It contains many hundred Volumes of the best Authors in the best
Editions, among which are the _Polyglot_ Bible, and _Castel_'s
Lexicon on it, in 8 large Vols. _Aldus_'s Septuagint, Apocrypha and
New Testament, in _Greek_, and some other Editions of the same; most
of the Fathers; almost all the _Greek_ Authors from _Homer_ himself,
in divers Editions (and one of them in that of _Rome_, with
_Eustathius_'s Commentaries, in 4 Vols.) to near the End of the 4th
Century, with divers later, as _Photius_, _Suidas_, divers of the
_Byzantine_ Historians; all the old Mathematicians, as _Archimedes_,
_Apollonius_, _Euclid_, _Ptolomy_'s Geography and Almagest, with
_Theon_'s Commentaries and _Diophantus_, in the whole above 100 Vols.
in _Greek_ Folio's. All the old _Roman_ Classics without Exception,
and some of them in several Editions (as all _Tully_'s Works in four
Editions). All _Graevius_, _Gronovius_, _Salengre_'s and _Poleni_'s
Collections of _Roman_ and _Greek_ Antiquities, containing above Five
Hundred distinct Discourses in 33 Tomes, with some Hundreds of late
Authors in _Latin_, as _Vossius_, _Lipsius_, _Grotius_, &c. A good
Collection of Mathematical Pieces, as _Newton_ in all the three
Editions, _Wallis_, _Huygens_, _Tacquet_, _Dechales_, &c. in near 100
Vols. in all Sizes, with some _Orientals_, _French_ and _Italian_
Authors, and many more _English_, &c. A handsome Building above 60
Feet in front, is now erected in this City, at the private Expence of
that Gentleman, for the Reception of this Library, where it is soon
to be deposited, and remain for the publick Use, with a valuable
yearly Income duly to enlarge it; and I have his Permission to
mention it as an Encouragement to the propos'd Academy; to which this
noble Benefaction will doubtless be of the greatest Advantage, as not
only the Students, but even the Masters themselves, may very much
improve by it.
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