Catalogue Of Books In The Boston Atheneum To Which Are Added The By Laws Of The Institution And A List Of Its Proprietors And Subscribers

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Boston Atheneum written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of Books in the Boston Atheneum: To Which Are Added the by-Laws of the Institution; And a List of Its Proprietors and Subscribers The present Catalogue has been prepared to meet the immediate wants of those, who are hereafter to have access to the Athenaeum as a circulating Library. It is, therefore, simply an alphabetical index of the Books; made, indeed, in some haste, but not probably containing more errors and deficiencies than might be expected from a first attempt to famish a Catalogue of so large a Library. A similar index is still wanted of about a thousand volumes of Tracts, which are already bound, and of a nearly equal amount of Tracts, which have never been bound; but, it was not possible to prepare this index for the present volume without too long delaying its appearance. Several thousand volumes of Books were ordered for the Athenaeum during the last summer. As none of them are rare, or difficult to be procured, they will no doubt soon be received; and it has, therefore, been thought best to insert their titles in this Catalogue. They can easily be distinguished, because no number of a shelf is attached to them, and no note of the time or place where they were printed. When this large addition shall have been received, and an index of the very valuable collection of Pamphlets arranged, the materials for a scientific Catalogue will then be prepared. Such a catalogue cannot, indeed, be completed, without much care, time and labour. But the munificent patronage, which has been lately extended to the Athenaeum; the rich and abundant materials shown in the index now presented to the public; and the hopes that may reasonably be indulged for its future increase, all demand a full and careful catalogue of the works it contains, arranged in the order of subjects. It is, therefore, intended to prepare such a catalogue, as soon as the more urgent wants of the Institution will permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."