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Albemarle Co., Va., Library Society: Catalogue of Books, 5 Apr. 1823, 5 April 1823
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS,
Presented by the Committee appointed for that purpose, and received by the General Meeting of
THE ALBEMARLE LIBRARY SOCIETY.
| Josephus’s Works, by Whiston | 3 | vols. 8vo | Uncertainty of the Signs of Death | 1 | British Cicero | 3 | |||||
| Herodotus, by Beloe | 4 | 8vo | Xenophon’s Memoire of Socrates, by Fielding | 1 | 8vo | Scott’s Swift | 24 | 12mo | |||
| Thucydides, by Smith | 2 | 8vo | Epictetus, by Mrs. Carter | 2 | 12mo | Harington’s Oceana | 1 | ||||
| Xenophon’s Grecian History, Smith | Cicero’s Offices | 1 | Beattie’s Works | 10 | 12mo | ||||||
| Xenophon’s Retreat of the ten thousand Spelman | 2 | 8vo | Cicero on Old Age, by Franklin | 1 | [. . .] | Johnson’s Lives of the Poets | 2 | 8vo | |||
| Gillies’ History of Greece | 4 | 8vo | Cicero’s Thoughts, by D’Olivet, Eng. | 1 | 12mo | Leland’s Demosthenes | 2 | ||||
| Anacharsis’ Travels | 5 | 8vo | Seneca’s Morals, by L’Estrange, | 1 | 8vo | Duncan’s Cicero | 1 | ||||
| Livy, Eng. London, 1743 | 6 | 8vo | Enfield’s History of Philosophy | 2 | Adams’ Lectures | 2 | |||||
| Sallust, by Gordon | 1 | 12mo | Stanley’s Lives of the Philosophers | 1 | 4vo | Blair’s Lectures | 2 | ||||
| Caesar, by Bladen | 1 | 8vo | Locke on the Human Understanding | 1 | 8vo | Allison on Taste | 1 | ||||
| Plutarch’s Lives, by Dryden | 6 | 12mo | Stewart’s Philosophy of the Human Mind | 2 | Rabelain’s Works | 4 | 12mo | ||||
| Cornelius Nepos | 1 | 12mo | Condorcet’s Progress of the Mind | 1 | Paley’s Works | 3 | 8vo | ||||
| Middleton’s Life of Cicero | 2 | 8vo | Puffenderf’s Duty of Man | 1 | British Spy | 1 | 12mo | ||||
| Tacitus, by Gordon | 4 | 8vo | The Economy of Human Life | 1 | 12mo | Junius (Woodfall) | 2 | ||||
| Suetonius, By Thomson | 1 | Locke on Toleration | 1 | Lyttleton’s Letters | 1 | ||||||
| Gibbon’s Roman Empire | 12 | Rochefoucault’s Maxims | 1 | Aikin’s Letters | 1 | ||||||
| Segur’s Abr. Universal History, about | 4 | Charron on Wisdom, by Stanhope, | 1 | 8vo | Moore’s Letters on France and Italy | 2 | |||||
| Priestly’s Lectures on History | 2 | Locke on Government | 1 | Begland’s Letters on History | 1 | ||||||
| Milot’s Modern History | 2 | Sidney on Government | 2 | Chesterfield’s Letters | 3 | 8vo | |||||
| Russel’s Modern Europe | 5 | Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws | 2 | Pliny’s Letters | 2 | ||||||
| Hallam’s Middle Ages | 4 | Tracy’s Commentaries on Montesquieu | 1 | Cicero’s Letters | 3 | ||||||
| Milot’s History of France | 3 | 12mo | Bargh’s Political Disquisitions | 3 | Fitzosborne’s Letters | 1 | |||||
| Sully’s Memoirs | 4 | 8vo | The Federalist | 2 | 12mo | St. Evermond and Waller | 1 | 12mo | |||
| Voltaire’s Age of Louis XIV | 2 | Chipman on Government | 1 | Lady M. Montague’s Letters | 4 | ||||||
| Voltaire’s Age of Louis XV | 1 | Malthus on the Principles of Population | 1 | Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric | 1 | ||||||
| Baines’s Wars of the French Revolution | 4 | Say’s Political Economy | 2 | 8vo | Columbian Eloquence | 1 | |||||
| Madame de Stael on the French Revolution, Eng. | 3 | Tracy’s Political Economy | 1 | McCries Life of Knox | 1 | ||||||
| Toulongeon’s Revolution of France ab’t | 4 | Ferguson’s Astronomy | 1 | Keit’s Elements | 1 | ||||||
| La Cretelle’s Hist. of France, 18th cent’ry, | 6 | Ferguson’s Mechanics | 1 | Boswell’s Johnson | 3 | ||||||
| Segur’s History of Frederick, Wm. II. | 3 | A Collection of Travels and Voyages, Lond. 1761, | 20 | 12mo | Grattan’s Speeches | 1 | |||||
| Voltaire’s Charles XII. | 1 | Pope’s Homer’s Iliad | 2 | Curran’s Speeches | 2 | ||||||
| Voltaire’s Peter the Great | 1 | Pope’s Homer’s Odyssey | 2 | Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity | 1 | folio | |||||
| Voltaire’s General History | 6 | Dryden’s Virgil | 3 | Lord [. . .]’s works | 10 | ||||||
| Robertson’s Charles V. | 3 | Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lond. 1784, | 2 | Home’s Sketches | 2 | ||||||
| Rapin’s History of England | 15 | Telemachus | 2 | Smith’s Moral Sentiments | 1 | ||||||
| Hume’s History of England | 8 | Pope’s Works | 9 | Berkeley’s Esssays | 1 | ||||||
| Baxter’s History of England | 1 | 4vo | Addison’s Works | 3 | Reid on the Mind | 4 | |||||
| Ludlow’s Memoirs | 3 | 8vo | Potter’s Aeschylus | 1 | 8vo | Steuart’s Philosophical Essays | 1 | ||||
| Fox’s History of James II. | 1 | Potter’s Sophocles | 1 | Smith’s Wealth of Nations | 2 | ||||||
| Mrs. Mucauley’s History of England | 8 | Potter’s Euripides | 2 | Walpole’s Reminisences | 1 | ||||||
| Orrery’s History of England | 2 | 12mo | Shakespear, by Capell | 8 | Marmontel’s Memoirs | 1 | |||||
| Belsham’s History of Great Britain | 12 | 8vo | Dryden’s | Tragedies | } | about 20 | 12mo | British Poets | 75 | 12mo | |
| Robertson’s America | 4 | Otway’s | do | Oxberry’s British Theatre | |||||||
| Belknap’s History of New Hampshire | 3 | Rowe’s | do | Coleman’s Terence | |||||||
| Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts | 2 | Young’s | do | Lord Byron’s | Works | 6 | 12mo | ||||
| Williams’s History of Vermont | 1 | Mallet’s | do | Scott’s | do | 6 | |||||
| Smith’s History of New York | 1 | Thompson’s | do | Campbell’s | do | 3 | |||||
| Proud’s History of Pennsylvania | 2 | Mason’s | do | Moore’s | do | 6 | |||||
| Smith’s History of Virginia | 2 | Moliere’s Comedies, Eng. | Cowper’s | do | 4 | ||||||
| Stith’s Hitory of Virginia | 1 | 8vo | Spectator | 8 | Burn’s | do | 4 | ||||
| Burke’s & Girardin’s History of Virginia | 4 | Tattler | 2 | Crabbe’s | do | 3 | |||||
| Williamson’s History of N. Carolina | 1 | Guardian | 2 | Rowe’s Lucien | 1 | ||||||
| Hewitt’s History of S. Carolina | 1 | Kaim’s Elements of Criticism | 1 | 8vo | Gifford’s Juvenal | 2 | |||||
| Gordon’s Independence of the U. States | 4 | Lowthe’s English Grammar | 1 | 12mo | Mitchell’s Aristophans | 2 | |||||
| Mrs. Warren’s History of the American Revolution | 3 | Franklin’s Works | 8 | 8vo | Francis’s Horace | 1 | |||||
| Ramsay’s Hist. of the Amer. Revolution | 2 | Hampton’s Polybius | 3 | Hoole’s Ariosto | 4 | ||||||
| Marshal’s Life of Washington | 5 | Milford’s Greece | 5 | Hoole’s Tasso | 4 | ||||||
| Botta’s History of the War of Independence, by Otis, | 3 | Ferguson’s Roman Republic | 5 | German Theatre | 6 | ||||||
| Minot’s History of the Insurrection of Massachusetts | 1 | Gillies’ History of the World | 3 | Goldsmith’s Works | 5 | 8vo | |||||
| Findlay’s History of the Insurrection of Pennsylvania | 1 | Rollin’s Antient History | 10 | Fielding’s do | 8 | ||||||
| Clarke’s Naval History of the U. States | 2 | 12mo | Guicciardini’s Wars of Italy | 10 | Smollet’s do | 8 | |||||
| Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History | 6 | 8vo | Roscoe Leo—10 | 4 | Don Quixotte | 4 | 12mo | ||||
| The Geoponies, by Owen, | 1 | Roscue De Medici | 3 | Gil Blas | 2 | ||||||
| Dickson’s Husbandry of the Antients | 2 | Memoirs Cardinal de Retz | 3 | Rasselas | 1 | ||||||
| Tull’s Horse-Hoeing Husbandry | 1 | Granmont’s Memoirs | 2 | Rambler | 4 | ||||||
| Hale’s Body of Husbandry | 4 | Calvin’s Memoirs | 1 | Idler | 2 | ||||||
| Young’s Rural Economy | 3 | Clarendon’s History | 6 | World | 4 | ||||||
| Young’s Farmer’s Guide | 2 | McIntosh’s History of England | Adventurer | 4 | |||||||
| Sinclair’s“ “ | 1 | Robertson’s History of England | 2 | Mirror | 2 | ||||||
| Taylor’s Arator | 1 | 12mo | Chalmer’s Mary | 2 | Connoisseur | 3 | |||||
| Barton’s Elements of Botany | 1 | Dalrymple’s Memoirs | 2 | Lyttleton’s Dialogues | 1 | ||||||
| Conversations on Chemistry | 2 | Watson’s Philip 2 and 3 | 5 | Life of Cellini Bevenuto | 1 | 8vo | |||||
| Scientific Dialogues | 8 in 4 | Davilla’s Civil Wars | Cuvier’s Theory of the Earth | 1 | |||||||
| Buffon’s Natural History, Eng. | 18 | 8vo | Thuanus’ History of France | Milner’s Church History | 2 | ||||||
| Blumenbach’s Manual of Nat. History | 2 | Tomlin’s Life of Pitt | 2 | Chalmers on Astronomy | 1 | ||||||
| Philosophical Survey of the Animal Creation | 1 | 12mo | Memoirs of Elizabeth and James | 5 | Malthus on Political Economy | 1 | |||||
| Coleman’s Plautus | 1 | Hudibras | 1 | ||||||||
| Kennett’s and Potter’s Roman and Grecian Antiquities | 2 | 8vo | Hannah More’s Works | 9 | 12mo | ||||||
| Jefferson’s Notes | 1 | Female Biography | 3 | 8vo | |||||||
| Burke’s Works | 3 | Memoirs of Henry Martin | 1 | 12mo | |||||||
| Edwards on the Will | 1 | 8vo | |||||||||
APPROVED, April 5, 1823.
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