This is an in-progress list of the books in the MHS Dowse Library for which there are digitial facsimiles available. We are making this spreadsheet available in the interest

of bringing as much of our library content to researchers as possible during the covid-19 (coronavirus) closure of Spring 2020 as possible. Questions? Email library@masshist.org.

Letters of Abelard and Heloise : with a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes : to which are added, poems by Pope, Madan, Cawthorne, etc.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100405765

The history of the lives of Abeillard and Heloisa : comprising a period of eighty-four years, from 1079 to 1163 ; With their genuine letters, from the collection of Ambroise.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101654572

Discourses concerning the being and natural perfections of God : in which that first principle of religion, the existence of the Deity, is prov’d ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009832432

https://archive.org/details/discoursesconce01abergoog/page/n6/mode/2up

Digitized versions printed 1757

The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies : intreating of the remarkeable things of heaven, of the elements, mettalls, plants and beasts which are proper to that country : together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governements, and warres of the Indians / written in Spanish by ... Ioseph Acosta ; and translated into English by E.G.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102288529

https://archive.org/details/naturallmoralhis00acos/page/n6/mode/2up

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions -- the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians -- and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100268510

https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00adairich/page/n4/mode/2up

A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America : against the attack of M. Turgot in his letter to Dr. Price, dated the twenty-second day of March, 1778 / By John Adams.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001141124

Novanglus and Massachusettensis : or political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies / The former by John Adams, the latter by Jonathan Sewall ; To which are added a number of letters, lately written by President Adams, to the Honourable William Tudor [and others, on the events of the American Revolution] some of which were never before published.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000363944

A concise, historical view of the perils, hardships, difficulties and discouragements which have attended the planting and progressive improvements of New-England : with a particular account of its long and destructive wars, expensive expeditions, &c. : With reflections, principally, moral and religious. : In two discourses, preached at Roxbury on the general fast, April 6. 1769. : And published at the general desire of the hearers / By Amos Adams, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Roxbury.

Potentially republished in anthologies?

The evidences of the Christian religion / by Joseph Addison. To which are added several discourses against atheism and infidelity, and in defence of the Christian revelation.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100632427

HathiTrust version published in 1801

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000601330

The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, esq.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101759329

The tragedies of Aeschylus / translated by R. Potter.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008673501

https://archive.org/details/sopsfablesembe00aeso/page/n4/mode/2up

The fables of Aesop : with a life of the author, and embellished with 112 plates.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001181633

Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth / By Lucy Aikin.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009706258

Memoirs of the court of King James the First / By Lucy Aikin.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000769583

Essays on song-writing : with a collection of such English songs as are most eminent for poetical merit / by John Aikin.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000158067

Select works of the British poets : with biographical and critical prefaces / by Dr. Aikin.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009707184

The pleasures of imagination / by Mark Akenside ; to which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem, by Mrs. Barbauld.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008662670

HathiTrust version published 1795

Alciphron’s epistles : in which are described the domestic manners, the courtesans, and parasites of Greece / now first translated from the Greek by Rev. Thomas Monro and Rev. William Beloe.

Select eulogies of the members of the French academy / with notes by the late m. d’Alembert ; Translated from the French, with a preface and additional notes, by J. Aiken, M. D.

Tragedies / translated from the Italian by Charles Lloyd.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006136346

HathiTrust 1876 edition, but with correct translator

King Alfred’s Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiæ : with an English translation, and notes / By J. S. Cardale.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008882353

The will of King Alfred : reprinted from the Oxford edition of 1788, with a preface and additional notes.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008980925

The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman, kt.; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian library: with considerable additions, and several historical remarks, by the publisher, Thomas Hearne, M. A.

An apologie and trve declaration of the institution and endeuours of the tvvo English colleges : the one in Rome, the other novv resident in Rhemes: against certaine sinister informations giuen vp against the same.

A new and complete history of the county of York / by Thomas Allen ... illustrated by a series of views engraved ... by Nathaniel Whittock.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008731581

3 vols.; HathiTrust note: "Text and plates are the same as those of the 3 v. quarto ed. of 1829-31."

An American biographical and historical dictionary: containing an account of the lives, characters, and writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the history of the several colonies and of the United States / By William Allen.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100281559

Amadis of Gaul / by Vasco Lobeira ... / Half-title: Amadis of Gaul, from the Spanish version of Carciordonez de Montalva by Robert Southey.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008893026

4 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Works of Fisher Ames / Compiled by a number of his friends ; to which are prefixed, notices of his life and character.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365358

Typographical antiquities, or, The history of printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them / begun by the late Joseph Ames ; considerably augmented by William Herbert ; and now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings comprehending the history of English literature and a view of the progress of the art of engraving in Great Britain by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100158353

4 volumes, all in Hathitrust

The life of John Buncle, esq. / by Thomas Amory.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008668707

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Memoirs, containing the lives of several ladies of Great Britain : a history of antiquities, productions of nature, and monuments of art, observations on the Christian religion, as professed by the established church, and dissenters of every denomination, remarks on the writings of the greatest English devines, with a variety of disquisitions and opinions relative to criticism and manners; and many extraordinary actions.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000243116

https://archive.org/details/memoirscontaini00amorgoog/page/n7/mode/2up

Digitized versions are single volumes, printed 1755

Amusements in retirement; or, The influence of science, literature, and the liberal arts on the manners and happiness of private life / By the author of the "Philosophy of nature."

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007686287

Anacreon, Bion, and Moschus / with other translations, by Thomas Stanley ; first printed 1651 ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008903016

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001210849

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters / by an officer.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100692328

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Ancient metrical tales : printed chiefly from original sources / Edited by the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001016884

Ancient mysteries from the Digby manuscripts : Preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford.

https://archive.org/details/ancientmysteries00digbuoft/page/n8

Digby manuscript (Bodleian MS. Digby 133) found here: https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4251

The private devotions of Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of Winchester / translated from Greek and Latin, by the Rev. Peter Hall ; To which is added The manual for the sick, by the same learned prelate.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100685755

A collection of essays, anecdotes, tales, &c., with some originals / by a Debtor during his confinement in prison ...

Not on Hathitrust or Internet Archive; available on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=a0hgAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA3&ots=kfZTKh5Qfn&dq=%22A%20collection%20of%20essays%2C%20anecdotes%2C%20tales%2C%20%26c.%2C%20with%20some%20originals%20%20by%20a%20Debtor%20during%20his%20confinement%20in%20prison%20...%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=%22A%20collection%20of%20essays,%20anecdotes,%20tales,%20&c.,%20with%20some%20originals%20%20by%20a%20Debtor%20during%20his%20confinement%20in%20prison%20...%22&f=false

Historical sketches of the old painters / By the author of "Three experiments of living" ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007689546

The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise: and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a work neuer in that nature handled by any former author ...

May be contained in "The seconde booke of the English husbandman," 1614, available here: https://archive.org/details/b30340779/page/n11/mode/2up; Search-only 1927 reprint available here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002025543

The gentleman angler : Containing short, plain and easy instructions ... in angling ... With several observations on angling, angle-rods, and artificial flies ... To which is added, The angler’s new song : The laws of angling ... Together with an appendix ... / By a gentleman, who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years ...

Only available on Google Books, here: https://books.google.com/books?id=QUQCAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PP7&ots=KvGnlVg-5z&dq=The%20gentleman%20angler%20%3A%20Containing%20short%2C%20plain%20and%20easy%20instructions%20...%20in%20angling%20...%20With%20several%20observations%20on%20angling%2C%20angle-rods%2C%20and%20artificial%20flies%20...%20To%20which%20is%20added%2C%20The%20angler%E2%80%99s%20new%20song%20%3A%20The%20laws%20of%20angling%20...%20Together%20with%20an%20appendix%20...%20%2F%20By%20a%20gentleman%2C%20who%20has%20made%20angling%20his%20diversion%20upwards%20of%20twenty-eight%20years%20...&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false

NOT IN ABIGAIL - publication years and call numbers do not match

A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV / by George Anson, Esq

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100264669

Digitized version printed 1780

The life of George, Lord Anson : admiral of the fleet, vice-admiral of Great Britain, and first lord commissioner of the admiralty, previous to, and during, the seven years’ war.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005794396

The antiquarian itinerary : comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic : with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain : accompanied with descriptions.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000313872

7 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Antiquarian and topographical cabinet : containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. Accompanied with letter-press descriptions.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008645662

10 volumes in 9 (MHS copy 10 volumes in 5)

The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / A new translation from the Greek original; with a life, notes, etc., by R. Graves ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008621139

The life of Apollonius of Tyana / translated from the Greek of Philostratus. With notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Edward Berwick.

https://archive.org/details/lifeofapollonius00phil/page/n3

Internet Archvie copy published 1809

The golden ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura : reprinted from the scarce edition of 1709, revised and corrected ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008680294

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Cupid and Psyche : A mythological tale from The golden ass of Apuleius.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009709819

Archaica : Containing a reprint of scarce old English prose tracts. With prefaces, critical and biographical ... / By Sir E. Brydges.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001016792

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Heliconia : Comprising a selection of English poetry of the Elizabethan age: written or published between 1575 and 1604 / edited By T. Park.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000158745

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust

A new description of that fertile and pleasant province of Carolina : with a brief account of its discovery and settling, and the government thereof to this time ... / by John Archdale, late governor of the same.

https://archive.org/details/newdescriptionof00arch/page/n4

Orlando furioso / translated from the Italian of Lodovico Ariosto with notes: by John Hoole.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007685358

5 volumes, Hathitrust lacking vol. 1 and vol. 2

The love epistles of Aristænetus / translated from the Greek into English metre.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100461313

The comedies of Aristophanes / by T. Mitchell.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009645108

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

The birds of Aristophanes / translated by Henry Francis Cary, with notes.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000856936

Aristotle’s Ethics and politics : comprising his practical philosophy / translated from the Greek, illustrated by introductions and notes, the critical history of his life, and a new analysis of his speculative works by John Gillies.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009707375

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Treatise on rhetoric, literally translated from the Greek / with notes by a graduate of the university ; To which is added An analysis of Aristotli’s rhetoric, by Thomas Hobbes.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100628103

The art of preserving health / By John Armstrong, M.D. ; To which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem, by J. Aikin, M.D.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009023053

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007376065

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust; editions vary

The life and correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. : late head-master of Rugby school and regius professor of modern history in the University of Oxford / by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001734942

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Arrian’s History of Alexander’s expedition / Translated from the Greek, with notes historical, geographical, and critical by Mr. Rooke. To which is prefixed Mr. Le Clerc’s criticism upon Quintus Curtius and some remarks upon Mr. Perizonius’s vindication of that author.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000308929

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

The byrth, lyf, and actes of Kyng Arthur : of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table, theyr merveyllous enquestes and aduentures, thachyeuyng of the Sanc Greal; and in the end le Morte Darthur, with the dolourous deth and departying out of thys worlde of them al / With an introduction and notes, by Robert Southey, esq. ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008399215

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

The history of the valiant knight Arthur of Little Britain : A romance of chivalry / Originally translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001014634

The history of the renowned Prince Arthur : king of Britain; with his life and death, and all his glorious battles. Likewise, the noble acts and heroic deeds of his valiant knights of the Round Table ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008654763

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

The life of King Arthur: from ancient historians and authentic documents / By Joseph Ritson.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006147681

The English works of Roger Ascham : preceptor to Queen Elizabeth.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008458966

Athenian letters; or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000573388

2 volumes, both in Hathitrust

Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions / by Francis Atterbury.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000155058

Digitized version printed 1774; 4 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Attica and Athens; an inquiry into the civil, moral and religious institutions of the inhabitants, the rise and decline of the Athenian power and the topography and chorography of ancient Attica and Athens; trans. from the German, by John Ingram Lockhart.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008428715

Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : to which are added, Hearne’s journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall ... and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000767115

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust

The meditations of St. Augustine, his treatise of the love of God, soliloquies, and manual : With select contemplations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard / Translated by Geo. Stanhope ...

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008625914

The life and times of Richard the First, surnamed Coeur-de-Lion, King of England.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009021411

The two books of Francis, lord Verulam : Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and human.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000387987

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008692021

12 volumes, Hathitrust lacking vol. 8

The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England : a new edition: / by Basil Montagu, esq.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001915361

16 volumes in 17, all in Hathitrust

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008584946

A series of plays : in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind / by Joanna Baillie.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008995057

3 volumes, all in Hathitrust

Miscellaneous plays / by Joanna Baillie. [Bound as vol. 4 of Baillie’s plays.]

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011679498

Metrical legends of exalted characters / by Joanna Baillie.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002103837

A collection of poems : chiefly manuscript, and from living authors / edited for the benefit of a friend, by Joanna Baillie.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008603851

Biographia dramatica; or, A companion to the playhouse : containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes, of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ... / Originally compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskine Baker. Continued thence to 1782, by Isaac Reed ... and brought down to the end of November 1811, with very considerable additions and improvements throughout, by Stephen Jones. In three volumes.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006665480

3 volumes in 4, all in Hathitrust

A chronicle of the kings of England : from the time of the Romans government, to the death of King James the First / By Sir Richard Baker, Knt. With a continuation to the year 1660. By E. Phillips. Whereto will be added, a second continuation ... By an impartial hand.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012314482

Nine discourses on various subjects : and seven charges, delivered to the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Winchester

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100566448

Divine benevolence asserted : and vindicated from the objections of ancient and modern sceptics

https://archive.org/details/divinebenevolenc00balguoft/page/n8/mode/2up

MHS ed. dated 1803; IA ed. dated 1781

Life of George Washington : commander in chief of the American army through the revolutionary war, and the first president of the United States

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000367785

OFFSITE STORAGE SH 18JT G (Wat. Library B.II.4)

History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102068037

Dowse copy not found in ABIGAIL; HT has vol. I of 1838-40 4th ed.

OFFSITE STORAGE SH 18JT G (Wat. Library B.II.4)

History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000435080

Dowse copy not found in ABIGAIL; HT has vols. 1-10 of later editions

An essay on the natural history of Guiana, in South America

https://archive.org/details/essayonnaturalhi00banc/page/n6/mode/2up

The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld / With a memoir by Lucy Aikin

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011407209

2 vols., both in HT