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LIBRARY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

CATALOGUE

OF THE

HISTORICAL LIBRARY

OF

ANDREW DICKSON WHITE

FIRST PRESIDENT OF cornell UNIVERSITY

IV

MISCELLANEA

ITHACA, N. Y.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1897

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PREFACE.

The present division of this catalogue is a mere finding-list, or check-list, of that considerable part of the President White Library not included in its special collections. So far as possible, the titles have been limited to one or two lines; and the descriptions also have been made very brief. If they are full enough for identification, it is all that has here been sought. The catalogue is by authors alone, with no subject-entries under persons or places.

Much of the miscellaneous matter belonging to the collection it has been deemed needless to catalogue at all. Thus, its guide-books, its public documents, its miscellaneous pamphlets on other than historical subjects, are left unmentioned here. By an oversight, due mainly to the absence of the librarian during much of the period of printing, sundry titles belonging to special collections-notably to those on the Inquisition and on the Torture—are briefly repeated in the present division.

The care of editing this portion of the catalogue and of seeing it through the press has fallen almost wholly on Mr. Alexis Babine, now called to the more responsible post of Librarian of the University of Indiana. He has brought such uniformity as was possible into the work of divers earlier cataloguers. This miscellaneous division of the catalogue is given to the press before part III because more urgently needed by those charged with the administration of the University Library.

As in the other divisions of the catalogue, a D at the end of the title means that the University Library possessed already a duplicate of the work described; a d, that it had a virtual duplicate, though not an exact one. In either case, the copy described remains the property of Mr. White. An R denotes a book reserved by Mr. White under one of the other provisions of his letter of gift (see the preface to part I of this catalogue). All books not thus marked are now in the keeping of the University Library. Beside the collections on the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution, which form the subjects of parts I and II of the catalogue, the special collections not covered by this finding-list are: (1) Witchcraft, (2) Torture, (3) the Inquisition, together with considerable bodies of contemporary pamphlets on (1) the Thirty Years' War, (2) the Fronde (Mazarinades), (3) the English Revolution, (4) the Napoleonic era, (5) the American Civil War, and furthermore the miscellaneous manuscripts of the Library.

July 1897.

G. L. B.

SIZES OF BOOKS.

The disuse of fixed sizes of paper consequent on the improvement of the printing-press has long made useless and well nigh impracticable the old nomenclature for the forms of books. In view of this, the American Library Association has urged its entire abandonment and the substitution of an exact metric measurement of each volume. That suggestion is here adopted. Where the book is of the usual shape (the width about three-fifths the height-as in what are currently called 'octavos'), the height alone is given (as 23h'); where otherwise, both height and width, the height preceding (as '23X20'). Fractional centimeters are reckoned as whole ones. These measurements may, for the most part, be readily translated into the old nomenclature (as now used by American libraries) by means of the following

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