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 A Catalogue 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Library of Adam Smith 
 
 Author of the ' Moral Sentiments ' and 
 ' The Wealth of Nations ' 
 
 EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION 
 
 JAMES BONAR 
 
 Novos para?is amicos, ne obliviscere veterum 
 
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 1894 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction — 
 
 I. History of the Library ..... vii 
 
 Letter of Adam Smith to Strahan, April 4, 
 
 1760 ....... To face x 
 
 II. List of Works ....... xi 
 
 III. Adam Smith's Will xiv 
 
 Plan of Adam Smith's House at Kirkcaldy. To face xiv 
 
 IV. The Portraits of Adam Smith. By the late 
 
 John M. Gray xviii 
 
 V. Adam Smith on Portrait Painting . . . xxvii 
 
 VI. Analysis of the Library, and List of Contri- 
 butors to the Catalogue . . xxviii to xxx 
 
 Catalogue ......... 1 
 
 Index 123
 
 HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY 
 
 At his death on 17th July 1790, Adam Smith's library 
 went by will to his young cousin David Douglas, son 
 of Colonel Robert Douglas of Strathendry, Fifeshire. 
 David Douglas was born 1769, and, after studying law 
 under Millar of Glasgow and passing as Advocate at 
 Edinburgh in 1791, became Sheriff-Depute of Berwick- 
 shire in 1809, was raised to the bench as Lord Reston 
 (from an estate of Reston in Haddington) in 18 13, and 
 afterwards became a Lord of Justiciary (1816). He 
 died on 23rd April 1819. 1 He probably sympathized 
 to some extent with his cousin's tastes, for it is set down 
 in the History of the Speculative Society that he read a 
 paper there on 30th November 1790 on "The Effects 
 of Taxation on the Necessaries of Life." 
 
 On Lord Reston's death the library was divided 
 between his two daughters, Mrs. Cunningham of Preston- 
 pans, and Mrs. Bannerman of Edinburgh. On the 
 death of Mrs. Bannerman (1879) her portion of the 
 library went to her son, Rev. David Douglas Bannerman, 
 D.D., now at Perth, who in 1884 presented a part to 
 the New College (of the Free Church), Edinburgh. 
 
 On the death of her husband, the Rev. W. B. Cun- 
 ningham of Prestonpans (1878), Mrs. Cunningham sold 
 
 1 Brunton and Haig's Historical Account of the Senators of the College 
 of Justice, Edinburgh, 1832, p. 549.
 
 viii Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 some of the books at Edinburgh. Several were pur- 
 chased by the late Professor Hodgson, and were pre- 
 sented to the University library by Mrs. Hodgson in 
 1880. 1 The remaining books of Mrs. Cunningham's 
 portion were given by her to her son, Professor R. O. 
 Cunningham of Queen's College, Belfast, by whom a 
 part is still retained and a part has been presented to 
 the library of Queen's College. 
 
 The various possessors of books known to have 
 belonged to the library of Adam Smith have been 
 requested to supply information about them ; and the 
 response has been in all cases courteous and cordial. 
 The catalogues so furnished do not materially differ 
 from each other in principle, and in most cases it has 
 not been difficult to establish the identity of the books 
 concerned. Where the information supplied by the 
 possessors has been supplemented from other sources, 
 the additions are enclosed in square brackets. 
 
 The present Catalogue includes a great part of Adam 
 Smith's library. Dr. Bannerman's half, still kept intact 
 (though in two places), includes about 1400 volumes. 
 MacCulloch, who saw the books before the dispersion, 
 reckons their number at 5000. Dugald Stewart says 
 Adam Smith possessed " a small but excellent library, 
 which he had gradually formed with great judgment 
 in the selection " (Life prefixed to Essays, p. lxxxv.) 
 The entries in the present Catalogue amount to about 
 1000, and the volumes to about 2200. The whole 
 collection was more probably 3000 than 5000. Most of 
 the books are bound solidly in calf. One or two are richly 
 decorated, being presentation copies. William Smellie 
 (in his Literary and Characteristical Lives of Gregory, 
 Karnes, Hume, and Adam Smith, 1800) tells us that 
 Adam Smith said to him, "I am a beau in nothing but 
 
 1 See the List of Edinburgh Graduates, 1857-88, Appendix, p. 102.
 
 Introduction ix 
 
 my books." But as a rule he seems to have aimed at 
 strength rather than elegance of binding, and was no 
 hunter of rarities or choice editions. 
 
 A letter of Dupont to Adam Smith was found 
 between the leaves of a presentation copy of a book of 
 Dupont's, and has been printed for the first time in 
 this volume (see Dupont). There is a Manuscript 
 (on parchment) of Venetian Statutes that is probably of 
 value. Other particulars of interest in regard to the 
 volumes have been given in the course of the Catalogue. 
 
 The editor has been able only in a very few cases 
 to see and handle the books for himself. He is 
 assured that, unless special note is made to the con- 
 trary, each book bears the (very plain) bookplate of 
 Adam Smith : 
 
 ADAM SMITH 
 
 The chief facts of Adam Smith's life are as follows. 
 He was the son of Adam Smith (lawyer and Customs' 
 comptroller at Kirkcaldy) and Margaret Douglas of 
 Strathendry ; and he was born probably at the beginning 
 of June 1723. 1 He was a student at Glasgow University 
 from 1737 to 1740, and at Balliol College, Oxford (as 
 Snell Exhibitioner) from 1740 to 1747. After a year 
 and a half at Kirkcaldy he came to Edinburgh and 
 lectured on belles lettres (1748-50). In 1751 he was 
 made Professor of Logic at Glasgow University, and in 
 1752 Professor of Moral Philosophy. In 1759 he pub- 
 lished his Theory of Moral Sentiments. In 1764 he was 
 persuaded by Charles Townshend to go abroad with the 
 
 1 The entry in the register (now in the Register House, Edin- 
 burgh) of Kirkcaldy Church is that of his baptism, 7th June 1723.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 young Buccleuch to Toulouse, Geneva, and Paris, resigning 
 his chair of Moral Philosophy. He was back in London 
 in 1766 and at Kirkcaldy in 1767, devoting himself to 
 his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of 
 Nations ', which appeared in 1776, just before the death 
 of Hume. In 1778 he became a Commissioner of 
 Customs in Edinburgh. In 1787 he was chosen Rector 
 of his old University, and on 17th July 1790 he died at 
 his residence, Panmure House, Canongate. He is buried in 
 Canongate Churchyard. His last years were saddened by 
 the loss of his mother and his cousin (Miss Jane Douglas), 
 the former of whom died in 1784 and the latter in 
 1788. The ground -plan of the house at Kirkcaldy 
 occupied by Adam Smith, as by his father before him, 
 is still preserved in that town, and is reproduced here. 
 Its date is 1776. The front elevation faced the High 
 Street, and the garden stretched down towards the 
 sea-shore. 
 
 The Will of Adam Smith has been printed here, 
 because governing the disposal of his books ; and a full 
 list of his Works has been given, because frequent 
 reference to them is part of the plan of this Catalogue. 
 As there is promise of a Biography from the pen of Mr. 
 John Rae, no attempt has been made to go into the 
 details of his life. 
 
 The preparation of this Catalogue was undertaken 
 on behalf of the Economic Club, meeting at University 
 College, London. Professor Foxwell and Mr. Henry 
 Higgs, of that club, have given valuable help in the 
 revision of the proofs ; and Professor Foxwell has 
 kindly allowed the reproduction, in lithograph, of a 
 letter of Adam Smith now in his possession.
 
 LETTER OF ADAM SMITH TO STRAHAN 
 
 Dear Strahan — I sent up to Mr. Millar four or five posts ago the 
 same additions, which I had formerly sent to you, with a good many 
 corrections and improvements which occurred to me since. If there 
 are any typographical errors remaining in the last edition which had 
 escaped me I hope you will correct them. In other respects I 
 could wish it was printed pretty exactly according to the copy 
 which I delivered to you. A man, says the Spanish proverb, had 
 better be a cuckold and know nothing of the matter, than not be 
 cuckold and believe himself to be one. And in the same manner, 
 say I, an Author had sometimes better be in the wrong and believe 
 himself in the right, than be in the right and believe or even suspect 
 himself in the wrong. To desire you to read my book over and 
 mark all the corrections you would wish me to make upon a sheet 
 of paper and send it to me, would, I fear, be giving you too much 
 trouble. If, however, you could induce yourself to take this trouble, 
 you would oblige me greatly. I know how much I shall be 
 benefitted, and I shall at the same time preserve the pretious right 
 of private judgment for the sake of which our forefathers kicked 
 out the Pope and the Pretender. I believe you to be much more 
 infallible than the Pope, but, as I am a Protestant, my conscience 
 makes me scruple to submit to any unscriptural authority. 
 
 Apropos to the Pope and the Pretender, have you read Hook's 
 Memoirs . ?1 I have been ill these ten days, otherwise should have 
 written to you sooner, but I sat up the day before yesterday in my 
 bed and read them thro' with infinite satisfaction, tho' they are by 
 no means well written. The substance of what is in them I knew 
 before, tho' not in such detail. I am afraid they are published at 
 an unlucky time, and may throw a damp upon our militia. Nothing, 
 however, appears to me more excusable than the disaffection of 
 Scotland at that time. The Union was a measure from which 
 infinite good has been derived to this country. The Prospect of 
 
 1 Colonel Hooke : The Secret History of his Negotiations in Scotland in favour of the 
 Pretender in 1707, written by himself. London, 8vo. 1760.
 
 that good, however, must have appeared very remote and very- 
 uncertain. The immediate effect of it was to hurt the interest of 
 every single order of men in the country. The dignity of the 
 nobility was undone by it. The greater part of the gentry who 
 had been accustomed to represent their own country in its own 
 Parliament were cut out for ever from all hopes of representing it 
 in a British Parliament. Even the merchants seemed to suffer at 
 first. The trade to the Plantations was, indeed, opened to them. 
 But that was a trade which they knew nothing about ; the trade 
 they were acquainted with, that to France, Holland, and the Baltic, 
 was laid under new embar[r]assments, which almost totally anni- 
 hilated the two first, and most important branches of it. The 
 Clergy too, who were then far from insignificant, were alarmed 
 about the Church. No wonder if at that time all orders of men 
 conspired in cursing a measure hurtful to their immediate interest. 
 The views of their Posterity are now very different ; but those 
 views could be seen by but few of our forefathers, by those few in 
 but a confused and imperfect manner. 
 
 It will give me the greatest satisfaction to hear from you. I 
 pray you write to me soon. Remember me to the Franklins. I 
 hope I shall have the grace to write to the youngest by next post to 
 thank him in the name both of the College and of myself for his 
 very agre[e]able present. Remember me likewise to Mr. Griffiths. 1 
 I am greatly obliged to him for the very handsom character he gave 
 of my book in his review. — I am, dear Strahan, most faithfully and 
 sincerely yours, 
 
 ADAM SMITH. 
 
 Glasgow, ^.th April 1760. 
 
 1 Ralph Griffiths, who"" founded the Monthly Re-view, 1749. A notice of the 
 Moral Sentiments appeared there in July 1759.
 
 Introduction xi 
 
 II 
 
 LIST OF WORKS 
 
 The list of Adam Smith's Works is not long. In 1755 
 (along with Robertson and Blair 1 ) he took part in the 
 editing of the Edinburgh Review, which only lived for 
 two numbers. In the first number he is author of a 
 Review of Johnson s Dictionary ; in the second, of "A 
 Letter to the Authors on the General State of Literature 
 in Europe." In 1755 he had circulated (if not published) 
 a kind of manifesto of his ideas on the subject of trade 
 and government. 2 In 1759 appeared his first important 
 work, " The Theory of Moral Sentiments. By Adam 
 Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of 
 Glasgow. (Millar, London; A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edin- 
 burgh.)" A revised and enlarged edition of this book 
 was published in two volumes just before his death in 
 1790 : " The Theory of Moral Sentiments, or an Essay 
 towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men 
 naturally judge concerning the Conduct and Character 
 first of their Neighbours and afterwards of themselves. 
 To which is added A Dissertation on the Origin of 
 Languages? By Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the 
 Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, one of the 
 Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland, 
 and formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the 
 University of Glasgow. The Sixth Edition, with 
 
 1 See Memoirs of Lord Karnes (2nd ed.), 1814, i. 233. A list of 
 the chief writers is given ibid. 234-236. 
 
 2 See Catalogue, sub voce Ferguson (Adam). 
 
 3 This Dissertation was added in the 2nd ed., 1 761 (still in one 
 volume), where the extended title also appears. The other additions 
 were written at the end of 1789, when the author was in great bodily 
 suffering. See his Life in Essays (1795), p. lxxxix. note.
 
 xii Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 considerable additions and corrections, in two volumes. 
 (Strahan & Cadell, London ; W. Creech and J. Bell & 
 Co., Edinburgh)." 
 
 At the end of 1775 an< ^ beginning of 1776 (see 
 Preface to 3rd ed.) appeared " An Inquiry into the 
 Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. By 
 Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S., formerly Professor of 
 Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. 2 
 volumes. 4-to. (Strahan & Cadell) London." 
 
 The 2nd edition (1778) is practically unaltered. The 
 3rd (1784) has considerable additions, and is in three 
 volumes 8vo. The 4th and 5th are practically un- 
 altered reproductions of the 3rd, and were issued, the 4th 
 in 1786, and the 5th in 1789. The edition cited here 
 is that of J. R. MacCulloch (Black, Edinburgh), 1863, 
 which is printed in double columns. It gives Kay's 
 separate portrait and Tassie's medallion. 
 
 In 1795 Dr. Joseph Black and Dr. James Hutton, the 
 executors of Adam Smith, published the only manuscripts 
 saved by the author from the general destruction of his 
 papers which he ordered a few months before his death. 
 They prefixed to these Essays on Philosophical Subjects 
 (Davies & Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh. 
 4to) " An Account of the Life and Writings of the 
 Author," by Professor Dugald Stewart, originally de- 
 livered before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1793. 1 
 
 These Essays are as follows : — 
 
 (1) "The Principles which lead and direct Philo- 
 sophical Enquiries, illustrated by the History of 
 Astronomy. [Written before 1758 ; see Essays ', p. 
 90 and note. " There are none [of my MSS.] worth 
 the publication " (he writes to Hume), " but a fragment 
 of a great work which contains a history of the astro- 
 nomical systems that were successively in fashion down 
 to the time of Descartes : whether that might not be 
 
 1 See also below, p. xviii.
 
 Introduction xiii 
 
 published as a fragment of an intended juvenile work I 
 leave entirely to your judgment, though I begin to 
 suspect myself that there is more refinement than solidity 
 in some parts of it." Letter to Hume, 1 6th April 1 773, 
 quoted by Dugald Stewart, loc. cit. lxxxix. note. Com- 
 pare Essays, p. 93.] 
 
 (2) "The Principles which lead and direct Philo- 
 sophical Enquiries, illustrated by the History of the 
 Ancient Physics." 
 
 (3) "The Principles which lead and direct Philo- 
 sophical Enquiries, illustrated by the History of the 
 Ancient Logics and Metaphysics." 
 
 (4) " Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes 
 place in what are called the Imitative Arts." [This and 
 the two following, though they would of course fit the 
 plan which the Executors tell us (p. iii.) he had once 
 formed and then abandoned " for giving a connected 
 history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts," are 
 possibly results of his work at Edinburgh in 1 748-50. x ] 
 
 (5) "Of the Affinity between certain English and 
 Italian Verses." 
 
 (6) "Of the External Senses." [These essays bear both 
 on the first (1-3) and on the second (4, 5) of the preceding 
 groups, and seem very judiciously placed here by the 
 Editors.] 
 
 The manuscripts which were destroyed seem to have 
 included the draughts of the author's projected "account 
 of the genera] principles of law and government," " the 
 theory of jurisprudence and natural law," along with the 
 history of it {Mor. Sent. 1790, vol. i. pref. p. vii., com- 
 pared with vol. ii. pp. 397-398)r. They included also 
 (Professor Stewart thinks) the Edinburgh lectures on 
 Rhetoric and the Glasgow lectures on Natural Religion 
 and Jurisprudence (Life prefixed to Essays, p. Ixxxvii.) 
 
 1 See below (Blair).
 
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 III 
 
 ADAM SMITH'S WILL 
 
 Copy Disposition and Settlement by Dr. Adam 
 Smith, registered 22nd July 1790. 1 
 
 I, Adam Smith, LL.D., one of the Commissioners of 
 His Majesty's Customs for Scotland, for the love and 
 favour which I have and bear to my friends and relations 
 after mentioned, and for the better settlement of my 
 affairs in the event of my decease, Do hereby with and 
 under the burdens after specified Dispone, Assign, and 
 Transfer to David Douglas, youngest son of Colonel 
 Robert Douglas of Strathendry, and his heirs and assignees 
 whomsoever, All and Sundry Lands, Tenements, and 
 other heritages, and also all debts and sums of money, 
 principal, interest, and penalty, whether due by Bonds 
 heritable or moveable, bills, promissory Notes, decreets, 
 or any other way whatsoever, arrears of salary, household 
 furniture, silver plate, gold and silver coined and un- 
 coined, books, pictures, lying money, bank notes, goods 
 and gear, and generally all and whatever estate, means 
 and effects, whether heritable or moveable, real or per- 
 sonal, belonging and owing or which shall belong or be 
 owing to me at the time of my death : Together with 
 all Dispositions, Adjudications, Bonds, heritable and 
 moveable obligations, Assignations, decreets, bills, notes, 
 and other writs, rights, evidents, securities, and convey- 
 ances, whatever made, granted, and conceived, or any- 
 wise interpreted at the time of my death in my favour, 
 with all action and execution competent or that may be 
 competent thereupon, and with all that shall have fol- 
 
 1 Register of Deeds, etc., Register Ho., Edinr., Durie Office, 
 Vol. 251, Part I. p. 195. The spelling is that of the original.
 
 Introduction xv 
 
 lowed or that may follow on the same, Dispensing hereby 
 with the generality hereof, and admitting these presents 
 to be as valid and effectual as if every particular generally 
 before disponed were specially enumerated herein : And 
 also declaring that in case I shall hereafter make any In- 
 ventory of my moveable means and estate hereby dis- 
 poned or of any part thereof, the same shall be understood 
 as a part of this present Disposition, and shall exclude all 
 necessity of Confirmation, with this provision alwise as it 
 is hereby specially provided and declared that these pre- 
 sents are granted by me and shall be accepted by the 
 said David Douglas with and under the burden of the 
 payment of my funeral charges, and all my just and 
 lawful debts which shall be owing by me at my decease, 
 and also with and under the burden of the payment not 
 only of such legacies or annuities which I may hereafter 
 bequeath or grant to any person or persons whatever, But 
 also with and under the burden of the payment of the 
 annuity and legacy after mentioned which I hereby legate 
 and bequeath to the persons after named, viz £ . : I hereby 
 grant and bequeath to Mrs. Janet Douglas, daughter of 
 the deceast John Douglas of Strathendry, an annuity of 
 Twenty pounds Sterling free of all burdens and deduc- 
 tions whatever during all the days of her life at two 
 terms in the year, Whitsunday and Martinmas, by equal 
 portions, beginning the first term's payment thereof at 
 the first of the said two terms next after my decease and 
 so furth yearly, termly, daily, and proportionally there- 
 after during her life, with Two pounds Sterling of penalty 
 for each term's failure and the legal interest of the said 
 annuity from the respective terms of payment thereof, 
 during the not payment of the same, and also I hereby 
 legate and bequeath to Mr. Hugh Cleghorn, Professor 
 of Civil History in the University of St. Andrews, and to 
 Mrs. Rachael M'Gill his wife, and the survivor of them 
 in liferent for their liferent use only, and to the child or 
 
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 xvi Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 children procreated or to be procreated of the marriage 
 between them in fee, the sum of Four hundred pounds 
 Sterling, to be paid at the first term of Whitsunday or 
 Martinmas next after the decease of the said Mrs. Janet 
 Douglas and me or the survivor of us, with Eighty 
 pounds Sterling of penalty in case of failure, and the 
 legal interest of the said sum of Four hundred pounds 
 from the said term of payment during the not payment 
 of the same, Declaring alwise that the said Hugh Cleg- 
 horn shall have power by any deed under his hand to 
 divide the said sum of Four hundred pounds among his 
 said children or their issue, by such shares and propor- 
 tions as he shall think proper, and failing such division 
 by him, then the said Mrs. Rachael M'Gill his wife shall 
 have power to divide the same among her said children 
 or their issue, as she shall think proper, and failing any 
 division thereof by either of them, then the same shall be 
 equally divided among all the children procreated between 
 them existing at the death of the longest liver of them 
 two and the issue of such of the said children as are dead, 
 share and share alike, such issue drawing per stirpes not 
 per capita : And for the more effectual conveyance of 
 my moveable estate and effects before disponed I 
 hereby nominate and appoint the said David Douglas to 
 be my sole executor and universal legator and intromitter 
 with my said moveable estate and effects under the bur- 
 dens before mentioned, and with power to my said exe- 
 cutor to give up Inventaries thereof and confirm the same 
 if necessary : And I hereby Declare that my whole 
 manuscripts and writings which I shall leave behind me 
 at my death shall be disposed off by the said David 
 Douglas, by and with the advice of Dr. Joseph Black, 
 Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, 
 and Dr. James Hutton, residing at St. John's Hill near 
 Edinburgh, and the survivor of them agreeably to such 
 verbal or written instructions as I have already given or
 
 Introduction xvii 
 
 may hereafter have occasion to give to them the said 
 Doctor Joseph Black and Dr. James Hutton : And in 
 case the said David Douglas shall predecease me or shall 
 die before disposing of my said manuscripts, then I hereby 
 Legate and Bequeath the same to the said Dr. Joseph 
 Black and Dr. James Hutton, and the survivor of them, 
 to be disposed of by them as aforesaid : And I reserve 
 full power and liberty at any time in my life to revoke 
 or alter these presents in whole or in part, and I declare 
 that if the same shall not be revoked it shall be a suffi- 
 cient evident, tho' not delivered at my death, with the 
 not delivery whereof I hereby dispense : And I consent 
 to the registration hereof in the books of Council and 
 Session, or of any other proper Court therein, to remain 
 for preservation, and constitute Mr. Adam Rolland, 
 Advocate, my Prors, for that purpose. In Witness 
 Whereof I subscribe this and the three preceeding pages 
 of stamped paper, written by James Dundas, Clerk to 
 David Erskine, Clerk to the Signet, and likewise another 
 duplicate hereof at Cannongate of Edinburgh, the sixth 
 day of February mdcc. and ninety years before these 
 witnesses, James Baird my servant and the said James 
 Dundas, (signed) Adam Smith, James Dundas, Witness, 
 James Baird, Wittnes. 
 
 Excerpt from Commissary Court Books, Edinburgh 
 (Follows the Inventary) 
 
 In the ffirst the said Umq le x Smith had addebted and 
 resting owing to him the time of his decease foresaid the 
 sum of , 2 being part of Six hundred and fifty 
 
 pounds Stg. contained in a Promissory Note by Sir 
 William Forbes, James Hunter and Coy., to the defunct 
 dated the first day of April Seventeen hundred and 
 
 1 " Umquhile " = deceased. 2 Blank in original.
 
 xviii Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 ninety years, payable on demand Extending the said par- 
 tial sum herein given up and confirmed in Scots money 
 to } 
 
 Summa of the Inventary. 2 
 
 IV 3 
 
 THE PORTRAITS OF ADAM SMITH 
 
 To the student of Adam Smith, who is interested 
 in his personality and desirous of realising the visible 
 presence of the man as he lived, it must be a matter for 
 regret that the verbal descriptions of the appearance of 
 the author of the Wealth of Nations , and the examples 
 of graphic and plastic art that portray it, are not only 
 few in number, but also very meagre in the details that 
 they have preserved. 
 
 There exist two brief biographies of Adam Smith 
 by writers who had personally known him. The earlier 
 is that read by Professor Dugald Stewart before the 
 Royal Society of Edinburgh on 21st January and 18th 
 March 1793, and published in 1794 in the third volume 
 of its Transactions, in the volume of Adam Smith's 
 Essays (1795), and afterwards in the Scots Magazine 
 for January and February 1796, and in various editions 
 of Smith's works. [It is also one of the Biographical 
 Memoirs (Adam Smith, William Robertson, and Thomas 
 Reid) published by Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh 1 8 1 1 .] 
 From Professor Stewart's account we learn a good deal 
 regarding the little peculiarities of gesture that char- 
 acterised his friend ; but he gives little of such definite 
 description of face or figure as might enable us to 
 
 1 Blank in original. 2 Not given. 
 
 3 The well-known and accomplished writer of this chapter (Mr. 
 John Gray) died at Edinburgh on the 22nd March 1894, and never 
 saw it in type. It may be taken as a supplement to his monograph 
 on "James and William Tassie " (Patterson, Edinburgh, 1894).
 
 Introduction xix 
 
 realise the aspect of the living man : indeed the writer 
 only remarks generally of his subject that " in his ex- 
 ternal form and appearance there was nothing uncom- 
 mon," and that there were moments " when his features 
 were brightened with a smile of inexpressible benignity." 
 
 William Smellie in the biography of Smith in his 
 Literary and Characteristical Lives (Edinburgh, 1800), 
 largely founded upon Stewart, and in parts only a slightly 
 varied paraphrase of his words, adds little to our mental 
 picture of the man. He, however, informs us that " in 
 stature he somewhat exceeded the ordinary size ; and 
 his countenance was manly and agreeable." 
 
 But Professor Stewart has given us, in one of the 
 sentences of his memoir, the best direction to the 
 authentic portraits of Adam Smith that exists. " He 
 never sat," the Professor informs us, " for his picture, 
 but the medallion of Tassie conveys an exact idea 
 of his profile, and of the general expression of his 
 countenance." 
 
 The medallion in question is one of the large por- 
 trait subjects of James Tassie which were originally 
 modelled in wax, usually directly from life, and after- 
 wards cast in the hard white enamel, a fine, slightly 
 translucent, glassy paste, invented by the artist and Dr. 
 Henry Quin of Dublin. The head, which appears turned 
 in pure profile to the right of the spectator, shows a 
 particularly full forehead, a full nose, slightly aquiline 
 in its curve ; a long thin upper lip and a lower lip that 
 protrudes a little ; and a firm, well-shaped chin and jaw. 
 The eyebrow is strongly curved, the upper eyelid heavy 
 and drooping, the eyeball particularly prominent ; and 
 beneath the lower eyelid the skin is loose and wrinkled. 
 A wig is worn, tied behind in a bag with ribbons, 
 showing small curls in front, and two large curls at the 
 side which cover and conceal the ear. The bust is clad 
 in a coat with a broad collar but with no lapels, tightly
 
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 buttoned up at the chin, and showing above it a thin 
 line of the cravat. The truncation is inscribed, in 
 impressed letters, " Adam Smith in his d^thyear. 1787. 
 Tassie F." The size, from top of head to bottom of 
 bust, is 3 inches. 
 
 We have no certain information as to whether this 
 medallion was executed from actual sittings, though, 
 judging from its style, I should conclude that it was 
 done directly from the life. The phrase used by Stewart 
 might be held to imply that Smith never sat to any 
 artist at all. This is further confirmed by the tradition 
 current in the family, and communicated to me by a 
 descendant of his cousin, that he had the strongest dis- 
 like to sitting for his portrait, and that his friends could 
 never persuade him to do so, though he induced his 
 mother to be painted, in a work dated 1778 and now in 
 the possession of Professor R. O. Cunningham of Bel- 
 fast, by C. Metz, an artist then working in Edinburgh. 
 Metz was also patronised by the Earl of Buchan, for 
 whom he executed, from a pencil drawing and a death- 
 mask, the portrait of Professor Colin Maclaurin, engraved 
 in Pinkerton's Scottish Gallery and in Smith's Icono- 
 graphia Scotica. 
 
 It is, however, possible enough that Smith sat to 
 Tassie, for this artist was in the habit of making things 
 very easy for his sitters. While portraying them he by 
 no means required their undivided attention, but, as 
 Thomas Walker of Manchester, of whom he executed 
 a medallion in 1798, has recorded, " you may be occupied 
 almost as you will, eating, writing, etc., as he only needs 
 a few minutes' sitting at finishing a few particular 
 parts." Tassie, too, possessed an especial faculty for 
 working from memory ; and in this way in a sitter's 
 absence he frequently succeeded in catching a likeness 
 which had eluded him when he was in the actual presence 
 of his subject.
 
 Introduction xxi 
 
 It is to be noticed that the medallion was executed 
 at a time when Smith's permanent residence was in 
 Edinburgh, in 1787, the year of his election as Rector 
 of the University of Glasgow. We have it, however, on 
 the authority of the memoir given [by James Paterson, 
 the antiquary] in Kay's Portraits that during the last 
 twelve years of his life "he now and then revisited 
 London," where Tassie was then at work. 1 
 
 But whether this Tassie medallion was executed 
 directly from life, as is most probable, or merely from 
 memory, Professor Stewart's testimony assures us of the 
 one important fact, that it is a faithful likeness of the 
 author of the Wealth of Nations. 
 
 This medallion, which exists, but uninscribed, in 
 Wedgwood paste as well as in the enamel of Tassie, has 
 been very frequently engraved, in prints which too often 
 convey an incorrect impression of the original, some- 
 times in consequence of deliberate alterations, as is the 
 case in the lithograph by " R. S. Michie, Edinburgh," 
 where the figure is shown to the waist, and a lapel is 
 added to the coat, which is entirely altered in form, and 
 made to show more of the cravat, sometimes from mere 
 want of skill on the part of the engraver. A very 
 poor unsigned transcript in line appeared in the Scots 
 Magazine for January 1796 ; but in May 1801 another 
 more faithful print by Beugo was given, along with the 
 statement that the former engraving " was not executed 
 to our mind." The most correct renderings are the 
 line-engravings by John Horsburgh [Wealth of Nations, 
 1828), and by R. C. Bell [Wealth of Nations, 1872), 
 and the half-size reproduction in fames and William 
 Ta s s ie (Edinburgh, 1894). 
 
 A reduced version of this medallion exists in Tassie 
 enamel, taken from a gem engraved by Warner, whose 
 
 f 1 Mention is made of one of these visits in Bentham's corre- 
 spondence, Works, vol. x. 173-174 {sub dato 14th July 1787).]
 
 xxii Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 name, " Warner Ft" appears on the truncation, while 
 the name " Adam Smith " appears behind the head, both 
 in raised letters. In this reduction the head and bust 
 are ^| inches in height. 
 
 James Tassie also executed a large version of his 
 medallion in what he styled " the antique manner," that 
 is to say, without the wig, and with the neck and breast 
 bare. This work has the advantage of showing the 
 rounded form of the head, covered with rather curling 
 hair and curving upwards from the brow to a point 
 above the large ear, which is hidden in the other version. 
 It is the same size as the first-named medallion ; and 
 the inscription on the truncation is almost identical, 
 " Adam Smith in his 64th year. 1787. Tassie FT I 
 have not seen any engravings from this medallion " in 
 the antique manner." 
 
 The earlier of the two etched portraits by John Kay 
 in which Adam Smith appears is signed " K. Fee. 1787," 
 and was consequently executed in the same year as the 
 medallions by Tassie. Here he appears as a small full- 
 length figure, standing in profile to our right, between 
 the taller forms of Lord Rockville and Commissioner 
 Brown. The close resemblance in position of head, 
 wig, collar of coat, etc., suggest that the etching is 
 founded upon the medallion, doubtless supplemented 
 by Kay's own recollection of Smith, as he walked the 
 Edinburgh streets. The features are very similar to 
 those portrayed by Tassie, but the lower lip has more 
 protrusion. The head is covered with a broad-brimmed 
 hat ; and the costume is knee-breeches, with shoes with 
 square buckles, and a light coat, similar to the costume 
 described in the letterpress to Kay's plate No. XI. vol. 
 i., " Dr. James Graham," as " white linen clothes." He 
 carries a cane in his right hand, in the attitude described 
 by Smellie, " In the streets, or elsewhere, he always 
 carried his cane on his shoulder, as a soldier does his
 
 Introduction xxiii 
 
 musket," and his left hand holds a bunch of flowers, for 
 which, however, we find no authority in any of the 
 accounts of his life. 
 
 The second etching by Kay is dated 1790, and was 
 probably a memorial work, executed after the death of 
 its subject for sale to his friends and the general public. 
 It is a larger and more elaborate work than the former 
 etching, but the faces, in their position and features, are 
 practically identical in both. Here a cocked hat re- 
 places the broad-brimmed one ; a dark coat with large 
 buttons and a broad collar, but without a lapel, is worn ; 
 a cane is held in the right hand, and the left points to 
 a volume of his great work, which lies, with writing 
 materials and other books, on a table. The figure 
 stands on a tesselated pavement [very much out of 
 perspective], and behind, in an inner room, there appears 
 a bookcase. 
 
 Both etchings are included in the collected editions 
 of Kay's Original Portraits. 
 
 Among the painted portraits which have been 
 claimed as representing Adam Smith is one that was for 
 many years in the possession of a family in Kirkcaldy, 
 named Muir, and now belongs to a private owner in 
 Edinburgh. It is an oil painting by an unknown artist, 
 showing the figure nearly to the waist ; and the mutual 
 proportions of the head and the figure are suggestive 
 of a very tall man. The face, the features of which 
 resemble those that appear in the Tassie medallions, is 
 turned in three-quarters to our right. The eyes are 
 hazel-brown in colour, their balls less full and prominent 
 than in the medallions, — as compared with which the 
 upper lip is shorter and the nose smaller, though similar 
 in character. The lower lip protrudes a little, as shown 
 by Tassie, and is particularly long. The costume is a 
 coat of a black colour, slightly tinged with a greenish 
 tone, and its shadows are very effectively touched in.
 
 xxiv Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 It has a broad collar, but no lapel, and is buttoned up 
 to the throat as in the first-named medallion, three black 
 buttons appearing. A portion of a white cravat is vis- 
 ible at the neck, and a wig is worn, concealing the ear. 
 
 I am distinctly of opinion that this work is a portrait 
 of Adam Smith, painted after his death and founded 
 upon the first-named Tassie medallion. In this view I 
 am confirmed by the style of the painting, which is that 
 of the earlier part of the present century, not of the last 
 century ; by the execution, which, while it is bold and 
 broadly effective, has none of the searching detail, the 
 seizure of little individualities, which is characteristic of 
 work done directly from life ; and by the fact that the 
 wig has evidently not been painted from the object, but 
 adapted to its present position from the medallion, and 
 its form having been misunderstood by the painter, its 
 peak in front does not appear in the centre of the fore- 
 head, but turned to one side. 
 
 Another painting which has been regarded as a por- 
 trait of Adam Smith is that presented to the National 
 Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, by the Trustees of 
 David Laing, LL.D. Nothing is known of the previous 
 history of the picture ; and evidently the reason for its 
 being titled with the name of Adam Smith is simply 
 the fact that on a table, beside the seated figure, there 
 appears a book, the back of which is inscribed " Wealth 
 of Nations, Vol. I.," indicating that the portrait either 
 represents the author himself, or some very enthusiastic 
 friend or admirer. 
 
 The figure is almost a full length, the face turned 
 slightly to our left. His right hand is laid on his left 
 knee, which is crossed over the right one ; and his left 
 elbow rests on the arm of the red-cushioned arm-chair of 
 brown wood in which he sits, his left hand being held up, 
 and its index finger separated from the others, as though 
 to emphasise the words that he is uttering ; an attitude
 
 Introduction xxv 
 
 that recalls a passage in Smellie's Life of Smith, where 
 it is recorded that " he was occasionally disposed to ex- 
 press his own ideas somewhat in the form of a lecture." 
 The features show a certain general resemblance to those 
 that appear in the medallions ; but the eyes, which are 
 of a blue colour with a yellowish touch in it, are very 
 different, showing none of the prominence in the eye- 
 balls, or of the drooping in the upper lids which Tassie 
 has portrayed. The costume is a dark-blue coat, with- 
 out a lapel, and with a red collar and brass buttons, a 
 white vest and stockings, black knee-breeches with silver 
 buckles, frills at breast and wrists, and a wig covering 
 the ears. Above and to our right appears a red curtain ; 
 and on the table on the other side is the volume already 
 referred to, several bundles of papers, and a silver ink 
 bottle, with two quills. This table is covered with a 
 green cloth, patterned in yellow, and on this is inscribed 
 in white letters the signature " Ty. Collopy Pinx," 
 doubtless the artist who appears in the Royal Academy 
 Catalogue of 1786, when he exhibited No. 26, " Lady, 
 gentleman, and child," and No. 412, "The Crucifixion, 
 
 sketch for Altar-piece in Ireland," as " Collopy," 
 
 residing at 4 Little Madox Street, Hanover Square, 
 London; and in [that of] 1788, when he exhibited a 
 
 portrait of a Mr. Agar, as " Collopy," at the same 
 
 address. 
 
 I may mention that Mr. D. W. Stevenson, R.S.A., 
 is of opinion that this painting represents Adam Smith 
 at a younger age than he was portrayed by Tassie ; 
 but for my own part I do not consider that we have 
 sufficient evidence for regarding it as an authentic 
 portrait, especially in view of Stewart's definite statement 
 that Smith never sat for his picture. 
 
 There exist various posthumous works of sculpture 
 representing Adam Smith, all of them that possess 
 any value as likenesses being founded upon Tassie's
 
 xxvi Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 medallions. Among these is the marble bust in the 
 Corporation Galleries, Glasgow, produced by Patric 
 Park, R.S.A., in London in 1 845. A bust was executed 
 by Baron Marochetti, of which a large version in marble, 
 dated 1851, is in the Town Hall, Kirkcaldy, and a 
 small version in bronze in the Common-room of Balliol 
 College, Oxford. A marble statue, rather larger than 
 life, executed by Gasser of Vienna about 1867, was 
 purchased by the Adam Smith Club, Glasgow, and 
 deposited in the Hunterian Collection of the University 
 there, a previous effort to secure it for " one of the 
 buildings belonging to the University " of Oxford 
 having; failed. This statue also exists in reduced 
 facsimiles in plaster, one of which is in the possession 
 of Mrs. J. E. Thorold Rogers, Oxford. In 1879 
 J. Durham, A.R.A., modelled a statuette of Adam 
 Smith, a plaster cast of which is in the possession of 
 Mr. D. Storrar, Kirkcaldy. Here he appears as a 
 comparatively young man, seated, leaning back, in a 
 meditative attitude in a chair, his right hand supporting 
 his cheek, and his left holding a manuscript upon his 
 knee. There is also a statuette of Adam Smith, dated 
 1887, the work of Mr. Charles M'Bride of Edinburgh, 
 plaster casts of which are in the Library of Balliol 
 College, Oxford, and in the possession of various private 
 owners. In 1888 Mr. D. W. Stevenson, R.S. A., was com- 
 missioned by Dr. Robert Halliday Gunning to execute a 
 bust of Adam Smith in marble, which he presented to 
 the Wallace Monument, Stirling, in the following year. 
 I may also mention that a statue of Adam Smith is in 
 the westernmost niche of the west wing (exterior) of 
 the ground-floor of the University Buildings, London, 
 facing north in Burlington Gardens. [It is a standing 
 figure larger than life. The sculptor was Mr. Durham. 
 The six figures in the niches are Cuvier, Leibnitz, 
 Linnasus on the east side ; Locke, Bacon, Adam Smith
 
 Introduction xxvii 
 
 on the west side of the entrance. The statue is 
 probably the result of a study of Kay and Tassie. 
 The features are idealized. The posture is majestic. 
 The curls of the wig are exaggerated. The head is 
 bare. The right hand is lowered and grasps a book. 
 The left is raised and gathers up the teacher's gown. 
 One foot is slightly advanced. On the right side 
 of the feet there lies a book, and on the left a roll 
 of paper.] 
 
 J. M. Gray. 
 
 V 
 
 ADAM SMITH ON PORTRAIT PAINTING 
 
 The following remarks (in the Essay of the External 
 Senses, pp. 225-226) were perhaps suggested by the 
 writer's interviews with Tassie : — 
 
 " It has been said that no man ever saw the same 
 visible object twice ; and this, though no doubt an 
 exaggeration, is in reality much less so than at first view 
 it appears to be. Though I am apt to fancy that all 
 the chairs and tables and other little pieces of furniture 
 in the room where I am sitting appear to my eye always 
 the same, yet their appearance is in reality continually 
 varying, not only according to every variation in their 
 situation and distance with regard to where I am sitting, 
 but according to every, even the most insensible variation 
 in the attitude of my body, in the movement of my head, 
 or even in that of my eyes. 1 The perspective necessarily 
 varies according to all, even the smallest of these varia- 
 tions, and consequently the appearance of the object 
 which that perspective presents to me. Observe what 
 difficulty a portrait painter finds in getting the person 
 who sits for his picture to present to him precisely that 
 
 1 He does not mention changes of light.
 
 xxviii Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 view of the countenance from which the first outline 
 was drawn. The painter is scarce ever completely 
 satisfied with the situation of the face which is presented 
 to him, and finds that it is scarcely ever precisely the 
 same with that from which he rapidly sketched the first 
 outline. He endeavours, as well as he can, to correct the 
 difference from memory, from fancy, and from a sort of 
 art of approximation, by which he strives to express, as 
 nearly as he can, the ordinary effect of the look, air, and 
 character of the person whose picture he is drawing. 
 The person who draws from a statue, which is altogether 
 immovable, feels a difficulty, though no doubt in a less 
 degree, of the same kind. It arises altogether from the 
 difficulty which he finds in placing his own eye precisely 
 in the same situation during the whole time which he 
 employs in completing his drawing. This difficulty is 
 more than doubled upon the painter who draws from a 
 living subject. The statue never is the cause of any 
 variation or unsteadiness in its own appearance. The 
 living subject frequently is." 
 
 VI 
 
 ANALYSIS OF THE LIBRARY 
 
 A rough analysis of the contents of the following 
 Catalogue shows about i~5th of the books to be on 
 Literature and Art, i~5th of Classical (Latin and 
 Greek) authors, or their commentators, and i~5th on 
 Law, Politics, and Geography. Works on Political 
 Economy and on History make up another fifth, in 
 nearly equal proportions. Science and Philosophy 
 divide the remaining fifth, if we omit a small group 
 of miscellaneous volumes (chiefly biographical). 
 
 More than a third are in English, a little less than a
 
 Introduction xxix 
 
 third in French, and rather less than a quarter in Latin ; 
 Italian and Greek accounting for the remainder in 
 nearly equal proportions. There are three German, all 
 presentation copies, and translations of the author's 
 works. No other languages are represented. 
 
 The editor is under great obligation to the Rev. 
 Dr. Bannerman, Professor R. O. Cunningham, and the 
 other contributors in various parts of the country and 
 the world. In his local inquiries he has received 
 effectual help from Mr. Lewis Grant of Kirkcaldy ; Mr. 
 William K. Dickson, advocate, Edinburgh ; the late 
 Mr. John M. Gray, curator of the Scottish National 
 Portrait Gallery ; Mr. L. L. Price, Oriel College, 
 Oxford ; and Mr. Arthur Milman, of the London 
 University, Burlington House. 
 
 From the nature of the case, the work is incom- 
 plete ; but perhaps the very publication of this Catalogue 
 may reveal the hiding-place of missing volumes. 
 
 Bolton House, Hampstead, 
 \jth May 1894.
 
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 CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 Appearing 
 in Catalogue as 
 
 Rev. David Douglas Bannerman, D.D., B 
 Perth. 
 
 [Above 450 entries] 
 
 Rev. James Kennedy, B.D., New College, N 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 [Nearly 200 entries] 
 
 Professor R. O. Cunningham, M.D., D.Sc., C 
 
 Queen's College, Belfast. 
 
 [About 200 entries] 
 Oueen's College, Belfast. O C 
 
 [About 100 entries] 
 
 Contributing less than 100 entries in all: — 
 
 H. A. Webster, Esq., The University U 
 Library, Edinburgh. 
 
 Professor J. S. Nicholson, Edinburgh JSN 
 University. 
 
 Rev. Eric S. Robertson, Edinburgh. E S R 
 
 George Smith, Esq., CLE., LL.D. G S 
 
 G. Gregory Smith, Esq., Edinburgh. G G S 
 
 James Bain, Esq., Public Library, Toronto. Toronto 
 
 Rev. Walter Begley, East Hyde, Luton. W B 
 
 James Bonar, Esq., Hampstead, London. J B 
 
 Professor H. S. Foxwell, St. John's College, F 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Henry Higgs, Esq., H.M.'s General Post- H 
 Office, London. 
 
 Professor Carl Menger, The University, Menger 
 Vienna.
 
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 ACADEMIE 
 
 Royale. 
 
 ACADEMIE 
 
 Francoisc. 
 
 Acad£mie 
 
 des 
 Sciences, 
 
 etc. 
 
 Acts, 
 English. 
 
 Acts, 
 Scottish. 
 
 Adam 
 (Alexander), 
 
 Addison 
 (Joseph). 
 
 Choix des Memoires de l'Academie Royale. 3 vols. 
 4to, calf. Londres, 1777. 
 
 Observations de l'Academie Francoise sur les Re- 
 marques de M. de Vaugelas. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 
 i2mo. La Haye, 1705. 
 
 Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions, 
 Belles Lettres, Beaux Arts, etc., nouvellement 
 etablie a Troyes en Champagne. Vol. i. only. 
 l2mo. Troyes, 1756. 
 
 Acts made in the First Parliament of Charles, 
 holden at Edinburgh, 1633. Small fol. old 
 calf. Edinburgh^ 1633. 
 
 Acts and Constitutions of the Realm of Scotland. 
 Black letter. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. N. P. 1566. 
 
 Latin and English Grammar. 8vo, calf. Edin- 
 burgh, 1772. 
 
 Works of Addison. 4 vols. 4to, calf. Birmingham, 
 1741. 
 
 The Freeholder. i2mo, calf. Glasgow, 1746. 
 
 The Spectator. 8 vols. i2mo, calf. London, N. D. 
 
 ( 1 ) Essay on the Imitative Arts, 169 : " The agree- 
 
 able raillery of Mr. Addison " on the Italian 
 Opera, in the Spectator. 
 
 (2) Mor. Sent.,, (6th ed.) i. 314 (Part III. ch. ii.) 
 
 (Addison intrigued against Pope.) 
 
 (3) Ibid. (6th ed.) ii. 11 (Part V. ch. i.) : 
 
 "The correct but often tedious and prosaic 
 languor of Addison." 
 
 B 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 B
 
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 Aelianus 
 (Claudius). 
 
 Aeschines 
 (Socraticus). 
 
 Aeschylus. 
 
 Agricul- 
 ture. 
 
 Akenside 
 (Mark). 
 
 Alberti 
 
 (Leo 
 Battista). 
 
 Albinus 
 (Bernardus 
 Siegfried). 
 
 D'Alembert 
 
 (Jean 
 le Rond). 
 
 (4) Perhaps quoted in Mor. Sent. i. 370 (Part 
 III. ch. iii.) (Epitaph, "Stava bene, ma per 
 star meglio sto qui." Compare Spectator 
 No. 25, March 29, 1710-11.) 
 
 Varia Historia, Graece et Latine. Edidit A. Q 
 Gronovius. 2 vols. 4to. Amstelodami, 1731. 
 
 Dialogi Tres, Graece et Latine. 8vo, vellum. B 
 Amstelod. 1 7 1 1 . 
 
 Tragoediae with Scholia. Edited by J. C. de Pauw. O 
 2 vols. 4to. Hagae Comitum [The Hague), 
 
 J 745- 
 Kur*xy\ov Tpay<p8lai l2mo, calf. Parisiis, 1552. B 
 
 Journal de 1' Agriculture, du Commerce, et des N 
 Finances. 10 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1765-67. 
 
 [Below the usual bookplate of Adam Smith are the 
 
 arms of the Duke of Buccleuch, from whom the 
 
 book may have been a present.] 
 Essai sur l'Amelioration des Terres. i2mo, calf. B 
 
 [Anon.] Paris, 1759. [Ascribed to Jerome 
 
 Patullo.] 
 Geoponica sive de Re Rustica, Graece et Latine. Q 
 
 Ed. P.Needam. 1 vol. 8vo. Cantabrigiae, 1704. 
 
 Poems. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1772. C 
 
 On Sculpture. Folio. N. D. C 
 
 Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum. Numerous B 
 plates. Large folio, old calf. \_Lugd.~\ Batav. 
 (Leyden), 1744. 
 
 Eloges lus dans les Seances publiques de l'Academie C 
 Francoise. 6 vols. Small 8vo, calf. Paris, 
 1779. 
 
 Melanges de litterature, d'histoire et de Philosophic N 
 [Anon.] 5 vols. i2mo. Amsterdam, 1760-67. 
 
 ( 1 ) Edinr. Rev. 1755. Letter, p. 66 (Encyclopedic 
 
 of "Mr. Diderot" and "Mr. Alembert"), 68 
 ("Mr. Alembert"). 
 
 (2) Mor. Sent. (6th ed.) vol. i. 315 (Part III.
 
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 Almanach 
 
 Royal. 
 America. 
 
 ch. ii.) (On the want of simplicity among 
 members of the French Academy.) 
 The Melanges contains the " Discours Preliminaire" 
 of the Encyclopedic Adam Smith made the 
 author's acquaintance in Paris in 1766. 
 
 Annee mdcclxv. 8vo. Paris, 1765. 
 
 Defense des Recherches Philosophiques sur les 
 
 Americains par M. de P [De Pauw]. Vol. 
 
 iii. only. i2mo, old calf. Berlin, 1 771. 
 
 History of the British Dominions in North America 
 [from 1497 to 1763, in Fourteen Books]. 
 1 vol. 4to, calf. London, 1773. 
 
 Journal of the Proceedings of Congress held at 
 Philadelphia from Sept. 5, 1775 to April 30, 
 1776. 1 vol. 8vo, quarter leather. Philad. 
 1786. 
 
 " Present State of G. Britain, N. America " — 
 general (outside) title of vol. Full calf. Three 
 books bound in one. Contents on fly-leaf (in 
 a hand of the period): "(1) Present State of 
 G. Britain and North America, by Mitchel. 
 
 (2) Negotiations of France and England, 1761. 
 
 (3) Letter on the Present State of Affairs, 
 J 755> by Lord Egmont." 
 
 The printed titles are : — 
 
 ( 1 ) The Present State of Great Britain and North 
 
 America with regard to Agriculture, Popula- 
 tion, Trade, and Manufactures, impartially 
 considered, containing a particular account of 
 the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life 
 in England, the want of staple commodities in 
 the Colonies, the decline of their trade, etc. 
 etc. [Pp. xvi. 363.] 8vo. London, 1767. 
 
 (2) Reflections upon the Present State of Affairs 
 
 at Home and Abroad, particularly with regard 
 to Subsidies, and the Differences between 
 Great Britain and France, in a Letter from a 
 Member of Parliament to a Constituent. [A 
 sixpenny pamphlet.] London, 1755. 
 
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 B 
 
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 onto.
 
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 Ammirato 
 (Scipione). 
 
 D'Ancourt. 
 
 Andersonus 
 (Jacobus). 
 
 Anne of 
 Austria. 
 
 (New) 
 
 Annual 
 
 Register. 
 
 Anquetil. 
 
 L'Antifin- 
 
 ANCIER. 
 
 (3) An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of 
 France and England from the 26th March 
 1 761 to the 20th of September of the same 
 year. With the Vouchers. Translated from 
 the French Original, published at Paris by 
 authority. [64 pp. 4-to.J London, 1761. 
 
 Istorie Florentine. 3 vols. Small fol. vellum. B 
 Firenze, 1 64 1. 
 
 Les Oeuvres de Theatre. 12 vols. Minim, old calf. B 
 Paris, 1760. 
 
 Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae C 
 Thesaurus. 1 vol. Fol. calf. Edinburgh, 1759. 
 
 ( 1 ) Preface by Ruddiman quoted in W. of N. I. xi. 
 
 84. 2 (on price of wheat in early times), and 
 criticized in light of the old original MSS. 
 used by Ruddiman himselr. 
 
 (2) Do. I. xi. 98. 1 (on gold and silver coin in 
 
 Scotland before the Union). 
 
 (3) Do. II. ii. 129. 1 (almost a repetition of I. xi. 
 
 98). 
 D'Anne d'Autriche, epouse de Louis XIII. B 
 Memoires pour servir a l'histoire. 6 vols. i2mo, 
 old calf. Amsterdam, 1729. 
 
 Vols. 1780-87 (after which year the nameplate is B 
 that of David Douglas). [Robinson, London.] 
 
 L'Esprit de la Ligue ou Histoire Politique des B 
 
 Troubles de France. 3 vols. i2mo, old calf. 
 
 Paris, 1 77 1. 
 L'Intrigue du Cabinet sous Henri IV. et Louis B 
 
 XIII. terminee par la Fronde. 4 vols. i2mo, 
 
 old calf. Maestricht, 1782. 
 Louis XIV. sa cour et le Regent. 4 vols. Small B 
 
 8vo, old calf. Paris, 1789. 
 
 L'Antifinancier ou Releve de quelques unes des N 
 malversations dont se rendent journellement 
 coupables les Fermiers Generaux et des vexa- 
 tions qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces, 
 servant de refutation d'un ecrit intitule Lettre 
 servant de Reponse aux Remontrances du Parle-
 
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 (M. l'abbc). 
 
 D'Anville 
 
 (lc Sieur). 
 
 merit de Bordeaux. Precedee d'une epitre au 
 Parlement de France. l2mo. Amsterd. 1764. 
 
 [" Darigrand" written not very distinctly on title- 
 page.] 
 
 Dictionnaire Italien, Latin, et Francois. 2 vols. 
 4to, calf. Paris, 1735. 
 
 Grammaire italienne, pratique et raisonnee. i2mo. 
 Paris , 1758. 
 
 Proposition d'une mesure de la terre, dont il resulte 
 une diminution considerable dans sa circon- 
 ference sur les Paralleles. i2mo. Paris, 1735. 
 
 Analyse geographique de l'ltalie. 1 vol. 4to, 
 calf. Paris, 1744. 
 
 Geographie Ancienne Abregee. 1st and 3rd (out 
 of 3) vols. i2mo. Paris, 1768. 
 
 L'Empire Turc considere dans son etablissement 
 et dans ses accroissemens successifs. i2mo. 
 Paris, 1772. 
 
 Antiquite geographique de l'Inde et de plusieurs 
 autres contrees de la haute Asie. 1 vol. 4to, 
 calf. Paris, 1775. 
 
 [Perhaps a presentation copy. Madame D'Anville 
 made Adam Smith's acquaintance in Paris, 1766.] 
 
 Argonautica. Books I. to IV. Edited by J. Shaw. 
 2 vols. 4to. Oxonii, 1779. 
 
 Argonautica. Edidit Phil. Brunck. 8vo, calf. 
 Argentorati (Strasburg), 1780. 
 
 Appiani Alexandrini Romanae Historiae. Ed. Alex- 
 ander Tolli us. 8vo, vellum. Amstelodami, 1670. 
 
 Table of ancient coins, weights, and measures. 
 Appendix by Benj. Langwith. 1 vol. 4to, calf. 
 London, 1754. 
 
 W. of N. IV. ix. 310-1 1. (Less variety in ancient 
 dress than in modern, and therefore, Dr. Arbuth- 
 not infers, greater cheapness in ancient.) Ad. 
 Sm. in the above passage and in I. x. ii. 61. 2 has 
 been thought to follow A.'s estimates too closely. 
 
 Memoires. 2nd ed. i2mo. London, 1787. 
 
 Apollonius 
 Rhodius. 
 
 Appianus. 
 
 Arbuthnot 
 (John). 
 
 c 
 
 N 
 N 
 
 C 
 
 N 
 N 
 
 8 
 
 B 
 B 
 
 Argens 
 (Le Mar- 
 quis d'). 
 
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 vols. 8vo, calf. Argentorati, 1783. 
 
 Opera Omnia, Graece et Latine. Ed. W. du Val. 
 4 vols. Folio. Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1729. 
 
 Aristotelis de Poetica Liber ad optimorum Codicum 
 fldem emendatus, cum versione Latina Theodori 
 Goulstoni. Edinburgi, Apud Tho. et Wal. Rud- 
 dimannos. Neat i2mo, Bookplate, mdccxxxi. 
 
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 (1) Essay on Ancient Physics, 108-109 (A.'s views 
 
 of the First Cause). 
 
 (2) W. of N. I. x. ii. 62. 1 (A. well-paid as tutor 
 
 and teacher). 
 
 (3) W« of N. III. ii. 172 (on the size of the army 
 
 in the ideal republic in Plato's Laws). 
 
 (4) Ibid. V. i. 348. 2 (the Lyceum assigned to A. 
 
 by the State). 
 
 (5) Mor. Sent. ii. 211 -214 (Part VII. Sect. II. 
 
 ch. i.) (on the nature of Virtue, with textual 
 citation of A.'s Ethics). 
 
 (6) Ibid. ii. 176 (Part VI. Sect. III.) (A.'s /xeya- 
 
 X6\pv\o<i realized in the Spaniard of 16th and 
 17th cent.) 
 
 (7) Ibid. ii. 208, 21 1 -214 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. 
 
 i.) (On Justice, etc., with frequent citations 
 of Ethics.) So. ii. 363 (Part VII. Sect. IV.) 
 History of Edinburgh from the earliest accounts to B 
 the present time. 4to, boards. Edinburgh, 
 1788. (The 1st edition was in 1779.)
 
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 references to the historical Alexander are fre- 
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 esp. Mor. Sent. ii. 164-166 (Part VI. Sect. III.) 
 
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 (2) Ibid. ii. 251-255 (Part. VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) 
 
 (Description of his character, temperament, 
 and philosophy.) 
 
 (3) W. of N. V. i. 348. 2. (His liberality to philo- 
 
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 to which he supported representatives of each 
 of the dominant sects.) (Cf. Renan, Marc 
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 of Italy. 8vo, old calf. London, 1758. 
 
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 informed " that ^50,000 in gold come to Eng- 
 land from Lisbon every week. [This is probably 
 a reference to another book of Baretti's, "Lettere 
 Famigliari a' suoi fratelli" (1763). He was a 
 protege of Dr. Johnson.) 
 
 History of the Political Connection between Eng- 
 land and Ireland from the reign of Henry II. to 
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 and Ireland, or a Complete Register of Honours 
 and Persons in Office from the earliest periods 
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 Such is the description of the copy of this book 
 in the library of the Comte de Mirabeau (see 
 the Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de 
 feu M. Mirabeau l'Aine, Depute et ex-President 
 de l'assemblee Nationale Constituante, 1 791 
 [prepared for the sale in January 1792]). 
 
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 of Adam Smith. In Sir John Sinclair's Corre- 
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 " Mr. Smith presents his most respectful compli- 
 ments to Mr. Sinclair of Ulbster. 
 
 The 'Memoires sur les Finances' [j/V] 1 are engaged 
 for four months to come to Mr. John Davidson. When 
 he has done with them, Mr. Smith would be very 
 happy to accommodate Mr. Sinclair ; but he acknow- 
 ledges he is a little uneasy about the safety of the 
 conveyance and the greatness of the distance [Ulbster 
 was in Caithness]. He has frequent occasion to 
 consult the book himself, both in the course of his 
 private studies and in the business of his present 
 employment [as Commissioner of Customs], and is 
 therefore not very willing to let it go out of Edinburgh. 
 The book was never properly published ; but there 
 were a few more copies printed than were necessary 
 for the commission for whose use it was compiled. 
 
 One of these I obtained by the particular favour 
 of Mr. Turgot, the late Controller-General of the 
 Finances. I have heard but of three other copies in 
 Great Britain. One belongs to a noble lord, who 
 obtained it by connivance, as he told me ; one is in 
 the Secretary of State's office, and the third belongs 
 to a private gentleman. How these two were obtained, 
 I know not, but suspect it was in the same manner. 
 If any accident should happen to my book, the loss 
 is perfectly irreparable. When Mr. Sinclair comes 
 to Edinburgh, I shall be very happy to communicate 
 to him not only that book but everything else I have 
 upon the subject, both printed and manuscript ; and 
 am, with the highest respect for his character, his 
 most obedient humble servant, Adam Smith. 
 
 Edinburgh, z\th November, 1778." 
 
 The copy in Mirabeau's library may possibly have 
 been reserved from his father's library, which 
 was sold after the death of its owner on nth 
 July 1789. The Catalogue of the Count's 
 books already mentioned has appended to it a 
 list of the prices fetched at the sale (held on 9th 
 
 1 This is more nearly the title of a book by Deon de Beaumont, 
 " Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generate des Finances " (Londres, 
 1758, 2 vols. i2mo). But the description in this letter, as well 
 as the references occurring in the Wealth of Nations, could apply 
 only to the Memoires, by Moreau de Beaumont.
 
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 mont's book fetched only 2 livres, 4 sous ! 
 
 In a footnote at the end of ch. i. part iv. of Book 
 V. of the W. of N. (367. 1), Adam Smith 
 thus describes the book: "This work was 
 compiled by the order of the court for the use 
 of a commission employed for some years past in 
 considering the proper means for reforming the 
 finances of France. The account of the French 
 taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, 
 may be regarded as perfectly authentic. That 
 of those of other European nations was compiled 
 from such information as the French ministeri- 
 al the different courts could procure. It is 
 much shorter and probably not quite so exact 
 as that of the French taxes." After these state- 
 ments it is curious to find him quoting more 
 from the fourth volume than from the other 
 three. The quotations (usually giving the 
 volume and page of the original) are as follows : — 
 W. of N. V. ii. 367. 2 (the wine-cellar and 
 apothecary's business of the city of Hamburgh). 
 Ibid. 368. 2 (the public pawnshop or "Lombard'' 
 at Hamburgh). 
 
 „ 373. 2 (Taxation in Venice). 
 
 » 375- 2 ( „ in Prussia). 
 
 „ 376. 1 and 2 (Bohemia, Milan, Savoy, Piedmont, 
 and the generality of Montauban). 
 
 „ 381. 1 (Holland). 
 
 » 3 8 3- 2 (Hamburgh). 
 
 „ 384. 1 (Switzerland). 
 
 „ 385. 2 (the personal taille), cf. 391. 2. 
 
 „ 388. 1 (Holland, Berne, Lucerne). 
 
 „ 389. 1 (Holland). 
 
 „ 391. 2 ( [a) on the taille ; (b) on the tax in 
 Bohemia on artificers). 
 
 t> 393- *• "I* > s observed by the perfectly well- 
 informed author of the Memoirs upon the Im- 
 positions in France" that the privileged classes 
 pay a very small proportion of the capitation tax. 
 
 „ 396. 1 (Taxation in Holland). 
 
 „ 407. 2 (Spanish alcavala).
 
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 (1) W. of N. I. iv. 1. (Abraham paid silver by 
 
 weight to Ephron the Hittite.) 
 
 (2) Ibid. III. iv. 184. 2. The great proprietors 
 
 sold their birthright, not, like Esau, for 
 pottage in the time of want, but for baubles 
 in the wantonness of plenty. 
 
 (3) Ibid. V. i. 344. 2, 345. 1. ' (On the place of 
 
 the Vulgate and of the Greek and Hebrew 
 text in the Medieval Church.) 
 
 (4) Ibid. V. i. 345. 2. "Apothegms or Wise 
 
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 verses of Theognis," etc. 
 
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 and when Blair published his own lectures he 
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 he had been allowed by its author to consult. 
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 acters of those English authors who are classed 
 under them), in this and the following lecture, 
 several ideas have been taken from a manuscript 
 treatise on rhetoric, part of which was shown to 
 me many years ago by the" learned and ingenious 
 author Dr. Adam Smith, and which, it is hoped, 
 will be given by him to the Public." 
 
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 A State of the Expedition from Canada as laid before 
 the House of Commons by Lieut. -General Bur- 
 goyne, and verified by evidence, with a collection 
 of authentic documents, etc. 2nd ed. 8vo. 
 London, 1780. 
 
 Speeches on American Taxation, 19th April 1774. 
 
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 (John). 
 
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 lerius). 
 
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 Vectigalia Populi Romani, et Zeus Karat/?arr;s, U 
 sive Jupiter Fulgurator,in Cyrrhetarum nummis. 
 Curis Secundi illustrata. 4to. Apud Wishoff, 
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 Anthologia Veterum Epigrammatum et Poematum. Q 
 
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 Vols, ii., iii. 4to. Amstelodami, 1773. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Law. 2 vols. 4to, calf. London, B 
 
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 Not expressly quoted. Burn's "Justice" (head 
 
 "Poor") is quoted twice in W. of N. (I. x. ii. 
 
 63, 64), and his " History of the Poor Laws," in 
 
 W. of N. I. x. ii. 65. 
 
 Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and B 
 William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald 
 (sic), being an account of the Civil Wars of 
 Scotland, 1625-52. Folio, old calf. London, 
 
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 History of his own Time. 6 vols. i2mo, old B 
 
 calf. Edinburgh, 1753. 
 
 The History of the Reformation of the Church of C 
 England. 3rd ed. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 
 1772. 
 
 History of Music. 5 vols. 4to. London, 1789. Q 
 
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 cum adnotatione Joannis Burton. Editio altera, 
 cui observationes indicemque Graecum longe 
 auctiorem et emendatiorem adjecit Thomas 
 Burgess, A.B., e C.C.C. 2 vols. 8vo. Oxonii, 
 1779. 
 
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 (Samuel). 
 
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 (Julius). 
 
 Calonne 
 
 (De). 
 
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 (John). 
 
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 (De). 
 
 Cantillon 
 (Richard). 
 
 Lettres. 
 calf. 
 
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 Requete au Roi adressee a sa Majeste. 1 vol. 
 4to, tree calf. 1 787. 
 
 Discours prononce dans l'Assemblee des Notables 
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 Versailles, 1787. 
 
 Reponse a l'ecrit de M. Necker, publie en avril 
 1787. 4-to. London, 1788. 
 
 Political Survey of Great Britain. 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 London, 1774. 
 Oeuvres. 3 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1750. 
 
 Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General. 
 Traduit de l'Anglois. [Anon.] i2mo, calf. 
 Londres, 1755. 
 
 W. of N. I. viii. 31. 1. (The lowest common 
 labourers must earn double their maintenance. 
 Even a slave produces double his maintenance. 
 From Essai, pp. 42, 43. See the article on 
 " Richard Cantillon and the Nationalitv of 
 Political Economy," Contemporary Review, Jan- 
 uary 188 1, by W. S. Jevons.) A reprint of 
 the Essai was published by Harvard University, 
 1892. 
 
 c 
 
 Vols. i. iii. v. vii. 
 Amsterdam, 1752. 
 
 The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose, pub- 
 lished from original MSS. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. 
 London, 1759. 
 
 Hudibras, in 3 Parts. Written in the time of 
 the Late Wars. 3rd ed. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. 
 London, ij~2. 
 
 Essay on Italian Verses, p. 189. (Double rhymes 
 abound in Hudibras more than in Dry den.) 
 
 Commentarii. (Vol. iii. only.) i2mo. Glasguae, QC 
 1750. 
 
 De Bello Civili. 2 vols. Minimo. Glasguae, 1750. 
 References to Caesar in Mor. Sent. 
 
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 C 
 
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 N 
 B
 
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 (Albergati). 
 
 Capmartin 
 
 de champy 
 
 (L'Abbe 
 
 Bertrand). 
 
 Caro 
 (Hannibale). 
 
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 (Thomas). 
 
 Casaubonus 
 (Isaacus). 
 
 Casaux 
 
 (Marquis 
 de). 
 
 Cassnjs 
 
 (Dion Coc- 
 
 ceianus). 
 
 Castiglione 
 
 (Conte 
 Baladesar). 
 
 Cellarius 
 (Christo- 
 phorus). 
 
 Chabanon 
 (P. G. de). 
 
 Chalmers 
 (George). 
 
 II Nuovo Teatro Comico, coll' aggiunta d' alcune 
 tragedie Francesi. 5 vols. 8vo, calf. Venezia, 
 J 774- 
 
 Reflexions d'un avocat sur les Remontrances du 
 Parlement du 27 novembre 1755, au sujet du 
 Grand-Conseil. i2mo. London, 1756. 
 
 Lettere Familiari. Small 4-to, calf. [N. P.] 1581. 
 
 A General History of England. 4 vols. Fol. 
 calf. London, 1747. 
 
 Athenaei Deipnosophistae. Fol. calf. Vol. i. only. 
 Lugduni, 1657. 
 
 Animadversionum in Athenaei Deipnosophistas 
 Libri Quindecim. Folio, calf. Lugduni, 1664. 
 
 Considerations sur quelques parties du Mecanisme 
 des Societes. 8vo, calf. Londres, 1785. 
 
 On title-page : " For A. Smith, Esq., from the 
 Author." 
 
 Historiae Romanae Graece et Latine. Edidit J. 
 Leoncladius. Libri XVI. 1 vol. 4to. Hanoviae, 
 1606. 
 
 Historiae Romanae Graece et Latine. Ed. H. S. 
 Reimarus. 2 vols. Fol. Hamburgi, 1750-52. 
 
 Libro del Cortegiano. i2mo, red morocco. Aldi 
 Fit. \Venezia\ 1 547. 
 
 Geographia Antiqua. 
 1703. 
 
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 Observations sur la Musique et principalement sur 
 la Metaphysique de l'Art. [Anon.] 8vo. Paris, 
 1779. 
 
 Political Annals of the Colonies from the settlement 
 to the peace of 1763. 1 vol. 4to, calf. London, 
 1780. 
 
 An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain 
 during the present and four preceding reigns, 
 and of the Losses of her Trade from every War 
 
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 N 
 
 B 
 C 
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 B 
 B 
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 21 
 
 Chamber- 
 
 I.AYNE 
 
 (John). 
 
 Chambers 
 (Ephraim). 
 
 Chapelle et 
 Bachau- 
 
 MONT. 
 
 Chardin 
 (Sir John). 
 
 Charlevoix 
 (Le Pere 
 Francois- 
 Xavier de). 
 
 Chastellux 
 (Francois 
 
 Jean, Mar- 
 quis de). 
 
 Chaucer 
 
 (Geoffrey). 
 
 since the Revolution. To which is added an 
 Essay on Population, by the Lord Chief Justice 
 Hale. 4to. London, 1782. 
 On title-page : " The Author requests Dr. Adam 
 Smith to accept of this enlarged and corrected 
 copy of his Estimate as a mark of his high 
 respect." [The 'enlargement' consists (accord- 
 ing to Professor Foxwell) of a second Appendix. 
 Many copies end at Appendix I.] 
 
 Present State of Great Britain, with divers Remarks B 
 upon the Ancient State thereof. 8vo, old calf. 
 London, 1745. 
 
 Encyclopaedia. Ed. by Rees. 4 vols. Large 8vo. B* 
 1786. 
 
 Oeuvres. i2mo. La Haye, 1755. N 
 
 Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient. N 
 4 vols. 4to. Amsterdam, 17 '35. 
 
 Histoire et Description de la Nouvelle France, avec B 
 le Journal Historique d'un Voyage dans l'Ame- 
 rique Septentrionnale. 6 vols. 8vo, old calf. 
 Paris, 1744. 
 
 W. of N. IV. vii. 256. 1. (On the population of 
 Canada in the earlv part of the 18th century.) 
 
 Essai sur l'union de la Poesie et de la Musique. N 
 i2mo. La Haye, 1765. 
 
 De la Felicite Publique, ou Considerations sur le JSN 
 Sort des Hommes dans les differentes e*poques de 
 l'histoire. [Anon.] (On fly-leaf pencilled : 
 " Par le Marquis de Chastellux.") 2 vols. Am- 
 sterdam, 1772. 
 
 Works. Ed. J. Urry. I vol. Fol. calf. London, C 
 1721. 
 
 The Canterbury Tales, with Essay on his Language, B 
 Notes, etc. Ed. Tyrwhitt. 4 vols. London, 
 1775, and a supplementary 5th with glossarv, 
 1778.
 
 22 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Chaufepie" 
 (Jacques G.) 
 
 Chaulieu 
 (L'abbe de). 
 
 Ch^nier 
 (De). 
 
 Chester- 
 field 
 (Lord). 
 
 Child 
 (Josiah). 
 
 Choisy 
 
 (L'abbe' de). 
 
 Churchill 
 (Ownsham 
 and John). 
 
 Cicero 
 
 (Marcus 
 Tullius). 
 
 Essay on Imitative Arts, p. 150. (Lengthening and 
 shortening of syllables, etc., occur " in the verses 
 even of Chaucer, the father of the English 
 poetry.") 
 Nouveau Dictionnaire historique et critique. 
 Fol. calf. Amsterd. and La Haye, 1750. 
 
 2 vols. Minimo. Paris. 
 
 4 vols 
 Oeuvres. 
 Oeuvres. 
 
 ,, 1757. N 
 
 2 vols. Mini mo, old calf. La Haye, 1777. B 
 
 Recherches historiques sur les Maures et histoire de N 
 l'empire de Maroc. 3 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1787. 
 
 Letters to his Son. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1775. C 
 
 Miscellaneous Works, with Life by M. Maty, M.D. B 
 4 vols. 8vo, tree calf. London, 1779. 
 
 A New Discourse of Trade. i2mo, calf. Glasgow, B 
 1751. 
 
 W. of N. V. i. 331. 2, 332. 1. (On Regulated 
 
 Companies.) Ad. Smith gives a very free version 
 ^ ofChild's remarks. 
 Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Louis XIV. C 
 
 2nd and 3rd vols, only, of 15th ed. 8vo, calf. 
 
 Utrecht, 1727. 
 A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some first B 
 
 printed from original MSS., others now first 
 
 published in English, with maps and cuts. 6 
 
 vols. Fol. old calf. London, 1744. 
 Bookplate of " Wm. Archdeacon Benwell " on each 
 
 vol., as well as Ad. Smith's. 
 Lettres de Ciceron. Remarques par M. Mougault. B 
 
 6 vols. i2mo. Amsterdam, 174.1. 
 De Officiis ad Marcum Filium. i2mo, calf. 
 
 Glasguae, 1 757* 
 Opera. Edidit J. Olivetus. 9 vols. 4to. Genevae, 
 
 1758. 
 Opera Omnia ex recensione Augusti Ernesti, cum B 
 
 notis et clave Ciceroniana. 6 vols. 8vo, calf. 
 
 Halis Saxonum [Halle), 1 7 74. 
 
 (1) Mor. Sent, passim. 
 
 "Olivet's edition" is expressly cited, Mor. Sent. ii. 
 236 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.)
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 23 
 
 Clairaut 
 
 (Alexis 
 
 Claude). 
 
 Clarendon 
 
 (Lord). 
 
 Clarke 
 (William). 
 
 Claudian. 
 
 Clavius 
 
 (Christo- 
 phorus). 
 
 Clericus 
 (Joannes). 
 
 (2) W. of N. I. viii. 43. ("The virtuous Brutus 
 
 lent money in Cyprus at eight and forty per 
 cent, as we learn from the letters of Cicero.") 
 
 (3) Ibid. I. xi. 69. I. ("To feed well, old Cato 
 
 said, as we are told by Cicero, was the first 
 and most profitable thing in the management 
 of a private estate," etc.) 
 
 (4) Ibid. V. ii. art. iv. 396. I. (C. says there is 
 
 nothing so absurd that it has not been taught 
 by some philosophers.) 
 Clemens d'Algebre. 4th ed. 8vo. Paris^ 1768. N 
 
 History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng- B 
 land. 6 vols. 8vo, old calf. Oxford^ 1721. 
 
 Life of Lord Clarendon by himself. 3rd ed. (2nd C 
 and 3rd vols. only). 8vo, calf. Oxford^ 1 761. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 131 (Part VI. Sect. III.) ("The 
 grave and conscientious Lord Clarendon " does 
 not shrink from praising the dissimulation of 
 Lord Digby.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 171 (Part VI. Sect. III.) (Clar. "says 
 of the Earl of Arundel that he sometimes 
 went to Court because he could there only find 
 a greater man than himself," etc. 
 
 The Connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English g 
 Coins, deduced from Observations on the Saxon 
 Weights and Money. 4to, calf. London^ ijyi. 
 [The 1st ed. was 1767.] 
 
 Claudii Claudiani Opera Ed. Gesnerus. 8vo, calf. B 
 Lipsiae^ 1759. 
 
 Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Old calf, small B 
 fol. engraved title loose and damaged. Coloniae^ 
 1 59 1. On fly-leaf: "James Murray, 1724." 
 
 Euclidis Posteriores libri IX. Accessit liber XVI. N 
 
 de Solidorum Regularium cujuslibet intra quod- 
 
 libet comparatione. 8vo, old vellum. Franco- 
 
 furti y 1654. 
 
 Ars Critica. 2 vols. i2mo, calf. Amstelod. 1699. B 
 
 Opera Philosophica. 1 2mo, old calf. Amstelod. 1704. B
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Cocceius 
 (Samuelis). 
 
 Collins 
 
 (Arthur). 
 
 COMMINES 
 
 (Philippe 
 de). 
 
 CoNDAMINE 
 
 (M. de la). 
 
 CONDILLAC 
 
 (L'abbe 
 
 Etienne 
 
 Bonnot 
 
 de). 
 
 CoNTARINI 
 
 (Gasparo). 
 
 Cook 
 
 (James). 
 
 Copernicus 
 
 (Nicolaus). 
 
 Coquereau 
 (J. B.) 
 
 Introductio ad Grotium Illustratum. I vol. Fol. Q C 
 
 Halae, 1748. 
 Jus Civile Controversum. Small 4to, calf. Franco- B 
 
 furti et Lipsiae, 1753. 
 
 Peerage of England. 5th ed. 8 vols. 8vo. London, N 
 
 r 779- 
 
 Supplement by B. Longmate. 8vo. London, 1784. N 
 
 Memoires. 1 vol. Fol. calf. Paris, 1580. C 
 
 Journal of a Tour in Italy. 1 vol. Small 8vo, calf. C 
 London, 1763. 
 
 Essai sur l'origine des Connoissances Humaines. B 
 [Anon.] 2vols. 1 2mo, old calf. A7mterdam, 1746. 
 
 Traite des Systemes ou l'on en demele les incon- N 
 veniens et les avantages. 2 vols. i2mo. La 
 Haye [Paris], 1749. 
 
 Delia Republica e Magistrati di Venetia. Minimo, B 
 old calf. Venetia, 1650. 
 
 An Account of the Voyages undertaken by Captains B 
 Byron, Wallis, Carteret, and Cook. With cuts, 
 charts, and maps. By John Hawkesworth. 2 
 vols. Large 4to, calf. London, 1773. 
 
 A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the B 
 World, with maps, charts, and portraits. 2 vols. 
 4to, calf. London, 1777. 
 
 Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore. A Voyage to N 
 the Pacific Ocean, for making Discoveries in the 
 Northern Hemisphere, with maps, charts, and 
 original drawings. 3 vols. 4to,calf. London, 178 4. 
 
 De Revolutionibus Orbis Libri VI. Norimbergae, B 
 
 !543- 
 Bound in elaborately tooled vellum, date stamped on 
 
 cover, 1557. Notes in Latin on fly-leaf and 
 
 margins. 
 Essay on Hist, of Astronomy, p. 50 seq. | describes 
 
 his system). [See also Galileo.] 
 Memoires concernant l'administration des finances B 
 
 sous le ministere de M. l'abbe Terrai, controleur 
 
 general. i2mo. London, 1776.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 2 5 
 
 CORDINER 
 
 (C.) 
 
 Corn 
 (Trade and 
 Prices of). 
 
 CORNEILLE 
 
 (Pierre). 
 
 CORNEILLE 
 
 (Thomas). 
 
 CORSINI 
 
 (Bartolem- 
 meo). 
 
 Cf. W. of N.I. i.\. 41. 1. ( The abbe Terray raised 
 the legal rate of interest again to 5 per cent.) 
 
 Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, C 
 in a series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq. 
 1 vol. 4to, calf. Banff, 1780. 
 
 Two Pamphlets bound in one volume. 8vo, calf. B 
 
 (a) Three Tracts on the Corn Trade and Corn a 
 Laws. [2nd. ed.] [Anon.] London, 1766. 
 
 [By Charles Smith of Barking, Essex.] 
 
 W. of N. I. xi. iii. 91.2. (Third Tract cited to 
 show the amount of the Corn Bounty in 1749.) 
 
 Ibid. IV. ii. 202. 2. (Imported corn only -g^r 
 part of the annual consumption according to 
 " the very well-informed author of the tracts 
 upon the corn trade.") 
 
 Ibid. IV. v. 224. 2. ("The ingenious and well- 
 informed author of the Tracts upon the Corn 
 Trade has shown very clearly" that the value 
 of the exported corn has exceeded that of 
 the imported by much more than the amount of 
 the Bounties.) 
 
 (b) Reflections on the Present High Price of b 
 Provisions, and the complaints and disturbances 
 arising therefrom. [Anon.] 1766. 
 
 Cf. W. of N. I. xi. 69. 2, and ibid. in. r. 
 
 An Inquiry into the Connection between the 
 present Price of Provisions and the size of 
 Farms, with remarks on Population as affected 
 thereby. To which is added : Proposals for 
 preventing future scarcity. [Anon.] By a 
 Farmer. 8vo. London, 1773. 
 
 Theatre avec des Commentaires. 12 vols. 8vo, B 
 calf. 1 764. 
 
 Oeuvres. 9 vols. Minimo, old calf. Paris, 1758. B 
 [Plays.] 
 
 II Torrachione Desolate 2 vols. Minimo. Londra, B 
 1768. 
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 COUBRON 
 
 (Hocquart 
 de). 
 
 Cowley 
 
 (Abraham). 
 
 Coxe 
 
 (William). 
 
 Cragius 
 (Nicolas, 
 Ripensis). 
 
 Crawford 
 (George). 
 
 Crebillon 
 
 (Prosper 
 
 Jolyot de). 
 
 Crebillon, 
 fits (Claude 
 
 Prosper 
 Jolyot de). 
 
 Creech 
 (William). 
 
 Nouvelles vues sur l'administration des Finances et N 
 sur l'Allegement de l'impot. 8vo. La Haye, 
 1785. 
 
 Works. 8th ed. 1 vol. Fol. calf. London, 1693. ^ 
 
 Mor. Sent. vol. i. 68 (Part I. Sect. II. ch. ii.) : 
 « We grow weary of the grave, pedantic, and 
 long -sentenced love of Cowley and Petrarca, 
 who have never done with exaggerating the 
 violence of their attachments." 
 
 Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia B 
 and America, etc. Small 410, boards. London, 
 1780. 
 
 Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. N 
 2 vols. 4-to. London, 1784. 
 
 De Republica Lacedaemoniorum. i2mo, old calf. B 
 
 [Lugd.] Batav. 1670. 
 
 A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew. B 
 Edinburgh, 1 7 10. 
 
 Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Crown C 
 and State in Scotland from the beginning of the 
 reign of David I. to the Union of the King- 
 doms. I vol. Fol. calf. Edinburgh, 1726. 
 
 Les Oeuvres. Minimo, calf. Paris, 1754. 
 
 Vols i. and ii. N 
 
 Vol. iii. B 
 
 Lettres de la Marquise de M. au Comte de R. N 
 2 vols. i2mo. [Anon,] N, P. 1 739- 
 
 Les egaremens du cceur et de l'esprit, ou memoires N 
 de M. de Meilcour. 2 vols, in one. i2mo. La 
 
 Haye, 1745. 
 
 Collection complete des Oeuvres. 7 vols. i2mo, B 
 calf. Londres, 1777. 
 
 An Account of the Trial of William Brodie and J B 
 George Smith, August 1788, for breaking into 
 and robbing the General Excise Office of Scotland. 
 By William Creech, one of the Jury. 2nd ed. 
 8vo. Edinburgh, 1788. On fly-leaf: "To 
 Adam Smith, Esq., from The Author."
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 27 
 
 Crevier 
 (J.B.Louis) 
 
 Cronstedt 
 
 (Axel 
 Frederic). 
 
 Cullen 
 (William). 
 
 CURNE (M. 
 
 de Sainte 
 Palaye). 
 
 Customs. 
 
 Dal- 
 
 RYMPLE 
 
 (David) 
 
 (Lord 
 
 Hailes). 
 
 Memorials and Letters relating to the History of 
 Britain in the reign of James I. 8vo, boards. 
 Glasgow, 1 J 66. 
 
 Four tracts bound together. 
 
 (a) Historical Memorials concerning the Provincial 
 
 Councils of the Scottish Clergy from the 
 earliest times to the Reformation. 4to, boards. 
 Edinburgh^ 1769. 
 
 (b) Canons of the Church of Scotland, drawn up at 
 
 Perth 1242 and 1269. [Anon.] 
 
 (c) An Examination of some of the Arguments for 
 
 the his;h antiquity of Regiam Majestatem. 
 [Anom] [1768.] 
 
 Compare W. of N. I. xi. 84. 2. 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 Histoire de PUniversite de Paris. 7 vols. i2mo, B 
 
 old calf. Paris, 1761. 
 An Essay towards a System of Mineralogy, translated 
 
 from the original Swedish, with Notes, by Gustav 
 
 von Engestrom. 8vo. London, 1770. 
 First Lines of the Practice of Physic. 4th ed. 
 
 4 vols. 8vo, tree calf. Edinburgh, 1784. 
 
 Memoires sur l'Ancienne Chevalerie. 3 vols. i2mo, 
 calf. Paris, 1781. 
 
 Instructions for Collectors of Customs, Land- 
 Waiters, Coast-Waiters, etc. Small fol. 1 vol. 
 Boards. N. D. 
 
 Instructions for Collectors and other Officers of 
 Customs, Forms of Dispatches, etc. Folio, old 
 calf. Edinburgh, 1707. 
 
 The Rates of Merchandise as settled by the Acts of 
 12 Car. II. cap. 4, 11 George I. cap. 7, and 
 subsequent Acts of Parliament, with the Duties 
 and Drawbacks payable on all Goods imported, 
 exported, and carried coastwise, etc. Compiled, 
 by order of the Commissioners of His Majesty's 
 Customs, by William Sims and Richard Frewin. 
 8vo. London, 1782. 
 
 [Adam Smith was a Scottish Commissioner of 
 Customs from 1778 to his death in 1790.] 
 
 B 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 B
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Dal- 
 
 RYMPLE 
 
 (Sir James) 
 (Stair). 
 
 Damm 
 
 (C. T.) 
 
 Dampier 
 (William). 
 
 Daniel 
 
 (Father 
 Gabriel). 
 
 Dante 
 
 (Alighieri). 
 
 Davenant 
 
 (Dr. 
 Charles). 
 
 Davila 
 
 (Henrico 
 Caterino). 
 
 (d) Catalogue of the Lords of Session from 1532, 
 with Historical Notes. [Anon.] [1767.J 
 
 Annals of Scotland. 2 vols. 4-to. Edinburgh!, Q 
 1776-79. 
 
 Collections concerning the Scottish History. 8vo, B 
 old calf. Edinbro [sic), 1705. 
 
 Graecum Lexicon. 2 vols. 4to. Berolini, 1774. 
 
 A Voyage round the World. 2 vols. 8vo, old calf. 
 London, 1697. MS. list of contents on fly-leaf 
 of vol. i. 
 
 Voyage to New Holland, etc., in the year 1699. 
 8vo, old calf. London, 1703. 
 
 Histoire de France depuis l'etablissement de la 
 Monarchic Francoise. 1 7 vols. 4to, calf. Paris, 
 1756. 
 
 W. of N. III. iii. 178. 2. (On Louis the Fat.) 
 
 La Divina Commedia con varie annotazioni e copiosi 
 rami adornata. 5 vols. 4to, vellum. Venexia,ij$j. 
 
 II Convito e la Vita Nuova. 4 vols. 
 Venecia, 1772. 
 
 Political and Commercial Works relating to the 
 Trade and Revenue of England, the Plantation 
 Trade, the East India Trade, and African Trade. 
 Collected and revised by Sir Charles Whitworth, 
 M.P. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1771. 
 
 W. of N. I. viii. 35. 1. (D. extols Mr. Gregory 
 King's skill in political arithmetic.) 
 
 Ibid. V. ii. 403. 2. (On the policy of taxing 
 malt liquors more heavily than beer. Dr. 
 Davenant thinks that the incidence of such a 
 taxation is inequitable. The reference is to 
 Davenant, Works, i. 221-224.) 
 
 Historiadelle Guerre Civili. 2 vols. Large 4to, calf. B 
 
 Londra, 1755. 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 131 (Part VI. Sect. III.) ("The 
 
 8vo, boards. 
 
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 B 
 
 B 
 
 B 
 
 N
 
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 29 
 
 Declara- 
 tion. 
 
 Demetrius 
 Phalereus. 
 
 Demo- 
 sthenes. 
 
 Denmark. 
 
 Deshou- 
 
 lieres 
 
 (Mdme et 
 
 Mdlle). 
 
 Destouches 
 (Nericault). 
 
 Dickson 
 
 (William). 
 
 Diderot 
 (Denis). 
 
 dissimulation of Catharine of Medicis is often 
 celebrated by the profound historian Davila.") 
 
 Declaration du Roi, qui retablit le centieme denier F 
 sur les Immeubles fictifs. Donnee a Versailles 
 le 24 avril 1763. 3 pp. 4to. Toulouse, 1763. 
 [Bound with Messance, etc., q.v.~\ 
 
 [De] Elocutione sive Dictione Rhetorica. 8vo, B 
 calf. Glasguae, 1743. 
 
 Demosthenis Opera Graece. Folio, old calf. B 
 Lutetiae [Paris], 15 70. 
 
 Orationes Philippicae Duodecim. i2mo, calf. B 
 Glasguae, 1762. 
 
 Demosthene. Oeuvres completes. Traduction B 
 par M. Augers. 5 vols. 8vo, calf. Paris, 1777. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 127 (Part VI. Sect. III.) "The 
 Philippics of Demosthenes " "derive their whole 
 beauty from the noble propriety with which this 
 passion [just indignation] is expressed." 
 
 De regno Daniae et Norwegiae insulisque adjacenti- C 
 bus. Tractatus varii. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir, 
 calf. Lugd. Batav. 1629. 
 
 Oeuvres. [Poems.] 2 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1753. N 
 
 Oeuvres Dramatiques. 4 vols. 4to, calf. Paris, C 
 
 !757- 
 Letters on Slavery. 8vo, boards. London, 1789. 
 
 B 
 
 Pensees sur l'interpretation de la Nature. [Anon.] N 
 i2mo. N. P. 1754. 
 
 Oeuvres Philosophiques et Dramatiques. i2mo, 
 calf. Amsterdam, 1772. 
 Vols. i. ii. and v. B 
 
 Vols. iii. iv. and vi. C 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 66, 68, speaks of his share in 
 the Encyclopedic
 
 3o 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 DlODORUS 
 SlCULUS. 
 
 Diogenes 
 Laertius. 
 
 DlONYSIUS. 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 (John, of 
 
 Edinburgh). 
 
 Dossie 
 (Robert). 
 
 Douglas 
 (David). 
 
 Bibliotheca Historica. Edd. L. Rhomanus et P. Q 
 Wesselingius. Books I. to V. 2 vols. Folio. 
 Amsteloda?ni, 1746. 
 
 Opera edidit A. Menagius. 1 vol. 410. Amstelod. Q 
 1680. 
 
 Opera ed. M. Meibomius. 1 vol. 4to. Amstelod. Q 
 1692. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 215 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) (on 
 Zeno the Stoic), 245 [ibid.) (on Zeno's supposed 
 suicide), 269 {ibid. ch. ii.) (on Epicurus). 
 
 Dionysii Orbis Descriptio. 8vo, calf. Oxoniae, B 
 1 710. 
 
 The Elements of Beauty ; also Reflections on the N 
 Harmony of Sensibility and Reason. 8vo. 
 Edinburgh^ 1780. 
 
 On fly-leaf: "To Dr. Adam Smith, from the 
 Author." 
 
 [Donaldson was an Edinburgh artist, and is perhaps 
 the " gentleman of great knowledge and judgment 
 in this art" (mentioned in the Essay on Imitative 
 Arts, p. 141, in reference to painted sculptures).] 
 
 Observations on the Pot-Ash brought from America, F 
 with respect to its Goodness, Sophistication, etc., 
 verified by Experimental Examination, together 
 with Instructions for determining the compara- 
 tive Value of any Parcel by expedient Methods ; 
 communicated to the Society for the Encourage- 
 ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. 
 41 pp. 8vo. London, 1767. 
 
 [Bound with the following. See also Jenyns.J 
 
 An Essay on Spirituous Liquors, with regard to F 
 their Effects on Health, in which the compara- 
 tive wholesomeness of Rum and Brandy are 
 particularly considered. 50 pp. London (Ridley) 
 [1770]. 
 
 Memoirs of Agricultural and other Economical N 
 Arts. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1768. 
 
 Peerage of Scotland. Folio, boards. Edinburgh, B 
 1764.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 3 1 
 
 Douglas, 
 Heron, 
 and Co. 
 
 Douglas 
 (James, 
 M.D.) 
 
 Douglass 
 
 (William, 
 
 M.D.) 
 
 Droits. 
 
 Drummond 
 (William, of 
 Hawthorn- 
 den). 
 
 Precipitation and Fall of Messrs. Douglas, Heron, 
 and Co., late Bankers in Air [sic], with the 
 Causes of their Distress and Ruin, investigated 
 and considered by a Committee of Inquiry 
 appointed by the Proprietors. 4to. Edinburgh, 
 
 N 
 
 is the bank described in W. of N. 
 
 1778. 
 This Ayr Bank 
 II. ii. 13 
 
 Myographiae comparatae specimen : or a Compara- 
 tive Description of all the Muscles in Man and 
 in a Ouadruped. 8vo. Edinburgh, IJJS- 
 
 A Historical and Political Summary of the first 
 Planting and Present State of the British Settle- 
 ments in North America. With coloured map. 
 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 1760. 
 
 " Douglas's Summary " is quoted with full reference, 
 W. of N. I. xi. Part I. 73. 1. "We are told 
 by Dr. Douglas" that in the West Indies the 
 planters burn a certain quantity "for every negro" 
 to keep the price up. But Adam Smith sus- 
 pects he has been ill-informed. 
 
 W. of N. II. ii. 144. 1: "The honest and 
 downright Dr. Douglas assures us" that the 
 system of paper money adopted in the Colonies 
 was "a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat 
 their creditors." 
 
 Tarif des droits d'entree et de sortie des cinq grosses 
 fermes, ordonnes d'etre percus par l'edit de r i664 
 sur toutes les marchandises, — et Recueil des Edits, 
 Declarations, Arrets, et Reglemens au Tarif de 
 1664. 2 vols. 8vo. Rouen, 1758. 
 
 Recueil alphabetique des droits de traites uniformes, 
 de ceux d'entree et de sortie, des cinq grosses 
 fermes, de douane de Lyon et de Valence, etc. 
 4 vols. 8vo. Avignon, 1786. 
 
 Works, consisting of those formerly printed and 
 those which were designed for the press ; now 
 published from the Author's original copies. 
 I vol. Small folio, calf. Edinburgh, 171 1. 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 N 
 
 N
 
 32 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Dryden 
 
 (John). 
 
 Du Bos 
 
 (L'abbe 
 Jean 
 
 Baptiste). 
 
 Duchesne. 
 
 Duclos 
 (Charles 
 Pineau). 
 
 Duhamel 
 
 : > DU 
 
 MONCEAU. 
 
 Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas. 3 vols. Small B 
 folio, old calf, binding loose, and not uniform. 
 ("Jacob Tonson.) 170 1. 
 
 Miscellaneous Works. 4 vols. 8vo, calf. London, C 
 1760. 
 
 Essav on English and Italian Verses, p. 189. 
 (" Double rhymes abound more in Dryden than 
 in Pope, and in Hudibras more than Dryden.") 
 
 Ibid. p. 190, verses quoted from Absalom and 
 Achitophel, i. 85. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 1 1 (Part V. ch. i.) (" The rambling 
 freedom of Dryden " is no longer the object of 
 imitation. In our own language " the quaint- 
 ness of Dryden has given place to the plainness 
 of Swift.") 
 
 Histoire Critique de l'e'tablissement de la Monarchic B 
 Francoise dans les Gaules. 4 vols. 1 2mo, tree- 
 calf. Paris j 1742. 
 
 Reflexions critiques sur la Poesie et sur la Peinture. N 
 3 vols. i2mo. Paris (Pissot), 1755. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 39 (Part V. ch. ii.) ("An Italian, 
 says the Abbot Du Bos, expresses more emotion 
 on being condemned in a fine of twenty shillings, 
 than an Englishman on receiving the sentence 
 of death.") 
 
 Code de la Police ou Analyse des reglemens de N 
 police. [Anon.] i2mo. Paris, 1761. 
 
 Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des mceurs du N 
 
 XVIII. siecle. i2mo. Berlin, 1752. 
 Essay on the Imitative Arts, p. 184 (on the 
 
 minuteness of the intervals in the pronunciation 
 
 of Chinese). 
 
 Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussees, la Voirie, et les N 
 Corvees. [Anon.] i2mo. Amsterdam, 1759. 
 
 Reflexions sur la Corvee des Chemins. [Supple- N 
 ment to above.] i2mo. La Haye, 1762. 
 
 Elemens d'Agriculture. 2 vols. i2mo. Paris N 
 (De la Tour), 1762.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 33 
 
 Du Marsais 
 
 (Cesar 
 
 Chesnau). 
 
 DUNDONALD 
 
 (Earl of). 
 
 DuPLEIX. 
 
 DuPONT 
 
 de Nemours. 
 
 By 
 
 8vo. 
 
 Traite des Tropes, pour servir d'introduction a la N 
 rhetorique et a la logique. 8vo. Leipsic, 1757. 
 
 [According to the Catalogue of Mirabeau's 
 Library, p. 6, No. 33, the original edition was 
 published at Paris, 1730, under the title: "Des 
 Tropes ou des differens sens dans lesquels on 
 peut prendre un meme mot dans ufte meme 
 langue."] 
 
 General Remarks on the British Fisheries, 
 a North Briton. [Anon.] (Pp. 60.) 
 London, 17 84. 
 
 The Present State of the Manufacture of Salt ex- F 
 plained, and a new mode suggested of refining 
 British Salt, so as to render it superior to the 
 finest Foreign Salt. To which is subjoined, 
 A Plan for abolishing the present Duties and 
 Restrictions on the Manufacture of Salt, and for 
 substituting other Duties, less burthensome to 
 the subjects, more beneficial to the Revenue, and 
 better qualified to promote the Trade of Great 
 Britain. The 2nd ed., with an Appendix, 17th 
 May 1785. (Pp. 85, App. xxvii.) 8vo. London, 
 1785. 
 
 [The two tracts are bound with others (Twining, 
 Rose, O'Beirne) in one vol. 8vo, quarter calf, 
 paper sides, lettered " Pamphlets." Contents in 
 Adam Smith's handwriting.] 
 
 Memoire pour le sieur Dupleix contre la Compagnie N 
 des Indes avec les pieces justificatives. 4to. 
 Paris, 1759. 
 
 Lettre a la Chambre du Commerce de Normandie B 
 sur le Memoire qu'elle a publie relativement au 
 Traite de Commerce avec l'Angleterre. "Otez- 
 lui ses liens et laissez le aller." Evangile St. 
 Jean, xi. 44. 8vo, paper skins [thin parchment]. 
 A Rouen et se trouve a Paris. Chez Moutard, 
 1788. [Lettre, 91 pp.; Notes, 194 pp.] En- 
 closed is the following autograph letter from the 
 Author: —
 
 34 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Paris, igjuin 1788. 
 
 Monsieur — J'ai l'honneur de vous envoyer un 
 ouvrage que je viens de publier sur le traite de com- 
 merce entre nos deux Nations. 
 
 Je vous prie de l'agreer comme un tribut de mon 
 respect pour le Livre excellent dont vous avez enrichi 
 le monde. 
 
 Vous trouverez que je n'ai pas traite mon sujet assez 
 philosophiquement ; qu'il y a un grand nombre de 
 verites que je n'ai qu'indiquees ; qu'il y a plusieurs 
 passages dans lesquels j'ai evite de choquer de front 
 les prejuges de mes lecteurs, et j'ai commence par 
 applaudir a leurs intentions et a leurs vues avant d'ex- 
 poser les vues preferables qui sont a suivre. 
 
 Monsieur, je voulais persuader racme avant de les 
 convaincre des gens anime's jusqu'au fanatisme, et qui 
 croiraient faire une action louable en entrainant les 
 deux nations a la guerre pour les replonger sous les 
 fers des Prohibitions respectives. 
 
 J'avais a combattre une opinion unanime et uni- 
 verselle dans mon pays. Toute opinion publique 
 merite d'etre traitee avec egard, surtout lors qu'il faut 
 qu'a l'instant l'administration se determine contre 
 elle. C'est lorsque la necessite de prendre un parti 
 n'est pas pressante que Ton peut fronder l'erreur de 
 toute la hauteur de la verite. 
 
 J'espere done que vous pardonnerez les defauts 
 de mon ouvrage qui ne me sont inconnus et dont 
 quelques uns sont volontaires. 
 
 II est encore plus important de bien faire que de 
 bien dire. Si parlant comme attache au Gouverne- 
 ment on annoncait a nos negocians, a nos fabricans 
 et a la Tourbe de nos administrateurs qu'il est inutile 
 et dangereux de donner des encouragemens parti- 
 culiers aux fabriques et a l'exportation de leurs 
 ouvrages, non seulement on ne serait ni lu, ni ecoute, 
 mais on risquerait de decrier tellement les bons Prin- 
 cipes qu'on en eloignerait le Gouvernement lui-meme, 
 et qu'on prolongerait de dix ans l'ignorance et ses 
 funestes effets. En frappant les yeux d'une lumiere 
 trop vive, on leur rendrait la cecite. 
 
 Je sais que la Posterite sera eclairee. C'est a la 
 generation presente que je voudrais etre utile. Elle 
 est dans l'enfance. II lui faut encore des alimens 
 proportionnes a la faiblesse.
 
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 35 
 
 DuTOT. 
 
 Lorsque j'ctais homme prive, j'ctais plus hardi ; et 
 jc le redcvicndrai en quittant la tres petite part que 
 j'ai a l'administration. Un simple citoyen peut dire 
 ce qu'il lui plait parce que personne n'imagine que 
 les conseils des Princes ou des nations se determinent 
 d'aprcs les livres. Mais si l'administration elle-mcmc 
 parait vouloir suivre uniquement les Principes d'une 
 nouvelle philosophic, les Prejuges s'ameutent autour 
 d'elle de maniere a lui interdire tout succes. 
 
 C'est ce que j'ai vu arriver a l'excellcnt M. Turgot, 
 et c'est un malheur que j'ai partage avec lui. II a 
 fallu dix ans pour qu'une partie de ses plans, celui 
 de la suppression des corvees et celui de la forma- 
 tion des assemblies provinciales pussent se realiser 
 imparfaitement, et encore au prix des orages auxquels 
 vous voyez notre Royaume en proie. 
 
 II ne faut pas croire cependant que ces orages 
 soient aussi nuisibles qu'ils le paraissent. lis 
 accoutument a reflechir sur les interets et les droits 
 des hommes ; ils murissent l'Etat gouvernant et l'Etat 
 gouverne. 
 
 Nous marchons avec rapidite a une bonne con- 
 stitution, qui contribuera ensuite a perfectionner meme 
 celle de votre Patrie ; et les bons principes apres 
 avoir ete quelque tems concentres entre les Etats unis 
 d'Amerique, la France et l'Angleterre, se repandront 
 enfin jusques sur les autres nations. 
 
 Vous avez beaucoup hate cette utile revolution, les 
 Economistes x francais n'y auront pas nui, et ils gar- 
 deront pour vous autant de respect, Monsieur, que 
 vous daignez leur temoigner d'estime. 
 
 J'ai l'honneur d'etre avec un respectueux attache- 
 ment, Monsieur, votre tres humble et tres obei'ssant 
 serviteur Du Pont. 
 
 1 Underlined in original. 
 
 Reflexions politiques sur les Finances et le Com- 
 merce ou l'on examine quels ont ete les revenus, 
 les denrees, le change e'tranger, et consequemment 
 sur notre commerce les influences des augmenta- 
 tions et des diminutions des valeurs numeraires 
 des monnaies. [Anon.] 2 vols. i2mo. La 
 Haye [really Paris (Prevost)], 1754. 
 
 N
 
 3« 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 DlJVERNEY, 
 
 Joseph 
 (Paris). 
 
 Dyer 
 
 (John). 
 
 Eden 
 (William). 
 
 Edicts. 
 
 Education. 
 
 Examen du livre intitule "Reflexions Politiques sur 
 les Finances et le Commerce." The ist out of 
 2 vols. i2mo. La Haye [Prevost, Paris], 1740. 
 of N. II. ii. 139. 2. (Law's Mississippi scheme 
 has been so well described "by*Mr. Du Verney 
 in his Examination of the Political Reflections 
 upon Commerce and Finances, of Mr. Dutot" 
 that nothing more need be said about it.) 
 of N. V. iii. 414. 1 (on "billets d'etat." See 
 Examen, i. 225). 
 
 Poems. 1 vol. Small 8vo, calf. London, 1770. 
 
 N 
 
 W. 
 
 W. 
 
 Letters to the Earl of Carlisle. 3rd ed. 8vo. N 
 
 London, 1 "80. 
 [(1) On Political Reasoning and Parties. 
 
 (2) On the War against France and Spain. 
 
 (3) On the Public Debts and Supplies. 
 
 (4) On a Free Trade with Ireland. 
 
 (5) On Population, Revenue Regulations, and 
 Public Oeconomy.] 
 
 Edit du Roi qui ordonne le denombrement des F 
 biens-fonds du royaume et la prorogation pro- 
 visoire d'une partie des Impositions, avec la 
 cessation du troisieme Vingtieme et des double- 
 mens de la Capitation. Donne a Versailles au 
 mois d'avril 1763. 6 pp. (last misnumbered 7) 
 4to. N. P. 1763. 
 
 Edit du Roi contenant [des] Reglemens pour Pad- F 
 ministration des Villes et principaux Bourgs du 
 Royaume. Donne a Compiegne au mois d'aout 
 1764. 16 pp. 4to. Paris, 1764. 
 
 [The two above edicts are bound in one vol. with 
 Messance, etc., q.v.~\ 
 
 Edit de Pacification de 1 782. Minimo, red morocco. B 
 Imprime par ordre du Gouvernement. N. D., 
 
 N. P. 
 
 Loose hints upon Education, chiefly concerning the 
 Culture of the Heart. 8vo. [Anon.] Edinr. 
 1781. 
 
 N
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 37 
 
 Epictetus. 
 
 Equity. 
 L'Espion. 
 
 D'ESTRADES 
 
 (Corate). 
 
 D'EsTREES 
 
 (Le Mare- 
 chal). 
 
 Euripides. 
 
 Education de la Noblesse Francoise. i2mo, calf. B 
 (Vols. ii. and iii. only.) [Anon.] Paris, 1763. 
 
 Epicteti Encheiridion et Cebetis Tabula, Graece et C 
 Latine. 1 vol. 1 2mo, Elzevir, calf. Amstelod. 
 1670. 
 
 Egcheiridion ex editione Joannis Upton. Minimo, B 
 calf. Glasguae, N. D. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 345 (Part III. ch. iii.) (On in- 
 difference to calamities.) 
 
 Ibid. i. 350 (Part III. ch. iii.) (In the matter 
 of " insensibility " and affection, the poets and 
 writers of romances are " much better instructors 
 than Zeno, Chrysippus, or Epictetus.") 
 
 Ibid. ii. 220 seq. (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) 
 (On the Wise Man's acquiescence in all that 
 befalls him, and recognition of his place as only 
 a part of the Whole.) 
 
 Principles of Equity. [Anon.] Folio, calf. Edin- B 
 
 burgh, 
 
 1760. 
 
 L'Espion Anglois, ou Correspondance Secrete entre 
 
 Milord All-eye et Milord All-ear. 4 vols. 8vo, 
 
 calf. LondreS) 1779. 
 [In the Catalogue of Mirabeau's Library this appears 
 
 as : L'Observateur Anglais ou Correspondance, 
 
 etc. 1777 seq> 7 vo l s - i2mo.] 
 Lettres, Memoires, et Negociations du Comte 
 
 d'Estrades, Ambassadeur en Hollande depuis 
 
 1663 jusqu'en 1668. Vols, i and vi. i2mo, 
 
 calf. Londres, 1743. 
 Eclaircissements presented au Roi par le Marechal 
 
 D'Estrees. 32 pp. 4:0. Paris, 1758. 
 [Bound in one vol. with Messance, etc., q.v.] 
 Tragoediae XIX. [Ed. G. Canterus. Ex officina 
 
 C. Plantini.] 2 vols. i6mo, calf. Antverpiae, 
 
 1571. 
 Orestes ex editione J. Burnes. Calf, i2mo. 
 
 Glasguae, 1753. 
 Ouae exstant Omnia. 
 
 tern Tragoedias. 
 
 4to. Oxonii, 177 
 
 Cum Scholiis Graece in Sep- 
 Ed. S. Musgrave. 4 vols. 
 
 B 
 
 B 
 
 B 
 
 B 
 
 oc
 
 38 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 EUTROPIUS. 
 
 St. Evre- 
 
 MOND. 
 
 Exchequer. 
 
 Excise. 
 
 Faber 
 (Basil). 
 
 Fabricius 
 (Joannes 
 Albertus). 
 
 Fagan 
 (Christophc 
 Barthelemi). 
 
 JVLor. bent. 1. 03, 04 (Fart 1. beet. 11. ch. 1.) 
 (What interests us in Hippolytus is not the 
 bodily pain but the attendant circumstances.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 244 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) (Zeno, 
 the Stoic, quoting the Niobe of Euripides.) 
 
 Eutropii Historiae Romanae Breviarium, in usum C 
 Scholarum. 1 vol. i2mo, calf. Edinburgh, IJ2S- 
 
 On fly-leaf: " Adam Smith, his book May 4th 1 733." 
 
 [Ad. Smith was at that time attending the Grammar 
 School at Kirkcaldy.] 
 
 Oeuvres Mesclees. 2 vols. 4to, old calf. Londres, B 
 
 I 7°5- 
 Bookplate [in addition to Ad. Smith's] of "Sir Ellis 
 
 Cunliffe, Bart." 
 
 A Treatise on the Court of Exchequer. By a late N 
 Lord Chief Baron of that Court. [Anon.] 8vo. 
 London, 1758. 
 
 Rates of Excise, with the Bounties, Allowances, and U 
 Drawbacks on Exportation. Printed by Alex. 
 Kincaid, His Majesty's printer. Edinburgh, 1766. 
 
 [Bound in one vol. with Grenville's "Considerations 
 on the Trade," etc., q.v.~\ 
 
 Thesaurus Eruditionis Scholasticae. 2 vols. Fol. 
 Hagae Comitum, 1755. 
 
 Bibliotheca Latina sive Notitia Auctorum Veterum. 
 2 vols. l2mo, old calf. Hamburgi, 1721. 
 
 Bibliotheca Graeca. 14 vols, in 9. 4to, old calf. B 
 
 Ha?nburgi, 1 721. 
 Bookplate [in add. to Ad. Smith's] of " Dr. James 
 
 Gordon " on each vol. 
 
 Bibliotheca Latina Mediae et Infimae Aetatis. B 
 5 vols. i2mo, vellum. Hamburgi, 1734. 
 
 Bibliotheca Latina. Books VII. VIII. 1 vol. Q 
 8vo. Ha?nbwghi, 1735. 
 
 Theatre et autres Oeuvres de Fagan. 4 vols. 1 2mo. 
 Paris [Duchesne], 1760. 
 Vols. i. ii. and iv. N 
 
 Vol. iii. B
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 39 
 
 F£libien 
 
 (Dom 
 Michel). 
 
 Fe"nEL0N 
 
 (Archeveque 
 de Cam- 
 bray). 
 
 Ferguson 
 (Adam). 
 
 Ferguson 
 (James) 
 (F.R.S.) 
 
 Ferdinand 
 II. 
 
 Feuquieres 
 
 (Le Marquis 
 
 de). 
 
 FlLMER 
 
 (Sir Robert). 
 
 Flaccus 
 (Caius 
 
 Valerius). 
 
 Flaccus 
 
 (Calpur- 
 nius). 
 
 Les Plans et les Descriptions de deux des plus belles B 
 Maisons de Campagne. i2mo, old calf. Paris, 
 1699. 
 
 Conferences de l'Academie Royale de Peinture et N 
 de Sculpture. i2mo. London, 1705. 
 
 Les AventuresdeTelemaque. (Vol. i. only.) i2mo, B 
 calf. Leyde, 1778. 
 
 Institutes of Moral Philosophy. i2mo, calf. Edin- B 
 burgh, 1769. 
 
 History of the Roman Republic. 3 vols. 4to. B 
 London, 1783. 
 
 [The manifesto of doctrines drawn up by Adam 
 Smith in 1755 was probably directed against 
 Ferguson. See Alex. Carlyle's Autob. p. 285, 
 compared with Dugald Stewart's Life of Adam 
 Smith prefixed to Essays, pp. Ixxxi. xlvii. (Cf. 
 also Mor. Sent. i. 306 [Part III. ch. ii.J on 
 plagiarism.) But Ferguson bore no ill-will. See 
 his letter to Gibbon, April 18, 1776, in Gibbon's 
 Miscell. Works, vol. i. 502.] 
 
 Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's 
 Principles, and made clear to those who have not 
 studied Mathematics. 4-to. London, 1764. 
 
 Status particularis regiminis Suae Christ. Majes- 
 tatis Fernandi II. 1 vol. i2mo. Lugdun. 
 Batav. 1637. 
 
 Memoires du Marquis de Feuquieres contenant ses 
 maximes sur la Guerre et Papplication des 
 exemples aux maximes. 4 vols. i2mo. Paris, 
 1750. [See also Louis XIV.] 
 
 Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings. [Small 
 8vo.] London, 1 680. 
 
 Argonauticon. Books I. to VIII. 1 vol. 4to. 
 Leidae, 1724. 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 JSN 
 
 Q C 
 
 Declamationes. Ed. Burmannus. Vol. ii. Bound O C 
 with Quinctilianus, q.v.
 
 40 
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Fletcher 
 
 (Andrew, 
 
 of Saltoun). 
 
 Florus 
 
 (Lucius 
 
 Annaeus). 
 
 Fontaine 
 (Jean de la). 
 
 Forbes 
 
 (William). 
 
 FORBONNAIS 
 
 (Francois 
 Veron de). 
 
 Fosse 
 
 (Antoine 
 
 de la). 
 
 France. 
 
 Political Works. 8vo, calf. London^ 1737. B 
 
 Epitome Rerum Romanarum ex editione Georgii B 
 Graevii. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. Amstelod. 1702. 
 
 Fables Choisies mises en vers par Jean de la Fontaine. C 
 Nouvelle ed. 1 vol. Demy 8vo, calf. Amsterdam^ 
 1722. 
 
 Oeuvres. 3 vols. Large 4to, old calf. Anvers^ 1726. B 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 314 (Part III. eh. ii.) (Despreaux 
 and Racine treated "the good La Fontaine with 
 a species of most disrespectful kindness. ") 
 A Journal of the Session, containing the decisions of B 
 the Lords of Council of Session, and Acts of 
 Sederunt, 1705-13. Folio, boards. Edinburgh^ 
 1 7 14. [ Forbes was Professor of Law at Glasgow. ] 
 
 Elemens du Commerce. Premiere partie. Nulla U 
 magis praesens fortuna laborum. Georgica III. 
 2nd. ed. 2 vols. [Anon.] A Leyde^ 1754. 
 
 In Prof. Hodgson's writing, on fly-leaf: "Par 
 Forbonnais selon M'Culloch." 
 
 Recherches et Considerations sur les finances de N 
 France depuis 1595 jusqu'en 1721. [Anon.] 6 
 vols. l2mo. Liege^ 1758. 
 
 Principes et Observations Oeconomiques. 2 vols. N 
 l2mo. Amsterdam^ 1 767. 
 
 Oeuvres. [Tragedies.] Vol. ii. only. Small 8vo, C 
 calf. Paris^ 1747. 
 
 Gallia sive de Francorum regis dominiis et opibus. C 
 1 vol. [Anon.] i2mo, calf, Elzevir. Lugd. 
 Bat. 1629. 
 
 Le Siecle de Louis XIV. 2 vols. [Anon.] i2mo, B 
 calf. Edimbourg^ 1 752. [No doubt Voltaire's.] 
 
 Les Interets de la France malentendus. Agriculture, B 
 Population, Finances, etc. Par un Citoyen. 
 [Anon.] 2 vols. J2mo, calf. Arnsterdam, 1"$". 
 [Auge de Goudar.]
 
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 4i 
 
 Franche- 
 
 VILLE (Du 
 
 Fresne de). 
 
 iSt.iFrancis 
 
 of Assisi. 
 
 Franklin 
 (Benjamin). 
 
 Frederick 
 the Great. 
 
 Du Fresny 
 (Charles 
 Riviere). 
 Frisius. 
 
 Frontinus 
 
 (Sextus 
 
 Julius). 
 
 Furetiere 
 
 (Antoine). 
 
 Gale 
 (S.) 
 
 Galileo 
 
 (Galilei). 
 
 Dissertation sur l'origine et les fonctions essentielles 
 du parlement, sur la paierie, et le droit des pairs, 
 et sur les loix fondamentales de la Monarchic 
 Francaise. [Anon.] i2mo. Amsterdam, 1764. 
 
 Histoire generale et particuliere des Finances. 
 2 vols. 4to. Paris, 1738. 
 
 Strategemata. 8vo, vellum. Amstelod. 1661, 
 
 Dictionnaire Universel. 4 vols. Fol. paper. 
 Haye, IJ2J. 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 Opuscula ed. F. L. Waddingus. 1 vol. 410. Ant- O C 
 werpiae, 1623. 
 
 (An allusion to the order of St. Francis occurs in 
 W. of N. V. i. 354. 2.) 
 
 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made B 
 at Philadelphia. With plates. 4to, calf. London, 
 1769. 
 
 [The only reference to Franklin is about the pro- 
 pagation of sound by vibrations of the air : 
 " Dr. Franklin has made objections to this 
 doctrine, but, I think, without success" (Essay 
 on the External Senses, p. 215).] 
 
 Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci. [Anon.] N 
 8vo. Potsdam, 1760. No bookplate. 
 
 Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II., Roi de Prusse. N 
 15 vols. 8vo. Berlin, 1788. 
 
 W. of N. IV. i. 193. 1. (No king except the 
 King of Prussia now accumulates treasure. 
 
 Oeuvres. [Poems.] 4 vols. i2mo, calf. Paris, B 
 !779- 
 
 Graecia Illustrata. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. Lugd. Batav. B 
 1626. 
 
 B 
 
 La C 
 
 U 
 
 An Essay on the Nature and Principles of Public 
 Credit, ascribed to S. Gale, Charleston, South 
 Carolina. London, 1784. 
 
 Opere. 2 vols. 4to, calf. Bologna, 1656. C
 
 4 2 
 
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 Garrick 
 (David). 
 
 Garzoni 
 (Pietro). 
 
 Gassendi 
 (Pierre). 
 
 Gatakerus 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Gee 
 
 (Joshua). 
 
 Gellius 
 
 (Aulus). 
 
 Geneva. 
 
 Opere. 4 vols. 4to, tree calf. Padova, 1 744. B 
 
 Essay on the Hist, of Astronomy, p. 66 : " This 
 very bold assertion of Copernicus [that Venus 
 and Mercury would be found to pass through 
 the same phases as the moon] was confirmed 
 by Galileo " with his telescopes. See also the 
 same Essay, p. 70. 
 Life of David Garrick, the whole forming a History B 
 of the Stage for a period of Thirty-Six Years. 
 By Thomas Davies. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 
 1780. 
 
 Istoria della Repubblica di Venezia. Small 4to, 
 vellum. Venezia, 1720. 
 
 Opera. Vol. vi. only. Folk). Lugduni, 1658. 
 
 Essay on the Hist, of Astron. p. 70. (Neither 
 Galileo nor Gassendi, the most eloquent of the 
 defenders of Copernicus, takes any notice of his 
 epicycles.) 
 
 Ibid. p. 71. (Gassendi was himself no mean astron- 
 omer, but he did not realize the importance of 
 Kepler's discoveries.) 
 
 W. of N. V. i. 364-365. (" The famous Gassendi 
 [as Voltaire remarks] was in the beginning of 
 his life a professor in the university of Aix. 
 Upon the first dawning of his genius, it was 
 represented to him that by going into the 
 Church he could easily find a much more quiet 
 and comfortable subsistence, as well as a better 
 situation for pursuing his studies ; and he im- 
 mediately followed the advice.'^ 
 
 Opera Critica. 2 vols. Folio, old calf. Trajecti ad B 
 Rhenum (Utrecht), 1698. 
 
 The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain con- B 
 sidered. [5th ed.] i2mo, old calf. Glasgow, 
 1750. 
 
 Noctes Atticae. 1 vol. 4to. Lugduni, 1706. Q 
 
 Edits de la Republique de Geneve. i2mo, calf. B 
 Geneve, 1735.
 
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 43 
 
 Gerard. 
 
 Gesnerus 
 
 (John 
 Matthias). 
 
 Ghiabrera 
 (Gabriello). 
 
 Girard 
 
 (L'abbe). 
 
 Glossarium. 
 
 Glover 
 (Richard). 
 
 Trois livres des Offices de France. 2 vols. Folio, B 
 old calf. Paris, 1638. 
 
 Thesaurus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae. 2 O C 
 vols. Fol. Lipsiae, 1749. 
 
 Scriptores Rei Rusticae. Editio secunda. 2 vols. C 
 4to, calf. Lipsiae, 1773. [See also Claudian.] 
 
 Opere. 6 vols. Small 8vo, tree calf. Venezia, C 
 1782. 
 
 Les Vrais Principes de la langue francoise, ou la 
 Parole reduite en Methode conformement aux 
 lois d'usag-e. 2 vols. i2mo. Paris* 
 
 In 
 
 one 
 
 i2mo. 
 vol. 1 2mo. 
 
 *747- 
 
 Amsterdam. 
 
 The same. 
 
 1747- 
 
 Les Synonymes francois par M. l'abbe Girard, et le 
 Traite de la Prosodie par M. l'abbe D'Olivet. 
 I vol. l2mo. Amsterdam, 1748. [For 
 D'Olivet's Cicero, see Cicero.] 
 
 Glossarium ad scriptores Mediae et Inflmae Latini- 
 tatis. Only vol. ii. Fol. N. D., N. P. 
 
 Medea, a Tragedy. [Anon.] 4to. London (H. 
 Woodfall for J. Morgan, Paternoster Row), 
 1761. 
 
 Leonidas, a Poem. 2 vols. i2mo, calf. London, 
 1770. 
 
 Substance of the Evidence delivered to a Committee 
 of the Hon. House of Commons by the Mer- 
 chants and Traders of London concerned in the 
 Trade to Germany, Holland, and of the Dealers 
 in Foreign Linens, as summed up by Mr. 
 Glover. 72 pp. London (Wilkie), 1774- 
 
 Substance of the Evidence on the Petition presented 
 by the West India Planters and Merchants to 
 the House of Commons, as it was introduced at 
 the Bar, and summed up by Mr. Glover on 
 Thursday, 16th March 1775. 47 pp. London 
 (Woodfall) [1775]. 
 
 [The two above tracts are bound in one volume 
 with Dossie and Jenyns, q.v.] 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 OC 
 
 u
 
 44 
 
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 GODEFROY 
 
 (Denis). 
 
 Goldsmith 
 (Oliver). 
 
 GoURVILLE 
 
 (De). 
 
 Graevius 
 
 (Joannes 
 
 Georgius). 
 
 Grammont 
 (Comte de). 
 
 Grange 
 
 (Chancel de 
 
 la). 
 
 Granger 
 
 (Le Sieur 
 
 Tourte- 
 
 chot). 
 
 Gravina 
 (Gio- 
 vanni Vin- 
 cenzo). 
 
 Gray 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Grecourt. 
 
 Gregory 
 
 (David). 
 
 Auctores Linguae Latinae ed. Dionysius Gotho- Q C 
 fredus. I vol. 4-to. Genevae, 1622. 
 
 Poetical Works. Now first collected. 2 vols C 
 Small 8vo, calf. London, 1786. 
 
 Memoires. 2 vols. Old calf. Paris, 1724. B 
 
 Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum. 12 vols. Q C 
 Fol. Lugduni Batav. 1694-99. 
 
 Memoires par le Comte Antoine Hamilton. 2 vols. N 
 i2mo. N. P. 1760. 
 
 Oeuvres. [Plays.] 5 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1758. N 
 
 Relation du Voyage fait en Egypte en l'annee 1730. N 
 l2mo. Paris, 1745. 
 
 Delia Ragione Poetica. Libri due. 
 
 8vo, calf. Napoli, 17 16. 
 [The patron of Metastasio.] 
 
 1 vol. Small C 
 
 Poems by Mr. Gray. 4to, boards. Glasgow, 1768. B 
 Mor. Sent. i. 311 (Part III. ch. ii.) ("Gray, who 
 joins to the sublimity of Milton the elegance 
 and harmony of Pope, and to whom nothing is 
 wanting to render him perhaps the first poet in 
 the English language but to have written a little 
 more." This passage is not in the 1st ed.) 
 Ibid. i. 350 (Part III. ch. iii.) ("The pang, as 
 Gray says, to secret sorrow dear" This pas- 
 sage too is not in the 1st ed. Ad. Smith is, as 
 usual, quoting from memory ; Gray says " A 
 pang." Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke, line 13.) 
 
 Oeuvres Choisies. 3 vols. i2mo. Geneve, 1777. 
 
 D. Gregorii Elementa Astronomiae Physicae et 
 Geometricae. 1 vol. Fol. Oxoniae, 1702. 
 
 Treatise of Practical Geometry. In three parts. N 
 8vo. Edinburgh, 1745.
 
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 45 
 
 Grenville 
 (George). 
 
 Grew 
 (Nehemiah). 
 
 Grosley 
 (Peter 
 John). 
 
 Grotius 
 (Hugo). 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 67 : "The Latin treatises of 
 Keil and Gregory, two Scotsmen, upon the 
 principles of mechanics and astronomy, may be 
 regarded as the best things that have been written 
 in this way by any native of Great Britain, though 
 in many respects confused, inaccurate, and super- 
 ficial." [Gregory was professor of Mathematics 
 at Edinburgh, and afterwards of Astronomy at 
 Oxford.] 
 
 Considerations on the Trade and Finances of this U 
 Kingdom, and on the Measures of Administration 
 with respect to those great National Objects 
 since the Conclusion of the Peace. [Anon.] 
 Printed for J. Wilkie in St. Paul's Churchyard. 
 4to. London, 1766. 
 
 [Attributed to Grenville by MacCulloch, Liter, of 
 Pol. Econ. p. 89.] 
 
 W. of N. V. iii. 419. 1. " The very well-informed 
 author of Considerations on the Trade and 
 Finances of Great Britain " is quoted for the 
 figures of the funded and unfunded debt in 1764. 
 
 The Anatomy of Plants. Printed for the Author. C 
 1 vol. Small fol. calf. 1682. 
 
 De l'influence des Loix sur les Moeurs. Memoire F 
 presente a la Societe Royale de Nancy. [Anon.] 
 44 pp. 4to. Nancy et Paris, 1757. 
 
 [In one vol. with Lettres Patentes, q.v.~] 
 
 Nouveaux Memoires ou Observations sur l'ltalie et N 
 
 sur les Italiens, par deux gentilshommes suedois. 
 
 Traduits du Suedois. 3 vols. i2mo. London, 
 
 1764. 
 [The name of the author is half legibly written on 
 
 the fly-leaf in pencil.] 
 
 Annales et Historiae de Rebus Belgicis. Small fol. B 
 
 Jmstelod. 1657. 
 
 The same. 8vo, vellum. Amstel. 1658. B 
 
 De Jure Belli et Pacis. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. Jmstelo. B 
 
 J735- 
 De Jure Belli et Pacis. With commentary by H. O C 
 deCocceius. 3 vols. Fol. JVratislaviae,i']\\-ii t .'-j.
 
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 Gruterius 
 (Joannes). 
 
 GUARINI 
 
 (Cavalierc). 
 Guicciar- 
 
 DINI. 
 
 Guidi 
 
 (Alessandro). 
 
 Guischardt 
 (Charles). 
 
 Guys 
 
 (Monsieur). 
 
 Hakluyt 
 (Richard). 
 
 Hamilton 
 (Hugh). 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 208-209 ( Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) : 
 " What Grotius calls the justitia expletrix and 
 justitia attributrix." 
 
 Ibid. ii. 398-399 (Part VII. Sect. IV.).: "Grotius 
 seems to have been the first who attempted to 
 give the world anything like a system of those 
 principles which ought to run through and be 
 the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and 
 his treatise of the laws of war and peace, with 
 all its imperfections, is perhaps at this day the 
 most complete work that has yet been given 
 upon this subject. " 
 
 Corpus Inscriptionum totius orbis Romani. 4 vols. 
 Fol. Amstelodarni, 1707. [Title slightly differ- 
 ent in different vols.] 
 
 II Pastor Fido. i2mo, calf. N. D. 
 
 Memoires Militaires sur les Grecs et les Romains. 
 2 vols. 8vo. Lyon, 1760. 
 
 Voyage litteraire de la Grece, ou lettres sur les Grecs 
 anciens et modernes avec un parallele de leurs 
 moeurs. [Nouvelle edition. Augmentee de 
 quelques opuscules du meme Auteur.] 4 vols. 
 8vo. Paris [veuve Duchesne], 1783. 
 
 The principal Navigations, Voyages, TrafEques, 
 and Discoveries of the English Nation. 3 vols, 
 in 2. Small fol. black letter. London, 1599. 
 
 Philosophical Essays. 3rd ed. i2mo. Dublin, 
 IJJ2. [Dean of Ardagh, mathematician and 
 theologian.] 
 
 B 
 
 La Istoria d' Italia. 2 vols. Large fol. old calf. B 
 
 Venezia, 1738. 
 W. of N. III. iv. 186. 2. (On the extensive cultha- 
 
 tion of the land in Italy before the invasion of 
 
 Charles VIII. 
 Poesie. i2mo, calf. Verona, 1726. B 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 B 
 
 N
 
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 47 
 
 Hamilton 
 (William). 
 
 Hanway 
 (Jonas). 
 
 D'Happon- 
 
 COURT DE 
 
 Grafigny. 
 Hardouin 
 
 DE Pe're'fIXE. 
 
 Harris 
 
 (John). 
 
 Harte 
 (Rev. 
 
 Walter). 
 
 Hartley 
 (David). 
 
 Harwood 
 
 (Edward). 
 Hayley 
 
 (William). 
 
 Heineccius 
 
 (Joannes 
 
 Gottlieb). 
 
 Helvetius. 
 
 Henry 
 (Robert). 
 
 D'Her- 
 belot. 
 
 Poems on several Occasions. i2mo, old calf. B 
 
 Edinburgh, 1760. [Author of "The Braes o' 
 
 Yarrow."] 
 Historical Account of the British Trade over the B 
 
 Caspian Sea. Vol. i. only (out of 4). 4-to, calf. 
 
 London, 1 753. 
 Cenie, piece nouvelle en cinq actes. i2mo. La N 
 
 Haye, 1751. 
 
 Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand. Minimo, vellum. B 
 
 Amsterdam, 166 1. 
 Voyages. Carefully revised. 2 vols. Fol. calf. C 
 
 London, 1764. 
 Essays on Husbandry. Illustrated. 2nd ed. 1 vol. C 
 
 8vo, calf. London, 1770. 
 
 Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and B 
 his Expectations. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1749. 
 
 Biographia Classica. 2 vols. i2mo. London, 1778. N 
 
 Poems on Painting, etc. 3rd ed. 4to, calf. London, B 
 1 78 1. [The friend of Cowper and Gibbon.] 
 
 Elementa Juris Civilis, secundum ordinem Pandec- N 
 torum commoda auditoribus methodo adornata. 
 4th ed. 8vo. Amstelod. 1740. 
 
 De l'Esprit. [Anon.] Vol. ii. only. i2mo, calf. B 
 Amsterd. 1759. 
 ctter of Hume to Ad. Smith (in Life prefixed 
 to Essays, p. xlviii.), dated 12th April 1759: 
 " I believe I have mentioned to you already 
 Helvetius's book, De l'Esprit. It is worth your 
 reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not 
 highly value, but for its agreeable composition." 
 Ad. Smith made the acquaintance of Helvetius 
 in Paris in 1766. 
 
 History of Great Britain. 5 vols. 4to, calf. Lon- B 
 don, 1771. 
 
 Bibliotheque Orientale [ou Dictionnaire universel C 
 contenant tout ce qui fait connoitre] les Peuples 
 de l'Orient. 1 vol. Fol. calf. Maestricht, 1776.
 
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 Herbert 
 
 (Claude 
 
 Jacques). 
 
 Hericourt 
 (Louis). 
 
 Hermo- 
 
 GENES. 
 
 Herodotus. 
 Hesychius. 
 
 HlSTOIRE. 
 
 HlSTORIA 
 
 Augusta. 
 
 History 
 of THE 
 Union. 
 
 HOBBES 
 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Essai sur la police generale des Grains, sur leur N 
 prix et sur les effets de PAgriculture. [Anon.] 
 i2mo. Berlin, 1757. 
 
 In W. of N. I. xi. 83. 1. "The elegant author of 
 the Essay on the Police of Grain " is quoted on 
 the price of corn in France in the 15th cent. 
 
 So W. of N. I. xi. 91. 1 top, on the rise of the 
 value of silver as compared with that of corn. 
 The influence of the book has also been traced 
 (by Prof. Fox well) in the W. of N. IV. v. 234. 1 
 (compared with Essai, pp. 21, 22). 
 
 Les Loix Ecclesiastiques de France dans leur ordre B 
 naturel. Large fol. calf. Paris, 1771. 
 
 Opera Hermogenis Philosophi ac Rhetoris. i2mo. B 
 Lugdunum, 1538. 
 
 Historia. 9 vols. i2mo, calf. Glasguae, 1761. 
 
 Lexicon, cum notis doctorum virorum integris. 
 Ed. J. Albert. 2 vols. Fol. Lugdun. Batav. 
 1766. 
 
 Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique ou Histoire N 
 abregee de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un 
 nom par des talens, des vertus, des forfaits, des 
 erreurs, etc. Par une Societe de Gens de 
 Lettres. 8 vols. 5th ed. Caen, 1783. 
 
 Thesaurus Historiae Helveticae, continens lectis- Q 
 simos Scriptores. 1 vol. Fol. Tiguri (Zurich), 
 
 *775- 
 Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. [Cum notis Isaaci 
 Casauboni, CI. Salmasii et Joannis Gruterii.] 
 8vo, vellum. Lugduni Batav. 1671. 
 
 Vol. i. 
 
 Vol. ii. 
 
 History of the Union of Great Britain. 1 vol. 
 Small fol. calf. Edinburgh, 1709. [Attributed 
 to Defoe.] 
 
 Leviathan. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. London, 1651. C 
 
 Moral and Political Works. 1 vol. Fol. calf. C 
 London, 1750.
 
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 49 
 
 HOLWELL 
 
 (J- T.) 
 
 Homer. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 325 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. i.) 
 (Hobbes is one of those who deduce the principle 
 of self-approbation from the principle of self-love.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 332 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. ii.) ("a 
 state of nature is a state of war"), 333-335 
 (the controversy aroused by Hobbes). 
 
 W. of N. I. v. 14. 1. ("Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes 
 says, is power," — but it is not necessarily political 
 power.) 
 
 India Tracts by Mr. Holwell and Friends, con- 
 taining : (1) An Address to the Proprietors of 
 East India Stock, setting forth the unavoidable 
 necessity and real motives for the Revolution in 
 Bengal, 1760. (2) Refutation of a Letter from 
 certain Gentlemen of the Council at Bengal to 
 the Hon. the Secret Committee. (3) Important 
 Facts regarding the East India Company's Affairs 
 in Bengal from the years 1752 to 1760, with 
 copies of several very interesting letters. (4) 
 Narrative of the deplorable Deaths of the 
 English Gentlemen who were suffocated in 
 the Black Hole in Fort William at Calcutta, 
 June 1756. (5) Defence of Mr. Vansittart's 
 Conduct. 
 
 Frontispiece : Monument at Calcutta to the Suf- 
 ferers in the Black Hole Prison. 2nd ed. with 
 additions. Pp. vii. 286. Calf, 4to. London 
 {Becket\ 1764. 
 
 OMHPOY 0AY22EIA. 8vo. Oxford, 1705. 
 
 Ilias Graece et Latine. Clarke's edition. Vol. ii. 
 only. 8vo, calf. Londini, 1735. 
 
 Ilias ex Editione S. Clarke. Vol. ii. only. i2mo, 
 calf. Glasguae, 1 747. 
 
 Iliad. 2 vols. Fol. Glasguae, 1756. 
 
 Odyssey. 2 vols. Fol. Glasguae, 1758. 
 
 Opera Omnia cum notis Samuelis Clarkii. 5 vols. 
 8vo, calf. Lipsiae, 1759. 
 
 Hymnus in Cererem, editus a Davide Ruhnkenio. 
 
 N 
 B 
 
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 B 
 
 8vo, boards. 
 
 Lugd. Batav. 1 
 E
 
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 (i) Essay on Astron. 27. (Homer was a native of 
 the Greek islands, which were more secure, and 
 therefore sooner civilized, than the mainland.) 
 
 (2) Mor. Sent. ii. 131 (Part VI. Sect. III.) 
 
 (Homer's Ulysses is praised bv Cicero for 
 " flexibility of manners.") 
 
 (3) W. of N. I. iv. 11. 1. (Diomede's exchange 
 
 with Glaucus.) 
 
 (4) Ibid. IV. vi. 246. 2. (Before the " late reforma- 
 
 tion" of the English coinage (1774) "the 
 operations of the Mint were somewhat like 
 the web of Penelope.") 
 
 (5) Ibid. V. i. 322. 2. (Agamemnon offers Achilles 
 
 the rule over seven cities, with the induce- 
 ment "that the people would honour him 
 with presents.") 
 
 (6) Ibid. V. i. 348. 1. (Music and dancing, as we 
 
 find from Homer, were "the great amuse- 
 ments of all barbarous nations.") 
 
 Hooke 
 (Robert). 
 
 HORATIUS. 
 
 Micrographia or some Physiological Descriptions B 
 
 of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. 
 
 Small fol. old calf. London, 1665. 
 Bookplate [in addition to Adam Smith's] of "John 
 
 Piggott." 
 [Philosophical] Observations [and Experiments]. C 
 
 I vol. 4to, tree calf. London, 1758. 
 Satiras, Epistolas, et Artem Poeticam ed. D. Q 
 
 Lambinus. Vol. ii. only. 4to. Lutetiae 
 
 [Paris), 1578. 
 Opera ed. J. Dousa. 1 vol. 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1597. 
 Opera ex fide atque Auctoritate complurium 
 
 Librorum. Fol. calf. Lutetiae, 1680. 
 Horace. Oeuvres en Latin et en Francois. 
 
 Remarques Critiques et Historiques. Par M. 
 
 Dacier. 10 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1709. 
 Opera Omnia ed. Richard Bentley. 1 vol. 4to. 
 
 Amstelod. 1728. 
 Poemata ex castigationibus observationibusque 
 
 Bentleii Cuningamii et Sanadonis emendata. 
 
 i2mo. London, 1740. 
 Opera. 8vo. Foulis. Glasgow, 1744.
 
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 5 1 
 
 HORSLEY 
 
 (William). 
 
 Many marginal notes on fly-leaves and body of 
 book, also on inserted sheets at the end. 
 [Possibly used at college. Ad. Smith was 
 at Oxford, 1740-47.] 
 Opera. Recensuit varietate lectionis M. Christi- 
 anus David, jun. 2 vols. 8vo. Lipsiae, 1778. 
 Epistolaad Augustum. 8vo,calf. Without title-page. 
 Mor. Sent. i. 68 (Part I. Sect. II. ch. ii.) . "The 
 gaiety of Ovid and the gallantrv of Horace are 
 always agree-;'. 
 The Universal Merchant, containing the Rationale 
 of Commerce in theory and practice. An 
 Inquiry into the Nature and Genius of Banks, 
 their power, use, influence, and efficacy, the estab- 
 lishment and operative transactions of the Banks 
 of London and Amsterdam, etc. By William 
 Horsley. Printed by C. Say for W. Owen at 
 Homer's, near Temple Bar. 4to. London, 1753. 
 At page 109 a new title-page : A brief Disquisi- 
 tion into the nature of Gold and Silver, and 
 into the Art of Assay, etc., being "a proper 
 supplement to the preceding work." Dedicated 
 to Henry Pelham. 
 Bound with the above in one vol. is also : Further 
 Explanations of some particular Subjects relating 
 to Trade, Coin, and Exchanges, contained in 
 the Universal Merchant. By N. M. [Nicholas 
 Magens]. Printed by John Haberken, Gerrard 
 Street, 1756. [This is the Postscript described 
 below.] 
 W. of N. I. xi. 95. 2. Ad. Sm. gives the figures 
 "according to Mr. Meggens " (sic in all edd.) 
 ror the annual importation of gold and silver into 
 Spain and Portugal circa 1750. "The great 
 experience of this judicious merchant renders his 
 opinion of considerable weight." The footnote 
 giving exact reference to the " Postscript to the 
 Universal Merchant, p. 15, and 16," appears 
 first in the 2nd ed. of the W. of N. 1778. 
 It concludes: "The postscript is to be found in 
 few copies [of the Universal Merchant] ; it 
 corrects several errors in the book." 
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 HOTMAN 
 
 (Francis). 
 
 Houssaye 
 
 (le Sieur 
 
 Amelot d'). 
 
 Howard 
 
 (John). 
 
 Howe 
 
 (Lord 
 Richard). 
 
 Howe 
 
 (General 
 SirWilliam). 
 
 HUGENIUS 
 
 (Christianus) 
 [Huyghens]. 
 
 HUGGAN 
 
 (Joannes). 
 
 Hume 
 
 (David, 
 
 of 
 
 Godscroft). 
 
 Hume 
 (David). 
 
 An Account of the Ancient Free State of France. B 
 
 8vo, calf. London, 1738. 
 Histoire du Gouvernement de Venise. 3 vols. C 
 
 Small 8vo, calf. Amsterdam, 17 14. 
 
 State of the Prisons in England and Wales. 1 vol. 
 4to. Warrington, 1777. 
 
 A Candid and Impartial Narrative of the Trans- 
 actions of the Fleet under Lord Howe. 2nd ed. 
 8vo, paper covers. London, N. D. 
 
 Narrative of his Conduct in North America. 4to, B 
 boards. London, 1781. 
 
 Opera Mechanica, Geometrica, Astronomica et N 
 
 Miscellanea. 4 vols, in 2. 4to. Lugd. 
 
 Batav. 1 75 1. 
 Dissertatio medica inauguralis de Sanguine Humano. C 
 
 I vol. 8vo, calf. Edinburgh, N. D. 
 History of the House of Douglas and Angus. C 
 
 1 vol. 4to, quarter leather. Edinburgh, 1644. 
 A General History of Scotland from 767 to the death C 
 
 of King James. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. 
 
 London, 1657. 
 A Treatise of Human Nature, being an attempt to 
 
 introduce the Experimental Method of Reason- 
 ing into Moral Subjects. [Anon.] 8vo, calf. 
 
 London, 1739-40. 
 
 Vol. i. (1739). B 
 
 Vols. ii. and iii. (1739-40). C 
 
 Essays, Moral and Political. i2mo, old calf. B 
 
 [Anon.] Edinburgh, \"/\\. 
 Essays and Treatises on several subjects. A new C 
 
 edition. 1 vol. 4to, calf. London, 1758. 
 Philosophical Essays. (1) Academical Philosophy. B 
 
 (2) Active Powers. (3) Liberty and Necessity. 
 
 l2mo, calf. Edinburgh, 1768. 
 Concerning Human Understanding. i2mo, calf. B 
 
 [Anon.] London, 1768. 
 Essays and Treatises on several subjects. A new C 
 
 edition. 4 vols. Small 8vo, calf. London, 1770.
 
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 History of England from the Invasion of Julius 
 Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. 8 vols. 8vo, 
 calf. London^ 1778. 
 
 Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. 1 vol. 
 8vo, calf. 1779. 
 
 (1) Mor. Sent. i. 197 (Part II. Sect. I. ch. v.) : 
 
 "That remarkable distinction between justice 
 and all the other social virtues, which has of 
 late been particularly insisted upon by an 
 author of very great and original genius." 
 
 (2) Ibid. i. 475 (Part IV. ch. ii.) : "The same in- 
 
 genious and agreeable author who first explained 
 why utility pleases." (Criticism follows.) 
 
 (3) Ibid. ii. 357 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. iii.) 
 
 * Another system ' is mentioned which ex- 
 plains the moral sentiments by sympathy, but 
 in a different way from Ad. Smith. It "places 
 virtue in utility." 
 
 (4) The passage on Suicide, which does not occur 
 
 in the 1st ed. of the Mor. Sent., but is to be 
 found in the 6th ed. ii. 242-250 (Part VII. 
 Sect. II.), may have been meant as a reply to 
 Hume's posthumous Essay on Suicide. 
 
 (5) W. of N. I. xi. 106. 1. ("Mr. Hume" on 
 
 the value of fleece and sheep in Saxon times.) 
 (History.) 
 
 (6) Ibid. II. ii. 143. 1, 2. (On the increase of 
 
 paper money, and its alleged effects on prices.) 
 (Political Discourses.) 
 
 (7) Ibid. II. iv. 157. 1. (Mr. Hume's discussion 
 
 of the relation of the discoveries of precious 
 metals to the rate of interest is so satisfactory 
 that Ad. Smith need not enter on the sub- 
 ject.) (Political Discourses.) 
 
 (8) Ibid. III. iv. 181-182. (Mr. Hume is the only 
 
 writer who has noticed how commerce intro- 
 duces order and liberty.) ( Political Discourses : 
 Essays on Commerce and Luxury.) 
 
 (9) Ibid. IV. i. 195. 1 : " Mr. Hume frequently takes 
 
 notice of the inability of the ancient Kings 
 of England to carry on without interruption 
 any foreign war of long duration" (History).
 
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 (10) W. of N. V. i. 354. 2 to 355. 1 : "Most of 
 the arts and professions, says by far the most 
 illustrious philosopher and historian of the 
 present age, are of such a nature " that the 
 State consults its own interest best by leaving 
 them alone ; not so with the Church. This 
 passage contains a long quotation from the 
 History of England, Henry VIII. ch. iii. 
 with unimportant verbal alterations, probably 
 due to Ad. Smith's habit of dictating. See 
 Life by Dugald Stewart, prefixed to Essays, 
 p. Ixxxvii. note. 
 
 A short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, contain- 
 ing the Elements of Ethicks. i2mo, calf. 
 Foulis. Glasgow, 1747. 
 
 A System of Moral Philosophy, in three books. 
 
 2 vols. 4-to, calf. London, 1755. 
 [Hutcheson was Professor of Moral Philosophy at 
 
 Glasgow, 1730-46, Thomas Craigie 1746-52, 
 
 Adam Smith 1752-64.] 
 
 (1) Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 72. "Mr. Hobbes, Mr. 
 
 Locke, and Dr. Mandeville, Lord Shaftesbury, 
 Dr. Butler, Dr. Clarke, and Mr. Hutcheson," 
 unlike the French writers, have all of them 
 at least tried to be original, and to make 
 some new contribution to the old stock. 
 
 (2) Mor. Sent. ii. 197 (Part VII. Sect. I.) (Holds 
 the theory that virtue consists in benevolence.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 286 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. iii.) Of 
 all the patrons of the system that makes 
 virtue consist in benevolence, "the late Dr. 
 Hutcheson was undoubtedly beyond all com- 
 parison the most acute, the most distinct, the 
 most philosophical, and what is of the greatest 
 consequence of all, the soberest and most 
 judicious." (Criticism follows.) (This eulogy 
 occurs in all edd.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 340 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. ii.) (Dr. 
 Hutcheson first precisely distinguished how 
 far moral distinctions are due to reason and 
 how far to sense and feeling.) 
 
 (3) 
 
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 Michel). 
 
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 (Soame). 
 
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 (Ouotes Hutcheson's "Inquiry concerning 
 Virtue" on the "principle of approbation 
 (Criticism follows.) 
 
 (6) Ibid. ii. 369, cf. 374 (Part VII. Sect. IV.) 
 
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 Montesquieu, imagined that the discoveries of 
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 Historia Poetarum et Poematum. 
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 (1) Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 72. (His originality in 
 
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 (2) Essay on External Senses, 218 (the blind man's 
 
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 (3) Mor. Sent. ii. 131 (Part VI. Sect. III.) 
 
 (The dissimulation of the first Ashley, Earl 
 of Shaftesbury, is often celebrated by "the 
 judicious Mr. Locke.") 
 
 (4) Ibid. ii. 344 (Part VII. Sect. III.) (On the 
 
 faculty of Reflection, " from which he derived 
 the simple ideas of the different passions and 
 emotions of the human mind.") 
 
 (5) W. of N. I. v. 20. 1. (Imputed the high price of 
 
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 (6) Ibid. II. iv. 157. 1. (Imagined that the dis- 
 
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 (2) W.ofN. IILiii. 180. 1. ("OneofMachiavel's 
 
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 Treatise of Music, Speculative, Practical, Historical. 
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 An Historical Account of English Money[s] from B 
 
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 those of Scotland from the Union of the Two 
 
 Kingdoms. 8vo, old calf. London, 1745. 
 The Principles of the Doctrine of Life Annuities N 
 
 explained in a familiar Manner. 4to. London, 
 
 I783- 
 Poems. The 5th ed. Printed by A. Ward, and B 
 
 sold by J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, London ; J. 
 
 Todd, York, 1779. 
 
 Sermons de Massillon. 15 vols. i2mo, calf. B 
 Paris, 1 J J 6. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 328-329 (Part III. ch. ii.) Quotation 
 from " the discourse which the eloquent and 
 philosophical Massillon pronounced on giving 
 his benediction to the standards of the regiment 
 of Catinat," exalting the monk unduly above 
 the soldier.
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Maundrell 
 (Henry). 
 
 Maupeou. 
 
 Maxwell 
 (John, of 
 Broom- 
 holm). 
 
 Melun 
 or Melon 
 
 (Jean 
 Francois). 
 
 M£moires. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 423 (Part III. ch. v.) " The eloquent 
 and philosophical Bishop of Clermont, with that 
 passionate and exaggerating force of imagination 
 which seems sometimes to exceed the bounds of 
 decorum," holds that God would be a mere tyrant 
 unless good and bad received fitter recompense 
 than in our world. 
 
 A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, Q 
 1 joy. 2nd ed. 1 vol. 8vo, calf. Oxford, 1707. 
 
 Journal Historique de la Revolution operee dans la N 
 constitution de la Monarchic Francoise, par M. 
 de Maupeou, Chancelier de France. 7 vols. 
 i2mo. London, 1776. 
 
 An Essay upon Tune, being an attempt to free the N 
 Scale of Music and the Tune of Instruments 
 from Imperfection. [Anon.] 8vo. Edinburgh, 
 1781. 
 
 A Political Essay upon Commerce, written in N 
 
 French by Monsieur M . Translated, with 
 
 some annotations and remarks, by David Bindon, 
 Esq. 8vo. Dublin, 1739. 
 
 Essai Politique sur le Commerce. Nouvelle edition B 
 augmentee de sept chapitres et ou les lacunes des 
 editions precedentes sont remplies. N. P. 1761. 
 
 [The first French ed. was in 1734.] 
 
 W. of N. V. iii. 421. 1. "In the payment of the 
 interest of the public debt, it has been said it is 
 the right hand which pays the left." Melon 
 says (towards the end of his Essai), " Les dettes 
 d'un etat sont des dettes de la main droite a la 
 main gauche, dont le corps ne se trouvera point 
 affoibli, s'il a la quantite d'alimens necessaires et 
 s'il scait les distribuer." Pinto approves the 
 saying j but when Hume quotes it ("'Tis like 
 transferring money from the right hand to the 
 left," Essay on Public Credit) it is only, like 
 Adam Smith, to condemn it. 
 
 Memoiies et Aventures d'un homme de qualite. 4 B 
 vols. Minimo. Amsterdam, 1735.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 67 
 
 Mercier 
 
 (Louis 
 Sebastien). 
 
 Messance. 
 
 Metastasio 
 (Pietro). 
 
 Metrologie. 
 
 Mezeray 
 (Fran^ois- 
 Eudes de). 
 
 Millar 
 (John). 
 
 Oeuvres dramatiques. 2 vols. i2mo. Amsterd. N 
 and Paris, ijj6. 
 
 [Member of the Convention.] 
 
 Recherches sur la Population des Generalites F 
 d'Auvergne, de Lyon, de Rouen, et de quelques 
 Provinces et Villes du Royaume, avec des Re- 
 flexions sur la Valeur du Bled tant en France 
 qu'en Angleterre, depuis 1674, jusqu'en 1764. 
 8 pp. (at beginning not numbered) and an 
 additional 334 pp. 4to. Paris, 1766. 
 
 [Bound with Grosley, q.v.~\ 
 
 W. of N. I. viii. 38. 2. " A French author of great 
 knowledge and ingenuity, Mr. Messance, re- 
 ceiver of the tallies in the election of St. Etienne, 
 endeavours to show that the poor do more work 
 in cheap than in dear years." His account is 
 copied from the registers of the public offices in 
 his districts. 
 
 Ibid. I. xi. in. 2. Prices in the different French 
 markets have been "collected with great diligence 
 and fidelity by Mr. Messance and by Mr. Dupre 
 de St. Maur." [See Monnoies.] 
 
 Poesie. 12 vols. i2mo, old calf. Parigi, 1755. B 
 
 Essay on Imit. Arts, 159 : " Nothing can be more 
 deeply affecting than the interesting scenes of 
 the serious opera, when to good poetry and good 
 music, to the poetry of Metastasio and the music ot 
 Pergolese, is added the execution of a good actor." 
 
 Ibid. 169, Metastasio and Apostolo Zeno reformed 
 Italian opera. [See Zeno.] 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 78, " The works of Metastasio 
 are esteemed all over Europe." 
 
 Metrologie ou traite des Mesures, Poids, et Monnoies. B 
 4to, calf. Paris, 1 780. [Par M. Paucton.] 
 
 Histoire de France depuis Faramond jusqu'a main- B 
 tenant, avec les portraits au naturel des Rois, 
 des Reines, des Dauphins, et enrichie de 
 medailles, etc. 3 vols. Folio, calf. Paris, 1643. 
 
 Arms stamped on front and back of each volume. 
 
 Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in C 
 Society. 1 vol. 4to,calf. London, ijji. [isted.]
 
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 Miller 
 (Patrick). 
 
 Milton 
 (John). 
 
 Disputatio Juridica ad Tit. I. Libr. xliv. Digest. 
 De Exceptionibus, Praescriptionibus et Praeju- 
 diciis. 4to. Edinburgh^ 1783. 
 [Two years before his death Adam Smith sent his 
 cousin David Douglas " to study law at Glasgow 
 under the care of Mr. Millar," then Professor 
 of Law at Glasgow University. See Life by 
 Dug. Stewart prefixed to Essays, p. xcv.] 
 The Elevation, Section, Plan, and Views of a Triple 
 Vessel, and of Wheels. 1 vol. Fol. calf. Edin- 
 burgh^ 1787. 
 Paradise Regained. To which is added Samson 
 Agonistes and poems on several occasions, with 
 tract on education. 8th ed. 1 vol. 8vo, calf. 
 London^ 1743. 
 Paradise Lost. i2mo, calf. Glasgow^ 1750. 
 (1) Essay on Hist, of Astron. 4 (Parad. Lost, ii., 
 "The fiend what this might be admired, 
 Admired, not feared"). 
 Essay on Imitat. Arts, 144. (Speaking of 
 gardens " sculptured " by the shears of the 
 gardener, he quotes II Penseroso, 49, 50.) 
 Ibid. 152. He gives out of the L'Allegro from 
 memory: " Music married to immortal verse" 
 (instead of "soft Lydian airs Married to im- 
 mortal verse"). 
 Ibid. 160. (On Handel's music to the Allegro 
 and Penseroso. Adam Smith thinks that (in 
 the case even of the bells, the lark, and the 
 nightingale) the verse was needed to show 
 what the music was meant to imitate.) 
 
 (5) Essay on Engl, and Ital. Verses, 192. (Milton's 
 
 verse accented on first and fifth syllable.) 
 
 (6) Mor. Sent. ii. 241 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) 
 
 Speaking of the ancient philosophies fortifying 
 the mind against the fear of death, he quotes 
 Parad. Lost, ii. 568: "Or arm the obdured 
 breast With stubborn patience as with triple 
 steel." 
 Mor. Sent. ii. Considerations concerning the 
 First Formation of Languages, 460, 46 1 . (He 
 shows in some detail how Milton's translation 
 
 (2 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 (7) 
 
 B
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 6 9 
 
 MlRABEAU 
 
 (Victor de 
 
 Riquetti, 
 
 Marquis de). 
 
 The 
 Mirror. 
 
 Moivre 
 (A. de). 
 
 MoLIERE 
 
 (Jean 
 
 Baptiste 
 
 Poquelin). 
 
 Monboddo 
 (James ^ 
 Burnett, 
 Lord)/- 
 
 Money. 
 
 Les 
 Monnoies. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 Monte- 
 
 CUCCOLI 
 
 (Generale 
 Principe di). 
 
 ot Horace's Ode to Pyrrha cannot easily be 
 interpreted without the original.) 
 [See also Shakespeare. 1 
 La Theorie de l'lmpot. [Anon.] i2mo. N. P. N 
 1760. 
 
 L'Ami des Hommes ou Traite de la Population. N 
 i2mo, calf. vol. iv. Mercier, Paris, 1763. 
 
 Philosophic Rurale ou Economie generale et poli- B 
 tique de l'Agriculture. 4to, old calf. Amster- 
 dam, 1763. 
 
 W. ot N. IV. ix. 307. 2. " Three great inventions, 
 
 writing, money, and the economical table [of 
 
 Ouesnay]," is quoted from Philos. Rur. i. 52. 
 
 The Mirror. 3 vols. i2mo, calf. Edinburgh, 1781. B 
 
 [For an anecdote of Adam Smith in relation to the 
 
 Mirror see Mackintosh, Dissertation (on Hume).] 
 
 Doctrine of Chances. 3rd ed. 4to. London, ij 56. N 
 
 Oeuvres. New ed. 1 vol. only. Paris, 1725. C 
 
 Oeuvres. 7 vols. Minimo, old calf. Paris, 1749. B 
 
 Oeuvres avec des remarques grammaticales. 6 vols. B 
 8vo, calf. Paris, 1773. 
 
 Antient Metaphysics or the Science of Universals. N 
 [Anon.] 3 vols. 4to. Edinburgh, 1779. 
 
 Considerations on Money [Bullion, and Foreign B* 
 Exchanges, being an Inquiry into the present 
 state of British Coinage]. [Anon.] 8vo, calf. 
 London, 1772. 
 
 Essai sur les Monnoies ou Reflexions sur le Rapport B 
 entre l'Argent et les Denrees. 4to, calf. Paris, 
 1746. [Dupre de St. Maur.] 
 
 Essais. 3 vols. 4to. Paris, 1725. C 
 
 Memoires de Montecuculli [generalissime des B 
 troupes de l'Empereur, sur Part militaire]. 
 i2mo, old calf. Colonia, 1704.
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 MONTENOY 
 
 (Palissot). 
 
 Monte- 
 squieu 
 (Charles de 
 Secondat, 
 Baron de). 
 
 Monti- 
 
 PLAISER 
 
 (Marquis 
 de). 
 
 Moore 
 (Dr. John). 
 
 MORELLET 
 
 (L'abbe 
 Andre). 
 
 Les Philosophies, Comedie. i2mo, boards. La 
 Haye, 1760. 
 
 Oeuvres. 3 vols. 41:0, calf. Amsterdam and 
 Leipsic, 1758. 
 
 W. of N. I. ix. 44. 1. (Thought that the high rate 
 
 of interest among Mahometans was due to the 
 
 difficulty of recovery.) 
 Ibid. II. iv. 157. 1. (Thought with Locke and 
 
 Law that the discoveries of gold and silver 
 
 lowered interest.) 
 Ibid. IV. ix. 309. 2. Hungarian mines are wrought 
 
 by free labour less expensively than Turkish by 
 
 slaves. 
 Poesies. Minimo, calf. Amsterdam, 1759. 
 
 A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzer- 
 land, and Germany, with Anecdotes relating to 
 some eminent Characters. By a gentleman who 
 resided several years in those countries. [Anon.] 
 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1779. 
 
 A View of Society and Manners in Italy, with 
 Anecdotes relating to some eminent Characters. 
 By John Moore, M.D. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 
 1781. 
 
 Prospectus d'un nouveau Dictionnaire du Com- 
 merce. [Probably the copy sent by Hume. 
 See below.] Paris, 1769. 
 
 Refutation [par l'abbe Morellet] de l'ouvrage qui 
 a pour titre Dialogues sur le Commerce des 
 Bleds [par Galiani secretaire v de PAmbassade 
 Napolitaine a Paris]. 8vo. A Londres, 1770. 
 
 [The bracketed words are in Prof. Hodgson's hand- 
 writing.] 
 
 W. of N. V. i. 340. 1. "An eminent French 
 author, of great knowledge in matters of political 
 economy, the Abbe Morellet, gives a list" of 
 joint-stock companies established since 1760. 
 
 It was Morellet who said of Adam Smith (in his 
 Memoires (publ. 1821), tome i. 237), "II parlait 
 
 B 
 
 N 
 
 N 
 
 U
 
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 71 
 
 MORHOFIUS 
 
 (Daniel 
 
 George). 
 
 Mortality 
 
 (Bills of). 
 
 Mortimer 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Motte 
 (Antoine. 
 Houdart 
 
 de la). 
 
 Mun 
 (Thomas). 
 
 fort mal notre langue." See MacCulloch's ed. 
 of W. of N. Introduction, p. ix. n. (ed. 1863). 
 As to the Prospectus, see Letters of Emin. 
 Persons to David Hume (ed. Burton, 1849), PP- 
 309-312 ; Life of Hume (Burton, 1846), vol. ii. 
 427, 428 (where Hume promises Morellet that 
 he will send the " Prospectus " to Adam Smith). 
 Compare Letters of Hume to Strahan (ed. Hill, 
 1888), p. 150. [See also Beccaria.] 
 Polyhistor. 2 vols. 4to. Lubecae, 1747. Q C 
 
 A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality from B 
 1657 to J 75^ inclusive [to which are subjoined 
 Graunt's Essay, Sir Wm. Petty's Essay on the 
 Growth of the City of London, Morris's 
 Observations, and a tract by Morris, entitled 
 Observations, Political and Natural, etc., on the 
 Bills of Mortality, written for this volume. 
 With a Table of the Probability of Life by J. 
 P., Esq., F.R.S.] [James Postlethwayte.] 4to 
 boards. London, 1759. 
 
 [The Collection is ascribed to Dr. Heberden. See 
 MacCulloch, Liter, of Pol. Ec. p. 272.] 
 
 James Postlethwayte's History ot the Public 
 Revenues from the Revolution to the Present 
 Time, 1758, is quoted in W. of N. V. iii. 418. 
 2 (in regard to the growth of the Debt). 
 
 Every Man his own Broker, or a Guide to Exchange B 
 Alley. [Anon.] i2mo, calf. London, 176 1. 
 
 [This book reached a 13th ed. in 1801.] 
 
 Oeuvres. 1 1 vols. i2tno. Paris, 1754. N 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 314 (Part III. ch. ii.) Despreaux and 
 Racine caballed against Fontenelle and La A'lotte. 
 See Boileau, above. 
 
 England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, or the U 
 Balance of our Foreign Trade is the Rule of 
 our Treasure. Written by Thomas Mun of 
 London, merchant ; first published by his son 
 in the year 1664. Printed and sold by R. and 
 A. Foulis. Glasgow, 1755. 
 
 [Bound with Berkeley's Querist, q.v.~\
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 MURETUS 
 
 (Antonius). 
 Naples. 
 
 Necker 
 (Jacques). 
 
 Newton 
 (Isaac). 
 
 W. of N. IV. i. 1 88. 2. Adam Smith quotes from 
 ch. iv. p. 28 of Mun : " If we only behold the 
 actions of the husbandman in the seed-time," 
 etc. (where Mun wishes to show that by allow- 
 ing gold and silver to go abroad to buy foreign 
 goods, we may eventually cause a much greater 
 quantity to come to us again). 
 
 Ibid. IV. i. 190. I : "The title of Mun's book, 
 England's Treasure in [sic] Foreign Trade, 
 became a fundamental maxim in the political 
 economy " of all commercial countries. 
 
 [Liber] Variarum Lectionum. i2mo, vellum. B 
 Antwerpiae, 1 580. 
 
 Relatione delle Revolutioni Popolari a Napoli. B 
 
 i2mo, vellum. 1648. 
 De l'Administration des Finances de la France par U 
 
 M. Necker. Ubi igitur mens ex multis miseriis 
 
 et periculis requievit, non fuit consilium socordia 
 
 atque desidia otium deterere — Sallust. 3 vols. 
 
 N. P. 1784. 
 Compte Rendu au Roi par M. Necker, directeur- U 
 
 general des Finances au mois de Janvier 1781. 
 
 Imprime par ordre de sa Majeste a Paris. A 
 
 Londres^ 1786. 
 [Bound with Consider, sur les Richesses and 
 
 Proces Verbal, q.v.~] 
 Reponse de M. Necker au discours prononce par N 
 
 M. de Calonne a l'Assemblee des Notables. 
 
 8vo. London^ IJ&J. 
 [Adam Smith made the acquaintance of Necker 
 
 in 1766.] 
 W. of N. V. ii. 410. 2. (On the population of 
 
 France, from N.'s tract on Corn.) 
 Optice sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, In- B 
 
 flexionibus, et Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres. 
 
 4to, old calf. Londini^ 1706. 
 Opticks, or a Treatise on the Reflections, Re- 
 fractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light. 
 
 3rd ed. 8vo. London^ 1721. 
 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 4to, 
 
 old calf. Londini^ 1726.
 
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 73 
 
 NlCHOLLS 
 
 (John). 
 
 A Treatise on the Method of Fluxions and Infinite 
 Series, with its Application to the Geometry of 
 Curve Lines. 8vo. London^ 1737. 
 
 (0 
 
 N 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 66. The "Cartesian 
 philosophy" had the same superiority over the 
 patetic as the Newtonian now has over 
 the Cartesian ; the Encyclopedie adopts the 
 Newtonian. 
 
 (2) Essay on Astron. 75. (Newton considers the 
 
 " analogy of nature " to be in favour of Coper- 
 nicus.) 
 
 (3) Ibid. 83 seq. N.'s own account of the motions of 
 
 the planets. "The superior genius and sagacity 
 of Sir Isaac Newton made the most happy, and, 
 we may now say, the greatest and most admir- 
 able improvement that was ever made in philo- 
 sophy when he discovered that he could join 
 together the movements of the planets by 
 so familiar a principle of connection," etc. 
 
 (83, 84). 
 
 (4) Essay of the Extern. Senses, 204. (View of 
 
 Democritus, etc., on plenum and vacuum^ re- 
 vived by Gassendi and adopted by Newton. 
 Opposed only by " that species of metaphysics 
 which confounds everything and explains 
 nothing.") 
 
 (5) Ibid. 215. (Explains Sound by vibrations of air.) 
 
 (6) Mor. Sent. i. 312 (Part III. ch. ii.) "The 
 
 great work of Sir Isaac Newton, his Mathe- 
 matical Principles of Natural Philosophy, I 
 have been told was for several years neglected 
 by the public. The tranquillity of that great 
 man, it is probable, never suffered upon that 
 account the interruption of a single quarter of 
 an hour." 
 Scotch Ballads. 2 vols. Small 8vo, calf. London^ 
 1781-83. 
 
 [Biographical and Literary] Anecdotes of William 
 Bowyer [Printer, F.S.A., and many of his 
 learned friends]. 1 vol. 4to, tree calf. London^ 
 1783.
 
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 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Nicholson 
 
 (William, 
 
 Bishop of 
 
 Derry). 
 
 NlEBUHR 
 
 (Carsten). 
 
 NlVELLE 
 
 (Dela 
 Chaussee). 
 
 O'Beirne 
 
 (Thomas 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 Bishop of 
 Meath). 
 
 OcKLEY 
 
 (Simon). 
 
 O'Heguerty 
 (Comte de 
 Magnieres). 
 
 Onophrius 
 (Panvinius). 
 
 Origen. 
 
 Les 
 Origines. 
 
 Orleans 
 (Duke of). 
 
 Orme 
 
 (Robert). 
 
 OsORIO. 
 
 The Irish Historical Library ; pointing at most of C 
 the authors and records in print and in MS. 
 which may be serviceable to the compiler of a 
 General History of Ireland. I vol. 8vo, calf. 
 London, 1724. 
 
 Voyage en Arabic Traduit de l'Allemand. 4 vols. C 
 4to, tree calf. Amsterdam, 1776. 
 
 Oeuvres [de theatre]. 5 vols. i2mo. Paris, N 
 1762. 
 
 A Gleam of Comfort to this distracted Empire in F 
 despite of Faction, Violence, and Cunning ; de- 
 monstrating the fairness and reasonableness of 
 national confidence in the present Ministry. 
 [Anon.] 63 pp. 8vo. London, 1785. 
 
 [Bound with Dundonald, q.v.~\ 
 
 The History of the Saracens. 3rd ed. 2 vols. N 
 Cambridge, 1JS7- 
 
 Remarques sur plusieurs branches de commerce et N 
 de navigation. i2mo. Amsterdam, 1758. 
 
 Reipublicae Romanae Commentarii. 1 vol. 4to. Qj 
 
 Francofurti, 1597. 
 [Panvinio Onofrio.] 
 Contra Celsum et Philokalia. Graece et Latine. Q 
 
 Ed. W. Spencer. 1 vol. 4to. Cantabrigiae, 
 
 lb V: 
 
 Les origines de l'ancien gouvernement de la France, B 
 de l'Allemagne, et de PItalie. Vols. i. and iv. 
 only. [Anon.] i2mo, calf. La Haye, IJ5J. 
 
 Memoirs of the Regency of the Duke of Orleans. B 
 [Anon.] 8vo, calf. London, 1732. 
 
 History of the Military Transactions of the British C 
 Nation in Indostan from mdccxlv. 2nd ed. 
 [Anon.] 2 vols. 4to, calf. London, 1775. 
 
 History of the Portuguese during the Reign of H 
 Emmanuel, containing all their Discoveries from 
 the Coast of Africa to the furthest parts of 
 China. With a description of these countries,
 
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 Oxford 
 
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 Earl of). 
 
 Oxford 
 
 (2nd 
 Earl of). 
 
 Paley 
 (William). 
 
 Palladio 
 (Andrea). 
 
 Pallavicixo 
 (Ferrante). 
 
 Paolo 
 
 (Padre, 
 Sarpi). 
 
 Le Parge 
 (Louis A.) 
 
 Parle- 
 
 MEXTS, 
 COXSEILS, 
 
 etc. 
 
 and a particular account of the religion, 
 government, and customs of the natives. 
 Translated by James Gibbs. 2 vols. 8vo, 
 calf. London, IJ52. 
 
 Report from the Committee of Secrecy on the 
 conduct of Oxford as Commissioner of the 
 Treasury. 8vo, calf. London, 1742. 
 
 A Collection of Voyages and Travels, compiled 
 from the library of the Earl of Oxford by 
 Thomas Osborne. 2 vols. Fol. old calf. 
 London, 1745. 
 
 The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. 
 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1787. 
 
 DelP Architettura. (With plans and plates.) 
 Small fol. old calf, tooled, gilt edges. Venetia, 
 1570. 
 
 L'Anima. Thick minimo, vellum. Colonia, 1675. 
 
 Lettres historiques sur les fonctions essentielles du 
 Parlement, sur le droit des Pairs, et sur les loix 
 fondamentales du royaume. [Anon.] 2 vols. 
 i2mo. Amsterdam, 1753-54. 
 
 Arrests, Remontrances, etc. Bound in 5 volumes. 
 i2mo. 
 
 Volume I 
 
 (1) Arrests, Arrestes et Remontrances du Parlement de 
 Bordeaux au Rov au sujet des Entreprises des Gens 
 du Grand Conseil. 1756. 
 
 (2) Remontrances du Parlement de Bordeaux du 7 
 septembre 1757. 
 
 (3) Tres-humbles et tres-respectueuses representations 
 du Parlement seant a Bordeaux, du 10 juin 1761, 
 au sujet d'une Requete presentee au Roi et son 
 Conseil par le Chapitre de Saint Severin, et d'un 
 Arret du Conseil intervenu sur cette Requete, le 9 
 decembre 1760. N. P. 1761. 
 
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 Opere. 6 vols. Small 8vo, vellum. Venetia, 1688. C 
 
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 (4) Arrest de la Cour du Parlement de Bordeaux extrait 
 des Registres de Parlement du 23 juin 1762. 
 
 And another of same date — printed together — both 
 dealing with the Jesuits. Bordeaux. 
 
 (5) Objets des Remontrances arrestees par le Parlement 
 scant a Bordeaux, sur les Edits et Declaration du 
 mois d'avril 1763 ; portant prorogation de quelques 
 Impots, et Etablissement de nouveaux. 1763. 
 
 (6) Arrestes de la Cour du Parlement de Bordeaux, au 
 sujet de la Transcription faite sur les Registres le 7 
 septembre 1763. De l'Edit et de la Declaration du 
 Roi, du mois d'avril dernier. Bordeaux. 
 
 (7) Arrete et Objets de Representations du Parlement 
 scant a Bordeaux, pour demander la Punition des 
 Attentats commis contres les Classes du Parlement 
 seantes a Toulouse, Grenoble et Rouen, du 21 
 Janvier 1764. Extrait des Registres du Parlement. 
 
 (8) Tres-humbles Representations qu'addressent au 
 Roi notre tres-honore et souverain Seigneur les gens 
 tenant sa Cour de Parlement seant a Bordeaux. 7 
 Jan. 1764. 
 
 Volume II. Containing : — 
 
 (1) Remontrances de la Cour des Aides de Montauban, 
 sur les Declarations du 7 juillet dernier, portant 
 etablissement d'un second Vingtieme, et prorogation 
 pendant dix ans des deux sols pour livre du dixieme. 
 1756. 
 
 (2) Arrest du Conseil Provincial et Superieur dArtois, 
 du 29 mai 1762. 
 
 (3) Remontrances du Parlement, 1 la Cour suffisamment 
 garnie de Pairs, au sujet de la Reponse du Roi au 
 Parlement concernant la convocation des Princes 
 et des Pairs, ordonnee a l'occasion de l'Instruction 
 Pastorale de M. 1'Archeveque de Paris, du vingt- 
 huit octobre 1763, Reponse du Roi a ces Remon- 
 trances, et Arrestes du Parlement. 
 
 (4) Discours d'un des Messieurs des Enquestes au Parle- 
 ment, toutes les Chambres assemblies, les Princes 
 du sang et Pairs de France y scans, sur l'Instruction 
 Pastorale de M. TArcheveque de Paris, et sur 
 
 [ J Apparently of Paris.]
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 77 
 
 l'Imprime intitule Nouvelles Observations, etc. Du 
 lundi, 16 Janvier 1764. 
 
 Volume III 
 
 (1) Remontrances du Parlement de Rouen, au sujet de 
 l'Edit du mois de fevrier dernier et de la Declaration 
 du 3 du meme mois. Rouen, le 10 mai 1760. 
 
 (2) Tres-humbles et tres-respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres-honore et Souverain 
 Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement a 
 Rouen. Rouen, 4 juillet 1760. 
 
 (3) Lettre de M. le Chancellier, Arrete et Remontrances 
 du Parlement de Normandie, sur l'exil des trente 
 Magistrats du Parlement scant a Besancon. Rouen, 
 1760-1761. 
 
 (4) Arretes des Parlemens de Paris et de Rouen des 3 
 decembre 1760 et 9 Janvier 1761. 
 
 (5) Arrest de la Cour du Parlement de Rouen. Toutes 
 les Chambres Assemblies. Extrait des Registres de 
 la Cour. Du 26 juin 1762. (With three others of 
 same date.) 
 
 (6) Arrets et Arretes du Parlement seant a Rouen au 
 sujet des Transcriptions faites sur ses Registres, des 
 Radiations des Arrets et Arretes des 18 et 19 aout 
 dernier, et de l'oppression actuelle des Parlemens 
 seans a Toulouse et a Grenoble. Extrait des 
 Registres du Parlement. Du lundi, 14 novembre 
 1763. 
 
 Volume IV 
 
 (1) Remontrances du Parlement de Toulouse au Roi, 
 concernant deux declarations du Roi du 7 juillet 
 1756, dont l'une ordonne la levee d'un second 
 Vingtieme, et l'autre proroge pendant dix ans la 
 levee des 2 sols pour livre en sus du Dixieme. Du 
 27 septembre 1756. Quatrieme edition, 1756. 
 
 (2) Tres-humbles et tres-respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres-honore et Souve- 
 rain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement 
 a Toulouse. (Constitutional grievances.) N. D. 
 
 (3) Arretes et Objets de Remontrances du Parlement 
 de Toulouse. 
 
 [Three documents dated respectively Nov. 13 and 
 Dec. 15, 1759, and Jan. 5, 1760.]
 
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 (4) Objets de Remontrances arretes par lc Parlemcnt 
 de Toulouse, toutes les chambres assemblies, le 29 
 Janvier 1760, au sujet de l'Edit du mois de 
 septembre 1759, P ortant: etablissement d'une Sub- 
 vention generale. 
 
 (5) Tres-humbles et tres-respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres-honore et Souve- 
 rain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement 
 seant a. Toulouse. 
 
 [About the affairs of the Hopital Saint Joseph de la 
 Grave.] Juillet 4, 1761. 
 
 (6) [Proces] Verbal de ce qui s'est passe au Parlement 
 de Toulouse, le 14 aout 1761, au sujet de l'Enregis- 
 trement de la Declaration du 16 juin dernier, portant 
 prorogation pour deux ans de l'execution de l'Edit 
 du mois du fevrier 1760. 
 
 (7) Tres-humbles, tres-respectueuses Remontrances que 
 presentent, etc. (as No. 5). 
 
 [About the " troisieme Vingtieme et la double 
 Capitation."] Aug. 20, 1761. 
 
 (8) Tres-humbles, etc. (as above). 
 
 [Protesting against an order to register a law with- 
 out deliberation.] Sept. 9, 1 76 1. 
 
 (9) Journal de ce qui s'est passe au Parlement de 
 Toulouse, au sujet de la Transcription des Edit et 
 Declaration du mois d'avril 1763. 
 
 (10) Tres-humbles et tres-respectueuses iteratives 
 Remontrances que presentent au Roi, notre tres- 
 honore et Souverain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa 
 Cour de Parlement, au sujet de l'Edit et de la 
 Declaration du mois d'avril 1763, et de l'Oppression 
 des Classes de Toulouse, Rouen, et Grenoble. 
 Besangon, Dec. 13, 1763. 
 
 (11) (a) Recueil d'Arrets, Arretes, Remontrances et 
 Proces Verbaux extraits des Registres du Parlement 
 seant a Toulouse. Concernant les entreprises et 
 attentats de M. le Due de Fitz-James. Edition 
 complete et exacte. N. P. 1764. 
 
 (b) Recueil de Pieces concernant le Due de Fitz- 
 James en sa pretendue qualite de Commandant en 
 Chef dans la Province de Languedoc. N. P. 1764. 
 [(a) and (i>) are paged continuously.] 
 
 (12) Extraits des Registres du Parlement de Toulouse, 
 . . . de suite aux arrests, arrestes et remontrances
 
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 concernant les entreprises ct attentats de M. 1c Due 
 de Fitz-James. N. P. 1764. 
 (13) Objets de Remontrances, Arreste's en Parlement 
 suffisamment garni de Pairs, au sujet des vexations 
 exercees contre plusieurs Classes du Parlement, 
 notamment contre celle de Toulouse par le Due de 
 Fitz-James. Jan. 16, 1764. 
 
 Volume V 
 
 (1) Secondes Remontrances de Parlement de Provence, 
 memoire sur les evenemens qui y ont donne occasion, 
 Requisitoire et Arrest du meme Parlement, qui con- 
 damne un Libelle intitule : Observations sur le re/us 
 que fait le C hate let de reconnoitre la Chambre Roy ale, 
 a etre lacere, etc. 28 juin 1754. 
 
 (2) Lettre du Parlement de Provence au Roy. [Con- 
 flict of jurisdiction with Archbishop of Aix, arising 
 out of refusal to administer Sacrament to a sick man 
 because he failed to accept the Bull Unigenitus. 
 Letter not dated, apparently 1754.] 
 
 (3) Arrest du Parlement d'Aix qui ordonne la suppression 
 de la Lettre circulaire de l'Assemble'e du Clerge. 
 Mars 16, 1756. 
 
 (4) Remontrances du Parlement de Provence au Roy, 
 sur les Declarations des 8 septembre 1755 et 7 
 juillet 1756 portant imposition d'un second Vingt- 
 ieme et autres droits. Aix, Nov. 5, 1756. 
 
 (5) Recueil de Remontrances du Parlement de Pro- 
 vence au Roi. 1760. 
 
 [Five " Remontrances " follow, all relating to taxa- 
 tion, dated 1759 and 1760. These have been 
 separately printed, but apparently have been 
 collected with title-page as above.] 
 
 (6) Remontrances du Parlement de Provence au Roi. 
 [Various grievances.] Aix, Nov. 21, 1763. 
 
 (7) Remontrances du Parlement de Provence au Roi, 
 deHbere'es le_ neuf Janvier 1764, en enregistrant 
 1'Edit du Roi du mois d'avril 1763, concernant les 
 Dons Gratuits, et les Declarations du 21 novembre 
 suivant. Aix, Jan. 18, 1764. 
 
 Volume VI 
 Remontrances du Parlement au Roi, du 9 avril 1753. 
 Senatus Optimo principi. 1753. 
 
 [Apparently the Parliament of Paris. Complaints 
 against ecclesiastics.]
 
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 Memoire sur la Liberation de l'Etat et le Soulage- 
 ment des Peuples, presente par le Parlement 
 seant a Bordeaux en consequence de la Declara- 
 tion du Roi du mois de novembre 1763 et de 
 Particle V. des Lettres Patentes du juillet 1764. 
 23 pp. 4to. N. P. 1764. [Bound with 
 Messance, q.v.'] 
 
 W. of N. V. iii. 4. 1 7. 1. "According to a memoir pre- 
 sented by the Parliament of Bordeaux to the Icing 
 in 1764" the French debt was 2400 millions of 
 livres. " These estimations . . . having been pre- 
 sented by so very respectable a body " may be 
 counted "approximations to the truth." 
 
 Arrest de la Cour de Parlement portant condamna- 
 tion des Actes d'adhesion aux Actes de l'Assem- 
 blee du Clerge de France, tenue en 1765, 
 intervenus en differentes Dioceses du 8 juillet 
 1766. 36 pp. 4to. Paris, 1766. 
 [Bound (like above and following) with Mes- 
 sance, q.v.~\ 
 
 Collection bound with Messance [#.t;.] 
 
 (a) Recueil de plusieurs Pieces concernant le Parlement 
 de Normandie. 86 pp. 4to. Amsterdam [date 
 torn off. Circa 1754.]. 
 
 (b) Recueil des Memoires interessans (au nombre de 
 sept) que Messieurs des Enquetes exiles en divers 
 endroits ont envoyes a Messieurs de Grand-Chambre 
 a Pontoise, precede d'une lettre d'un des Messieurs 
 des Enquetes et suivi d'une Reponse d'un conseiller 
 de Grande-Chambre au Septieme Memoire de ce 
 Recueil, pour servir de suite aux Remontrances du 
 Parlement de Paris du 9 avril 1753. 33 pp. 4to. 
 Utrecht, etc., 1753. 
 
 (c) Recueil des Pieces concernant la Commission etablie 
 pour servir de Chambre des Vacations, ou se trouve 
 tout ce qui regarde les suites qu'elle a eu au chatelet 
 de Paris. 43 pp. 4to. Paris, 1753. 
 
 (d) Reglement fait par les Gens des Trois Etats du 
 Pays de Languedoc, assembles par mandement du 
 Roi en la Ville de Montpellier, au mois d'octobre 
 1762 au sujet de la Ferme et Exploitation du Droit
 
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 d'Equivalent. Concernant l'adjudication de la 
 Ferme. 22 pp. + to. Toulouse, N. D. 
 (e) Resume des Memoires du Parlement de Toulouse 
 concernant la jurisdiction contentieuse du Domaine. 
 222 pp. ^to. 1761. 
 
 Adam Smith was indebted to such documents as these 
 (probably picked up in his travels) for the informa- 
 tion given in W. of N. V. i. 323. 2 about the salaries 
 of judges in Toulouse, and in V. i. 326, 2 about the 
 cost of the canal in Languedoc. 
 Collection of six papers bound in one vol. small 8vo, 
 calf, gilt ; lettered " Objets de Remontra. Mont- 
 pellier." 
 
 (1) Arrete's et objets des Remontrances de la cour des 
 Com[p]tes, Aydes, et Finances de Montpellier, du 
 22 Janvier 1760. 26 pp. 
 
 (2) Arrest du Conseil d'fltat du Roi qui maintient et 
 garde les Gens des Trois £tats de la Province de 
 Languedoc dans leurs Usages, Droits, Liberies, et 
 Privileges, et ordonne en consequence que la 
 Deliberation des Gens des dits Etats, du 1 1 de'cembre 
 I 759'.P our l e troisieme Vingtieme, et l'Arret du 
 Conseil du 2 Janvier 1760, sur l'Abonnement d'ice- 
 lui, seront executes selon leur forme et teneur. Du 
 
 2 ,L mars I " 6 °' Extraits des Registres du Conseil 
 d'Etat. 103 pp. 
 
 (3) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances de 
 la Cour des Comptes, Aides et Finances de Mont- 
 pellier au Roi, au Sujet de lArret du Conseil, du 
 14 mars 1760. 46 pp. 
 
 (4) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances de 
 la Cour des Comptes, Aydes, et Finances de Mont- 
 pellier, au Roi, Contre les Entreprises du Parlement 
 de Toulouse. 136 pp. 
 
 (5) Tres humbles, tres respectueuses, et iteratives 
 Remontrances que presentent au Roi, notre tres 
 honore' et Souverain Seigneur, les Gens tenans sa 
 Cour de Parlement scant a Toulouse. 40 pp. 
 
 (6) Lettres d'un Avocat au Parlement de Toulouse a 
 un Avocat en la Cour des Aydes de Montpellier, 
 avec les Reponses. 
 
 Nouv. ed. revue, corrige'e, et augmente'e d'une cinquieme 
 Lettre. 106 pp. dvigno?i, 1760. 
 
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 Collection lettered " Arrestes et Remontrances." 
 In one vol. small 8vo, calf, gilt, the ten following 
 documents : — 
 
 (i) Arrestes et Remontrances de la Chambre des 
 Comptes du 31 juillet 1761. 27 pp. 
 
 (2) Extraits des Registres de la Chambre des Comptes 
 du 11 septembre 1761. 12 pp. 
 
 (3) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres-honore et Souverain 
 Seigneur, les Gens tenans sa Chambre des Comptes 
 de Paris [sur la multiplicity des Impots et la misere 
 des Peuples]. 1759. 2 3 PP- 
 
 (4) Declaration du Roi du 17 mars 1 762. 70 pp. 
 
 (5) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses iteratives 
 Remontrances, que presentent au Roi, notre tres 
 honore et Souverain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa 
 Chambre des Comptes. 1765. 42 pp. 
 
 (6) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 de la Chambre des Comptes au Roi sur l'Edit d'aout 
 1764, concernant l'administration des principales 
 Ft lies et Bourgs du Royaume. 1765. 72 pp. 
 
 (7) Tres humbles et tres-respectueuses Remontrances 
 de la Chambre des Comptes au Roi, sur l'Edit de 
 decembre ,1764 concernant la liberation des Dettes 
 de l'Etat. 1765. 60 pp. 
 
 (8) Objets des Remontrances de la Cour des Comptes, 
 Aydes, et Finances de Montpellier, pour la suppres- 
 sion de la Commission de Valence, le 9 fevrier 
 1764. 15 pp. 
 
 (9) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 de la Cour des Comptes, Aydes, et Finances, de 
 Montpellier, sur l'Edit du mois d'avril 1763, qui 
 ordonne le denombrement des Biensfonds du 
 Royaume, etc. Et sur la Declaration du 24 avril 
 1763 qui retablit le Centieme denier sur les Im- 
 meubles fictifs. Toulouse, 1763. 15 pp. 
 
 (10) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres honore et 
 Souverain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour des 
 Comptes, Aides, et Finances, de Normandie. 1763. 
 24 pp.
 
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 Collection lettered " Remontrances du Parlement 
 Norm. Rouen." In one vol. small 8vo, calf, 
 gilt, the following six documents : — 
 
 (1) Extrait des Rcgistrcs du Parlement de Rouen du 
 Mercredi 9 avril 1756. 23 pp. 
 
 (2) Tres humbles Remontrances du Parlement dc 
 Normandie. Articles arrestes par MM. les Com- 
 missaires pour fixer les Objets des Remontrances. 
 vi. pp. 
 
 (3) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 que presentent au Roi, notre tres honore Souverain 
 Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement de 
 Normandie. [Fait en Parlement le 14 aout 1753.] 
 
 53 PP- 
 
 (4) Tres humbles et tres respect. Remontrances que 
 presentent au Roi, notre tres honor, et Souv. 
 Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement de 
 Rouen. [Fait en Parlement le 26 juin 1756.] 83 pp. 
 
 (5) Recueil de tous les Actes concernant les Affaires du 
 Parlement de Rouen pendant les annees 1759 et 
 1760. Avec le recit exact et circonstancie de tout 
 ce qui les a occasionnes. 70 pp. 
 
 (6) Reponses du Roi, Lettres de Jussion, et de cachet, 
 aux Arretes et iteratives Remontrances du Parlement 
 a Rouen. [Au sujet de l'fidit du mois de fevrier 
 dernier et de la Declaration du 3 du meme mois.] 
 1760. 44 pp. 
 
 Remontrances. [Bound with Messance, q.v.~\ 
 
 (1) Tres humbles et tres respectueuses Remontrances 
 de la Chambre des Comptes, Cour des Aydes, 
 Domaines, et Finances du Comte de Bourgogne. 
 7 pp. 4to. Bourgogne, 1756. 
 
 (2) Tres humbles et tres resp. Remontrances que pre- 
 sentent au Roi, notre tres hon. et Souver. Seigneur, 
 les Gens tenans sa Cour de Parlement de Navarre. 
 4 pp. 410. 1756. 
 
 The Use and Abuse of Parliaments. In two 
 
 Historical Discourses. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. 
 
 London^ 1744. 
 Parnaso Italiano ovvero Raccolto de' Poeti Classici 
 
 Italiani. 32 vols. Small 8vo, tree calf. Venetia, 
 
 1784-88. 
 
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 Parisiorum, 1553. 
 
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 grow weary of the grave, pedantic, and long- 
 sentenced love of Cowley and Petrarca, who 
 never have done with exaggerating the violence 
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 Vol. ii. only. i2mo, calf. Amsterd. 1769. 
 
 (1) Essay on Astron. 33. (His notion of the 
 
 "harmonic proportion to be discovered in 
 the motions and distances of the heavenly 
 bodies.") 
 
 (2) Essay on Anc. Physics, 107. (Follows 
 
 Timaeus in believing that there is a "Soul 
 of the world.") 
 
 (3) Essay on Anc. Logics and Metaphysics, 118. 
 
 (Like Timaeus, describes Matter, 'Species,' 
 and Sensible Objects as the three principles out 
 of which God made the world.) 
 
 (4) Ibid. 119-121. (Explanation of the " Ideas.")
 
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 (V, 
 
 all beauties the 
 
 Imit. Arts, 
 
 greatest.) 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 47 (Part V. Sect. II. ch. ii.) 
 
 (Does not condemn child-exposure.) 
 
 (7) Ibid. ii. 109 (Part VI. Sect. II. ch. ii.) "The 
 
 divine maxim of Plato, never to use violence 
 to his country no more than to his parents " 
 (Republ. ix.) 
 
 (8) Ibid. ii. 163-164 (Part VI. Sect. III.) (Plato 
 
 by himself was sufficient audience for Par- 
 menides.) 
 
 (9) Ibid. ii. 202-210 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) 
 
 (Plato's account of the nature of Virtue.) 
 
 (10) Ibid. ii. 398 (Part VII. Sect. IV.) (In the 
 Laws of Cicero and Plato no attempt is made 
 to enumerate the "rules of natural equity.") 
 W. of N. I. x. ii. 62. 1. (Represents Hippias 
 and Protagoras as living in a style of great 
 magnificence ; and he is said to have done so 
 himself.) 
 
 Ibid. III. ii. 172. 2. (Aristotle's criticism of 
 Plato's " Laws," where 5000 men were to be 
 maintained in idleness.) 
 
 Compare W. of N. V. i. 347, 348 (on Music and 
 Gvmnastic). 
 
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 Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins. 
 
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 On fly-leaf : " From the Author." 
 
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 Servius Tullius.) 
 Ibid. I. v. 17. 2. (Tells us {loc. cit.) that the Romans 
 
 had only copper money till a few years before 
 
 the First Punic War.) 
 Ibid. I. xi. 10 1. 1. On the extravagant sums paid by 
 
 Seius for a white nightingale and by Asinius 
 
 Celer for a sur-mullet (from x. 29, and ix. 17). 
 
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 W. of N. III. ii. 172. 2. (On the unprofitableness 
 
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 several persons " who took their own life, on 
 Stoical principles. 
 
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 J. J. Reiske. 12 vols. 8vo. Lipsiae, 1774. 
 
 Essay on Astron. 44. (Takes no notice of Hippar- 
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 system of astronomy in his time.) 
 
 Essay on Anc. Logics and Metaph. 1 20-1 21 note. 
 Speaking of Plato's theory of Ideas as separate 
 from the world, Adam Smith says : " Is there any 
 author in all antiquity who seems to understand 
 it otherwise, earlier than Plutarch, an author 
 who seems to have been as bad a critic in 
 philosophy as in history, and to have taken 
 everything at secondhand in both, and who lived
 
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 Pole 
 (Guy). 
 
 Police. 
 
 Political 
 
 Essays. 
 
 Political 
 Tracts. 
 
 Polybius. 
 
 after the origin of that eclectic philosophy from 
 whence the later Platonists arose, and who 
 seems himself to have been one of that sect ? " 
 
 W. of N. I. x. ii. 61. 2. (A thousand minae are 
 said by Plutarch to have been the fee of Isocrates 
 for teaching.) 
 
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 Thomas the Rhymer's Prophecy. The Cale- 
 donian Heroine, and seven other pieces. 4to, 
 boards. Various dates. 
 
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 Memoires de Guy Pole, conseiller au Chastelet de B 
 Paris. 3 vols. i8mo, old calf. Geneve, 1751. 
 
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 Villes, Bourgs, Paroisses. [Anon.] 4to, calf. 
 Paris, 1758. 
 
 Political Essays concerning the present state of the U 
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 Natural Advantages and Disadvantages. II. 
 Constitution. III. Agriculture. IV. Manu- 
 factures. V. The Colonies, and VI. Commerce. 
 [Anon.] London, 1772. 
 
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 (d) A Dissertation on Obstacles to the Improvement 
 
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 (e) Trial of Lord George Sackville for disobeying 
 
 the orders of Prince Ferdinand. Edinburgh, 
 1760. 
 
 (f) Inquiry concerning Human Liberty. Edin- 
 
 burgh. 3rded. London, 1735. [Anth. Collins.] 
 
 Polybii Lvcortae Historiarum libri qui supersunt. B 
 3 vols. 8vo, vellum. Amstelod. 1670. 
 
 W. of N. V. i. 347. 1, and 349. 1. ^He and 
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 (Alexander). 
 
 Works, 
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 London^ 1751. 
 
 I have seen a 
 Ode on St. 
 respect [in 
 very much 
 
 i2mo, old calf, 
 ay on Imitat. Arts, 167 : ' 
 Latin translation of Mr. Pope's 
 Cecilia's Day, which in this 
 imitation of natural sounds] 
 excelled the original." 
 
 (2) Essay of Imitat. Arts, 168. (Extravagant 
 
 imitations on the stage. " The thunder 
 rumbling from the mustard bowl and the thick 
 hail of pease, so finely exposed by Mr. Pope" — 
 namely, in Dunciad II. and Dunciad III.) 
 
 (3) Essay on Engl, and Ital. Verses, 188. (When 
 
 Mr. Pope says "Worth makes the man," etc. 
 (Essay on Man, Ep. iv.), he is consciously 
 stooping to a familiar style "in compliance 
 with his subject," etc. Double rhymes occur 
 oftener in Dryden than in Pope.) 
 
 Ibid. 190. (Essay on Man, Ep. i. 29, 30, quoted 
 from memory, to illustrate unaccented last 
 syllables. Line 30 is given with "strict con- 
 nections" for "strong connections.") 
 
 Ibid. 192. (Pastorals, i. 1 quoted, to illustrate 
 accentuation on first syllable ; Essay on Man, 
 Ep. i. 3, 4, on second syllable as in Tasso.) 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 311 (Part III. ch. ii.) "The 
 elegance and harmony of Pope" (in description 
 of Gray, q.v. ) 
 
 Ibid. " The Dunciad of Mr. Pope is an ever- 
 lasting monument of how much the most 
 correct as well as the most elegant and 
 harmonious of all the English poets had been 
 hurt by the criticisms of the lowest and most 
 contemptible authors." Gray is described as 
 equally sensitive. 
 
 Ibid. 314. (Addison caballing against Pope.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 11, 12 (Part V. ch. i.) "Mr. Pope 
 and Dr. Swift have each of them introduced a 
 manner different from what was practised 
 before, into all works that are written in rhyme, 
 the one in long verses, the other in short." 
 " All long verses are now written after the 
 manner of the nervous precision of Mr. Pope." 
 
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 (Joseph). 
 
 Psycho- 
 logy. 
 
 (io) Mor. Sent. ii. 255 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) 
 " To the great Superintendent of the universe 
 all the different events which the course of his 
 providence may bring forth, what to us appear 
 the smallest and the greatest, the bursting 
 of a bubble, as Mr. Pope says, and that of 
 a world, for example, were perfectly equal." 
 (Essay on Man, Ep. i.) 
 
 Administration of the British Colonies, their Rights, B 
 and Constitution discussed. 8vo, calf. London^ 
 
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 [Governor of South Carolina, etc. Author of a 
 
 " Letter to Adam Smith respecting his Wealth 
 of Nations," 1776.] 
 
 Observations on Reversionary Payments, on Schemes N 
 for providing Annuities for Widows, and for 
 Persons in Old Age, and on the Method of cal- 
 culating the Value of Assurances on Lives, and 
 on the National Debt. 4th ed. 2 vols. 8vo. 
 London^ 1783. 
 
 Civil Liberty. 1778. American Revolution. B 
 1785. Bound in one volume. 
 
 In a letter exhibited in 1 891 at the Guelph Exhibi- 
 tion in London, Adam Smith (writing from the 
 Custom House, Edinburgh, Dec. 22, 1785) 
 speaks as follows : " Price's speculations cannot 
 fail to sink into the neglect that they always 
 deserved. I have always considered him as a 
 factious citizen, a most superficial philosopher, 
 and by no means an able calculator." (Exhib. 
 Catal. p. 253, No. 1844. "Letter from Adam 
 Smith, in which he goes into the question 
 of the relative amounts of custom duties paid in 
 Scotland in 1785 and former years. Lent by 
 Alfred Morrison, Est; 
 
 Lectures on Oratory and Criticism. 4to, calf. B 
 London^ ijyj. 
 
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 (Samuel). 
 
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 (Elias). 
 
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 (Francois). 
 1st vol. 
 
 2nd vol. 
 
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 Electoris Brandenburgici. Fol. old calf. 
 Berolini^ 1685. 
 
 De Rebus Gestis Frederici Wilhelmi Magni. Vol. 
 ii. only. Fol. Berolini, 1695. 
 
 Puffendorfius de Officio Hominis et Civis. Books 
 I. and II. I vol. 8vo. Londini, 1707. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 325 seq. (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. i.) 
 (Author of one of " those Systems which deduce 
 the Principle of Approbation from Self-love.") 
 
 Ibid. ii. 369 (Part VII. Sect. IV.) (One of those 
 casuists who think that a promise made under 
 compulsion, as by a traveller to a highwayman, 
 need not be kept.) 
 
 II Morgante Maggiore. 4to, vellum. Firenze, 
 1732. 
 
 His Pilgrims. 5 vols. Fol. calf. London^ 1625-26. 
 
 Grammaticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui. 
 4-to. Hanoviae^ 1605. 
 
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 Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouverne- 
 ment le plus avantageux au genre humain. 
 Recueil publie par Du Pont, des Societes Royales 
 d'Agriculture de Soissons et d'Orleans et Corre- 
 spondant de la Societe d'Emulation de Londres. 
 
 Ex natura jus, ordo, et leges 
 Ex homine arbitrium, regimen, 
 
 et coercitio. (F. O.) 
 
 A Leyde et se trouve a Paris chez Merlin, Libraire, 
 rue de la Harpe. mdcclxviii (sic). 
 
 Discussions et developpemens sur quelques-unes des 
 notions de l'economie politique. Pour servir de 
 seconde partie au recueil intitule : Physiocratie. 
 
 A Leyde, etc. (as above), mdcclxvii (sic). 
 
 2 vols. 8vo. In spite of the dates, apparently 
 published at the same time. Paged continuously 
 (520 pp.) 
 
 Both have vignette on title-page (of man plough- 
 ing). The Physiocratie has also engraved
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 93 
 
 frontispiece by Jeaurat, engraved by Ozanne, of 
 agricultural scene, with Latin texts from Ecclesi- 
 asticus and Proverbs. 
 Both have bookplate, and are well bound in calf, 
 with gold tooling and gilt edges, now much 
 worn. On fly-leaf : " From the Authour Mr. 
 Ouesnai, first Physician in ordinary to the 
 french King." On last page of each volume, 
 " Best manner," probably an instruction to 
 binder. No other notes or marks observed. 
 
 Aspect de la Psychologic L'Ame est une sub- 
 stance qui a la propriete de sentir ; la propriete 
 de sentir est la propriete radicale de toutes les 
 affections et facultes de l'Ame. 5 parties. 4 pp. 
 4to. No place or date. 
 
 [Bound with Messance, etc., q.v.^ and described on 
 list of contents as by Ouesnay.] 
 
 W. of N. IV. ix. 304. 1 : "Mr. Ouesnay, the very 
 ingenious and profound author of this [Physio- 
 cratic] system," has illustrated it by "some 
 arithmetical formularies " and an " Economical 
 Table," presenting an ideal state. 
 
 Ibid. 304. 2. Being himself a physician, he looked 
 at the body politic from a physician's point of 
 view, and thought that it would only thrive 
 "under a certain precise regimen," that of 
 perfect liberty and perfect justice. 
 
 Ibid. 307. 1, 2. Followed " implicitly and without 
 any sensible variation by the sect distinguished 
 in the French republic of letters by the name of 
 the Economists." His economical table is, 
 according to Mirabeau (the Elder), one of the 
 three greatest "inventions that have given 
 stability to political societies." (See Mirabeau 
 above.) There is another reference to the 
 Economists in W. of N. V. ii. 373. 2, where 
 the author speaks of a tax on Rent (varying 
 with its amount and the productiveness of the 
 soil) as recommended by "that sect of men of 
 letters in France who call themselves the
 
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 LIANUS 
 
 (Marcus 
 Fabius). 
 
 Rabelais 
 (Francois). 
 
 Racine 
 (Jean). 
 
 Rameau 
 
 (Jean 
 Philippe). 
 
 Rapin 
 (Paul de 
 Thoyras). 
 
 economists.*' In IV. ix. 300. I, he calls them 
 " the French philosophers " who bent the rod 
 the other way in order to straighten it. 
 
 1739- 
 
 Theatre. 5 vols. i2mo. Pi 
 
 " Ex libris T. Harvie." 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 314 (Part III. ch. iv.) (Despreaux 
 
 and Racine formed a cabal against Quinault and 
 
 Perrault.) 
 
 Declamationes Majores et Minores. Ed. P. Bur- 
 mannus. 2 vols. 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1720. 
 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 10 (Part V. ch. i.) (Accuses Seneca 
 of corrupting the taste of the Romans.) 
 
 Oeuvres. Nouv. ed. 3 vols. 4to, calf. Amsterd. C 
 1741. 
 
 Works. Urquhart and Motteux's translation. Re- 
 vised by Ozell. 5 vols. i2mo. London, 1750. 
 
 Oeuvres. 3 vols. Minimo, old calf. Paris, 1750. B 
 
 Oeuvres. 4 vols. 4to. Paris, 1760. Q 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 310 (Part III. ch. ii.) (Disgusted by 
 the bad success of "his Phaedra, the finest tragedy 
 perhaps that is extant in any language." 311. 
 More pained by criticism than pleased by eulogy.) 
 
 Ibid. i. 314 (Part III. ch. ii.) See above (Boileau, 
 Ouinault). 
 
 Ibid. i. 350 (Part III. ch. iii.) (One of those 
 " poets and romance writers " who are " much 
 better instructors " in regard to love and friend- 
 ship than Zeno, Chrysippus, or Epictetus.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 9 (Part V. ch. i.) "What is the burlesque 
 verse in English is the heroic verse in French," 
 in the tragedies of Racine, for example. 
 
 Generation harmonique ou Traite de Musique N 
 theorique et pratique. 8vo. Paris, 1737. 
 
 Oeuvres Diverses. I vol. Small 8vo, calf. Amster- Q 
 dam, 1695. 
 
 History of England. 2 vols. Large fol. old rough B 
 calf. London, 1743.
 
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 (John). 
 
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 Recueil. 
 
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 (Jean 
 
 Francois). 
 
 Reid 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Remem- 
 brancer 
 (The). 
 
 Republic of 
 Letters. 
 
 Restaut 
 (Pierre). 
 
 Rhetori- 
 cians (The 
 Greek). 
 
 RlCCOBONI 
 
 (Louis). 
 
 Raii Synopsis [Methodica] Stirpium Britannicarum. 
 
 [No title-page.] i vol. 8vo. 
 [The ist ed. was in 1690, 2nd 1696. Both Svo.J 
 
 Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablisse- 
 mens du Commerce des Europeens dans les deux 
 Indes. 3 vols. 4-to, calf. Geneve, 1775. 
 
 N. I. xi. iii. 95. 2, 96. 1.: "The eloquent 
 and sometimes well-informed author " gives us 
 figures for the annual importation of gold and 
 silver into Spain and Portugal. 
 
 Histoire de la Ville de Toulouse. 4to. Toulouse, 
 
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 [This may have been picked up during the visit of 
 
 1764-65.] 
 
 Recueil des Comedies et Tragedies des plus celebres 
 auteurs francois. 8vo. Edinbourg, 1784. 
 
 Oeuvres. 4 vols. i2mo. Paris, 1750. 
 
 The Present State of the Republic of Letters. For 
 January 1734. Vol. xiii. 1 2mo, boards. N. P. 
 
 Principes generaux et raisonnes de la Grammaire 
 francoise. 7th ed. i2mo. Paris, 1756. 
 
 Edited by Franciscus Portus. i2mo, vellum. 1570. 
 Bookplate (in addition to Adam Smith's) of L. E. 
 Bigot. 
 
 Reflexions historiques et critiques sur les Theatres 
 de l'Europe. i2mo, calf. A?nsterda?n, 1 740. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 350 (Part III. eh. iii.) (" Racine and 
 Voltaire, Richardson, Maurivaux, and Ricco- 
 boni, as instructors on love and friendship, etc." 
 See above [Racine].) 
 
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 Inquiry into the Human Mind. 8vo, calf. London, 
 1785. 
 
 Essays on the Active Powers of Man. 2 vols. B 
 Large 4to, boards. Edinburgh, 1788. 
 
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 An Essay on the Causes of the Decline of Foreign 
 Trade, consequently of the Value of the Lands 
 of Britain, and on the means to restore both. 
 " Trade has always been the best support of all 
 nations and the principal care of the Wisest " 
 Lord Chesterfield's Speech, Dublin, Oct. 8, 
 
 Richardson 
 (William). 
 
 Richelieu 
 (Cardinal). 
 
 Richesses. 
 
 1745). Edinburgh^ 1756. 
 
 [MacCulloch, Liter, of Pol. Ec. p. 329, gives this 
 tract to Richardson on the authority of Fauquier 
 (Ways and Means, 3rd ed. p. 56). Adam Smith 
 quotes it as Sir Matthew Decker's, to whom 
 MacCulloch himself had ascribed it in the earlier 
 part of his "Literature," p. 46.] 
 
 W. of N. IV. v. 228. 1. Our bounty enabled the 
 Dutch to eat cheaper corn than we, "as we are 
 assured by an excellent authority, Sir Matthew 
 Decker." 
 
 Ibid. IV. vii. 268. I. "Causes of decay in other 
 branches of foreign trade, which, by Sir Matthew 
 Decker and other writers, have been sought for " 
 in taxation. 
 
 Ibid. V. ii. 395. 1. Taxes are repeated and accumu- 
 lated in the price of goods. But the proposal 
 treated in V. ii. 396. 2 as Decker's (a licence 
 to consume) is really Decker's (from "Con- 
 siderations on the High Duties which the Nation 
 in general, as well as Trade in particular, labours 
 under," 1743). 
 
 Testament Politique. Old calf. Amsterdam, 1696. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 436 (Part III. ch. vi.) "Projects 
 very daring and extensive, though altogether 
 devoid of justice, such as those of the Cardinals 
 of Richlieu (sic) and of Retz." 
 
 Richesses de l'Etat. [Anon.] 8 pp. 4to. N. P., 
 
 N. D. 
 [Bound with Messance, q.v.~\ [Ascribed to Roussel 
 
 de la Tour.] 
 Traite des Richesses. [Anon.] 2 vols. 8vo, 
 
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 (Due de). 
 
 Considerations sur les Richesses et le Luxe. Aurea 
 nunc vere sunt. Ovid. A Amsterdam et se 
 trouve a Paris chez la Veuve Valade, rue des 
 Noyers. 8vo. 1787. [Senac de Meilhan.] 
 
 [Bound with Lit de Justice, q.v.~\ 
 
 An Inquiry into the Fine Arts. 4to, boards. 
 Vol. i. only [containing the history and theory 
 of Music]. [The 2nd was never published.] 
 London^ 1784. 
 
 [Minister of Dalmeny.] 
 
 History of Scotland during the Reign of Oueen 
 Mary and James VI. 2 vols. 4to, calf. 
 London^ 1759. 
 
 History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. 
 3 vols. 4to, calf. London^ 1769. 
 
 History of America. 2nd' ed. 2 vols. 4to, calf. 
 London^ 1778. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 374 (Part III. ch. iii.) (Story of 
 Joanna of Castile and the monk's consolation of 
 her.) 
 
 Mathematical Tracts. 2 vols. 8vo. London^ 1761. 
 
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 1778. 
 
 Memoires de la Minorite de Louis XIV. par le Due B 
 D. L. R. 2 vols. Minimo, calf. Trevoux^ 
 
 1754- 
 
 Bookplate (besides Adam Smith's) of "Sir Ellis 
 Cunliffe, Bart." 
 
 Mor. Sent. (1759) p. 474: "The systems of the 
 Duke of Rochefaucault (sic) and Dr. Mande- 
 ville " seem to take away the distinction between 
 vice and virtue, and have a wholly pernicious 
 tendency. In the edition of 1790 Adam Smith 
 dropped the reference to Rochefoucauld. The 
 following extract from a letter written to Adam 
 Smith by the grandson of Rochefoucauld, besides 
 showing that the first of the two above books 
 was presented by the family, is of general 
 interest: — "Paris, 3 ?nars 1778. — Le desir de 
 H
 
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 (Jacobus). 
 
 se rappeler a votre souvenir, Monsieur, quand 
 on a eu l'honneur de vous connoitre, doit vous 
 paroitre fort naturel. Permettez que nous 
 saisissions pour cela, ma Mere et moi, l'occasion 
 d'une edition nouvelle des Maximes de La 
 Rochefoucauld, dont nous prenons la liberte de 
 vous offrir un exemplaire. Vous voyez que 
 nous n'avons point de rancune, puisque le mal que 
 vous avez dit de lui dans la Theorie des Sentimens 
 Moraux ne nous empeche point de vous envoier 
 ce meme ouvrage. II s'en est meme fallu de 
 peu que je ne fisse encore plus, car j'avois eu 
 peutetre la temerite d'entreprendre une tra- 
 duction de votre Theorie; mais comme je venois 
 de terminer la premiere partie, j'ai vu paroitre 
 la traduction de M. l'Abbe Blavet ; et j'ai ete 
 force de renoncer au plaisir que j'aurois eu de 
 faire passer dans ma langue un des meilleurs 
 ouvrages de la votre. II auroit bien fallu pour 
 lors entreprendre une justification de mon grand- 
 pere. Peutetre n'auroit-il pas ete difficile, 
 premierement de l'excuser, en disant qu'il avoit 
 toujours vu les hommes a la Cour et dans la 
 guerre civile, deux theatres sur lesquels ils sont 
 certainement plus mauvais qu'ailleurs, et ensuite 
 de justifier, par la conduite de l'auteur, les prin- 
 cipes qui sont certainement trop generalises dans 
 son ouvrage. II a pris la partie pour le tout ; 
 et, parceque les gens qu'il avoit eu le plus sous 
 les yeux etaient animes par l'amour propre, il en 
 a fait le mobile general de tous les hommes. Au 
 reste, quoique son ouvrage merite a certains 
 egards d'etre combattu, il est cependant esti- 
 mable meme pour le fond et beaucoup pour la 
 forme." (Stewart's Life of Adam Smith, pre- 
 fixed to Essays, p. lv.) 
 Rochefoucauld is quoted (on love and ambition) in 
 Mor. Sent. i. 139 (Part I. Sect. III. ch. ii.),and 
 the passage is the same in the 1st ed. ( 1 759 \ 
 p. 126. 
 
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 Jacques). 
 
 Ruchat 
 (M.) 
 
 maximam partem haustis ampliflcavit et ornavit 
 Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. 4th ed. 8vo. London, 
 1718. 
 
 The proposed System of Trade with Ireland ex- 
 plained. [Anon.] 8vo. 58 pp. London, 1785. 
 
 [Bound with Dundonald, q.v.~\ 
 
 Antiquitates Romanae. 1 vol. 4to. Amstelodmni, 
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 dam, 1 761. 
 
 Emile ou de l'Education. 1 2 mo, old calf. Francfort, 
 1762. 
 Vol. i. 
 Vol. iii. 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 73-78. (Compares "Mr. 
 Rousseau of Geneva " with Mandeville, giving 
 a long quotation from the Discourse on Ine- 
 quality.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 79. (Letter of Voltaire to him.) 
 
 Essay on Imitat. Arts, 165 seq. "An author more 
 capable of feeling strongly than of analysing 
 accurately, Mr. Rousseau of Geneva " attributes 
 to Music by itself effects which it obtains only 
 when conjoined with the scenery and action 
 of the stage. Adam Smith is referring to the 
 Lettre sur la Musique Franchise, 1753. 
 
 In the Considerations concerning the First Forma- 
 tion of Languages (Mor. Sent. ii. 407) Ad. Sm. 
 speaks of c genera and species ' — " of which the 
 ingenious M. Rousseau of Geneva finds himself 
 so much at a loss to account for the origin ;" and 
 (with unusual care) gives the reference, "Origine 
 de l'lne'galite. Partie Premiere, pp. 376, 377. 
 Edition d'Amsterdam des Oeuvres diverses de 
 J. J. Rousseau." 
 
 Rousseau may have been in mind when the passage 
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 N. V. i. 319 seq. 
 
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 from 15th century.) 
 
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 Ibid. 91. 1. The rise in the value of silver in re- 
 lation to corn has been observed in France 
 by St. Maur, Messance, and the author of the 
 « Police of Grain." . 
 
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 Tacitus charged by some with affectation and 
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 i2mo, boards. Edinburgh, IJJJ. 
 
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 something to the above sources. Only a part of 
 the passage is in the 1st ed. (cf. also V. ii. 
 395. 1,406. 1). 
 
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 102 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Sanctius 
 (Franciscus). 
 
 Sandys 
 (George). 
 
 Sannazaro 
 
 (Jacopo). 
 
 Saunderson 
 
 (Nicholas). 
 
 Savary 
 (Nicolas). 
 
 Saxe 
 
 (Maurice, 
 
 Comte de). 
 
 Scaliger 
 
 (Julius 
 
 Caesar). 
 
 Schoocks 
 
 (Martin). 
 
 ScHUTZIUS 
 
 (Johannes 
 Jacobus). 
 Scotland. 
 
 Scott 
 
 (Daniel). 
 
 Minerva seu de causis linguae Latinae comment- N 
 
 arius. 5th ed. 8vo. Amsterdam, 1733. 
 Formation of Languages, Mor. Sent. ii. 439. 
 
 (Quoted on impersonal verbs. He thinks that 
 
 " pluit " means " pluvia pluit," etc.) 
 Travels [in Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, etc.] 7th C 
 
 [9th ?] ed. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. London, 
 
 1673. 
 Arcadia. I vol. Venice, 1524. C 
 
 Elements of Algebra in Ten Books. 2 vols. 4to. N 
 
 Cambridge, 1740. 
 Le Coran traduit de PArabe. 2 vols. 8vo, tree C 
 
 calf. Paris, 1783. 
 Les Reveries ou Memoires sur Part de la Guerre. C 
 
 I vol. Fol. calf. La Haye, 1788. 
 
 Viri Clarissimi Poetices. Libri Septem. 1 vol. C 
 Small fol. calf. Brabant, 1559. 
 
 Respublica Achaeorum. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir. C 
 
 Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1674. 
 Compendium Juris. i2mo. Tubingae, Francofurti, N 
 
 et Lipsiae. N. D. 
 
 Respublica sive status regni Scotiae et Hiberniae. C 
 Diversorum Auctorum. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir. 
 Lugd. Bat. 1627. 
 
 Musae Sacrae Poetarum Scotorum. 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Edinburghi, 1739. 
 
 Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern. 1 vol. 
 Small 8vo, calf. 1776. 
 
 A reference to Scottish poetry 'occurs in the Essay 
 on Imitative Arts, pp. 182, 183. Ad. Sm. 
 observes that the tunes have altered even in his 
 lifetime ; and the remark seems to show that 
 this part of the Essay at least was written late 
 and not early. 
 
 Appendix ad Thesaurum Graecae linguae ab Henrico 
 Stephanoconstructum,et ad Lexicon Constantini, 
 et Scapulae. 2 vols. Fol. Londini, iy^.^-^.6.
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 103 
 
 Selden 
 
 (John). 
 
 Seneca 
 
 (L. 
 
 Annaeus). 
 
 SeVigne* 
 (Madame 
 de). 
 Sextus 
 Empiricus. 
 Shakspeare 
 (William). 
 
 Mare Clausum. 1 vol. Fol. JVratislaviae^ 1 75 1. Q C 
 
 Tragoediae. 
 
 vo, vellum. Amstelod. 1662. 
 
 Opera quae exstant. 2 vols. 8vo. Amstelod. 1673. 
 
 Seneca a M. Antonio Mureto correctus notis. 
 Small fol. old calf. 1692. 
 
 on Astron. 44. (He does not mention Hip- 
 parch us anywhere.) 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 114-115 (Part I. Sect. III. ch. i.) 
 Cato's conduct in his last moments "appears to 
 Seneca, that great preacher of insensibility, a 
 spectacle which even the gods themselves might 
 behold with pleasure and admiration." 
 
 Ibid. ii. 10 (Part V. ch. i.) (He is accused bv 
 Ouintilian of having corrupted the tastes of the 
 Romans.) 
 
 Ibid. ii. 247 (Part VII. Sect. II. ch. i.) (He says it 
 would be " easier to prove that drunkenness is a 
 virtue, than that Cato could be addicted to anv 
 
 cueil de 
 
 Recueil des Lettres. 
 1754- 
 
 1 vol. 
 
 Opera, Graece et Latine ed. J. A. Fabricius. 
 
 Fol. Lipsiae^ 1 718. 
 The Plays of Shakspeare. Ed. by Samuel Johnson. 
 
 [2nd ed.] 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London^ 1778. 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1 755, ii. 65, " In the old English poets, 
 in Shakespear, Spenser, and Milton, there often 
 appears, amidst some irregularities and extra- 
 vagancies, a strength of imagination so vast, so 
 gigantic and supernatural, as astonishes and con- 
 founds their reader into that admiration of their 
 genius which makes him despise as mean and 
 insignificant all criticism upon the inequalities 
 in their writings." 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 75 fPart I. Sect. II. ch. iii.) "We 
 detest Iago as much as we esteem Othello." 
 
 Ibid. ii. 177 (Part VI. Sect. III.) The proud man 
 "dies, as Hamlet says, with all his sins upon 
 his head, unanointed, unanealed." (The quota- 
 tion is given freely, from memory.) 
 
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 B~ 
 
 9 vols. i2mo, calf. Paris^ B 
 
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 Sheffield 
 (John) 
 (Lord). 
 
 SlBBALD 
 
 (Sir 
 Robert). 
 
 SlGONIUS 
 
 (Carolus). 
 
 Silius 
 Italicus. 
 
 SlMLERUS 
 
 (Josias). 
 
 Simpson 
 
 (Thomas) 
 
 (F.R.S.) 
 
 SlMSON 
 
 (Robert). 
 
 Observations on the Commerce of the United States. B 
 8vo, calf. London, 1 784. 
 
 Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and N 
 Present State of Ireland. 2nd ed. 8vo. London, 
 1785. 
 
 On fly-leaf: "From the Author." 
 
 Scotia Illustrata sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis. B 
 Fol. old calf. Edinburgh 1684. 
 
 The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriff- C 
 doms of Fife and Kinross. 1 vol. Small fol. 
 calf. Edinburgh, 17 10. 
 
 De antiquo jure civium Romanorum. Fol. old calf. 
 Francofurti, 1593. 
 
 Opera. Ed. Arnold Drakenborch. 1 vol. 4to. 
 Trajecti ad Rhenum, IJIJ. 
 
 De republica Helvetiorum,cumCompendio Historiae 
 Helveticae. 8vo, calf. Tiguri [Zurich], 1734. 
 
 The Nature and Laws of Chance. Illustrated with B 
 a great variety of examples. Large 8vo, vellum. 
 [Edward Cave, St. 'John's Gate) 1740. 
 
 Essays in Speculative and Mixed Mathematics. 4to, B 
 old calf. London, 1740. 
 
 A Treatise of Algebra. 2nded. 8vo. London, 1754. N 
 
 Elements de Geometrie traduits de l'Anglois de M. U 
 Thomas Simpson de la Societe Royale de Londres, 
 professeur de Mathematiques a Woolwich. 8vo. 
 De l'imprimerie de Vincent, rue S. Severin. 
 Paris, 1755. 
 
 The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions. 2nd N 
 ed. 8vo. London, 1776. 
 
 Apollonii Pergaei Locorum Planorum Libri Duo. B 
 4to, old calf. Foulis, Glasguae, 1749. 
 
 Sectionum Conicarum Libri Ouinque. 4to, old B 
 calf. Edinburgi, 1750. 
 
 Euclidis Elementorum libri priores sex, item un- N 
 decimus et duodecimus, ex versione Latina 
 Federici Commandini, sublatis iis quibus olim
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 105 
 
 Skene 
 (Sir John). 
 
 Sleidan 
 
 (Johann). 
 
 Smith 
 (Adam). 
 
 libri hi a Theone aliisve vitiati sunt et quibus- 
 dam Euclidis demonstrationibus restitutis a 
 Roberto Simson, M.D. 4-to. Glasguae, 1756. 
 
 Opera Ouaedam Geometrica [Roberti Simsoni, post B 
 mortem ejus, impensis Philippi Comitis Stanhope 
 impressa]. 4to, tree calf. Foulis, Glasguae, ijj6. 
 
 The Elements of Euclid. Also Euclid's Data. C 
 I vol. 8vo, calf. Glasgow, 178 1. 
 
 [Professor of Mathematics, Glasgow, 1711-61.] 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 312 (Part III. ch. ii.) "The two 
 greatest mathematicians that I ever have had the 
 honour to be known to, and I believe the two 
 greatest that have lived in my time, Dr. Robert 
 Simpson [j/V] of Glasgow and Dr. Matthew 
 Stewart of Edinburgh," were quite indifferent 
 to public neglect. 
 
 Regiam Majestatem Scotiae [sive veteres Leges et B 
 Constitutiones collectae et illustratae]. [2nd 
 ed.] Small fol. old calf. London, 161 3. 
 
 Compare W. of N. I. xi. 84. 2. " In an ancient 
 manuscript of the Regiam Majestatem, an old 
 Scotch law book," there is an assize of bread. 
 He quotes some words of the statute of assize. 
 
 Joannis Sleidani Religionis et Reipublicae, Carlo B 
 Ouinto Caesare, Commentariorum libri xxvi. 
 fol. calf. N. P. 1555. 
 
 Joannis Sleidani de Ouatuor Summis Imperiis Libri B 
 Tres. Postrema editio. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir. 
 Amstelod. 1654. 
 
 The Theory of Moral Sentiments. [1st ed.] 8vo, B 
 calf. London, 1759. 
 
 The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 3rd ed. 8vo, B 
 calf. London, 1767. 
 
 Theorie des Sentimens Moraux [Metaphysique B 
 de l'Ame]. Trad, par M. . . . i2mo, old 
 calf. Vol. ii. only. Paris, 1764. 
 
 Theorie des Sentimens Moraux [Metaphysique de B 
 Ame], etc. 2 vols. i2mo, calf. Paris, 1764.
 
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 Smith 
 (John). 
 
 Smith 
 (John) 
 (LL.B.) 
 
 Theorie des Sentimens Moraux. Trad, par M. B 
 l'abbe Blavet. 2 vols. i2mo, calf. Paris, 1774. 
 [Presentation copy, from translator.] 
 
 The same. Another copy. B 
 
 Theorie der Moralischen Empfindungen. 1 vol. C 
 8vo, red morocco. Braunschweig, 1770. 
 
 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth 
 
 of Nations. [1st ed.] 2 vols. 4-to, calf. 
 
 London, 1776. 
 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth B 
 
 of Nations. [5th ed.] 3 vols. 8vo, boards. 
 
 London, 1786. 
 Untersuchung der Natur und Ursachen von Nation- C 
 
 alreichthiimern. Vol. ii. only. 8vo, red morocco. 
 
 Leipzig, 1776. 
 [Monogram of George III. in gold on cover.] 
 [Another copy, of same date and binding, without C 
 
 monogram.] 
 Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse B 
 
 des Nations. Trad, par M. l'abbe Bl[avet]. 
 
 3 vols. l2mo. Paris, 1 781. 
 On fly-leaf: "A M. Smith de la part de son tres 
 
 humble serviteur, l'abbe Blavet." [See above, 
 
 Rochefoucauld.] 
 Recherches, etc. Trad, par M. Roucher. Vols. i. B 
 
 and iii. only. 8vo, paper covers. Paris, 1790. 
 [Babbage's library, sold in 1872, is said by Trior. 
 
 Rogers to have contained Hume's copy of the 
 
 Wealth of Nations. A copy of the Moral 
 
 Sentiments (1790) that belonged to Robert 
 
 Burns was recently offered for sale (August 
 
 1893) m London.] 
 Gaelic Antiquities. 1 vol. 4to, calf. Edinburgh, C 
 
 1780. 
 [Minister of Kilbrandon, Lorn.] 
 
 Chronicum Rusticum Commerciale, or Memoirs of B 
 Wool. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 1747. 
 
 W. of N. I. xi. 106. 2. (Ouoted for prices of the 
 
 tod of wool in middle of 14th cent.) 
 Ibid. IV. viii. 294. I. "It is observed by the very
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 107 
 
 Smith 
 
 (Robert). 
 
 SOAVE 
 
 (Pietro). 
 Sophocles. 
 
 Spain. 
 
 accurate and intelligent author of the Memoirs 
 of Wool, the Rev. Mr. John Smith," that the 
 best English wool sells for less in England than 
 a poorer sort would fetch in Amsterdam. 
 Complete System of Opticks. 4to. Cambridge, 
 
 1738; 
 
 Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds. 
 
 2nd ed. 8vo. London, 1 759. 
 [D.D., F.R.S., Master of Trinity, Cambridge, after 
 
 Bentley.] 
 
 Edinr. Rev. 1755, ii. 67. "In Dr. Smith's Optics, 
 all the great discoveries which had before been 
 made in that science are very completely re- 
 corded." In knowledge of his science he is 
 superior to Keil and Gregory, but inferior " in 
 the order and disposition of his work." 
 
 Historia del Concilio Tridentino. 4to, 
 Geneva ; 1629. 
 
 Quae exstant omnia ed. R. F. P. Brunck. 
 4-to. Argentorati (Strasburg), 1786. 
 
 Tragoediae septem ex editione Phil. Brunck. 
 8vo, tree calf. Argentorati, 1786. 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 63 (Part I. Sect. II. ch. i.) (In 
 Philoctetes it is not the pain that interests us, 
 but the attendant circumstances.) 
 
 Ibid. i. 272 (Part II. Sect. II. ch. iii.) "It is this 
 fallacious sense of guilt, if I may call it so, which 
 constitutes the whole distress of Oedipus and 
 Jocasta upon the Greek, of Monimia and Isabella 
 upon the English theatre [in Otway's Orphan]. 
 They are all of them in the highest degree 
 piacular (sic), though not one of them is in the 
 smallest degree guiltv." 
 
 Hispania sive de regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus 
 Commentarius. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir. Lugd. 
 Bat. 1629. 
 
 Impartial Inquiry into the Management of the War 
 in Spain by the Ministrv at home. i2mo, old 
 calf. London, 171 2. 
 
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 Sparrman 
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 Spon 
 (Jacob). 
 
 Sprechieri 
 (F.) 
 
 Staal 
 (Madame 
 
 de). 
 Staehlin 
 (J. von). 
 
 Stanley 
 (Thomas). 
 
 Stanyan 
 
 (Temple). 
 
 Statius 
 
 (Publius 
 
 Papinius). 
 
 Steele 
 (Joshua). 
 
 both Houses of Parliament on Friday 29th 
 
 January 1762 by his Majesty's command. 
 
 Printed by Mark Baskett, printer to his 
 
 Majesty, and by the assigns of Robert Baskett. 
 
 4to. London, 1762. 
 [Bound with Grenville and Rates of Excise, 
 
 q.v.~\ 
 Opuscoli di Fisica Animale e Vegetabile. 2 vols. C 
 
 8vo, calf. Modena, 1786. 
 A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. 2 vols. C 
 
 4to, calf. London, 1785. 
 Histoire de Geneve. 2 vols. 4to, tree calf. B 
 
 [Barillot] Geneve, 1730. 
 Rhoetia, ubi ejus verus situs politicus, bella, foedera, C 
 
 et alia memorabilia accuratissime describuntur. 
 
 1 vol. l2mo, Elzev. Lugd. Batav. 1633. 
 Memoire, ecrit par elle-meme. 4 vols. Small 8vo, C 
 
 calf. London, 1 755. 
 
 Account of the new Northern Archipelago, lately F 
 discovered by the Russians in the Seas of 
 Kamtschatka and Anadir. Translated from the 
 German original (with map) [by C. Heydinger], 
 pp. xx. 118. London, 1 774. 
 
 History of Philosophy. 2nd ed. 1 vol. Fol. C 
 calf. London, 1687. 
 
 Historia Philosophiae. Thick 4to, vellum. Lipsiae, B 
 
 171 1. 
 On fly-leaf: "To Adam Smith, Esq., from his 
 
 much obliged friend John Davidson, 1788." 
 
 Tableau historique et politique de la Suisse, traduit N 
 de l'anglais par M. de la Chapelle. i2mo. 
 Freibourg, l^hb. 
 
 Papinii Statii Opera — Sylvae, Thebais, Achilleis. 
 
 Frontispiece, the burning of Troy. Lugd. 
 
 Batav. 1 67 1. 
 Silvae. Ed. Jer. Markland. 1 vol. 4to. Londini, O 
 
 1728. 
 Prosodia Rationalis, or an Essay towards establish- N 
 
 ing the Melody and Measure of Speech, to be
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 109 
 
 Steele 
 (Richard). 
 
 Stephan- 
 
 orura 
 Historia. 
 
 Stephanus 
 (Henricus). 
 
 (Robertus). 
 
 Sterne 
 (Laurence). 
 
 Steuart 
 
 (Sir James, 
 
 of Coltness). 
 
 Stewart 
 (Matthew). 
 
 Stewarts. 
 
 4 vols. 4to. 
 4 vols. Fol. Basileae, 
 3rd ed. 
 
 o c 
 
 B 
 
 expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols. 
 2nd ed. 4to. London, 1779. 
 On fly-leaf: "From the Author." 
 
 The Tatler, with illustrations. 6 vols. 8vo, calf. C 
 
 London, 1786. 
 The Guardian. 2 vols. i2mo, calf. Glasgow, 1746. B 
 
 Stephanorum Historia, vitas ipsorum ac libros com- B 
 plectens. 8vo, tooled calf, bound by Scott, Edin- 
 burgh. Londini, 1709. 
 
 Thesaurus linguae Graecae. 4 vols. 4to. N. P., O C 
 N. D. 
 
 Thesaurus linguae Latinae. 
 
 1740-43. 
 Sermons by Mr. Yorick. [Anon.] 
 
 I vol. Small 8vo, calf. London, 1760 
 
 An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Econ- 
 omy. Vol. i. only. Large 4to. London, Ij6j. 
 
 [Ad. Sm. said "he understood Sir James's system 
 better from his conversation than his volumes." 
 Works of St. (1805), vol. vi. p. 378.] 
 
 Some General Theorems of considerable use in the N 
 higher parts of Mathematics. 8vo. Edinburgh, 
 1746. 
 
 Tracts Physical and Mathematical. 8vo. Edin- N 
 burgh, 1 76 1. 
 
 [Minister of Roseneath. Father of Dugald 
 
 Stewart.] 
 Mor. Sent. i. 312 (Part III. ch. ii.) See above, 
 Simson (Robert). Compare Life, by Dug. 
 Stewart, prefixed to Essays, p. xi. : "I remem- 
 ber to have heard my father remind him (Ad. 
 Smith) of a geometrical problem of considerable 
 difficulty about which he was occupied at the 
 time when their acquaintance commenced." 
 
 A genealogical history of the family of the B 
 Stewarts, from 1304 to the year 17 10, collected 
 from Public Records. Small fol. old calf. Edin- 
 burgh, 1 7 10. 
 
 Prefixed is a General Description of the Shire of 
 Renfrew.
 
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 FLEET 
 
 (Benjamin). 
 
 Stobaeus 
 (Joannes). 
 
 Strabo. 
 
 Strada 
 (Jacobus de). 
 
 Strausky. 
 
 Struvechius 
 (G.) 
 
 Struvius 
 
 (Burchardus 
 
 Gotthelf- 
 
 fius). 
 
 Stuart 
 (Andrew). 
 
 Suetonius. 
 
 Sully 
 (Due de). 
 
 Sutherland 
 
 (Countess 
 
 of). 
 
 Swift 
 (Jonathan). 
 
 Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, N 
 
 Husbandry, and Physick, to which is added the 
 
 Calendar of Flora. 3rd ed. 8vo. London, 1775. 
 Loci Communes sacri et profani sententiarum omnis O 
 
 generis. 1 vol. 410. Frankofurti, 1581. 
 The same. 1 vol. Fol. Frankofurti, 1581. 
 Res Geographicae. Subjiciuntur Chrestomathiae. 
 
 2 vols. 4-to. Amstelo. 1707. 
 Epitome Thesauri Antiquitatum. 1 vol. 4to, C 
 
 vellum. Lugd. Batav. 1553. 
 Respublica Bojemiae a M. Paulo Strausky descripta, C 
 
 recognita, et aucta. 1 vol. i2mo, Elzevir. 
 
 Lugd. Batav. 1643. 
 Commentarius ad Flavii Vegetii Renati libros de re B 
 
 militari. 8vo, vellum. Vesaliae \_JVesel\ 1670. 
 Corpus historiae Germanicae. 2 vols. Fol. old B 
 
 calf. Jenae, 1730. 
 
 Letters to Lord Mansfield relating to his lordship's B 
 judgment in the Douglas cause. 4to, boards. 
 London, 1773. 
 
 Omnia quae supersunt. Ed. F. Oudendorphius. 
 2 vols. 8vo. Lugd. Batav. 1 75 1 . 
 
 Memoires [ou Oeconomies Royales d'Etat, domes- 
 tiques, politiques, et militaires de Henry le 
 Grand (depuis 1570 jusqu'en 1610), par Maxi- 
 mil. de Bethune, due de Sully. Mis en nouveau 
 francais et en ordre avec des remarques] par 
 M.L.D.L.D.L. [M. l'abbe de Lecluse des 
 Loges]. 6 vols. i2mo, old calf. Londres, IJS 2 ' 
 
 The Additional Case. Elizabeth claiming the title B 
 and dignity of Countess of Sutherland. By her 
 Guardians. 4to, boards. 1 77-. 
 
 Works. 17 vols. 8vo. London, 1784. Q 
 
 Mor. Sent. i. 465 (Part IV. ch. i.) " The homely 
 and vulgar proverb that the eye is larger than the 
 belly." From Gulliver, Brobdingnag, ch. viii. 
 
 Ibid. ii. II (Part V. ch. i.) See above (Pope). 
 
 Ibid. ii. 57 (Part VI. Sect. I.) Dr. Swift and
 
 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library iii 
 
 Swift 
 (Jonathan). 
 
 Symons 
 (Jellinger). 
 
 Syrus 
 (Publius). 
 
 Systeme 
 Social. 
 
 Voltaire are mentioned among the men of "splen- 
 did talents and virtues " who have shown " a most 
 improper and even insolent contempt of all the 
 ordinary decorums of life and conversation." 
 W. of N. V. ii. 398. 2. "The saying of Dr. 
 Swift that in the arithmetic of the customs two 
 and two instead of making four make sometimes 
 only one, holds perfectly true with regard to 
 such heavy duties." Hume had quoted the say- 
 ing before Ad. Sm. See the Essay on the Balance 
 of Trade : " We ought always to remember the 
 maxim of Dr. Swift that in the arithmetic of the 
 customs two and two make not four, but often 
 make only one." The passage concerned is in 
 Swift's " Answer to a Paper called a Memorial 
 of the poor inhabitants, tradesmen, and labourers 
 of the kingdom of Ireland. Written in the year 
 1728." The Commissioners of Customs in 
 London told him "that the Mistake of Parlia- 
 ments on such occasions was owing to an Error 
 of computing Two and Two to make Four, 
 whereas in the Business of laying heavy Imposi- 
 tions Two and Two never made more than One." 
 
 Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan 
 Swift, in a series of letters from John, Earl of 
 Orrery. 8vo, calf. London, 1752. 
 
 The Excise Laws abridged and digested under their 
 proper heads, in alphabetical order. 2nd ed. 
 8vo. London, 1 775. 
 
 Ed. R. Bentley. [With Terence, q.v.] 
 
 Systeme Social ou principes naturels de la Morale et 
 la Politique avec un examen de l'influence du 
 Gouvernement sur les Mceurs. Difficilis virtus 
 est ; ars est bonum fieri ; erras si existimas vitia 
 nobiscum nasci ; supervenerunt, ingesta sunt. 
 Seneca, Epist. 124. 2volsinone. London, 1773. 
 
 [Ascribed to Baron d'Holbach, who is mentioned 
 in the letter of Adam Smith given in facsimile 
 by MacCulloch in his separate Life of Adam 
 Smith, 1855.] 
 
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 Tactics. 
 Tanjore. 
 
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 (Torquato). 
 
 Tassoni 
 (Ales- 
 
 sandro). 
 
 Tavernier 
 
 (Jean 
 Baptiste). 
 
 Taylor 
 
 (Jeremy). 
 
 Temple 
 
 (Sir 
 William). 
 
 Terentius 
 
 (Publius, 
 
 Afer). 
 
 Opera. 2 vols. 8vo, vellum, Elzevir. Jmstelo. C 
 
 1672. 
 Opera ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. 4 vols. B 
 
 Minimo, old calf. Foulis, Glasguae, 1753. 
 Mor. Sent. ii. 11 (Part V. ch. i.) See above 
 
 (Sallust). 
 
 Essai general de tactique. 2 vols, in one. 4to. B 
 London , 1773. 
 
 Original Papers relative to Tanjore, being letters B 
 between the Nabob of Arcot and Lord Pigot. 
 4to, boards. London^ IJJJ. 
 
 La Gerusalemme Liberata. 4 vols. 4to, calf. C 
 London^ 1724. 
 
 La Gerusalemme Liberata. 2 vols. Small 8vo, C 
 
 calf. Glasguae, I 763. 
 Essay of Certain Engl, and Ital. Verses, 192. 
 
 (Quotes Canto I. lines 1, 5, 6, and 9.) 
 
 De' Pensieri Diversi. 1 vol. 4to, sheepskin. C 
 Venetia, 1676. 
 
 Les Six Voyages de J. B. Tavernier en Turquie, B 
 en Perse, et aux Indes. 3 vols. Thick i2mo, 
 vellum. Paris^ 1779. 
 
 W. of N. I. xi. 80. 1. "When Tavernier, a 
 jeweller, visited the diamond mines of Golconda 
 and Visiapour " he was told that the king had 
 shut up all but the best. 
 
 Antiquitates Christianae. 4 vols. Fol. calf. C 
 London^ 1703. 
 
 Works. 4 vols. 8vo, calf. Edinburgh^ 1754. C 
 
 Comoediae Sex. 8vo, vellum. Amstelod. 1686. 
 
 Comoediae. Edidit R. Bentley. 1 vol. 4to. 
 Cantabrigiae, 1726. (With Phaedrus, q.v.) 
 
 Comoediae. Edidit A. H. Westerhovius. 2 vols. 
 4to. Hagae Comitum, 1726. 
 
 Comoediae ex editione Westerhoviana. Large 8vo, 
 calf. Glasguae^ 1742.
 
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 Terrasson 
 (M. l'Abbe). 
 
 Theocritus. 
 
 Theodosius. 
 
 Theo- 
 phrastus. 
 
 Thomas 
 (Antoine L.) 
 
 Thomas 
 (S.) 
 
 Thompson 
 (David). 
 
 Thompson 
 (James). 
 
 De Thou 
 (Jacques 
 Auguste). 
 
 Comoediae, ad fidem optimarum editionum expressae. B 
 8vo, calf. Edinburgh 1758. 
 
 La Philosophic applicable a tous les objets de l'esprit N 
 et de la raison. i2mo. Paris, 1754. 
 
 Carmina Bucolica, Graece et Latine. Notes by B 
 
 Valckenaer. 8vo, calf. Lugd. Batav. 1 781. 
 W. of N. I. x. 45. 2. " Fishermen have been poor 
 
 since the days of Theocritus. Sec Idvllium 
 
 xxi." 
 Codex Theodosianus. 8 vols. Fol. calf, in beauti- G S 
 
 ful order, including 7 vols, of the Codex itself 
 
 (the 6th in 2 parts) and 1 vol. of Leges Novellae 
 
 Theodosii Junioris et Valentiniani III. 
 
 The 7 printed at Leipzig (G. Wadman), 
 
 1736 ; trie 8th at Rome (Zempoli), 1767. 
 
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 made perfectly easy. Containing tables for all 
 the various courses of exchange from and the 
 several coins equated of Holland, etc. ; also arbi- 
 tration of Exchange, Weights, and Measures, 
 etc., by S. Thomas, merchant. London, 1759. 
 
 Histoire d'un peuple nouveau, ou decouverte d'une N 
 isle a 43 degres 14 minutes de latitude meri- 
 dionale par David Tompson (sic), capitaine de 
 vaisseau le Boston, a son retour de la Chine, 
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 1543-1607. 5 vols. Fol. boards. Aurelianae 
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 Eclogues and Georgics, with English Translation. 
 
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 Formation of Languages (Mor. Sent. ii. 459). (First 
 
 line of first Eclogue quoted, to show the power 
 
 of inflections.) 
 W. of N. IV. vii. 252. 1. ("Auri sacra fames." 
 
 Aen. iii. 57.) 
 Ibid. IV. vii. 265. 1. How has the policy of Europe 
 
 benefited the colonies of America ? " In one 
 
 way, and in one way only, it has contributed a 
 
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 Voltaire 
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 good deal. Magna virum Mater ! It bred and 
 formed the men." Compare Georgics II. 173: 
 "Salve magna parens frugum Saturnia tellus, 
 Magna virum." 
 
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 Encyclopedic) 
 
 (2) Ibid. 78. "Mr. Voltaire, the most universal 
 
 genius perhaps which France has ever pro- 
 duced, is acknowledged to be, in almost every 
 species of writing, nearly upon a level with the 
 greatest authors of the last age, who applied 
 themselves chiefly to one.!' 
 
 (3) Ibid. 79. (His originality shows to great advan- 
 
 tage in his last tragedy, the Orphan of China.) 
 
 (4) Ibid. 79. (In a letter to Rousseau he disclaims 
 
 responsibility for an edition of his History of 
 the Last War, published under his name in 
 Holland, and full of errors.)
 
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 (5) Mor. Sent. i. 131, 132 (Part I. Sect. III. ch. ii.) 
 
 (On the real causes of the great fame of Louis 
 XIV.) 
 
 (6) Ibid. i. 302 (Part III. ch. ii.) is probably 
 
 written with Voltaire's " Traite sur la Toler- 
 ance a l'occasion de la Mort de Jean Calas " 
 (1763) in mind. The passage does not occur 
 in the 1st ed. (1759). Calas was executed at 
 Toulouse, where (as Brougham remarks, in 
 "Men of Letters," ii. (1846), p. 112 n.) 
 Adam Smith may have heard much about 
 him in conversation. 
 
 (7) Ibid. 311 (Part III. ch. ii.) (V.'s "sensibility" 
 
 to criticism.) 
 
 (8) Ibid. 330 (Part III. ch. ii.) : " Vous y grillez 
 
 sage et docte Platon, Divin Homere, eloquent 
 Ciceron." 
 
 (9) Ibid. 350 (Part III. ch. iii.) (Among the 
 
 " poets and romance- writers " who are better 
 instructors on love and friendship than Zeno 
 or Epictetus.) 
 
 (10) Ibid. 445-447 (Part III. ch. vi.) (The plot 
 of the tragedy of Mahomet, "one of the 
 finest of Mr. Voltaire," described.) 
 
 (11) Ibid. ii. 9 (Part V. ch. i.) (The heroic verse 
 of the Henriade is the same as the English 
 burlesque.) 
 
 (12) Ibid. 57 (Part VI. Sect. I.) See above (Swift). 
 
 (13) Ibid. 92, 93 (Part VI. Sect. II. ch. i.) (De- 
 scription of the hero and heroine of "that 
 beautiful tragedy of Voltaire, the Orphan of 
 China.") 
 
 (14) W. of N. V. i. 364. 2, 365. 1. " It is observed 
 by M. de Voltaire that Father Poree" was the 
 onlv Professor France ever had whose works 
 were worth the reading ; and he goes on to 
 tell us why Gassendi entered the Church (see 
 above, Gassendi). "The observation of M. 
 de Voltaire " may be applied to other countries 
 besides his own. 
 
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 Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in 
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 1694. 
 
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 (Arthur). 
 
 Memorial of the English Affairs, or an Historical 
 Account of what passed from the beginning of 
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 happy Restoration. I vol. Fol. calf. London, 
 1682. 
 
 State of the Trade of Great Britain in its Imports 
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 Elements of Trigonometry. 8vo. Edinburgh, 
 1772. 
 
 Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties. 
 By the author of the Farmer's Letters. [Anon.] 
 2nd ed. 8vo. London, 1769. 
 
 The Expediency of a Free Exportation of Corn at 
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 The Farmer's Letters to the People of England 
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 Six Months' Tour through the North of England, 
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 2nd ed. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1 771. 
 
 The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, 
 being the Register of a Journey through various 
 Counties of this Kingdom to inquire into the 
 state of Agriculture. [Anon.] 4 vols. 8vo. 
 London, IJJI. 
 
 Political Arithmetic, containing Observations on 
 the present state of Great Britain and the 
 Principles of her Policy. 1 vol. 8vo, boards. 
 
 London, 1774. 
 
 National Improvements in Agriculture. 8vo, calf. 
 Edinburgh, 1785. 
 
 Agriculture the Primary Interest of Great Britain. 
 8vo, calf. Edinburgh, 1788. 
 
 Poesie Drammatiche. 10 vols. 8vo, calf. Venezia, 
 
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 Essay on Imitat. Arts, 169. (One of the reformers 
 
 of Italian opera, along with Metastasio. See 
 
 Studies of the 18th Century in Italy, Vernon 
 
 Lee, 1880, p. 164.) 
 4 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 1763. 
 
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 3
 
 INDEX 
 
 TO THE INTRODUCTION AND TO THE PRINCIPAL NAMES NOT 
 REGISTERED ALPHABETICALLY IN THE CATALOGUE. 
 
 .^Esop, 1 6 
 
 Aix, Archbishop of, 79 
 D'Alembert, 7 
 Alexander the Great, 7 
 Antoninus Pius, 7 
 Apollonius of Perga, 104 
 Apostolo, see Zeno 
 Aristotle, 87 
 Asinius Celer, 87 
 Athenaeus, 20 
 Augers, 29 
 
 Babbage, Charles, 106 
 
 Badius, Jodocus, 64 
 
 Bain, James, xxx, 3 (Toronto) 
 
 Bannerman, Rev. D. D., vii, viii, xxix, xxx 
 
 Battie, William, 55 
 
 Beaumont, Deon de, 10 
 
 Begley, Rev. W., xxx, 50 
 
 Bell, R. C, xxi 
 
 Benedictus, Joannes, 61 
 
 Bentham, Jer., xxi 
 
 Bentley, Richard, 16, 50, 64, 85, 107, III 
 
 Benwell, Archdeacon, 22 
 
 Beugo, xxi 
 
 Bigot, L. E., 95 
 
 Bindon, David, 66 
 
 Birch, Dr., 120 
 
 Black, Dr. Joseph, xii, xvi, xvii 
 
 Blair, Hugh, xi, xiii 
 
 Blavet, l'abbe, 98, 106 
 
 Bonar, J., xxx, 26 
 
 Bovvyer, William, 73 
 
 Boyle, Robert, 7 
 
 Brahmins, 87 
 
 Brodie, William, 26 
 
 Brougham, Henry, 119 
 
 Brown, Commissioner, xxii 
 Brunck, Phil., 5, 6, 107 
 Brutus, Marcus, 23 
 Bryan, A., 88 
 Buccleuch, Duke of, x, 2 
 Buchan, Earl of, xx 
 Burgess, Thomas, 18 
 Burmann, P., 6, 39, 85, 94 
 Burnes, J., 37 
 Burns, Robert, 106 
 Butler, Bishop, 54 
 Byron, Captain, 24 
 
 Calas, Jean, 1 19 
 Calcraft, John, 12 
 Calonne, 72 
 Campbell, Colin, 84 
 Carlyle, Alexander, 39 
 Carteret, Captain, 24 
 Casaubon, Isaac, 48 
 Cassandre, 6 
 Cato Major, 23, 103 
 Cebes, 37 
 
 Chapelle, M. de la, 108 
 Charles I. and II., 120 
 
 „ V., 97, 105 
 
 „ VIII., 46 
 Cicero, 50, 87, 119 
 Clarke, Samuel, 49, 54, 99 
 Cleghorn, Prof. Hugh, xv, xvi 
 
 „ Mrs., xv, xvi 
 
 Clerke, Captain, 24 
 Cocceius, H. de, 45 
 Collins, Anthony, 89 
 Collopy, Ty., xxv 
 Commandinus, F., 104 
 Constantine, Robert, 102
 
 124 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Copernicus, 42, 63, 73 
 Cortius, G., 101 
 Cowper, William, 47 
 Craigie, Thomas, 54 
 Cunliffe, Sir Ellis, 38, 97 
 Cunningham, Alexander, 50 
 
 „ Prof. R. O., viii, xx, xxix, 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Dacier, 50 
 
 Darigrand, 4-5 
 
 Daubenton, 17 
 
 David, Christian, 51 
 
 Davidson, John, 10 
 
 Davies, Thomas, 42 
 
 Decker, Sir Matthew, 96 
 
 Defoe, 48 
 
 Democritus, 73 
 
 Descartes, 73 
 
 Dickson, W. K., xxix 
 
 Diderot, 2 
 
 Digby, Lord, 23 
 
 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 89 
 
 Douglas cause, 1 10 
 
 Douglas, House of, 52 
 
 „ David, vii, xiv seq., 4, 68 
 
 „ Margaret, ix, x 
 
 „ Jane, x 
 
 „ Janet, xv 
 Dousa, J., 50 
 Drakenborch, A., 104 
 Dryden, 19, 90 
 Duker, C. A., 114 
 Dupont, ix, 92 
 
 Dupre de St. Maur, see St. Maur 
 Durham, J., xxvi 
 
 Egmont, Lord, 3 
 Elphinston, James, 65 
 Emmenessius, Jacobus, 117 
 Engestrom, G. von, 27 
 Epictetus, 7, 119 
 Ernesti, J. A., 22 
 Euclid, 23, 104, 105 
 
 Fabricius, J. A., 103 
 Fauquier, Francis, 96 
 Fawkener, Sir Everard, 88 
 Ferguson, Adam, xi 
 Ficinus, Marsilius, 88 
 Fiennes, Pharamus, 56 
 Fischer, Johann Friedr., 120 
 Fitz-James, Due de, 78, 79 
 Fleetwood, Bishop, 100 
 Floridus, Jul., 7 
 
 Fontenelle, 14, 71 
 
 Forster, J. R., 57 
 
 Foxwell, Prof. H. S., x, xxx, 21, 48 
 
 Francis, Philip, 56 (Junius) 
 
 Frederick the Great, 60 
 
 „ William, the Great Elector, 92 
 „ II., the Emperor, 85 
 
 Frewin, R., 27 
 
 Gale, Thomas, 55 
 Galiana, Berardo, 118 
 Gassendi, 73, 1 19 
 Gasser of Vienna, xxvi 
 George III., 106 
 Gesner, J. M., 23, 88 
 Gibbon, Edward, 39, 47 
 Gibbs, James, 74 
 Gordon, Dr. James, 38 
 „ Sir William, 7 
 Gore, Captain, 24 
 Goudar, Auge de, 40 
 Goulston, Theo., 6 
 Graevius, G., 40 
 Graham, Dr. James, xxii 
 Grant, Lewis, xxix 
 Graunt, John, 71 
 Gray, John M., xviii seq., xxix 
 Gregory, David, 107 
 Gronovius, J., 2, 7, 60,. 64, 87, 112 
 Grotius, Hugo, 24 
 Grou, l'abbe, 86 
 Gruter, J., 48 
 Gundino, Marco Ant., 88 
 Gunning, Dr. R. H., xxvi 
 
 Hale, Chief Justice, 21 
 Hamilton, Antoine, 44 
 
 „ Dukes of, 18 
 
 Handel, 68 
 Harvie, T., 94 
 Hawkesworth, John, 24 
 Heberden, Dr., 71 
 Henninius, H. C, 56 
 Henri IV., 4 
 Henry II., 8, 62, 116 
 
 „ Prince of Wales, 120 
 Heydinger, C, 108 
 Heyne, Gottl., 86 
 Higgs, H., x, xxx, 74 
 Hipparchus, 88, 103 
 Hippias, 87 
 Hobbes, 54 
 
 Hodgson, Prof., viii, 40 
 Holbach, Baron d', 1 1 1 
 Homer, 1 19 
 Horace, 69
 
 Index 
 
 125 
 
 Horsburgh, John, xxi 
 
 Hume, David, viii, x, xii, xiii, 47, 56, 63, 
 
 66, 69, 71, 106 
 Hutton, Dr. James, xii, xvi, xvii, 55 
 
 ISOCRATES, 89 
 
 James VI. of Scotland, 97 
 Jardine, Alexander, 9 
 Jeaurat, 93 
 
 Jesuits, 76 5 cf. 21, 119 
 Jevons, W. S., 19 
 Joanna of Castile, 97 
 Johnson, Samuel, 8, 86, 103 
 
 Kames, Lord, viii, xi 
 
 Kay, John, xii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxvii 
 
 Keill, John, 45, 107 
 
 Kennedy, Rev. James, xxx 
 
 Kepler, 42 
 
 King, Gregory, 28 
 
 Kippax, John, 116 
 
 Kuster, L., 6 
 
 Laing, David, xxiv 
 
 Lambinus, D., 50 
 
 Lange, De, 12 
 
 Langwith, B., 5 
 
 Law, John, 70 
 
 Lecluse des Loges, l'abbe, no 
 
 Lee, Vernon, 122 
 
 Leoncladius, 20 
 
 Locke, John, 54, 58, 70 
 
 Louis the Fat, 28 
 
 Louis XIII., 4 
 
 „ XIV., 4, 97, 119 
 
 „ XV., 29 
 Lucian, 7 
 
 MacBride, Charles, xxvi 
 
 MacCulloch, J. R., viii, xii, 40, 45, 7 1, 96, 
 
 in 
 Macfarlan, Dr., 114 
 MacGill, Rachael, xv, xvi 
 Mackenzie, Henry, 61 
 Mackintosh, Sir James, 69 
 MacLaurin, Prof. C, xx 
 Magens, Nicholas, 51 
 Malcolm III., 86 
 Mandeville, Bernard, 54, 97 
 Mansfield, Lord, no 
 Marie, l'abbe, 57 
 Markland, J., 115 
 Marochetti, Baron, xxvi 
 Martyn, J., 117 
 Mary Queen of Scots, 97 
 
 Maty, M., 22 
 Maurivaux, 95 
 Medicis, Cather. de, 29 
 
 ,, Lorenzo, 62 
 Meilhan, Senac de, 97 
 Menger, Prof. Carl, xxx, 108 
 Messance, 100 
 Metz, C, xx 
 Michie, R. S., xxi 
 Millar, Prof. John, vii 
 Milman, A., xxix 
 Milton, John, 103 
 Mirabeau, Comte de, 9, 10, 33, 37 
 
 „ Marquis de, 10, 93 
 
 Mitchel, 3 
 Montesquieu, 58 
 Morellet, 12 
 Morris, Corbyn, 71 
 Morrison, Alfred, 91 
 Motteux, 94 
 Mougault, 22 
 Muirs of Kirkcaldy, xxiii 
 Muretus, M. Ant., 103 
 Murray, James, 23 
 Musgrave, S., 37 
 
 Necker, 19 
 
 Needam, P., 2 
 
 Nicholson, Prof. J. S., xxx 
 
 Olivet, l'Abbe J. T., 22, 43 
 Orrery, Earl of, 1 1 1 
 Osborne, Thomas, 75 
 Ossian, 63 
 
 Otway, Thomas, 107 
 Oudendorphius, F., no 
 Ozanne, 93 
 Ozell, 94 
 
 Park, Patric, xxvi 
 Parmenides, 87 
 Paterson, James, xxi 
 Patullo, Jerome, 2 
 Paucton, 67 
 Paul Sarpi, Father, 16 
 Pauw, C. de, 2, 3 
 Pelham, Henry, 51 
 Pennant, Thomas, 25 
 Pergolese, 67 
 Perrault, Charles, 14 
 Petrarch, 26 
 Petty, William, 71 
 Philip II., 120 
 Piggott, John, 50 
 Pigot, Lord, 112 
 Pinto, Isaac de, 66
 
 126 Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 
 
 Plato, 6, 88, 119 
 Poree, Father, 119 
 Portus, Franciscus, 95 
 Postlethwayte, James, 71 
 Preston, Robert, 115 
 Price, L. L., xxix 
 Propertius, 114 
 Protagoras, 87 
 
 £)uin, Henry, xix 
 
 Rae, John, x 
 
 Rapin de Thoyras, 1 14 
 
 Rees, 21 
 
 Reid, Thomas, xviii 
 
 Reimarus, H. S., 20 
 
 Reiske, J. J., 88 
 
 Reitz, C. C, 61 
 
 Renan, E., 7 
 
 Renatus, Flav. Veget., no 
 
 Retz, Card, de, 96 
 
 Rhomanus, 30 
 
 Richard III., 120 
 
 Richardson, Samuel, 95 
 
 Ritchie, T. E., 63 
 
 Robertson, Rev. E. S., xxx, 92 
 
 „ William, xviii 
 
 Rockville, Lord, xxii 
 Rogers, Mrs. Thorold, xxvi 
 
 „ Thorold, 106 
 Roucher, J. A., 106 
 Rousseau, J. J., 118 
 Roussel de la Tour, 96 
 Ruhnken, David, 49 
 Ruddiman, Thomas, 4 
 Rycaut, Sir P., 57 
 
 Sackville, Lord George, 89 
 
 St. Maur, Dupre de, 67, 69, 100 
 
 Salmasius, 48 
 
 Santeuil, 14 
 
 Scapula, 102 
 
 Seius, 87 
 
 Seneca, 94 
 
 Servius Tullius, 87 
 
 Seton, Hugh, 84 
 
 Shaw, J., 5 
 
 Sims, William, 27 
 
 Sinclair, Sir John, 9, 10 
 
 Smellie, William, viii, xix, xxii, xxv 
 Smith, Charles, 25 
 
 „ Dr. George, xxx, 113 
 
 „ G. Gregory, xxx, 6 
 
 „ Iconographia, xx 
 Solinus, C. J., ioi 
 Speidell, Euclid, 16 
 Spencer, W., 74 
 Spenser, Edmund, 103 
 Stanhope, Earl, 105 
 Stephanus, Henricus, 86, 102 ; cf. 109 
 Stevenson, D. W., xxv, xxvi 
 Stewart, Dr. Matthew, 105 
 
 „ Dugald, viii, xii, xiii, xviii, xix, 
 
 39. 54. 5 6 >. 68 > 9 8 > I0 9. "5 
 Storrar, D., xxvi 
 Stuart of Dunnairn, 57 
 
 Tassie, James, xii, xviii seq. 
 Tasso, Torquato, 90 
 Terrai, l'abbe, 24, 25 
 Theon, Aelius, 105 
 Thomas the Rhymer, 89 
 Timaeus, 86 
 Tollius, Alexander, 5 
 Townshend, Charles, ix 
 Turgot, 10, 35 
 Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 21 
 
 Upton, John, 37 
 Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 94 
 Urry, J., 21 
 
 Valentinian the Third, 113 
 Vansittart, Henry, 49 
 Vaugelas, 1 
 Voltaire, 40, 42, 99, 11 1 
 
 Wadding, F. L., 41 
 Walker, Thomas, xx 
 Wallis, Captain, 24 
 Warner, the engraver, xxi, xxii 
 Wasse, Christopher, 114 
 Webster, H. A., xxx 
 Wesseling, 30 
 Westerhovius, A. H., 112 
 Whitworth, Sir Charles, 28 
 
 Zeno, the Stoic, 119 
 Zeno (Apostolo), 67 
 
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