(and other works already mentioned), he had
and in this respect he seems to have been repre足
Samuel Hearne, Journey from Prince of Wales's Fori, in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years
sentative of his era as well. For example, James
1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772 (1795); C. A. Fischer, Voyage en Espagne, aux annees 1797 et 1798 (1801), 2v., plus several accounts of journeys through Spain; baron de Lahontan's Nouveaux voyages . . . dans I'Amerique Septentrionale (1715), 2v.; George Forster, Journey from Bengal to England ( 1 7 9 8 ) ; Eyles Irwin, Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea (1780); J. B. Le Chevalier, V o y a g e d e l a P r o p o n t i d e , el D u P o n t - E u x i n ( 1 8 0 0 ) , 2V.;
V o l n e y ' s Voyage e n Syrie et e n Egypte ( 1 7 8 7 ,
2V.;
also 1 7 9 9 , '2v.), also present in English ( 1 7 9 8 ) ; Charpentier Cossigny, Voyage au Bengale ( 1 7 9 8 99), 2v.; A. E. Van Braam, Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the years 1794 and 1795 William Francklin, Observations on a Tour from Bengal to Persia (1790); J. F. G. de la (1798), 2v.;
Perouse, Voyage round the World in the Years 17H5, 1786, 1787, and 1788 (1798), 3V.; Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan's Voyage to South America (Dublin, 1765), 2v.; Barthelemy, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece (1790), 7v.; l.e Vaillant, Voyage . . . dans I'interieur de I'Afrique ( 1 7 9 0 ) , 2v.; Thaddeus Mason Harris, Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains Made in the Spring of the Year 1803 (Boston, 1805); John Quincy Adams's Letters on Silesia, Written During a Tour through that Country in 1800, 1801 ( 1 8 0 4 ) ; Vivant Denon's Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte (New York, 1803), 2v.; C. F. Bamberger, Travels through the Interior of Africa (1801); Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa in the Years 1795, 1796, Csf
Madison on 24 January 1783 presented to the Continental Congress "a list of books proper for the use of Congress," and one of the entries was "the best Latin Dictionary with the best grammar & dictionary of each of the modern lan足 guages."71 Bowdoin had forty-odd grammars and dictionaries, in English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Jefferson, in a library more than three times as large, had 1 5 5 . 7 2 Bowdoin did not buy theology extensively. To be sure, he had Bibles and parts of the Bible in English, French, and Latin. He also owned some sermons and other theological works by such notables as Joseph Butler, Richard Hooker, William Paley, William Blair, and Samuel Clarke, plus three copies of Job Orton's Exposition of the Old Testament (Charlestown, 1805). (There must be a story there.) Not only was the quantity of theological literature modest, some were, as Benjamin Vaughan pointed out in a letter to Jesse Appleton of 6 November 1811, "free on the score of religion, particularly a work of Dupuis's."73 Fitting into that category was Helvetius, De I'espril (1758), his Oeuvres complettes, (1774)' 4v-> and die more modern Introduction to the Nexo Testament (1801-02), 4V., by Michaelis, one of the founders of modern Biblical criticism. English literature (in contrast to French) is another area, like medicine and theologv, in which James Bowdoin had few books. He owned Gray, Milton, Pope, Shakespeare, Sterne, and a few others, but he had more books on Louisiana. Ai t is similar, though one would have expect足 ed more. Besides a few works 011 architecture,
1797 . . . Abridged (1799); James Bruce, An Inter足 esting Narrative of the /'ravels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia to Discover the Source of the Nile, Abridged
including some plate books, Bowdoin had Elements of Criticism (Edinburgh, 1763), 3V., by
(Boston, 1798); Aeneas Anderson, Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793,
arts (Paris, 1776), 3V.; Lacombe's Dictionnaire des beaux-arts (Paris, 1759); and Winckelmann's
and 1794 (New York, 1795). There was a clear emphasis on recent travels. James Bowdoin also had histories and descriptive works on Paraguay,
Histoire de I'art (Paris, 1794-95), 3V. (fig. 21). The set of Winckelmann was received from Paris in 1809. It was apparently not something bought by Bowdoin himself, but a special desideratum that
Poland, Portugal, Mexico, and the Turkish empire, as well as many of less exotic areas.
Henry Home, Lord Karnes; Anecdotes des beaux
he had someone else acquire for him. Whether it should be seen as a rounding off of the library,
Grammars and language dictionaries formed an important part of James Bowdoin's library,
or a belated effort to collect in a new area, the
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