Catalogues of the Libraries, Belonging to the Porter Rhetorical Society, and the Society of Inquiry, in the Theological Seminary, Andover.
Andover (Mass.): Flagg and Gould ….Printers, 1830. Item #805 12mo. 200 x 125 mm., [8 x 5 inches]. 36 pp., missing half of the final leaf affecting about 20 lines of titles. Stitched as issued, uncut and unopened. Paper stock soiled, showing some tide marks. Rare little pamphlet codifying the book collection formed by debating two societies that were part of the Andover Theological Seminary. The Seminary was formed in 1807 by disaffected members of Harvard College after the election of a Unitarian to the School of Divinity. This conservative school of divinity built a campus as part of Phillips Academy in Andover and thrived there for nearly a century. The catalogue is organized in two parts, the first describes the library of the Porter Rhetorical Society, followed by the library of the Society of Inquiry. The subject categories are the same for both societies and include civil history, ecclesiastical history, biography, geography and travel, religious miscellany, theology, philosophy and ethics, law and politics, English classics, natural history, criticism, and fiction, letters, poetry, Latin classics, Greek classics, German, French and Italian works. With faults, this is a rare catalogue of two provincial libraries, well printed and extremely informative.
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