Librarian's manual: a treatise on bibliography, comprising a select and descriptive list of bibliographical works ...C. B. Norton, 1858 - 314 strán (strany) |
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Strana 154 - ... Reftrictions, to other Individuals who are known to the Library Officers. It is eftimated that the Number of Volumes thus loaned from the Library, is between thirty and forty thoufand annually. Dr. Pertz continues to be the head Librarian. Like other large European Inftitutions, this Library poflefles many rare Incunabula and curious Manuscripts, as well as Books, which are Interefting from the Affociations therewith connected.
Strana 71 - This is a fine Copy of a very fcarce Work. TH has been particularly Induftrious in collecting Grammars and Lexicons of the oriental Root Languages, to fend to Harvard College, in Hopes of forming by that Means, affifted by the Energy of the Leaders, always beneficent, a few prime Scholars, Honours to their Country, and Lights to Mankind,
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Strana 49 - Bibliographie biographique universelle. Dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs à l'histoire de la vie publique et privée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours; contenant: 1° la désignation chronologique de toutes les monographies biographiques; 2°...
Strana 22 - Illuftrated by occafional Extracts and Remarks, critical and biographical. 8°. London. 1815. An important Addition to Britifh Bibliography, comprehending more poetical Works than any other Publication of the Kind. They are defcribed with unufual Minute.nefs and Accuracy, HALLIWELL (JO), Shakefperiana ; a Catalogue of the early Editions of Shakefpeare's Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications illuftrative of his Works. 8°. London. 1841. pp. 46. Undertaken, as the Author ftates in the...
Strana 155 - ... in the Month of June, 1753, and by the fame Act directed that the Cottonian Library, a Collection of valuable hiftorical Manufcripts which had been made by Sir Robert Cotton, during the Reign of Elizabeth and James I., and which had been acquired by Government in the Reign of Queen Anne...
Strana 69 - Hall was occupied by them in consequence of the alarm excited by the existence of the small pox in Boston. At the instigation of Governor Bernard, they immediately appropriated =£2,000 to erect a new building in place of that which had been destroyed while occupied by them. A general subscription w*as made for the same purpose among the towns and counties of the State, amounting to ,J'878 16s.'9rf.* A generous sympathy was shown by many persons in the parent country.