First Supplementary Catalogue of the Athenaeum Library; with An Appendix, Containing the Library Regulations and a List of the Officers and Proprietors.
Providence: Knowles and Vose, 1839. Item #810 8vo. 230 x 140 mm., [9 X 5 ½ inches]. 107, [5] pp. Stitched as issued, original blue printed wrappers; spine with a few chips, some discoloration to the wrapper and text block; a good sound copy. This is the first catalogue describing the combined collections of the Providence Athenaeum (est. 1831) and the Providence Library Company, both of which dissolved their organizations and reemerged in 1836, calling itself simply The Athenaeum.
In addition to the combined libraries the catalogue includes recent acquisitions and gifts that came after the merger and the movement of the collection to its Benefit Street location. The contents page details the breath of the collection including the fine and ancient arts, geography, history, classics and translations, law and politics, novels, drama and poetry natural history, philosophy and mathematics, philology and rhetoric, and bibliography. At final leaves of the pamphlet include an index and the regulations governing the library.
Price: $175.00