PREFATORY NOTICE. THE additions to the Astor Library, since the publication of the four volumes of its first Catalogue, containing the Alphabetical Index of Authors, have been so considerable as to require a supplementary volume. The supplement is now laid before the public, and in conjunction with it an Alphabetical Index of Subjects. On referring to the Preface of Part I. of the printed Catalogue it will be seen that Part II., as there announced, would consist of an Alphabetical Index or Dictionary of Subjects, that would probably fill as many volumes as the Alphabetical Catalogue of Authors. This calculation would have proved correct had the original idea been carried out. It contemplated a thorough dissection of the library, and would have embodied references under their appropriate heads to the separate treatises of every miscellaneous work; of every polygraphic writer; of every scientific, historical, and literary collection; of all the Transactions of learned societies, and of the public documents and state papers, as well as to whole volumes. The greatly increased cost of printing and paper has rendered it inexpedient to carry out this purpose to its full extent; it would have required a larger portion of the annual income of the library than could rightly be diverted from the purchase of books. Hence it became necessary to adopt a less extended and less costly system. That which has been adopted is substantially an abridgment of the one first proposed. It limits the references for the most part to the general subjects set forth in the titles of works, and instead of repeating titles in full it refers to the name or word under which the full description will be found in Part I. of the Catalogue. Its alphabetical order is its greatest merit, for it is that which makes it equally serviceable to the common reader and the scholar, and entirely does away with the necessity of the previous question to be asked as to all Catalogues raisonnés, "what is the system upon which the classification is made?" is it Brunet's, or the abstruse one of Mr. Jefferson, or the absolutely incomprehensible one of Dr. A. A. E. Schleiermacher, the last of which transcends transcendentalism. A well arranged, classified Catalogue is certainly a desideratum for a large public library; but in respect to Catalogues it is not the first desideratum, nor is it very important that it should be printed. The Catalogues most needed are those which answer most readily the two questions: Has the library a certain book? and what has it on a certain subject? The Astor Library has had these special objects in view in the compilation of its first Catalogue, and of the alphabetical index of subjects which is now provided for its readers, without attempting to give a scientific classification of human knowledge. ABBREVIATIONS IN THE REFERENCES EXPLAINED. Acad. Sc. Mor. Bibl. Deut. Dich. Mémoires de l'Institut, Académie des Sciences morales. Bouquet Rec. Bouquet Recueil des Historiens des Gaules. Cimber Archiv. Cimber Archives curieuses. De Bry Coll. Pereg. Bry Collectio Peregrinationum. Del. Poet. Delicia Poetarum. Despont Bib. Max. Despont Bibliotheca Maxima. Doc. Inéd. Collection des Documents inédits. Dodsley O. P. Dodsley's Old Plays. Ency. Meth. et Ency. Met. Encyclopédie méthodique et metropolitan. Geog. vet. scrip. min. Geographiæ veteris scriptores minores. Guizot Mém. Hist. France. Guizot Mémoires de l'Histoire de France. Hist. Gr. Frag. Historiæ Græcæ Fragmenta. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Mém. Acad. Inscrip. Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions. Mém. de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle. Michaud Mém. S. 1, 2. Michaud Mémoires Série 1, 2. Patrol. Græca. Migne, Patrologia Cursus, Series Græca. Collection de Mémoires par Petitot, Série 1, 2. Phil. Trans. Philological Transactions. Poet. Lat. Min. Poetæ Latini Minores. Polenus. Polenus Antiquitatum Supplementum. Racc. d'autori. Raccoltà d'autori che trattano del Moto dell' acque. Rhet. Gr. Rhetores Græci ed. Walz. Sallengre. Sallengre, novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum. Thes. Antiq. Gr. Thes. Antiq. Sicil. Ugolino. Ugolino, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum. Transactions Royal Society Literature. Wien. Akad. Abhand. Vienna Akademie d. Wissenschaften. Wien. Sitzungsb. Vienna Akademie, Sitzungsberichte. ASTOR LIBRARY. SUPPLEMENT TO ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Works referred to are distinguished by the Italic type. The Abbreviations in the References are explained on the opposite page. Aagard C. Carmina. Del. Poet. Danorum, 1. Abailard P. Petri Abelardi, Opera Omnia, juxta editionem Parisiensem, accedunt Hilarii et Berengarii, Abælardi discipuli, opuscula et epistolæ, accurante J. P. Migne. R. 8vo. Parisiis, 1855 Contents: Epistolæ ; Sermones et opuscula ascetica; Expositio orationis Dominicæ et Symboli Apostolorum; Expositio fidei in symbolum Athanasii; Ethica; Heloissa problemata cum solutionibus; Theologica et philosophica; Expositio in Hexameron et in Epístolam ad Romanos; Introductio ad Theologiam; Theologia Christiana; Sic et non; Dialogus inter Philosophum, Judæum et Christianum; Epitome Theologiæ Christianæ; Carmina; Monita ad Astrolabium; Hymni; Hymnus in Annuntiatione; Rhythmus de SS. Trinitate; Planctus varii; Appendix ad Opera-Hilarii et Berengarii Opera; Index auctorum qui in operibus Abælardi citantur. Ouvrages inédits publiés par Cousin. 4to. Paris, 1836 Contents: Introduct. et Sommaire; Sic et non; Dialectica; Abauzit F. Essays. Sparks Tracts, 1. Abbadie A. de. Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits Éthiopiens apparte nant à lui. 4to. Paris, 1859 Résumé géodésique des positions déterminées en Éthiopie. Sur le Tonnerre en Ethiopie. Abbate O. Un Basso Rilievo di Beni-Hassan. 8vo. Leipzig, 1859 Interpretazioni. Abbati P. Riflessioni intorno al metodo di Lagrange per la soluzione delle equazione numeriche. 4to. Modena, 1804 Abbeville. Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation, cont'd 1838-60. geticus; Collectio canonum; Vita S. Eadmeri; Quæstiones Patrol. Lat. 139. Apologeticus, Epistolæ et Canones, Græce. Gallandius, 14. Abbo Sangerm Mon. De bello Parisiaco metrice; Sermones quinque. Patrol. Lat. 132. Sermones, græce. Gallandius 14. Siège de Paris par les Normands. Guizot Mém. France, 6. Abbot B. V. & A. Reports of Practise Cases in Admiralty and Digest of New York Statutes and Reports. See under New York Law Courts, and under United States Law Courts. Abbot E. See Alger W. R. Abbott H. Catalogue of his Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. 8vo. New York, 1853 Abbott C. (Lord Tenterden). A Treatise of the Law relative to Mer- Abbot H. L. See Pacific Railroad Survey, V. 6. Vol. I. Aboriginal America. II. Discovery of America. III. S. Colonies. IV. Northern Colonies. V. Colonial Wars. Abbott W. Conflicts and Conquests, or the Christian Experience of the Author. 8vo. London, 1815 Abd-el-Kader, L'Emir. Le livre intitulé Rappel à l'intelligent, avis à l'indifférent; Considerations philosophiques, religieuses, historiques; traduites sur le MS. originel de l'auteur à la Bibliothèque Imp., par G. Dugat. 8vo. Paris, 1858 Contents: Prem. Partie. Philosophie, Religion; Deux. P. Ecriture, Histoire, Ethnologie. Et sa nouvelle capitale Têydemt. 8vo. Paris, 1840 Abd-el-Malik Ibn Hischam. Das Leben Muhammed nach Muhammed Ibn Ishak, aus Handschriften herausgegeben von F. Wüstenfeld. 8vo. Göttingen, 1857 Abdul-Kerym. Voyage de l'Inde à la Mekke, tr. par Langlès. 12mo. Paris, 1797 Abdulrizag, Voyage de la Perse, dans l'Inde, tr. du MS. Persan par Langlès. 12mo. Paris, 1797 Abedoc et Ethel volfus Abbates Hiberni. Canones selecti ex antiqua col- Abela J. F. Descriptio Melitæ atque adjacentium insularum. Thes. Aben-Ezra, Ben Meir, Abraham. Carmen Hebraicum de historia Aberconway Abbey, Register & Chronicle. Camden Miscellany, 6. the Hudson River.. |
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