Complete Collections

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• Adams, John
  • Deeds and other Documents Relating to the Several Pieces of Land, and to the Library Presented to the Town of Quincy by President Adams, together with a Catalogue of the Books. Cambridge, MA: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1825.
  • Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston. Boston: Published by the Trustees [BPL], 1917.
  • Extant copies in the Boston Public Library and other institutions.

• Askin, John
  • Widder, Agnes Haigh. "The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books." Michigan Historical Review 33:1 (Spring 2007), pp. 27-57.

• Baylor, John, III
  • Katheder, Thomas. The Baylors of Newmarket. iUniverse, 2009. Library data drawn from inventory and letterbooks of Col. John Baylor III, plus Virginia Gazette Daybooks.

• Buckland, William
  • Estate inventory (PDF), taken 19 December 1774 (Ann Arundel County, MD). Provided by Michele Lee, Librarian & Archivist at Gunston Hall.

• Buckminster, Joseph Stevens
  • Catalogue of the library of the late Rev. J. S. Buckminster. Boston: Printed by John Eliot, Jun. 1812. Shaw-Shoemaker 24979. Digital version here.

• Carr, Dabney
  • W.G. Stanard, "Library of Dabney Carr, with a Notice of the Carr Family." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2:2 (October 1894), 221-228.

• Carter, Landon
  • Extant copies at Sabine Hall (title pages photocopied by Colonial Williamsburg)
  • Carol Edith Curtis, "The Library of Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1710-1788." Master's Thesis, College of William and Mary, 1981.
  • Library in progress.

• Corbin, Hannah Lee
  • Invoices and estate inventories from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society.
  • Paul C. Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: seven generations of an American family. NY: Oxford University Press, 1990, 54-64.

• Edwards, Jonathan
  • Thuesen, Peter J., ed. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 26: Catalogues of Books. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Extant copies at Princeton University added.
  • Extant copies at other institutions sought.
  • Library in progress.

• Edwards Family (descendants of JEI)
  • Extant copies at Princeton University added.
  • Extant copies at other institutions sought.

• Fitzpatrick, John
  • Estate inventory, published in Margaret Fisher Dalrymple, ed. The Merchant of Manchac: The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768-1790. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

• Franklin, Benjamin
  • Edwin Wolf 2nd and Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2006. Digital version here.

• Gerry, Elbridge
  • Catalogue of a Collection of valuable and scarce Books, Being part of the Library of the late Elbridge Gerry, esq. To be sold for the benefit of the Widow and Minor Children of the deceased, at the store of Francis Amory, No. 41, Marlborough-Street, On Tuesday morning, 18th April [1815], Commencing at Nine o'clock. [Boston : s.n., 1815?].

• Hamilon, Alexander
  • Extant copies at Columbia University, Library of Congress.
  • Information drawn from The Papers of Alexander Hamilton.

• Hartford, Mary
  • "Books belonging to Mary Hartford," in Mary Hartford papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

• Jefferson, Thomas
  • Major collection (Sowerby) added; other collections (Poplar Forest, Retirement Library, &c.) to be added in the coming months with the cooperation of Monticello, The Home of Thomas Jefferson.

• Jeffries, John
  • Manuscript catalog at Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library.
  • Library in progress.

• Lee, Henry
  • Inventory of Col. Henry Lee (brother of Thomas Lee of Stratford) estate at Lee Hall, Westmoreland County, VA. Recorded 6 June 1748. Transcribed from an early typescript.

• Lee, Squire Richard
  • Estate inventory, 8 October 1795. Westmoreland County, VA.

• Madison, James
  • Microsoft Access database compilation from collections at the Library of Congress, the University of Virginia, a number of auction catalogues of major sales of Madison’s library, and from the published volumes of the Papers of James Madison.
  • Library in progress.

• Mather Family

• Lewis Morris
  • Extant copies at Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, records.

• Murray, James and Mary
  • "Catalogue of Books JM & MM Jan. 25, 1766." James Murray Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

• Ogle, Cuthbert
  • Inventory in Tyler, Lyon G. "Libraries in Colonial Virginia." William and Mary Quarterly 3:4 (April, 1895), pp. 251-253.
  • Maurer, Maurer. "The Library of a Colonial Musician, 1755." William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series 7:1 (January, 1950), pp. 39-52.
  • Molnar, John W. "A Collection of Music in Colonial Virginia." The Musical Quarterly 49:2 (April, 1963), pp. 150-162.

• Priestley, Joseph
  • Catalogue of the Library of the late Dr. Joseph Priestley, containing Many scarce and valuable Books. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1816.
  • Extant copies at Harvard University and other institutions.

• Skipwith, Lady Jean Miller
  • Abraham, Mildred K. "The Library of Lady Jean Skipwith: A Book Collection from the Age of Jefferson." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 91:3 (July 1983), pp. 296-347.

• Washington, George
  • Cushing, Stanley Ellis. The George Washington Library Collection. Boston: Boston Athenæum, 1997.
  • Carroll, Frances Laverne, and Mary Meacham. The Library at Mount Vernon. Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, 1977.
  • Ford, Worthington Chauncey. Inventory of the contents of Mount Vernon, 1810, with a prefatory note by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Portland, Ore.: Printed by Kilham Stationary & Printing Co., 1909.
  • Griffin, Appleton P.C., William Coolidge Lane, and Franklin Osborne Poole. A catalogue of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenæum. Boston: Boston Athenæum, 1897. Digital version here. Index, published 1900. Digital version here.
  • Henkels, Stan V. The final sale of the relics of General Washington owned by Lawrence Washington, esq., Bushrod C. Washington, esq., Thos. B. Washington, esq., and J.R.C. Lewis, esq., embracing the most important collection ever brought together, of letters, deeds, leases, legal documents, receipts, bills, account books, and memoranda, belonging to and written by General Washington … to be sold in our book salesroom … April 21st, 22d, 23d, 1891. Philadelphia: Thos. Birch’s Sons, 1891.
  • Baker, John Remigius, and Stan. V. Henkels. The valuable and extraordinary collection of books from the library of Genl. Geo. Washington and other historical and literary rarities, collected by John R. Baker, Sr., of Phila. ... to be sold ... Feb. 11 & 12, '91. Philadelphia: Bicking Press, 1891.
  • Jackson, Donald, et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976-.
  • Wagner, Paul R. "Books from the Library of George Washington now in the Princeton University Library." Princeton University Library Chronicle XXXII:2 (Winter, 1971), pp. 111-115.
  • Extant copies at the Boston Athenæum and Mount Vernon.
  • Auction sales: Sotheby's

• Willoughby, Sarah
  • Inventory in Tyler, Lyon G. "Libraries in Colonial Virginia." William and Mary Quarterly 3 (1894-95), pp. 44-45.

• Witherspoon, John
  • Extant copies at Firestone Library, Princeton University.

• Worthington, John
  • Extant copies at Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, records.

• Wythe, George
  • Partial reconstruction by Barbara C. Dean, 1975.
  • Wythe List, Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Institutional Libraries

• Pennsylvania General Assembly
  • Extant copies/records at State Library of Pennsylvania.

• Providence Library Company/Athenaeum
  • Extant copies at Providence Athenaeum.
  • Catalogue of all the books, belonging to the Providence Library. Providence, N.E. Printed and sold by Waterman and Russell, at the New Printing-Office, at the Paper-Mill, 1768. Evans 11051.

Unitemized Libraries

• These are libraries in which the presence of books is documented, but not their specific titles.