktiomudre Caraibe-Frangai.se, published in 1665 ; " Molina's Dictionary of the Mexican lan- guage," published at Mexico in 15*71, and the publi- cations of the missionaries of various creeds ; manu- scripts, vocabularies, descriptions of the customs and traditions of the Indians, including the scarce tracts of that early defender of the aborigines. Las Casas, published at Seville in 1552 ; that rarest of all American books, the first edition of Colden's History of the Five Nations, published at New York, 1727 ; Penhallow's Indian Wars ; Doolittle's Narrative of the Indian Wars on the Western Frontiers of Mas- sachusetts, published in 1750; Mather's Troubles Among the Indians in New England, published in 1677 ; and History of the Pequot War — the whole forming a contribution to Indian history and philol- ogy of the greatest value, and rarely to be met with either in America, or the more extensive collections in Europe. All of the works above eumerated are rare and valuable. The copy of the Vocabulary of the Indian language, by Koger Williams, once belonged to the poet Southey, and contains his autograph. Of the first edition of Colden's History of the Five Nations of New York, but two copies are known — one is in the possession of Mr. Brinley, of Hartford, and the ME. murphy's collection. 339 other in Mr. Murphy's collection, neither of which is perfect. There are many volumes devoted to the collections of the various historical societies, town histories, church records, family genealogies, and incidents of a purely local character. Among these are "The Sufferings of the People of God (the Quakers) in New England and among the Dutch," by Fox, pub- lished in 1659. Bishop's NeAV England Judged, published in 1660 ; Memorable Providences relating to Witch- ci-aft, by Cotton Mather, published at Boston, in 1689 ; More Wonders of the Invisible World, by Robert Calef, published in 1700; Journal of the Proceedings of the Conspiracy Avith Slaves, for Burning the City of New York, published in 1774, with others of a like character, are not only curious, but highly interesting, as developing the prejudices, superstitions and fears which agitated the breasts and characterized the actions of many of the early settlers of the American colonies. We claim to have advanced in science and general cultivation, and are disposed to smile at the incredulitj^ and simple-mindedness of our forefathers, as developed in these quaint and often homely narratives; but Avith the Mathias imposture still in the memory of the living, the more recent Miller delusion, the 340 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. present Mormon blaspliemy, and the wild vagaries of clairvoyance and spirit-rapping, can we say that we have done less than imitate the credulity and timidity of our ancestors, if we have not absolutely taken a stej) in advance of them, in an adherence to delusive theories ? The most valuable portion of the library, however, consists in its early or scarce works on general American history. Its possessor has made it his aim to obtain in this department whatever was endowed with original historic value, not for the purpose of simply gratifying a curiosity for such works as are rare, but with the more laudable aim of ascertaining, as accurately as possible, the facts connected with the discovery and colonization of the country, in the prosecution of which inquiry he found early works and editions of the first importance. This department, even when confined to the more northern part of the United States, presents a broad and extensive field, and necessarily includes the principal collections of voyages and travels relating to America, together with many works which inci- dentally refer to this part of the Union, or of indi- viduals who were concerned in enterj)rises relating thereto. Among the works in this department are the three folio volumes of Eamusio, with maps, the first of which appeared at Venice in 1563, the second in MR. murphy's collection. 341 1559, and the third in 1565; Eden's Decades of Peter Martyr, 1555 ; Eden's Travels, completed by Willes, 15*77 ; Ue Bry's Grands et Petits Voyages, of the first editions, with the elencliiis, an account of which was given in Mr. Barton's collection; Hak- liiyt, of the editions of 1589, 1599, 1600, and 1812 ; Purchas, "His Pilgrimes," 1625-6; Recueilde Voyages de 21. Tlievenot, published in 1682 — a veiy rare work ; Valentyn's East and West Indies, in 5 vols, folio, published in 1724; the collections of Church- ill, Harris, Astley and others, among which is the ver}' rare Cosmographke Introductio in Quatuor Americi Ves^^ue/i JS\(vigationes, published at St. Diey in 1507. Humboldt, in the fourth volume of Histoire de la Geog. da X^ouveau Contiiunf, page 100, says: "This extremely rare book, the existence of ^vhich was un- known to Robertson and Munoz, has occupied me much of late years. It offers the double interest of a first publication of all the voyages of Vespucius, and contains the first suggestion of giving to the New World the name of America." He further adds, that there is no copy of the wt)rk in the Biblio- theque Royale de Paris, and speaks of one in the library of the Vatican at Rome, cited b}" Foscarini, and the one to which he had access in the Royal Lilirary at Berlin. 342 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. The copy in Mr. Murphy's library is a very fine one, on large paper, with rough edges, handsomely bound in morocco, and in an excellent state of pres- ervation. In addition to the collection of general voyages are many special ones of much value, as the Histoire de la Floride, by Basanier, published at Paris in 1586, written at the request of Hakluyt, in which are detailed the attempts of the French to colonize Florida, Lescarbot's New France, with Erondelle's translation, and the very rare and fully illustrated edition of Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France^ fait par le Sr. De Champlain^ of 1613 ; also that of 1619, and that of 1632, containing the large map of New France. The contents of each of these editions are different, and the whole are absolutely necessary to a complete account of the discoveries of this cele- brated voyageur. The first voyage of Champlain, made in 1603, and published separately in the fol- lowing year, is so rare as to be almost unattainable. A translation of it, however, may be found in Pur- chas, and in this form is in the collection. The edition of 1613 is, after this, the most rare, and is the only one which contains full accounts of his second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth voyages. In addition to these are Mourt^s Relation or Jour- nale of the English Plantation at Plymouth, in New MK. murphy's collectiox. 343 England, published at London, in 1622 ; Winslow's Good News from New England, published in 1624 ; Sir William Alexander's Encouragement to Colonies, 1624 ; a fine large-paper copy of Captain John Smith's History of Virginia, with the maps and plates; and all of De Laet's works, including the Be-sclirijvinglxe van We6-t-Iii(I/e)i, of 1630, which con- tains an account of the pm'chase of the Island of Manhattan, on which New York city now stands, from the Indians ; likewise the yorth - West Fox^ by Captain Luke Foxe, 1635; and Karte Historiuel einle Journaels, hy De Vries, "which is vei'y rare. A trans- lation of this work has been made by the possessor of the library. In addition to these are Van der Donck's JS'ieuw K^ederhnit, published at Amsterdam in 1656 ; Ferdi- nando Gorges's America Painted to the Life, 165Y; JJe-sc/'ij)tio (!c Delineatio Geographica, published at Amsterdam in 1612, in which is contained an account of Hudson's last voyage and death ; Boucher's His- toire de la JVou veil e France, published at Paris, 1664 ; Historia Cana(Ien.si6', by Father Creuxius, published in the same }ear ; and Denton's Description of New York, published in London in 1670, being the first distinct account in the English language of this colony ; also, Thomas's Account of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, pubhshed in 1698 ; Falkner's Penn- 344 LIBKARIES OF NEW YORK. sylvania, printed at Frankfort, 1702 ; Campanms's New Sweden, 1*702 ; Acrelius's Sweden, 1759, and a large number of others relating to tlie Dutch and Swedish settlements in 'New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Among the rarities in this department is the Au- suhrliclier Bericlit der India-Gompagnien in Schvje- deii^ by William Usselincx, published at Stockholm in 1626. The exertions of the writer of this work in establishing the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies, are well known. This work was repub- lished in the Argoncmtica GuMawiana^ issued at Frankfort in 1633. This work, which is in folio, and rare, is likewise in Mr. Murphy's collection. Another curious volume is the Breviate in Chancery, on the part of the plaintiff in the case of Penn against Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in regard to the boundaries of their proprietary lands. This is a large folio volume, accompanied by maps, containing all the evidence, documentary and oral, from the lips of the oldest inhabitants, in relation to the first set- tlements on the Delaware, by the Dutch, Swedes and others, collected as early as 1742. This dispute gave rise to the running of Mason and Dixon's line, by those two distinguished surveyors, which has since grown into such importance as a divid- ing line between two distinct interests in the JIB. muephy's collection. 345 Union, beyond tlie limits of the states whidi it separates. The collection contains many rare and curious atlases, and, among others, maps of America by Orte- lius and the Brothers Blaeu; of New Netherlands by Visscher, and of New York by Ratzer and others, all of Avhich are in an excellent state of preservation. Although the library has been formed for the specific purpose of bringing together works upon particular subjects which have been selected for their contents, yet there are many not without interest in the eyes of the book-collector. Of these is a tall copy of Mather's Magnalia, of the original edition of 1702, with maps ; a clear and perfect copy of the first edition of the laws of New Jersey, printed by Bradford, at New York, in 1709 ; a presentation copy of the original privately printed edition of Jef- ferson's Notes on Virginia, with his autograph ; a presentation copy of Cadmus, to General Washing- ton, with Washington's autograph on the title-page ; a volume presented to Mr. Murjjhy by Colonel George Washington ; and an excellent copy of the original Cow Chase, by Major Andi'e, printed by Eivington in 1780. There are in the collection some rare books, printed in New York, of comparatively recent date, among which is Captain Bai'nard Roman's Natural History 44 346 LIBKAEIES OF NEW YORK. of Florida, published in 1775, written with such ac- curacy that later researches have added but little to the facts which it contains. The widow of Eoman who lived to an advanced age, died in New York a few years since. Also, a perfect copy of the New Yorlt, Magazine^ published in l790-'97, in eight volumes, which is so rare as not to be found in the public libraries. It is a valuable work as a remembrancer of New York, and contains some curious prints of New York during the last century. It may be re- marked, as illustrating the rarity of the works in this collection, that the library of the New York Historical Society, which numbers upward of twenty thousand volumes, contains but few of those enumerated in the present collection, for the reason that their rarity and the high price they command in market, places their purchase beyond the reach of the means at the disposal of the society. WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES'S LIBRARY. This collection mimbers nearly seven thousand volumes, of wMcli about five thousand are law books, and the residue miscellaneous. They have been collected during a practice of over twenty-five years. It consists of all the American Reports, with scarcely an exception, down to the present time, including those of Mr. Jeiferson, containing Virginia General Court cases from 1730 to 1T40, and from 1768 to 1772 ; of all the English Reports in the Courts of Law and Chancery, and in the Exchequer, down to the beginning of the year 1860, and all the Scotch decisions in the Justiciary, Session Courts, and House of Lords, and the Irish Reports in law and equity ; the Scotch, including Morrison's Dictionary of Decis- ions, in 23 vols. ; all the Faculty Decisions, in 21 vols. ; Stairs & Erskine's Institutes ; Brown's Sy- nopsis of the Dec'sions of the Court of Session ; and the Scottish Jurist ; the latter quite a rare book in this country, bringing down the series to the year 1858. All the old English reporters, in folio, will 348 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. be found in it, from the Year Books, and Kolle's, Brookes's, Fitzherbert's, Skeppard's, Viner's and Pe- tersdorf 's Abridgments, and tke Natura Brevium. In Elementary Law it contains all tke principal treatises in England and America, among wkick is tke " Law Library," in all tke series, in upward of ninety volumes. Among its rare volumes are all tke Dome's Day Books, including tke Exon Dome's Day, tke Bolden Book, &c. ; Kelkam's and Sir Henry Ellis's Domes- day Book ; a complete copy of tke Statutes at Large in England, down to tke close of tke last session of Parliament, in 78 vols. ; tke Ancient Laws and Insti- tutes of England and Wales ; tke London Jurist, in 45 vols. ; tke Law Journal, comjDlete from tke com- mencement, in upward of 50 vols. ; all tke Ancient and Modern State Trials, and all tke Reports and standard works in criminal, and in skort, every tking in tke Englisk common law, botk civil and criminal, and in equity, witk tke earlier treatises ; tke Mirror, Glanville, Bracton, Fortescue, and Fleta. It contains a considerable collection of codes, among wkick are tke Ckinese and Gentoo. Tke Frederician Code, and Strange's &, Colebrooke's Hindoo Law; Borradaile's Reports of Civil Causes, adjudicated in tke Court of Sudur Udalut, in tke Presidency of Bombay, 2 vols, folio ; Perry's Oriental Cases, de- MR. NOYES'S COLLECTION. 349 cided in the Supreme Court of Bombay. In these cases, whicli appear to have been considered with great care, are to, be found decisions on Parsi marriages, Mahomedan succession, the celebrated opium cases, involving the law of wagers upon the market price of opium, the liabilities of the East India Com- pany, the Bombay land tenures, the law of adoption, the Hindoo succession and devises to charity under the Hindoo religion; also. Ordinances of Menu, according to the Gloss of CulMca, translated from the Sanscrit, by Sir William Jones, and McNaugh- ten's Principles of Hindoo and Mahomedan law, embracing a chapter on Stridhan, or woman's sepa- rate property, from which it appears that long before similar enactments in Christian countries, the rights of married women in regard to property were care- fully protected by the Hindoo law. There is also a copy of Beugnot's Assises de Jeru- salem, 2 vols, folio, Paris, 1841. This work, which is very learnedly annotated, contains an account of the works on Jurisprudence written in the XUIth century, and the laws of the kingdom of Jerusalem and Cyprus, during their existence in the time of the crusades. Among the legal curiosities is a perfect copy of Statham's Abridgment, the first book of English law ever printed, which bears the imprint of R. 350 LIBEARIES OF NEW YOEK. Pynson, and was printed at Rouen, France, in "black letter, A. D. 14Y0. This work is full of marginal annotations, by an old black-letter lawyer. A beau- tiful copy of Le Grand Costumier du Pays, Duclie de Normandie, printed in 1539, botli of whicli are in a fine state of preservation. A copy of Hughes's Nomotamia, being a survey of the general titles of the common law, printed in 165Y, and " done into English for the benefit of younger students." The Bracton appears to have been owned by Charles Carroll of Carollton, and contains his book-plate. There is a copy of Palmer's Reports^ with the book- plate and autograph of Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish orator ; also several volumes from Lord Lynd- hurst's library. Another is Dugdale's Origines Ju- diciales, the edition of 1671, the most accurate now extant, as most of the copies of the edition of 1666^ the first, were destroyed in the great fire in London, the same year. Spelman's Glossary, the edition of 1687, is also found in it ; the Great Oyer of Poison- ing, by Amos, containing the trial of the Earl of Somerset for the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury with admirably executed engravings of Sii' Thomas Overbury and the Countess of Somerset. Among the curiosities of law, may be mentioned Jardine's Use of Torture in the criminal law of Eng- land, in which it is shown that the practice was dis- ME. NO yes's collection. 351 continued during tlie protectorate of Cromwell, and was never afterward revived; likewise Jardine's criminal trials, containing among others that of Guy Foukes, in wliicli it appears tkat Lord Coke, then attorney-general, was one of the commissioners who directed the torture of the prisoner. The library has also Cowell's " Interpreter, or Booke containing the Signification of Words: wherein is set foorth the true meaning of such words and terms, as are men- tioned in the law-writers of this victorious and renowned kingdom, requiring any exposition or interpretation." 1637. This work met with the disapprobation of Coke, who thought he discovered dangerous doctrines under the titles "Subsidy," "Parliament," "King," "Prohibition," &c. The author was also charged with vilifying Littleton's Tenures — an unpardonable offence Avith Coke ; who, instigated also by his hatred of the civilians, had him thrown into prison, with a threat of being hanged and his work suppressed by royal proclama- tion and publicly burned. This is the original edi- tion; that of 1638 was purged of the objectionable passages. In Ecclesiastical Law are found all the reports and treatises in England, down to the present year; Oughton's Ordo Jiidiciorum, edition of 1788 ; and a fine copy of Gibson's Codex, a leading authority in 352 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YORK. all sucli matters, of the edition of 1761 ; with Ay- liffe's Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicini, the edi- tion of 1734 — a beautiful copy. In Civil and Admiralty Law, are two copies of the Corpus Juris Oivilis^ one by the Elzevirs ; the Co- dex Theodosianus, of the edition of Gothofredi and Ritter, in three large folio volumes, bound in vellum ; Ayliffe's New Pandect of Roman civil law ; Domat; Voet ; Vinnius ; Huberus ; the life and works of Sir Leoline Jenkins, and a fine copy of Pardessus, the best edition, in 6 vols, large quarto ; Sir Thomas Ridley's view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law, " wherby the practice of them is straitned, and may be relieved within this land" — a book which was much admired by King James, and which revived the declining credit of those jurisdictions — edition of 1662 ; Dr. Fer- riere's History of Roman Law, a rare book, published in English in 1724 ; Burke's Historical Essay on the Laws and Government of Rome, of which a compe- tent authority has said " that it is the best historical view of the Roman Constitution that has yet ap- peared from the hands of any English civilian or historian." There is also a copy of Calvin's Lexicon, Geneva edition of 1.584. There is a tolerable col- lection of French law, including Dupin's Droit Eg- cUsiastique; the Causes Celebres • Emerigon; Po- thier; Aluzet; Boulay Paty; Grun & Joliet; and SIR. NOYES'S COLLECTION. 353 Quenault ; Merlin's Repertoire of Jurisprudence, in 19 vols. ; the works of Chancellor D'Agesseau, in 16 vols. ; and the Concordance of Codes Clvilis WTramgres et la Code Napoleon^ by St. Joseph. Paris, 1856, in 4 vols. ; and the Coutumes de la Pre- vote and Vkvmpte de Paris; edition of lY^T, with Denisart's Collections in Jurisprudence, 4 vols. It also embraces a copy of the last and best edition of the Corpus Juris Canonici, by Ritcher, Leipsic edi- tion of 1839, in which are found the decrees of the famous Council of Trent ; and Exton's Maritime Di- ccelogie^ or Sea Jurisdiction of England. It contains a complete set, in upward of seventy volumes, of the printed statutes of the colony and state of New York, including the session laws from the earliest period, commencing with a copy of Bradford's, printed in London, in 1719, which for- merly belonged to Lord De la Warr, and seems to have come from the plantation office in the colony. There is hardly any law book which a lawyer in large practice may have occasion to consult, that may not be found in this collection. The Miscellaneous Library contains about two thousand volumes, and is rich in Dictionaries and books of reference. It contains among others, Bayle's great Dictionaiy, in 10 vols, folio ; Phillips's New World of Words, edition of 1678, distinguished as 45 354 LIBEAKIES OF NEW YORK. being collected by a nephew of Milton. Wood, in bis A f hence Oxon., describes bim as tbe nepbew of " that villainous leading incendiary, Job. Milton, bis uncle." A copy of tbe first edition of Jobnson's Dictionary, in 2 vols, folio, publisbed in 1755. Tbis contains tbe preface in wbicb be concludes witb tbe well known words : " I bave protracted my work till most of tbose wbom I wisbed to please bave sunk into tbe grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I tberefore dismiss it witb frigid tranquil- lity, baving little to fear or bope from censure or from praise." Tbe first volume bas a fine portrait of tbe great lexicograpber, one of tbe earliest ever pub- lisbed ; and botb volumes bave numerous marginal MS. notes of words omitted, and observations on tbe Doctor's definitions, tbe work of a contemporary, an eminent surgeon of bis time. Tbe Encyclopedia Britannica, in 21 vols., forms a part of tbe collection ; also, tbe great work of Du Cange, Glos-sa/i^iwrn Mediae et infime Latinitatis, by Carpenterii and Henscbel, edition of 1842, 7 vols. 4to., Leipsic. Tbere is also a complete copy of tbe works of Sylvester, including bis translations from Du Bartas (perfect except title-page), Young's edition, 1633 ; containing " Tobacco battered, and tbe Pipes shattered, by a volley of bot sbot tbundered from Mount Helicon," and other very curious matter. MK. NO yes's COLLECTIOlSr. 355 Among the books of travel there are found Sir John Mandeville's in Palestine and the far Cathay; Maundrel's in the Holy Land ; those of Irby and Mangles in Egypt, Nubia and Syria, printed for pri- vate circulation ; and Chateaubriand's over the same region ; Bartram's Travels in North and South Car- olina and Georgia, at the close of the last century ; and of the Marquis de Chastellux in America, during and immediately succeeding the revolution- ary war ; the last of which contains a graphic ac- count of the siege of Yorktown, in which the Mar- quis participated. In Poetry there is a complete set of the older English poets, in 21 vols., Chalmers's edition, with Johnson's and Chalmers's lives ; a beautiful copy of Piers Ploughman ; Campbell's Ossian, being a pre- sentation copy to Lord Jeffrey ; Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry ; several copies of Shakespeare, with a fac-simile of the first folio edition of 1623 ; also the Satirical Poems of Antony Pasquin. This book is not mentioned by Lowndes. The true name of this author was Williams, who obtained some celebrity by prosecuting a claim for libel before Lord Kenyon, in 1797, in which this distinguished judge held that he could not recover, because he was 1 )y profession a common libeller ; very questionable doctrine even in this day of unlicensed printing. 356 LIBE ABIES OF NEW TORK. This work contains " The Children of Thespis ; a poem," in three parts, first published in 1785. It is an elaborate and highly satirical description of all the prominent actors and actresses of that distin- guished era of the stage. Those of Mr. Siddons, Mrs. Farren (afterward Lady Derby), and Mrs. Jor- dan, are excellent specimens of composition, and the merits and peculiarities of each are given with great eifect. A single minor poem of this author, will, however, give him an immortality which all his other works might have failed to secure. In reply to a reproach for not weeping over the grave of a female friend, he wrote the following which has been translated into most modern languages : " Cold drops the tear that blazons common woe, What callous rock retains its crystal rill ? Ne'er will the softened mould its liquid show, Deep sink the waters that are smooth and still. "Oh ! when sublimely agonized I stood, And memory gave her beauteous frame a sigh ; While feeling triumphed in my heart's warm blood, Grief drank the offering ere it reached the eye." In History the library contains a copy of the Spanish historian, Bernal Dias ; Colden's History of Canada, or, as it is sometimes called, of the Six Na- tions ; and other old works ; Camden's Britannia, the edition of Gibson, of 1695 ; and Maitland's lUus- ME. NO yes's collection. 35 Y trated History of London, in 2 vols, folio, tlie edition of 1T56; Palgrave's History of Normandy; Pal- gi-ave's English Commonwealtli, 2 vols. 4to. ; and Palgrave's Essay on tlie Original Authority of the King's Council. This constituted originally the highest court, out of which grew the Court of Chan- cery, and at a later period the judicial committee of the Privy Council, now the highest court of appeal in civil and criminal cases from all the courts in the colonies of Great Britain. There is a fine copy of Sir Robert Walpole's works, in five large quarto volumes, embellished with plates. Most of the English histories are found in it, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, Rapln, &G , and all the standard histories of the United States; Belknap's New Hampshire; Smith's New York ; Arnold's Rhode Island, &c. In Biography the collection is quite extensive, particularly in American works. It contains a fine copy of the Naturalist's Library, in 40 vols., illus- trated with colored plates. There are also Milton's poetical and prose works; Bacon's, Swift's, and Johnson's works ; the British Essayists, in 36 vols. ; "Warton's History of English Poetry, &c. Among its curiosities in classical literature, is a copy of Cato's Morals, fi-om the library of the Duke of Sussex, printed in 1488, by Kesler ; and a copy of 358 LIBBAEIES OF NEW YOEK. Virgil, with the annotations of Johannes Hartungi, printed at Basle in 1551. There is also a copy in small folio of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, in five Looks, the edition of 1617, London, printed by Will Stainsby ; which seems not to have been known to Lowndes, no notice of it being found in his elaborate work. To this are added seven treatises or dis- courses, printed by the same in 1622, containing " Mas- ter Hooker's Answer to the Supplication of Master Travers ; " A Learned Discourse on Justification and Workes ;" " A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride ;" "A Remedy against Sorrow and Feare," &c. The collection of pamphlets is extensive, embra- cing over forty volumes, relating to the political and civil history of the times. In the early volumes are found the " Prospect Before Us," a partisan attack upon John Adams's administi'ation, very denuncia- tory and untruthful, in regard to which Callender was indicted for a libel, and which led to the im- peachment of Judge Chase, who presided at his trial ; and the celebrated pamphlet of General Ham- ilton, in defence of the charge of speculation while he was Secretary of the Treasury, published in 1*797, This discloses many interesting facts ; among others, that a challenge was given by General Hamilton to Mr. Monroe, who accepted, and chose Colonel Burr, by whose hand Hamilton subsequently fell, as his ME. NOYES'S COLLECTION. 359 second. Happily the hostile meeting did not take place. In periodical literature are found tlie Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews ; the English Annual Regis- ter ; Christian Spectator ; Biblical Repository, &c. There is also a copy of the first work of Mr. Burke, published anonymously in 1758, entitled, " An Ac- count of the European Settlements in America ;" Johnson's Typographia; Sir Gardiner Wilkinson's works on Egypt ; Hone's Every-day and Year Book ; Wade's British History, chronologically arranged, &c., &c. There is a beautiful copy of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, of the edition of Dibdin; a copy of the works of Seldeu, Wilkins's edition of 1*726, in six folio volumes ; and also a copy of old Antony Wood's Athence Oxonien-ses ; Sir Thomas Browne's works; Mather's Magnalia ; Burton's Anatomy of Melan- choly ; Sir William Temple's works ; Tooke's Diver- sions of Purley; and a beautiful edition of the works of the unfortunate General Burgoyne, in which are found the celebrated lines to the memory of his wife, beginning — " Encompassed in an angel's frame, An angel's virtues lay;" &c. Most of the works in this library are of the best 360 LIBRARIES OP NEW YORK. editions, and many in handsome bindings. In that portion of the collection devoted to Jurisprudence, the selection has been made with unusual care. Be- sides most of the works which an extensive practice renders necessary for reference, the legal scholar will find many rare and valuable curiosities. GEORGE W. PRATT'S LIBRARY. Colonel Peatt's library contains "between seven and eight thousand volumes, among wliicli are many valuable works in several departments of literature, but the prominent, as well as the more notable feature of the library, is its collection of works in Oriental languages, or relating to Oriental subjects, and upon Historical and Archaeological literatm'e. The Oriental department contains about three thou- sand volumes, and although it does not aim at any " specialty" in Oriental literature, nor at complete- ness in any one department, has some of the best works on the subjects of which they treat, as well as many that are curious and rare ; among these are the rare geographical work entitled Jehan NumaTi, by Hajji Khalfa, printed at Constantinople in 1732. This is one of the earliest books printed in Turkey, and is upon better paper than that used for the same purpose in Constantinople at the present day. It contains many rare maps, still looked upon with much interest. The Koran^ printed in folio at St. 46 362 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Petersburgli in 1787, under tlie patronage and at the expense of tlie Empress Catherine, is also in the collection. This copy, which bears no date, once belonged to the celebrated French Orientalist, Lan- gles, to whom the world is indebted for the preserva- tion of the Oriental manuscripts in the royal library at Paris. He had greatly distinguished himself as an Oriental scholar and writer, and was appointed in 1Y92 keeper of the Oriental manuscripts in the Royal Library. He had hardly entered upon his du- ties, when the Directory ordered him to surrender all books, either printed or in manuscript, in the collec- tion relating to genealogy. Perceiving the spirit of Vandalism in which the demand was made, he asked for time, on account of the magnitude of the under- taking, and having obtained this request, hastily secreted the most valuable documents in a place where search was not likely to be made. He then delivered over a vast number of duplicate copies and ponderous volumes of useless material, and espec- ially works on polemic divinity. These were taken in triumph to the Place Vendome, and burned in the name of "Liberty and Equality." By this happy expedient, he saved from destruction about five thousand volumes and a large number of docu- ments which could not be replaced, illustrative of national history. A memoir, read by him before the MR. peatt's collection. 363 Frencli Institute on tlie occasion of his admission into that body as a member, on the importance of Egypt, first suggested to Bonaparte the idea of the expedition to that country, which has been crowned with such happy scientific results. There is an exquisitely written Koran, with a Persian interlineary translation and a profuse com- mentary in Arabic. The library contains a number of Arabic Lexi- cons, among which is a manuscript of that of the famous Persian and scholar, Firuzibadi, called Ul- Kamus, or the Ocean, and the rare and costly Calcutta edition, 2 vols, folio, 1817. There is like- wise a translation of this valuable dictionary into Turkish, printed at Constantinople in three folio vol- umes. Many modern European writers, aware of this deposit of original information, have availed them- selves of the learning of its author. This is espe- cially the case with Bochart, in his Hierosoicon, or Natural History of the Bible. Of the Arabic lexicons by European scholars, we find here side by side, the lexicon of Golius, Avhich was first published at Ley- den in 1653, and derived in large measure from that celebrated Arabic dictionary, Es-Sihah of Jauhari, and the last and most useful of all, that of Freytag, in four large quarto volumes, and completed within the last few years. 364 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YOEK. In Persian, we find Castell's Lexicon Heptaglotton, the Persian lexicon of whicli was previously prepared by Golius, while in the Arabic portion, he very far surpassed Golius ; and also the Persian Dictionary styled Haft-Kalzum^ by the King of Oude, pub- lished at Lucknow in 1822. The descendant of this learned monarch, it will be remembered, has been summarily ejected from his kingdom by the English. This dictionary of Castell's, in seven languages, cost this learned antiquarian eighteen years of assiduous labor, and proved ruinous to his fortune, having required for its production upward of $60,000. It was published in London, 1699, in 2 vols, folio. Bishop "Walton acknowledges his assistance in ar- ranging his JBihlia Polyglotta. At the time of Cas- tell's decease, he possessed about five hundred copies of his erudite lexicon which had remained unsold. These were placed by Mrs. Crisp, his niece and exec- utrix, in a room in one of her tenant's houses at Martin, in Surrey, where for many years they lay undisturbed by human hands, l)ut at the mercy of the rats, which made such havoc with them, that when they came into the possession of Mrs. Crisp's executors, scarcely a complete copy could be found, and so entire had been the mutilation that the whole remainder brought but seven pounds. There is also the dictionary of Persian, so much MR. peatt's collection. 365 esteemed by tlie natives, entitled the BurTian-i- Katiah, and puUished at Constantinople, a. h. 1212, or about the commencement of the present century. In Turkish, is the great Dictionary of that distin- guished Austrian interpreter at the Porte, Meninski. It is in four volumes, folio, printed at Vienna in 1680, and is at the same time almost a complete lexicon to the Persian and Arabic. The definitions are in Latin, Italian, and German. Among general eastern works are Ludolph's Jour- ney to the Holy Land, a beautiful specimen of eai'ly printing in Eggesteyn's gothic characters ; Lord Va- lentia's Travels, and many of the works of Norden, Niebuhr, Le Brun, Sandys, Sir John Mandeville, and Van Linschoten, folio, London, 1598; Forbes's Orien- tal Memoirs, containing excellent impressions of the numerous plates on India ; Prisse's Oriental Album, of very spirited sketches of subjects taken in Egypt, in which country the artist resided for many years ; and a curious and uncommon book in this country, and not often met in Europe, of the portraits of the Ottoman Sultans, by John Young. The operations at the Pyramids of Gizeh, by General Vyse, an Eng- lish gentleman, who spent vast sums upon the explo- ration of the 23yramids of Lower Egypt, the results of which are here detailed. There is also a superb 366 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YOKK. copy, in ten folio volumes of text, and twelve ele- phant-folio volumes of plates, of the Description de VEgypte.1 handsomely bound, and probably one of the most desirable copies of the work to be found in any private collection in the country. The Calcutta edition in 4 vols. 8vo., 1839, of the Arabian Nights — the best Arabic text — is now scarce. Of the lexicons, grammars, and apparatus for lin- guistical studies, of which there is something upon a hundred or more languages, we may notice the Basque dictionary of Padre Larramendi, printed at San Sebastian in 1745 ; Delia Bella's Die. Italiano- Latino-Illirico, 2 vols. 4to., Ragusa, 1785; Bridge- man's Chinese Chrestomathy (Canton dialect), Ma- cao, 1841; Adelung's Mithridates ; ChampoUion's Gr. Egyptienne and Precis; Haughton's Bengali and Sanskiit Dictionary ; Marsden's Malay Gr. and Dictionary ; Pigneaux and Taberd's Die. Anami- tico-Latinum^ in 2 vols. 4to., Serampore, 1838, ^. 369 There is likeAvisein this collection, the PsaJferium Hehraiciim, Gra-cum, AnibicKin et CJiaJJceum cum trihus Latinis Interpretation iliis et Gh-ssis^ or Poly- glot Psalter of Aiigustin Justinian, Bishop of Nebbio, published at Genoa in 1516, by Porrus, which is chiefly remarkable for the commentary made in a note to the fourth verse of the XlXth Psalm, " cceJi enarrant :'''' "Their words are gone to the end of the earth ;" in which a sketch is given of the life of Columbus, and an account of his discovery of Amer- ica, with a cmious description of the inhabitants. In this account Justinian says that Columbus fre- quently boasted that he was the person appointed by God to fulfil the prophetic exclamation of David, which appears to have given ofl:ence to the family of Columbus, whose influence at Genoa was more potent than that of the Bishop of Nebbio, and the senate of Genoa laid a penalty upon any one who should either keep or read the work ; and likewise directed that it should be carefully sought out, in order when found "to be destroyed and utterly extinguished." This is the fii'st Polyglot woi'k printed, and was undertaken by its author in the vain hope, as it ultimately appeared, not only of great reputation, but of considerable gain. " I had always imagined, he remarked, "that my work would be eagerly sought after, and that the wealthy prelates and princes 47 B70 LIBEAKIES OF NEW YORK. would readily have afforded me every assistance nec- essary for printing tHe Bible in such a diversity of languages. But I was mistaken ; every one applaud- ed the work, but suffered it to rest and sleep, for scarcely was a fourth part sold of the two thousand copies which I had j)rinted, exclusive of fifty copies upon vellum, which I had presented to all the kings in the world, whether Christian or pagan." His want of success does not seem to have deterred him from other literary ventures, as he appears afterward to have published several works. He was invited to the court of France, where he became an almoner and counsellor, and remained several years. Upon his return to Italy he was well received by the reigning duke and his brother the cardinal, but un- fortunately perished in a storm at sea while on his way from Genoa to Nebbio, the seat of his bishop- ric, in 1536. Some pains has been taken by the possessor to procure the best works on the military art and sci- ence, and they exist in the library to a considerable extent, from Turenne's campaigns, in folio, down to the last treatise on rifled muskets and long-range cannon. There are a large number of Bibles, both of ancient and modern date, among which is a large-paper copy of the beautiful " Mazarine" Greek Testament, published ME. pratt's collection. 371 at Paris, in folio, in 1642, and Eliot's Indian Bible. The co-pj in the collection appears to have once belonged to an Indian teacher, and to have seen much use at his hands. The name of the possessor, which occurs on one of the pages, would require some ten or fifteen syllables properly to express. There is also the Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, in folio, published at Mantua in 1479. The classical department contains several Aldine editions of Cicero, some folios, and a copy of the cel- ebrated Olivet's edition, which formerly belonged to Gibbon the historian ; copies of Horace, of the Ven- ice edition of 1486, with Landino's Commentary, and the rare Aldus of 1509 ; the good edition of 1515 of Lucretius, handsomely bound by Hay day, and the typographical reproduction of the well- known manuscript of Virgil, preserved at Florence, and published there in 1741. The library contains a number of the best editions of the Italian poets, conspicuous among which are the works of Ariosto, of the handsome quarto Vene- tian edition of 1584, exhibiting a large number of wood-cuts by Porro, of the Baskerville edition, pub- lished at Birmingham in 1773, which is a remarka- bly fine specimen of typography, and contains a number of engravings done by Bartolozzi ; and the 3 7 '2 LIBEAEIES OF NEW YORK. edition produced under tlie auspices of Panizzi, the lil^rarian of tlie British Museum, by Pickering. Dante's Avorks, of the large folio edition published at Florence in 1481, which Gamba says is the &st edition of Dante's works printed in his own country; the Venice edition of Petrarch, published in 1647, and the Comino edition, published at Padua in 1722 ; Tasso's Geriisalem-meljiberata,-p'ahlishedat Genoa in 1590, many of the plates of which were designed by Augustin Carracci. There are likewise the large folios of Bodoni, published at Pai'ma in 1794, on large-pajDer, which belonged to Joseph Bonaparte. Among Spanish works are The Labyrinth, by Juan de Mena, jDublished at Valladolid in 1540, which once belonged to Southey ; Teatro E-spanol — a col- lection of original editions of Spanish plays of the last century, bound up in 31 vols. 4to. Zurita's Anales de Aragon, in 7 vols. 4to. ; Mariana's His- tory of Spain, Lope de Vega, &c., &c. Besides these there are Froissart's Chronicles, ia black letter, published in 1514; Korb's Russia, pub- lished in 1698 ; Moreri's Die. Hivtorique ; the Eng- lish Historical Society publications, and those now issued under the direction of Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls — a large number of beautifully printed volumes ; Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicaniim, in 8 vols. : and a C( )llection of Memoir's of the French MK. pkatt's collection. 373 Revolution, in 56 vols., which once belonged to Louis Philippe of France. The collection likewise embraces valuable illus- trated works — the Musee Franoais — fine set of proofs; Lodge's Portraits; the Monuments of Her- culaneum, 9 vols, folio, Naj)les, 1*757-92 ; Baronial Halls of England and Smith's Literary Curiosities are of this class. As may be supposed, the owner, who takes an interest in the political questions of the day, has not neglected a department likely to be of use in this particidar. Complete sets of the Gentleman's Magazine, Edinburgh, North American, and other Reviews, Encyclopedias, such as the Metropolitatia and Biitannica ; Parliamentary History and Debates, the series reaching to nearly two hundred volumes ; Chalmers and Martens's collection of Treaties ; Du- mont and Rousset's Corjts DipJoinatlque, 28 vols, folio ; Hargrave's State Trials ; the United States Government publications, including the State Papers in 21 vols, folio, and the Archives in nine more. Colonel Pratt has gathered together many newspa- per files — the Evening Post from 1804 to '59, 55 vols. ; Niles's Register ; and many revolutionary joui'- nals, of which the Pennsylvania Gazette, commencing in 1731; the Massachusetts Gazette ; NeM'port Mer- cury, and New Hampshire Gazette, are remembered. 37-i LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. Some fifteen tundred volumes on American sub- jects are to be found in this library. There are the AntiquiUs Mexicalnes, 2 vols, folio, Paris, 1834 • Barcia's Historiadore-s Primitwos de las Indicts occi- deyitales, 3 vols, folio, Madrid, 1749 ; Bustamente's Marianas de la Alameda^ Mexico, 1835 ; Bernal- Diez ; Salis ; Oviedo ; La Vega ; Torquemada's queer work on Mexico, being the Madrid edition of 1723, in 3 vols, folio ; Gumilla ; Humboldt's Essai Poli- tique svr le Poyau9ne de la Nouvelle Pspagne^ and his Vues des Cordilleres ; Las Casas ; Peter Martyr ; and the record of a fierce sort of a "Maine-law" inqui- sition, called Informe sobre los inconvenientes de la hebida del Pulque, folio, Mexico, 1692. The collections of Harris, Thevenot, Purchas, Hak- luyt, and Ternaux are here with the Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and other state and society publications ; Pes Pettres edifiantes et curieiises ; the first edition of Anne Bradstreet's Poems; Ward's "Simple Cobbler of Aggawam;" Berkeley's Virginia, the several works on American Bibliography, together with various histories, local as well as general. Governor George Clinton's original copy of his proclamations, messages, &c., &c., beginning with his induction to office, and containing much curious official matter, together with many letters and papers MR. pkatt's collection. 375 of this noted revolutionary character, have found a resting-place in this private collection. Governor Thomas Pownal's letter-hook, and his own copy of his " Middle Colonies," filled with very interesting MS. notes by the author, and which he had evi- dently prepared for a new edition, are valuable documents ; General Wolfe's Order-book while in America, closing with the "order of the day" for the attack on Quebec, in which memorable battle he lost his life. Besides the American historical papers, and some portfolios of letters of distinguished men of all ages and countries, there is also a good number of Oriental manuscripts, many of which are exceed- ingly beautiful, and some rare and valuable, and many Livre-s cVHeiu-es, and manuscripts in Latin of the early ages of the chui-ch, Aviitten and used mthin the walls of those venerable cloisters in which for so long a period all that was known of learning was centred. As curiosities of the early period of printed literature, are several massive folios in black letter, with large bosses and clamps, and heavy chains to secure them to the reading-desk, which present a singular contrast with the more delicate editions of more modern times, or even of the illu- minated manuscripts which preceded their advent. The o"\vner of this collection has spent consider- 3*76 LIBRARIES OP NEW YORK. able time in Em'oj)e and Eastern countries, and made extensive journeys to various parts of the world, in whicli a large proportion of his books have been collected ; they are, in the main, well bound, with some handsome specimens of well-known workmen, but are not particularly remarkalile on account of their covers. Those in this city now occupy a tern- j^orary position, and consequently are not easily examined by any other hand than the owner's. GEORGE T. STRONG'S LIBRARY. This library has between four and five thousand books. The collection is miscellaneous. It seems strongest in History, and in English and German literature. The English chronicles and the English literature of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries are well represented, and generally in original editions. The proportion of early printed books and manu- scripts is large. Among the MSS. on vellum is a large folio Bible of the XlVth century, in good condition, with elabo- rate capitals and highly finished miniatures, many of them unusual in their subjects and style of treat- ment. Another Bible, a quarto, seems, from a mem- orandum in red letter, to have been the gift of Philipius de Eythop, '■'■ altar ista et Oapellamts^'' to some monastic fraternity in 1138, and the scribe com- mends the donor to the prayers of the faithful. A note on a fly-leaf, apparently 1 )y some French theo- logian of the last century, refers to certain peculiar- ities in its reading, especially in the much contro- 48 378 LIBBAEIES OF NEW YORK. verted passage, "There are three that bear wit- ness," &c., and in the titles and arrangement of the canonical books, and states that it is pronounced by comj)etent judges to have been wiitten in the Xth century at latest. Another Bible in two volumes is remarkable for the minuteness of its character, and the delicacy of the vellum on which it is written. The MS. Hours, Missals, and other books of de- votion, are numerous and interesting. The illumina- tions of a folio Psalter and service-book, probably French work of the XVth century, are large and brilliant, but the volume has been mutilated, and several of its decorations abstracted. Two volumes of Hours executed in Italy (XVth century), contain miniatures of considerable artistic merit in design and color. There are also specimens of Flemish work, less elegant but profusely decorated, and highly finished. A very early Psalter, probably of the Xlth century, is remarkable for the size and elaboration of its capital letters, some of which occupy nearly the whole page. Another Psalter is preceded by illuminations on a gold background in the most primitive style of art, and by a Calendar with curious miniatures illustrating the amusements and the agricultural employments appropriate to each month in the year — ha-\vking, feasting, sowing MK. STROJfG's CULLECTIO^f. 3t9 and reaping, knocking do^vn mast for swine, slaugli- tering tkem, LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK. tlement of Virginia ; and Proud's Pennsylvania. In this department are to be found the puldicatious of each of the state Historical Societies, with one or two exceptions, complete. Among the works of Voyages and Travels, are Hooker's Himalayan Journals ; Denon's Voyage^' J(tihs la Ba-s-se et la Haute Egypte pendant les Cam- pcKjn'/s (le Boncvparte^ London, 1809 ; Sleeman's Ram- bles ; Moorcroft and Trebeck's Travels in the Hima- layan Provinces of Hindostan; Chapj^e d'Autero- che's Voyage en Siberie, 4:to., Paris, 1Y68 ; Sm'th's Lin- useus's Laches Is Bapj)07iu:a, Ijcmdon, 1812; Scheuch- zer's Helveticus, Batavia, 1Y23 ; Laborde's Voyage jPittoj'esque, folio, Paris, 1806 ; Swinebnrne's Sjjain, folio, London, 1806 ; Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vols, folio, London, 1707; Wilson's Missionary Voyage; Max- imilian's Travels in Brazil; Tschudi's Travels in Peru ; Belzoni's Researches in Egypt and Nubia ; Rochefoucault's United States, 4to., London, 1799 ; Josselyn's New England, London, 1674; De Bry, parts 1 to 6 ; Charlevoix, London, 1761 ; Bellegarde's Collection of Voyages to North and South America ; De Vries's Voyages, translated by Henry C. Murphy, 4to., New York, 1853, and Nicolaus Syllacius's Be Insalis MerliJ^ianlatque Indii:i Maris Niiper Inventis^ translated into English l)y Rev. J. Mulligan, 4to., New York, Is 60. Both of these translations are of MR. Stuart's collectiox. i'Sl rare works. Of tlie last, which descril:)es the second voyage of Columbus, but two copies of the original are known. In addition to these are Burnet's Ethiopia ; Mar- ryatt's Borneo ; Parry's, Franklin's, and Ross's Ex- peditions ; and Admiral Krusenstern's, Arago's, Pe- rouse's, Lisiansky's, and Anson's Voyages, Kotze- bue's Voyage in search of a North-East Passage; Vancouver's North Pacific ; Wilkes's United States Exploring Expedition; Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, and the Astrolabe ; Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole ; Lawson's 'Ne^y Voyage to Carolina ; and Evans's British Colonies in America, 4to., Phila- delphia, lYoS. This last work was printed by Ben- jamin Franklin. The collection on Natural Histor}', while it makes no pretensions to completeness in any one of its de- partments, contains many books of interest to the student of Natural History, and st>me found in only a few of the public libraries of this country. Among the chief books of this collection, are Au- dubon's Quadrupeds of North America, elephant ; Birds of America, 4 vols, double-elephant; Aude- bert's IliNtorie XatTirelJe Y H. Laurent, 2 vols, folio, Paris ; Hecueil cPMstampes, by F. Basan; Galerie Lithograjyliiqiie de son Alte-sse Royal Moihsetgneur le due d''0rleans, by Charles Motte ; De Ferrol's Recuell de-s Cent Estam- pes, cCv. There is in the collection De Villa Amil's Msjyana Artistica y Monumenta ; Roccheggiani's Rac- colta di Cento Tavole • Photographs of the " Gems of the Ai't Treasures Exhibition," Manchester, 1858, by Signori Caldesi and Montecchi; the Houghton Gallery, engraved from the paintings which formerly belonged to the Earl of Oxford, now in the Imperial Collection at St. Petersburgh, 2 vols, folio ; the Koyal Gallery of Art, Ancient and Modern — Engravings from the Private Collections of the Royal Family of England, edited by S. C. Hall ; De Beaumont's Sketches in Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, and Nor- way ; Knight's Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy ; Eighty-two prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi from the original drawings of Guercino, and seventy-three from those of Michael Angelo, Domenichino, Anni- bal, Ludovico, and Agostino Carracci, &c., ^S. 451 library, almost exclusively devoted to Chemistiy, and especially Teclmological Chemistry. J. B. Moreau tas a small collection, containina; many excellent illustrated works, and some good authors in the dejiartment of Belles-Lettres. A. J. Odell has a collection of twenty-five hundred volumes, which deserves sjiecial notice on account of its Bibliography. This department is represented by upward of twelve hundi'ed volumes, including a large numlier of the rarest works on the knowledo-e of books and the history of printing, comprising treatises in Greek, Latin, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Gei-man and Dutch. Among others, Peienot in 3.5 vols. — an unusual collection, inasmuch as the impression of nearly all of his works was limited to a small number. The set of Dibdin is complete, and of more than ordinary beauty. There is a fine copy of Sotheliy's Frlnci2)ia Typo- grajyli ica ; and the bibliographical labors of Su- Eserton BrvdQ-es, are well represented liv twentv- five volumes. Some of the latter are extremely scarce in this coimtry, having been issued to the extent of only seventy-five copies, privately printed at Geneva, Eome, and the Lee Priory press; also the works of Panzer, Clement, Fabricius, Jocher, Adelung, Falkenstein, Santander, Orlandi, Lowndes, Home, Watt, De Bui-e, Brunet, Ebert, Gesner, and 452 LIBRARIES OP NEW YORK. many of their equally laborious and interesting co-laborers, the whole constituting one of the most extensive assemblages in this department, ever made by a private collector in this country. Not a few of these works are on large paper, while the privately printed volumes may be regarded as among the rarities. The number of scarce and valuable cata- logues is a noticeable feature, many of them furnish- ing some singular illustrations of ancient art. Besides the sj^ecialty of Literary History and Bib- liography, this library contains al)out fifty incunab- ula^ or " fiffceeners," some of them of great rarity even in Europe, and much less frequently met with here. Such are the first and second editions of Breyden- bach's P erecjrinationes in montem Syon^ of 1486 and 1490; the splendid editio princeps of Politian's Mis- cellanea^ 1489 ; the small folio Problemata Aristo- telis^ Rome, 1475 ; the exquisite Hypnerotomachia Polipliili., printed by Aldus, in 1499 ; several of Cicero's works, by Bazalerius in 1498-9, /e 19 Januarii^ 1564, ad finem lihri hujus jyreventuni, tumidtuaria ledioneP There is a beautiful copy of Virgil, printed by Eobert MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIOXS. 453 Stephens at Paris, in 1532, with t^-pes cut for that purpose, which also was o-^vned by ]\[elancthon, and "bears on its margins numerous observations in the neat chii'ography of " that bundle of distinctions," as Eekius termed him. The presses of such printers as Zell, Cobui'ger, Koelhoif, John of Westphalia, Aldus, the Giunti, Oporinus, Froben, Plantin, the Ste- phenses, the Elzevirs, and others of equal celebrity, have furnished some beautiful specimens of typog- raphy, which have not been overlooked in the selec- tions of early editions. In addition to these are numerous cm-ious reprints ; volumes on colored paper ; several printed with col- ored inks ; a number of manuscripts in Latin, French, Flemish, and Ai'abic, &c., including a very peculiar folding series of East Indian paintings, representing a strife between a good and a bad genius, with in- scriptions in characters different from those of any language of which the alphabet is known. Among the curiosities may be mentioned an original imprint of the bull of Pope Leo X., ^^ Contra Errores 2Iar- tini Ltitheri et seqiiaciiim,'" issued in 1517, to which is affixed the papal seal, attested by the autograph signature of the papal nuncio ; a printed declaration of war by the king of Xorway, A^T^th the state seal, and sio-ned bv the minister of state, in 1523 ; another declaration of war by the king of Denmark, with the 454 LIBEAlilES OF NEW YOEK. state seal, also of 1523; a couple of German news- papers {Newe Zeytung)^ containing news from Rome, Naples, the Netherlands, Vienna and elsewhere ; one printed at Nuremberg in 1510, the other at Newen- stadt in 1523. Dr. Purple's collection, which contains about five thousand volumes, is chiefly remarkable for its com- plete series of medical periodical literature, from its commencement in America to the present time. Dr. Martyn Paine has a collection of about five thousand volumes, princij)ally devoted to medicine. •Anson Gr. Phelps, Jr., left a small but well selected library of near two thousand volumes, col- lected for the most part before he was twenty-one years of age. His sudden decease alone prevented his expanding this into one of noble proportions. John Austin Stevens, Jr., has a collection of about four thousand volumes, which is particularly rich in the liter at m-e of the middle ages, and especially the romances of that period, many of the more remarkable of which are to be found in various, and, where possible, in the earliest editions. Benj. M. Stilwell's library, which numbers upward of eight thousand volumes, is for the most part in the English language, and embraces an extensive collection of the best authors in Church History, systems of Philosophy, General History, Universal .MISCELLA:XEOrs C(>LLECT1(_)XS. 455 History, including tliose of the Givek, Roman, the Byzantine historians, and all the modem nations, including those of the United States, as well as the separate states, Literary history, Biography, Bibliog- raphy, Poetry, the Drama, English Classics, -works of Travels, Antiquities, the Government publications, and illustrated -works. The library is enriched Iia^ the entire collection of -v^'orks on political economv, from the library of the late Chancellor Sanford. It contains a number of manuscripts, and among others Ofxri'Ct AJcliymistica et PliiIoso])iiica, of Raymond Lully, from the library of Adam Clarke. Samuel J. Tilden's collection contains about foui' thousand volumes, and is chiefly remarkable for its Cromwelliana, which embraces many valuable works of this era, some of which are unique. John A"an Bi-u'en has a collection of about three thousand volumes, chiefly devoted to Jurisprudence. The foundation of this library was made by the late George Cane, reporter of some of the early decisions of the Supreme Court and Cou.rt of Errors of the State of Xew York. It was pm-chased fi-om him l>y Martin Van Buren, the late President, from whom it passed to his son, its present possessor. It is abun- dantly supplied with the early English Reports, and ancient elementary treatises, and in this ref^j^ect is probal^ly -without a superior. These reports embrace 456 LIBBAEIES OF NEW YORK. most of tte important ones from the state trials, in the reign of Ricliard II., to Ambler and Vesey — a period remarkable in English history. Prominent among the old rejDorts, are those of Jenkins, the Year Books, and the Reports of Moore, Leonard, Plowden, Croke, Yelverton, Hobart, RoUe, Stiles, Sir Thomas Raymond, Saunders, Freeman Showers, Lord Raymond, Strange, Fitzgibbon, Leach, Black- stone, Salkeld, Dickens, Vernon, Peere Williams, Gilbert, and others. Among the elementary treatises are Bracton's Commentaries, folio, London, 1569 ; Coke's Corpus Juris Civilis, 2 vols. 4to. ; Harris's Justiniani In- stitutionum ; Voet's Commentarius ad Pandectm, folio, Hague, 1716 ; Selden's Fleta, London, 1685 ; Domat's Civil Law ; Hugo Grotius's Rights of War and Peace; Fortesque's JDe Laudibus Legum An- glicB, folio; Swinburne's Treatise on Testaments and Wills, folio ; Justice's Dominion and Laws of the Sea, 4to., London, 1705 ; Malloy's Be Jure Mar- itimo et Navali^ London, 1682 ; and Magens's Essay on Insurances. The library contains an excellent collection of digests, ancient and modern, and a full collection of the later reports, and recent treatises. THE END. INDEX PAGE A. Acosta's History of the Indies, 113, 318 Acta Benedicti 261 " Ecclesia 261 " Sanctorum 265 Adriaui, rrorks of. 63 African Dialects, works on 161 jEscliylus, various editions 31 " Butler's 31 De Pauw's 31 Aetius's Primum Mobile, 1631. .. 18 Agassiz's Embryology 123 " Nat. Hist, of the TJ. S. . 392 " Poissons Fossiles 123 Agricola's De re iletaUica 405 Aitzema's History of the United Provinces 201 Aldrovandus's Ichthyology 122 " Ornithology 241 Alexander, N., Historia Ecclesi- astica 227 Alf Laila vca Laila 167 Almagest, Ptolemy's 19 Almanac, Poor Richard's 133 Alsop's Hist, of Maryland (1656), 52 Amadis de Gaule 425 America, early Spanish works on, 64, 116 early printed books . . . 313 American Archives 313 " Revolution, works on, 175 " works, early 178 o8 PAGE American works, early, from Scott's library 105 Amos's Great Oyer of Poisoning, 350 Ampere, works of 15 Ancient Laws of England and Wales 348 Anderson's Thesaurus Scotise ... 13 Angler, the Compleat 413 Angling, rare works on ... . 103, 413 Anglo-Sa.xon Chronicles 61 Annales des Sciences XatureUes.. 121 Antiquite E-xpliquee, Montfaucon's, 28 Antiquites Mexicaines 385 Antiquities, works on 413 Anselm. St., of Canterbury 444 ApoUonius's Conies 184 Apuleius (1488) 425 Aquinas, St. Thos., Summa Totus Theologia 223, 259 Arabian Nights 167 Arabic Dictionaries 169 " Grammars 169 Lexicons 363 Arago, works of 15 Architecture Francaise 277 " Mr. Hunt's Collec- tion 269 Archiv fiir Katurgeschichte 122 Arctic and Antarctic Voyages . .. 118 Argonautica Gustaviana(1633),52, 344 Ariosto Venetian, edition of 1584, 371 Baskerville 371 Aristophanes, editions of 34 458 INDEX. I'AGK Aristophanes, Kuster's 34 " Brunck 34 Aristotle, apparatus for study of. . 48 " Taylor's edition of 48 " Opera Logica, MS 379 " Aldine edition 379 " Bp. Wainwright's copy, 28 " De Poetica 420 Arnauld's De la Frequente Com- munion 438 Arteaga's Musicale Italiano .... 425 Ash's CaroUna, 319 Assemanus's Bibliotheca Orien- talis 257 Astley's Antiquarian Repertory. . 180 Athanasius, St., works of. . . 221, 418 Audebert's Histoire Natural de Singes 387 Audubon's Birds 127, 387 " Quadrupeds 381 Augusteum, Bekker's 27 Augustine, St., works of. . 48, 98, 221 De CivitateDei. .. 445 Ayliffe's New Pandect of Roman Law 352 Ayliffe's Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicini 352 B. Bacon's Essays, Lord Spencer's copy 2 Bacon's Mirror of Alchimy . . 423, 597 Bacon, works of 46, 228 Baillie's Morbid Anatomy 238 BaiUy's Astronomie Modern 16 " Histoire de I'Astronomie, 16 Ballanche's History of Philosophy, 47 Barbarosa's Collectanea Juris Eo- clesiasticas 261 Barcia's History of W Indies . 51, 374 Baretario's Life of Anchieta 440 Barnefleld's Poems 88 Baronius, Cardinal, Annales Ec- clesiasticaa 262 I'AGR Barton's North American Flora. . 391 Basanier's Hist, of Florida. . 208. 324 Basil, St , works of. 291 Basin's Recueil d'Estampes 395 Basnage's Histoire de I'Eglise. . . 203 " Annales des Provinces XJnies 203 Bayle's Dictionary 179, 228, 353 " " large - paper copy 158 Beaumont and Fletcher's plays ... 88 " Sketches of Denmark, 394 Beccaria, works of 49 Bede's History 228 Bekker's Anecdota Grseoa 40 Bell's British Theatre 416 Bellarmine, Disputations de Con- troversiis Fidel 258 Bellecius's MeduUa Asceseos. . . . 263 Belles-Lettres 66 Belzoni's Egypt 386 Benlley's Lucan 35 '■ Terence 36 Berger's Thesaurus Gemmarum.. . 28 Bergier's Dictionnaire des Heresies, 258 Beugnot's Assises de Jerusalem. . 349 Beveridge, Bishop, works of ... . 261 Bibles, Archbishop of New York's collection of 263 Bibles, MS 377 " Augsburg edition (1477). . 381 " Mr. Stuart's collection of. . 398 " Eliot's Indian (1663) 12 " " Breeches 12 " Vinegar 73 " Vulgate (1493) 12 Bibliography, Mr. Griswold's col- lection 445 Bibliography, works on 65 Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica. ... 13, 333 Bilderdyk's History 198 Biographia Britannica 228 Biographic Universelle 183 Biot, Traite de Physique 24 IXDEX. 459 Biot'a works 24, 184 Bishop's X. England Judged, 324, 339 Blaeu's Novum Italias Theatrum. . 394 Blagdon's India 385 Blake's Illustration of Young's Night Thoughts 427 Blakely ' s History of Philosophy . . 228 Bloch's Ichthyology 122 Blome's America 173 Blondel on Oracles 185 Blouet's Expedition to the Morea, 274 Boaden's Memoirs of John Philip Kemble 417 Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, 418 " " Mrs. Jordan.. 418 Boccaccio, works of 180 " Decameron, translation of 159 Bochart's Hierozoicon 298 Boehman, works of 44 Boerhaave's works 237 Boetius, edition of 1570 139 Boissardus Romance Urbis Anti- quitates 140 BoUandus's Acta Sanctorum 265 Bonacinas, works of 260 Bonnet, works of 44 BoreUius's De vero Telescopii. . . 18 Borradaile's Reports of Bombay Cases 348 Borromeo, St. Charles, HomiUes, 259 Boscovich's Perturbations of Sat- urn and Jupiter 18 Bossuet, works of 15, 44, 225 Boucher's Histoire de la NouveUe France 343 Bougainville's Calcuh Infinitesi- malis 19 Bouillon's Musee des Antiques. . Ill Bourdaloue, Sermons de 225 Bourke's Law and Government of Rome 352 Bourne's Steam-Engine 409 Bomerwek, works of Ai PAGE Bouvier's Institutionum PhUosoph- icarum Cursus 228 Bowman on Carbonate of Lime . . 408 Boydell's Illustrations of Shake- speare, on India paper 91 Bracton's works 282 Bradshaw's Views of Mauritius . . 395 Brande's Journal of Science 232 Brant's Xavis Stultifera 381 Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclo- pasdia 234 Breydenbach's Jerusalem (1502). . 384 Britton's EngUsh Cathedrals 395 Britton, J., Beauties of England and Wales 305 Britton's Tower of London 305 Cathedral Antiquities. . 305 '■ Exeter Cathedral, unique copy 308 Brocquiere's Palestine (1492). . . . 126 Browne, Sir Thomas, first edition, 423 Brucker's Historia Critica Philo- sophica 240 Brunek's Sophocles 32 " Aristophanes 34 Buchon's French Chronicles 211 Buck's Ruins of Ancient Cities. . . 125 Buffon, works of 121 Buillart's Theologia Moralis 260 BuUarium Magnum 261, 296 BuUarium Pontificum 261 BuUiard's History of Mushrooms, 163 BuUock's Vu:ginia 319 Burat's Geologic AppUque 406 Burekhardt's Nubia 126, 164 ■' Syria 164 Burman's Ovid 33 Burnet's Ethiopia 387 " History of W. Indies... 62 Burney's Voyages to the Pacific, 183 Burns's works, unique copy 7 Burrow's Elgin Marbles 132 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, first edition 423 460 INDEX. Busquebi's Turkey (1582) 126 Bustamente's Mananas de la Ala- meda 314 Byron's English Bards, illustrated, 3 Byrth of Mankynd, edition 1540, 11, 239 C. Caillaud's Voyage a Meroe 166 Caille, Travels in Timbuctoo 166 Calmet's Phantom World 185 Camden's Britannia 366 Camden Society, publications of. . 216 Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. ... 3 Campo's Historia de Cremona ... 418 Canani's Antique Edifices of Rome 218, 215 Canova, outlines of 53 Carey, Robert, Memoirs 418 Caristie's Roman Forum 215 Carnot, works of 16 Carriere's De Justitia et Jure. ... 260 Carter's Ancient Sculpture 421 Caste's Architecture Arabe 213 Castell's Lexicon Heptaglotton. . . 364 Cat, Jacob, Emblems 10 Catalogues of celebrated libraries, 415 Catlin's North American Indians. 394 Causes Celebres 180, 325 Cave's Historia Literaria 266 Celsus, works of 235 Cento Novelle, edition of 1554. ... 69 Cervantes, editions of 140, 425 Chalmers's Biography 234 Chalybaus's History of Specula- tive Philosophy 47 Champlain's Voyages 342 Champollion's Gr. Egyptienne . . . 366 Chappell's Music in the Olden Time 160 Charlevoix's Histoire du Jaf an. . 182 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 401 Chaucer, editions of 1542, 1561, and 1598 142 Chaufepie's Continuation of Bayle's Dictionary 211 Chenu's Illustrations Conchyliolo- giques 391 Chess, Mr. Fiske's collection of works on 194 Chinese Costumes, illustrations of, 392 Chinese works 161, 182 Chronicles, old English 61 Chrysostom, St., works of. . 221, 261 Ciacconius's Colonna Trajani 215 " Venice 211 Cicero, Aldine edition of 316 " Olivet's " 311 " editions of Olivet, Ernesti, Orelli, &o 35 Cicero de Vita Sua 36 " Variorum, Rev. T. Wil- liams's copy 10 Clarke's Repertorium Bibliograph- icum 415 Clavigero's Mexico 116, 385 Cleavelaud's Poems, Lamb's copy, 428 Clement, St., of Rome, works of. 221 Clement's Bibhotheque Curieuse Pittoresque et Critique 268 Clutton's Mediaeval Architecture in France 395 Code Napoleon 353 Coghan's Haven of Health, 1584, 423 Colden's History of the Five Na- tions 336, 338 Collectio Poetarum Lalinorum. . . 29 Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain 262 Collier's Law of Mines 401 Columbus, voyages of 206 " first chart of bis dis- covery Ill Combe's Traite des Mines 406 Comte's Cours de Philosophie Positive 45 Conoinas Theologia Christiana. . . 261 Condorcet du Caleul Integral. ... 16 INDEX. 461 PAGE Confucius, Conversations of 167 Constant, works of 44 Coryat's Crudities (1611) 384 Cosmographiae Introd. in Americi Vespucii Navigationes 341 Couctiaud's Eglises Byzantines en Grece 214 Cousin, works of 44 CoweU's Signification of "Words. . 351 Craumer's Confutation of Un- written Verities, 1582 423 Cranmer, works of 225 Crashawe's Poems (1652) 384 Crasso's Elogii d'Huomini Letter- ati 420 Creuxius's Historia Canadensis, 49, 116, 343 Creuzer, works of 44 Crevier's Roman Emperors 183 Cuvier, works of 122, 121 Cyril, St., works of 221, 261 D. D'Agincourt's L'Histoire de I'Art, 210, 415 D'Aguesseau, Chancellor, works of 353 D'Alembert's Traite de Dynam- ique 16 Dalyell's Superstitions of Scotland 186 Damascenus Johannes, works of . 290 Damirou's History of PliUosophy in the XVIIIth century 46 Dana, James D., Zoophytes. . . 391 Daniel's reply to Pascal's letters, 439 Dante's Divina Comedia, edition of 1491 429 Dante, Florence edition of 1481 . . 372 " edition of 1491 189 " with Landino's Commen- taries 139 Davenant, Sir W., poems 141 Davy, Sir H., illustrated unique copy of life 4 PAGE De Bry's Peregrinationum, 49, 116, 209, 388 " " Mr. Bar- ton's copy 64 Decameron, poetical version of. . . 69 De Chastellux's Felicite PubUque, 45 Decker's Gull's Home-booke .... 89 De Godoy's Pompa Funeral en la Muerte y Exequas del Doctor Salzedo 403 De Graeife, works of 235 Dekker's Bellman of London. ... 423 De La Beehe's Survey of Cornwall, 409 De Laet's New World, 201, 343 Delambre's History of Ancient As- tronomy 24 De le Vega's Peru 385 Delin's Traite des Mines 406 Del Rio, Ruins near Palenque . . . 385 De Lyra, X., Commentaries. . 264, 294 Demonology, works on 184 Denisart's Collections of Juris- prudence 353 Denon's Egypt 101, 386 De Penhoen's History of German Philosophy 47 DeQuiucy (Quatremere), works of, 213 " " Le Jupi- ter Olympien 213 De Sacy, Extraits des Mauuscrits, 168 De Solis's History of the Conquest of Mexico 113 D'Herbelot's Bibliotheque Orien- tale 182 Dibdin's Bibliomania, Turner's copy 7 Dibdin, works of. 415 Dictionnaire, Infernal 186 " des sciences Medicale, 232 " Classique de Histoire XatureUe 217 Diotiormaire des Heresies 258 '• de Theologie 258 Eaisonne des Arts . . 164 462 INDEX. PAGE Digby, Sir Kenelm, on Body and Soul 185 Diodorus's Histoire Universelle . . 126 Diogenes Vitia et Dogmat. Pliiloa. 139 Dionysius Areopagita, works of. . 290 Dixon's Geology of Sussex 409 Dodoen's NieTTe Herball (1578). . 423 D'Ohsson's Ottoman Empire 162 Domat's Civil Law 456 Donne's Catalogue of Plants 12 7 " Poems 429 Drake's Antiquities of Boston. . . . 160 Drakenborch's Livy 35 Drama, works in Mr. White's col- lection 416 Drayton's Poems 429 Dubourg's Ancient Buildings of Rome 396 Du Gauge's Glossarium 38, 354 Du Presnoy 185 Dugdale's "Warwickshire 62 '• Origines Judiciales. . . . 350 " Monasticon Anglica- uum 140, 3'72 Du Halde's History of China 182 Du Lude on Apparitions 185 Dumont and Eousset, Corps Diplo- matique 373 Du Pin's Ecclesiastical History. . 227 Droit Ecclesiastique ... 352 Duppa's lonsonvs Virbivs 254 Durer, Albert, Designs 9 Du Sommeraud's Les Arts au Moyen Age 270 Duten's Leibnitz 43 E. Early Printed Books 381 Edda of Scemund 189 Eden's Decades of Peter Martyr. . 341 Edwards, Jonathan, works of . . . 46 Effigies Virorum 392 El Devoto Pelegrino (1656) 166 Ellis's Madagascar 165 PAGR Elzevir's Classics 180 " Livy, Plautus 28 Encke, works of 22 Encratites, works of 288 Endlioher's Genera Plantarum ... 163 Ephrem, St., works of 221 Erasmus's Praise of Folie 424 Erdmann's Gesohichte der neuern Philosophie 47 Erigena De Divisions Nature .... 48 Euler, works of 184 Euripides, editions in Prof An- thon's collection 33 Euripides, Elmsley's 33 Eusebius, works of 227 edition of 1483 139 Evagrius, works of 227 Evans's British Colonies in Amer- ica 387 Exton's Maritime Dicselogie. . . . 353 F. Fabricius's Bibliotheca Gra^ca. . . 266 Faribault's Catalogue d'Ouvrages sur I'Histoire del Am^rique . . . 333 Fathers, works of 96, 221 Fell, Bishop, Life of Hammond. . 445 Ferguson's Architecture of Hin- dostan 392 Ferguson's Jerusalem 165 Ferguson's Rock-cut Temples of India 393 Ferrari's Prompta Bibliotheca.. . . 257 Ferriere's History of Roman Law, 352 Feurbach, works of 44 Fichte, J. H., works of 44 Firuzibadi's El Kamus 363 Fischer, Kuno, works of 44 " " History of Mod- ern Philosophy 47 Flaxman's Designs 132 Fleury's Ecclesiastical Hist.. 227, 262 Plorio's works 420 Forbes's Oriental Memoirs. . 365, 183 1>DEX. 463 PAGE Force, Peter. American Archives. . 329 Ford's Rajhast'han 3So Fonthill Abber, by Xeal 393 Forskal's Descrip. Animal, et Plant. Egyptiaca-Arabica 163 Fortlage, ■n'orks of 44 Franklin. B., works from press of, 316 Frayssinous, Archbishop, Defense du Christianisme 257 Prazier's Zoologie Typica 3ST Freher's Paradosa Emblemata . . . 10 Freherus, Paiilus, Theatrum Vio- rum eruditione Clarorum 181 French historians, Buchon, Peti- tot, &c 62 French Revolution, Memoirs of . . 372 Froissart's Chronicles 61, 158 " Les Croniques 41S Froissart, Humphrey's illustra- tions of 158 Fulgosius's Anteros 144 Fuller, Wm., Life of, and collec- tion of tracts relating to the Pretender 160 Fultoa Life of, imique 6 G. Gage's Xew Survey of the TTest Indies 251, 31S Gaisford's Lexicon 39 " Hephaestion 40 Galen, -svorks of 235 Galerie du Musee de France. . . . 396 Gallery, iSTational of Pictures. . . . 396 Dresden 396 Florence Ill, 396 Palais Pitti 395 Munich 396 WiUde 396 '• Vernon 396 Vienna 396 Historique des Contem- poraines HI Gauss, works of 22 PAGE Gauthier's Edifices of Genoa 2T6 Geographia Gneci Minores 206 German Astronomers, works of. . 22 Gesner's De rerum Fossilium- . . . 406 Gesta Eomanorum 63 Gethinge's Calligraphotechnia. . .. 423 Geylen's Specula Fatuorum (loll), 381 Gilbert's Corpus Juris Canonici. . 261 Ginguene's Histoire Lit. d'ltahe. . 266 Girards Herpetology of the U. S. Exploring Expedition 391 Gisborne's Moral Philosophy. . . . 228 Godman's Rambles of a Jsatural- ist 124 Goethe's Reineke Fuclis 427 Gorges, Sur A.. Lucan 141 Gosselin's Geography of the An- cients 39 Gothofredi's ed. of Theodosianus, 352 Gould's Birds of Australia 390 •' Asia 390 '• Europe 390 Animals of Australia. . .. 390 Odontophorinfe 390 Grainger's Biographical Dictionary, 8, 132 Grammars 71 Grand Costumier du Xormandie.. 282 Gratian's Corpus Juris Canonici. . 297 Gray s Indian Zoology. 391 Greenwell's Mine Engineering.. .. 407 Grew's Rarities 242 Grinchovius's History of India Missions 443 Grindlay's "Western Side of India. 393 Grose's Antiquities of England, "Wales, and Scotland 180 Grosier's History of China 182 Groth's Theologies Opera 253 Grotius, Hugo, works of 199 Gryaneus's Xovus Orbis. . . . 209. 251 Guarini's Commeniaries of Ser- vius 138 Gubitz's "Wood Etchings 9 464 INDEX. PAGE H. Hakluyt Society publications ... . 210 Haklu.yt's Voyages. 49, 116, 209, 251 Hall's Chronicles, ed. of 1548 419 " " ed. of 15M, 92, 151 Hamann, works of 44 Hamilton, Sir Wm., works of. . . . 210 Hampden's Philosophy of the Mid- dle Ages 228 Hardouin's Pliny 35 Hardynge's Chronicles 92 Hargrave's State Trials 313 Harrington's Epigrams 429 " translation of Orlan- do Furioso (1591) 428 Harris's Ethiopia 165 '• Justiniani Institutionum, 456 Haureau's Philosophie Scholas- tique 46 Hazelwood's Essay on English Poets 420 Head's English Rogue 69 Heck's Iconographic Encyclope- dia 234 Heidelberg Catechism 99 Henckle's Pyritologie 406 Hennepin's New Discovery in America 173 Herodotus 125, 205 Herrara's Novus Orbis. . 51, 250, 319 " General History 251 Higden, Raulph, Polychronicon . . 140 Hippocrates, works of 235 Histories, State Ill, 386 " EngUsh, Hume, Smollett, 62 Histoire des Empereurs Remains, 183 " Generale des Voyages.. lOT History of Ancient and Modem Literature 41 Hitchcock's Sandstone of Connec- ticut valley 391 Hittorf 's Architecture of Modem Sicily 276 Hobbes, works of 157 I'AGB Holbein's Dance of Death 427 Holbrook's Ichthyology of South Carolina 391 Holinshed's Chronicles, ed. 1587, 419 " 61, 91 Holland's Horologia Anglica 11 Homer, editions in Dr. Anthon's collection 30, 35 Homer, Heyne's 30 " Pope's translation 30 " Madame Dacier's transla- tion 30 Hooker, Sir William, Himalayan Journals 386 Hooker's Botany of the Erebus and Terror 391 Hooker's Ecclesiastical PoUty. . . . 358 Hope's Costumes of the Ancients, 132 Horace, editions of 35 " Venetian edition, 1486. . . 371 Horse, treatises on 126 Host's Morocco 165 Hrosvite Opera 69, 145 Hubbard's Indian Wars, first ed. 156 Hughes's Nomotamia 350 Humboldt's Atlas Pittoresque. . . . Ill " Voyage to America. . 182 " NouveUe Espagne . . . 374 " Monumens des Peu- ples indigenes de I'Amerique. . 393 Hunt, Leigh, Critical Essays on London Theatres 418 Hunter's Illustrations of the Gra- vid Uterus 239 Hussey's British Mycology 391 Hutchinson's State Papers 156 " History of Massa- chusett's Bay 331 Huygens, works of 23 I. Icelandic literature 187 Ichthyology, works on 122 Imago Primi Seculi 439 INDEX. 465 PACK Irving's New York, illustrated. . . 7 " Knickerbocker, " ... 7 Ittigius's Patres Apostolici 287 J. Jahn's Archajologia Biblica. . 127, 226 Janet's Histoire de la Philosophie Morale 47 Jansenists, works of 436 Jansenius's Augustinius 4.37 " and Jesuits 436 Japan, illustrations of 392 Jardine's Torture in Biiglish law, 351 " Criminal Trials 351 Jesuit Relations 57, 335 Johnson, W. R., on American Coals 408 Jonson, Ben, works of. .. 68, 254, 417 " edition of 1692 384 " original folios 417 Jordano, works of 49 Joris's Wonder Book 434 Josselyn's New England Rarities, 156, 318 " New England 249 Jourdain's Philosophy of St. Thos. Aquinas 47 Joutel's La Salle's last Voyage. . . 319 Jovius's Elogia virorumhellicaTir- tute lUustrium 419 Jurisprudence, Chancellor Kent's collection 281 Jurisprudence, John Tan Buren's collection 455 Jurisprudence, "Wm. Curtis Noyes's collection 347 Justice's Laws of the Sea 456 Justinian's Polyglot Psalter 369 Pandects 281 Kaempfer's Historia Japonici. . . . 385 Kalevala, Castren's Swedish ver- sion of 193 59 PAGE Kalevala, French and German translation of 193 Keating's Morocco 165 KeeUng's Liturgias Britannicse . . . 227 Keith's Virginia 385 Kelham's Domesday Book 348 Kerroux's History 199 Kersehenbroeck's History of Mun- ster 435 Khalfa Hajji's Jehan Numah 361 Klenan's CoquiUes Vivants 391 Kiugsborough, Lord, Mexican An- tiquities 116, 182, 385 Kingston's Arte of Rhetorique (1562) 96 Klein, attack on Linneeus 121 Knox's American Campaigns. . . . 174 Koran 361 " MS. copies of. 169 Kerb's Russia 372 Kok's Vaderlandsche "Woorden- boeok 211 Kuhn's Greek Medical writers . . . 100 Kuster's Systematic Conchology, 391 Laborde's Voyage dans I'Arabie Petree 161 Laborde's Voyage Pittoresque. . . 387 La Croix's Le Moyen Age 181 Lagrange, works of 183 Lalande, works of 183 Lambertini (Pope Benedict XIV.), works of 258 Lamennais's Bssai sur I'lndiffe- rence 257 Langle's Contes du gay s(;ayoir. . 428 Langley's Architecture of Hindos- tan 273 La Place's Mecanique Celeste, 23, 164, 183 Bowditch's, 164 La Plat's Monumenta Concilii Tri- dentini 262 466 INDEX. I'AGE La Quien's Oriens Christianus. . . 262 L'Art de Verifier les Dates, 180, 266 Las Casas Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos 318 La Touraine 1 59, 402 Laurent's Etudes surl'Histoire de la Humanite 45 Lawes's Ayres and Dialogues. ... 425 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, works of, 396 Lawson's Journal among the In- dians 318 Le Brun on Superstitious Prac- tices 186 Le Bnm, Pierre, Explication de la Messe 225 Legendre 184 Leibnitz, complete works of 43 " Duten's edition of 43 " Erdman's " 44 " A Foucher de Careil, edition of 44 Le Jay's Parisian Polyglot 264 Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra 268 Lemaire's collection of classic au- thors 28 Leonardus, C, Mirror of Stones. . 406 Lescarbot's New France 342 Letaurouilly's Modern Eome .... 276 Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, 181, 209, 314 Lexicons, Arabic 363 " Classical 40 Liber Veritatis of Claude Lorraine, 396 Lingard's Antiquities of the Anglo- Saxon Church 262 Linnaeus, works of 121 Lithgow's Rare Adventures 145 Livy, Drakenborch's edition of . . 35 Lodge's Portraits 62, 373, 396 Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata 384 Lombardi's Sententiarum 256 Longinus's De Sublimitate 422 Lorgna's Mathematical works. . . ] 8 Lucan, JBentley's edition of 35 I'AOK. Lucius's History of the Jesuits. . . 441 Lucretius, edition of 1515 311 Ludolph's Holy Land 365 Lydius's Waldensia 436 Lyly's Euphues 424 Lynwood's Provincial Councils of England 262 Lyon's Orchidaceous Plants 391 OT. Maberly's Print Collector 5 Machiavelli, works of 49 MacLaurin's Geometria Organica, 18 McNaughten's Hindoo Law 349 McPherson's Ethnological and Physical History of the Crimea, 393 MafiFeius's Japanese Missions. . . . 441 Magic, works on 184 Makamat of Hariri llo Malleus Malliflcarum 185 Malloy's De Jure Maritimo 456 Malte Brun, Annales des Voyages, 209 " Nouvelles " 207 Mammalt's Ashley Coal Field. . . . 409 MandeviUe, Sir John, Palestine, 355, 365 Mante's History 321 Mantel's Geology of Sussex 409 Manuscripts, Arabic 169 " Revolutionary, Mr. Bancroft's collection 53 Maps, Mr. Brevoort's collection of 117 Mariana's History of Spain, 372 Marmontel's works 180 Martyr, Peter, decades of . . . 116, 156' Maryatt's Borneo ■. 387 Massillon, works of 180, 225 • Mather, Cotton, Magnalia, 249, 326, 359- Mauber's Emblemata, Fuseli's copy, 13 Maundrell's Holy Land 355 Maurice's Indian Antiquities 183 " Hindostan 183 Maury, Alfred, History of Relig- ion in Ancient Greece 45 IXDEX. 46Y PACK Memoires de I'Academie des In- scriptions in Memoires du Musee d'Hist. Xat,, 121 Meninski's Turkish Dictionary. . . 365 Mer des Histoires. ed. of 1543. . . 419 Meyer's Britisli Birds 391 Mezeray's Chroniques Abregees de I'Histoire de France 212 Miclielet's History of Modern Ger- man Philosopliy 47 Migne's Tlieologite Cursus 257 Mills's Britisli India 385 Milton's Paradise Lost, first ed. .. 430 '• works, Pickering's ed. . . 430 " Todd's edition 401 Minot's Massachusetts 177 MissaUs, Roman, MS 378 Moalakt 172 Moehler's la Sx"mbolique 258 Mohammed, Life of 168 Moliere's plays, Elzevir edition .. . 417 " -n-orks of 189 Molina's Dictionary of the Mexi- can language 338 Montfaucon's Antiquite Expliquee, 2S, 180, 272 Mooiy's Narrative 175 More, Sir Thomas, Utopia 339 '• " collected works, 381 " '• Life of Picus Mirandula 381 Moreri's Dictionaire Historique, 211, 372 Morgagni's De Sedibis et Causis Morborum 237 Moroni's Dizionariodi Erudizione, 256 Morton's New England Canaan. . 325 Mosella, edition princeps 103 Mouradja's (D'Ohsson) Tableau General de I'Empire Othoman . . 162 Mourt's New England Relation. . 342 Mozichi's Historical Dissertations, 262 Munster's Cosmographia Novum Orbis Regionum, (1537) 136 PAOE Muratori 64 Murchison's Russia and the Ural Mouutams 409 Murphy's Arabian Antiquities. . . 62 Musee Fran^ais 53, 111, 373 '• Royal 53, 111 Museo Pio-Clementino 27 N. Natural History, works of 121 Navarrete's Collection of Voyages, 207 " History 51 Newton, Sir Isaac, Horsley's edi- tion of 183 New York Medical Repository. . . 233 ■' Medical and Physical Journal 233 New York Medical and Philosoph- ical Register 233 New York, Natural History of . . 392 Nibby's Foro Romano 218 '• Roma ed Intomo di Roma, 2 1 8 Nichols's Literary Anecdotes. ... 65 Niebuhr'sRome 125 Nieuwentyt's Rehgious Pliiloso- pher 128 Norden's Egypt and Nubia 161 Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques 438 Novum ItaU* Theatrum 392 Nuremberg Chronicle, first edition, 11, 63, 420 O. Oakley's Order and Ceremonial.. . 227 OgUby's America 249 Oken's Isis 121 Olaus Magnus ISO Old New York, by Dr. Francis.. . 233 Olivet's Cicero 35 Oppian, editio Princeps, Optima, and Aldine 103 Origen, works of 288 Orsato's Inscriptions on Ancient Marbles and Bronzes — the poet Gray's copy 41 3 468 INDEX. PAQE Ottius's Annals of the Anabaptists, 435 Ottley 's History of Engravings. . . 10 Oughton's Ordo Judiciorum 351 Ouseley's Voyage in Persia 166 Oviedo's Historia General y Natu- ral de las Indias 51, 207 Ovid, Burman's edition of 35 " Sandys's " " 141 P. Palavicini's History of the Council of Trent 262 Palgrave's History of Normandy, 357 " English Commonwealth, 357 " Original Authority of the King's Council 357 Palmer's Origines Liturgiffi 227 Paris Papers (Dean's intercepted letters) 328 Parliman's History of Pontiac... . 320 Pascal's Pensees 263 Pasquin, Antony (WilUams), satir- ical poems of. 355 Pass, Crispin de, Emblems 10 Peacham's Garden of Eloquence, 422 Pennsylvania, Proud's History. . . 177 Percy's Reliques of Ancient Po- etry 365 Perrin's Collection des Memoires, 210 Perrone Chiesa Cattolica 257 " Prsjlectiones Theologicse, 257 Perry's Oriental Cases 349 Persian Dictionary, Bnrhan-i-Ka- tiah 365 Petrarch's Poems, editio princeps, 218 " Tenice, 1547.. 372 Petrarke's Physicke against For- tune 424 Phalaris 36 PhiUips's Illustrated Mexico 394 Phipps's "Voyage to the North Pole 387 Picart's Rehgious Ceremonies ... 159 Piers Ploughman 355 VAGK Pigouchet, early works printed by, 380 Piranesi's Architecture of Greece and Rome 275 Pisoni's Historia Nat 145 Pitiscus's Thesaurus Mathemat- icus 18 Plato, Bekker, StaUbaum, Ast, and Oxford editions 48 Platonists, elder and later 48 Plautus, editio princeps 417 " (1518) 137 Pliny, younger, works of 235 Plotinus, editions of Paris and Ox- ford 48 Plummer on the Book of Common Prayer 227 Plutarch, best edition of 48 Poetse Graaci Veteres 30 Poisoning, Great Oyer of 350 Pole on the Cornish Engine 409 Politian's Miscellanea (1489) 452 Polychronicon 140 Polyglot, first ever printed 369 Pope's Rape of the Lock, illustrated, 1 3 Ponson on Coal Mining 408 Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway 391 Person's Euripides 33 Porta, J. B , Humana Physiogno- mia 240 Portlock's Geology ofLondonderry, 409 Pothier, works of 281 Poulain, Cabinet de g Provost's Histoire General des Voyages 117 Proclus, Cousin's 48 " Taylor's translation. ... 45 Prosperi Alpini de Plant. Egypt. . 168 Proud's Pennsylvania 386 Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis, 406 Prynne's Histriomastix 384 Psalter, MS 378,379 Ptolemy's Almagest 19, 184 " Claudius, Cosmographia, 204 INDEX. 469 Puroell's Orpheus Britannicus . . . 425 Purchas's Pilgrimes 49, 209 Puttenhara's Art of English Poesie, 381, 421 Quarles's Poems 14l R. Rabelais, editions of 426 Racine, works of 180 Ramusio's America 209, 116, 340 Randall's Memorials of Japan. . . . 385 Raynaldi's Annales Ecclesiasticae, 262 Reland's Palestina 298 Reports of State Trials 455 Reybaud's Reformateurs, modern, 45 Reynard, the Fox edition (1581), 11 Richter's Corpus Juris Canonici. . 353 Ridley, Sir Thomas, Civil and Ec- clesiastical Law 352 Ritter's Christian Philosophy. ... 41 " Henrich, Geschichte der Philosophie alter zeit 47 Rochefoucault's United States. . . 386 Rochette's Peintures Antiques. . . 42S Rodger's North America . ... 173, 320 Rogers's Seology of Pennsylvania, 391 " Italy, poet's own copy. . 57 Romant de la Rose 67 Rondeletius's Marine Fishes 240 Rosmini, works of. 49 Rothenflue's Institutiones Theo- reticse 228 Rousseau's Botany 391 Rugendo's Voyage Pittoresque dans leBresel 161 Russell's Aleppo 164 S. Sagaof Olaf. 187 Sagas, collection of 1S7 PAGE Sagard's Yocabulary of Ancient Huron 337 Sagna froida 188 St. Non's Voyage Pittoresque de Naples et du Sieile Ill Salverte on Occult Sciences 186 Sanscrit Dictionary, AVilson's 39 Santarem's Recherches sur Americ Vespuce et ses Voyages 208 Scarpa, works of 235 Scavani's Moral Theology 261 Schlestrate's Antiquitas Ecclesiae, 262 Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes 182 Schoppenhauer, works of. 44 Schultzen's Heimskringla 1 87 Scot, Reginald, 'Witchcraft. . . 96, 185 Scott, Valter, "Waverley novels, Abbotsford edition 426 SeeUng's Temple of Eloro 132 Segur's Histoire UniverseUe .... 211 Selby's Birds 255 Selden's Fleta? 456 Seneca, Lipsius edition of. 38 '■ Antwerp (1570) 139 " Ills Tenne Tragedies 417 Sere's Le Moyen Age 271 Sermons, collection of 268 Shakespeare, first foUo 2. 146 " Mr. Stevens's, 197 " BoydeU's ■ 147 " Hanmer's " 147 '• Pope's edition 147 ■' illustrated by Mr, Barton 148 Portraits of 149 Mr. Barton's four foUos 74, 81 Mr. Barton's early quartos. 76 ' Mr. Barton's Doubt- ful plays 86 Mr. Barton's altered plays 87 alterations of 1st foUo, 81 470 INDEX. PAGE Shakespeare, Sources 91 " Mr. White's collec- tion 430 Shaw's Decorations of the Middle Ages 10, 413 Shaw's Natural History 121 Skelton's Oxonia Antiqua Restau- rata 62 Siculus, Diodorus, History of the World 405 Sidney, Sir Philip, Arcadia.- 159 Simple Cobbler of Aggawam 156 Sismondi's Histoire des Franijais, 212 Sloan's Jamaica 386 Smith, Capt. John, History of Vir- ginia 49, 247, 343 Smith's New Tork 35'7 Solomon's Ancient and Modern Rome 413 Somers, Lord, Tracts 253 Sophocles, various editions 32 •' Stephens's edition ... . 139 Sotheby's Principia Typographica, 15 '7 Souciet's Observations of the Jes- uits in China 18 Southey's Brazil 218, 386 Sowerby's British Mineralogy.. . . 408 Sowerby's Thesaurus Oonchylio- rum 391 Speculum Sapientite 426 Spedeleri's Confutazione de Gibbon, 268 Spellman's Glossary 350 Spencer's De Legibus Hebraeo- rum 298 Spenser's Faerie Queen, first ed., 430 " (1609). . 142 Daphnaida(1591) 66 " Tears of the Muses (1591) 68 Colin Clout (1595) 11 " Todd's edition 401 Spinoza, various editions of 44 Sprengel's History of Medicine.. . 238 Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum. . 381 PAGR Spruner's Historical Atlas 157 State Histories, Mr. Menzies's col- lection 331 Statham's Abridgment of English Law 349 Statins, edition of 1498 138 Stith's Virginia 331, 385 Stothard's Monumental Effigies . . 181 Storer's British Cathedrals 449 Strabo, Falconer's edition 37 Stratieo's Vitruvms 35 Strype's works 62 Stuart and Revett's Athens, 112, 394 Swineburne's Spain 386 SyUacius's De Insulis Meridiani atque Indici Meris Nuper In- ventis 386 Sylvester's Du Bartas 354 X. Taliafero's Georgia 249 Tarleton's History of Southern Campaigns 328 Tasso, Fairfax's 142 " Gerusalemme Liberata, edi- tion of 1590 372 Taylor, John, Water-poet, works, 143 " Voyage Pittoresque 278 Teatro Espaijola 372 Temminck's Ornithology 73, 217 " and Schlegel's Fishes of Japan 123 Temple, Sir Wm., works of 359 Terence, Bentley and Westerho- vius's editions of 36 Terence, selections from 422 Theatrum Ethnica Politico Histo- ricum 10 Theologia Cursus Completus 225 Theophrastus Historia et Causis Plantarum 217 Thierry, Augustin, works of 212 " Amedee,- Histoire dela Gaule, &c 212 INDEX. 471 rAGK Thomassinus's Disoiplina 29T Thompson's Annals of Philosophy, 232 Thorwaldsen, outlines of 53 Thucydides 125 Ticknor's History of Spanish Lit- erature 65 Tiedmann, Legal Medicine 236 Tillemont's Histoire Ecclesiastique, 211 TiUook's Philosophical Magazine, 232 Tiraboschi, works of 1 80 " Historie della Lettera- tura Itahana 218 Tolberg, Medicine, legal 236 Torqueraada 207 Tractatus Verborum, printed by Wynkyn de Worde 11 Transactions of the Royal Society, 232 " Am. Philosophical Society 232 Travels, works of 40 " collections of 64 " of Chandler, Pococke, Clarke, Fellows, Leake, Layard, Ainsworth 40 Travels in Asia and Africa, works of 164 Treviaa's Polyehronicon (1497). . . 381 Trigantius's Christian triumphs in Japan 442 Tschudi'a Peru 387 Tuckey's Expedition to the Congo river 166 U. Udall's Flowers of Eloquence. ... 422 Unwin on Tin 406 V. Taca, de. Smith's translation of. .. 120 Vacherot's Histoire Antique de I'Ecole d'Alexaudrie 47 Valentyn's Oud en Niew Cost In- dien 117 Talpy's Delphin Classics 28, 256 PAGE Vander Aa's Zee en Landreisen. . 117 Van der Donck's Niew Nederlant, 343 Van Hammer-Purgstall, works of, 367 Van Meteren's History of Holland, 201 Van WassEEner's Historical Rela- tions 202 Varchi 63 Vasari, works of. 180 Vecelli's Habiti Antichi e Moderni di tutto 11 mondo (1598) 414 Venables, works of 102 Venega's California 385 Vermont, Williams's History of . . 177 Versailles Gallery 396 ViUagutierre's Historia de la Con- quista de Itza 208 Villefosse's De la Riehesse Min- erale 407 Virgil, editions of 36 " Wagner's edition of 42 " Ogilby's translation of ... . 138 " Vatican edition (1765) 180 " Stephens's edition (1532).. 452 Virginia, Histories of 175 MSS. in Mr. Bancroft's library 57 Vitruvius, Stratico's edition of . . 35 Voet's Pandects 456 Voltaire, works of 212 Vostre, Simon, early printing by, 380 Voyages, collections of 117 " Knox, Burney, Dampier, 117 " Arctic and Antarctic . . 117 " to the North Pole 386 Vries, De, New Netherland 120 TV. Wagenaar's Vaderlandsehe Hist., 198 Wagner, Epistola Critica 42 " VirgU 42 Wake's Rex Platonicus 96 Wakefield's Lucretius 256 Walpole, Sir Robt, works of ... . 357 Walton's Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, 367 472 INDEX. Walton and Cotton's Angler, Pick- ering's edition, illustrated 7 "Walton's Complete Angler, Dr. Bethune's copy 101 "Walton's writings 101 "Warner's Albion and England (1586) U2 "Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica .... 228 "Weigelt s History of Modern Phi- losophy i1 "Westall's Views of Australia. . . . 392 "Wharton's Angli Sacra 262 "Whitbourne's Newfoundland 319 "White's Constantinople 166 "Wioquefort's Histoire des Prov- inces Unies 203 "Wilkins, Bishop, on Philosophical Language 267 "Wilkinson's Modern Egypt 166 "Willemin's Monumens Fran