The Universal History, Ancient, 1745-54, in 21 vols., and
Modern, 1759, in 13 vols. 8vo.
I cannot quit the Historical department of this Library without a
brief and passing notice of those Works which, however remotely, bear
upon the subject. These are, the Illustrations of America, by De Bry,
printed at Franckfort in 1591, in 8 folio volumes, and the Icones Ducum,
published at the same place in the preceding year, in 4to. by the same
indefatigable compiler; the Effigies Theologorum, by Verheiden, Hagæ-Com.
1602, folio; Thuani Historia sui temporis, Aurel. 1620, in 5 folio
volumes; Annales Caroli Mag. per Anon. Helmst. 1594, 4to.; Dempster’s
Antiquities of Rome; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; the
Works of Guicciardini; Josephi Opera Omnia, and Antiquitates Judæorum;
Pauli Jovii Opera Omnia; the Mercure François, from 1605 to 1644, in
25 octavo volumes; Overbeke, Reliquiæ; Urbis Romæ; Italia Illustrata,
Francofurti, 1600; Justiniani Institutiones, folio; Du Fresnoy’s Methode
d’etudier Histoire; the valuable Illustrations of Grecian and Roman
Antiquities, by Gravius and Gronovius, with the Inscriptions of Gruter,
and Supplementary Lexicon of Pitiscus; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece;
Heylin’s Cosmography; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations, &c.; Micylli Icones
Imperatorum, 1544, 8vo.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum and Palæographia
Græca; Munsteri Cosmographia; Palladio’s Antiquities of Rome, Oxford,
1709, 8vo.; Raleigh’s History of the World; Wheari Methodus legendi
Historiam; a Collection of Royal Wills, London, 1780, 4to.; and Vincentii
Speculum Majus, Venet. 1591, in 4 folio volumes.
In Sacred Philology this Library is peculiarly rich, the collection
of Critical and Philological Writers on the New Testament alone,
occupying in alphabetical order, the space in the Catalogue of this
Collection included between pages 210 and 216. It also embraces Wolfii
Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ in Quatuor Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum,
Hamburgi, 1739, in 5 quarto volumes; and Wall’s Critical Notes on the
New Testament, 1730, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Leusden’s
Philologia Hebraica; Lowth, de Sacrâ Poesi Hebræorum; Schultens’ Origines
Linguæ Hebraicæ; Wetstein’s Canones Critici in Novum Testamentum, Amstel.
1711, 12mo.; and Wernsdorff de Fide historicâ Libror. Maccabæorum,
Uratislaviæ, 1737, 4to.; and Beausobre on the New Testament.
Of Impressions of the Holy Bible in this Collection, the most remarkable
are
The Hebrew Bibles of 1630 and 1705, printed at Amsterdam in 8vo.
The Hebrew Bible, printed at Oxford in 1730, in 2 quarto vols.
The Biblia Græca. Wechelii. Francof. 1597, folio.
The LXX Millii. Amstelodami, 1735, in 3 vols. 12mo.
The Biblia Latina. Rennis, 1743, and Sabatier, in 3 vols. folio.
The English authorized Version of 1612, in quarto, wanting the
title.
Another Old English folio, without date, and the folio
Impression of 1540.
Dr. Samuel Clarke’s Family Bible. London, 1760, folio.