Description | Folio, quarter calf with marbled boards, containing library catalogue. The pages are ruled into six columns, the main one headed with the section name (see below) containing author and title, and the others headed "Number in the Library", "No. of Vols.", "Size", "Printer and Place" (but only place is listed), and "Year". The first page is a contents list, dividing the books into sections by subject and indicating the relevant pages in the catalogue for each section. The sections are: Morality / Greek and Latin / English and French Law of Nature and Nations Polity Law of Different Nations Civil Canon Scotch English Physick Divinity Heb. / Gk. Lat. Fr. English Natural Philosophy Mathematicks Mercantile Natural History and Horsemanship Agriculture Military. Exercises. Arts. Games. Cosmography. Geography. Chronology. Ancient History. G. L. F. Eng. Poetry Greek Latin English French. Italian. The catalogue covers 68 pages and includes publications dating from 1491 (Platonis Opera Latine per Ficinum, folio Venice) to 1778.
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