Legacy Library: Providence Library Company

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Chemical lectures : publickly read at London, in the years 1731, and 1732; and at Scarborough, in 1733, for the improvement of arts, trades, and natural philosophy by Peter Shaw

The microscope made easy : or, I. The nature, uses and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes, described, calculated, and explained ; for the instruction of such, particularly, as desire to search into the wonders of the minute creation, tho' they are not acquainted with optics ; together with full directions how to prepare, apply, examine, and preserve all sorts of objects, and proper cautions to be observed in viewing them ; II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already ... by Henry Baker

Lives of the admirals and other eminent British seamen : Containing their personal histories, and a detail of all their public services. Including a new and accurate naval history ... Interspersed with many curious passages relating to our discoveries, plantations, and commerce by John Campbell

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue by Francis Hutcheson

Three essays in artificial philosophy, or universal chemistry: viz. I. An essay for the farther application and advancement of chemistry in England by Peter Shaw

Statical essays : containing hæmastatics, or, An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals : also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder, with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions : to which is added, an appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume by Stephen Hales

The travels of Cyrus by Andrew Michael Ramsay

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TagsHistory (17), Religion (13), Biography (11), Great Britain (11), Literature (9), Science (8), Travels (8), Politics and Government (6), Law (4), Philosophy (4) — see all tags

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About meThe Providence Athenaeum was founded in 1753 as the Providence Library Company (which merged in 1836 with the Providence Athenaeum). This library is the fourth-oldest membership library in the United States.

About my libraryThe books included here are those from the original library of the Providence Library Company, purchased 1753-1758. A fire at the Providence Court House destroyed most of the collection on Christmas Eve, 1758; some seventy volumes out on loan at the time survived the fire.

Those titles from the Founders' Collection still in the collections of the Providence Athenaeum are included here with the Athenaeum's call number in the Comments field. Other titles which survived the fire (as designed in a 1768 catalogue of the collection) but which no longer are held by the Athenaeum are also included here.

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More on the Founders' Collection can be found here.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Do you know of additional books which should be included here? Please contact Libraries of Early America coordinator Jeremy Dibbell.

Homepagehttp://www.providenceathenaeum.org/

Real nameProvidence Library Company

LocationProvidence, RI

Emailprovidenceathenaeumgmail.com