Table One Holdings of the Harvard College Library, 1790 Contemporary Classifications Category Frq. Pct. 01 Agriculture 18 .19 02 Alegbra 8 .08 03 Anatomy 31 .34 04 Antiquities 199 2.20 05 Architecture 10 .11 06 Arts 27 .29 07 Astronomy 53 .58 08 Greek Latin Authors 311 3.44 09 Bible 87 .96 10 Biography 180 1.99 11 Botany 22 .24 12 Catalogi 17 .18 13 Chartea 29 .32 14 Chronology 44 .48 15 Chemistry Metal 32 .35 16 Commerce 19 .21 17 Concordances 16 .17 18 Critica sacra 121 1.34 19 Ancient scriptures 70 .77 20 Ethics 45 .49 21 Geography 21 .23 22 Geometry 19 .21 23 Grammar 80 .88 24 Heraldry 11 .12 25 History Civil 256 2.83 26 Ancient Church History 124 1.37 27 Ancient Jewish 38 .42 28 Natural History 50 .55 29 Travel 97 1.07 30 Civil Law 25 .27 31 Church Law 18 .19 32 Municipal Law 102 1.12 33 Natural Law 125 1.38 34 Periodicals 21 .23 35 Logic 24 .26 Category Frq. Pct. 36 Manuscripts 14 .15 37 Materia medica 21 .23 38 Mathematics 74 .81 39 Metaphysics 70 .77 40 Medicin Surgery 207 2.29 41 Misc 626 6.93 42 Music 11 .12 43 Mythology 7 .07 44 Numismatics 48 .53 45 Dramatic Works 12 .13 46 Rabinaical Lit 70 .77 47 Philology 60 .66 48 Physics natural phil 87 .96 49 Poetry 128 1.41 50 Res politicae 97 1.07 51 Rhetoric 30 .33 52 Learned Societies 20 .22 53 Theology 1334 14.77 54 Vocabulary 100 1.10 55 Biographic tracts 24 .26 56 Ancient tracts 26 .28 57 Commerce tracts 44 .48 58 Eccleiastic tracts 54 .59 59 History tracts 38 .42 60 Math physics tracts 25 .27 61 Medicine tracts 40 .44 62 Misc tracts 362 4.00 63 Moral/Metaphysics tracts 24 .26 64 Numismatics tracts 7 .07 65 Philology tracts 66 .73 66 Poetry tracts 79 .87 67 Political tracts 305 3.37 68 Theological tracts 2469 27.34 69 Addenda 99 1.09 Source: Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantbrigiae Nov-Anglorum (1790). Table Two Harvard College Library Circulation and Number of Borrowers, 1773-1782 Year Loans Borrowers 1773 224 36 1774 328 38 1775 149 31 1776 175 21 1777 159 24 1778 129 19 1779 115 19 1780 169 21 1781 206 31 1782 104 21 Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782. Table Three Harvard College Library Circulation by Occupation of Borrowers, 1773-1782 Occupation Frequency Percentage Actual Corrected tutor 440 24.9 40.7 professor 233 13.2 21.5 librarian 66 3.7 6.1 president college 37 2.1 3.4 college treasurer 5 .3 .4 clergy 247 14.0 22.8 judge 27 1.5 2.5 physician 23 1.3 2.1 governor 3 .2 .3 unknown 689 38.9 Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782. Table Three Harvard College Library Circulation by Occupation of Borrowers, 1773-1782 Occupation Frequency Percentage tutor 440 24.9 professor 233 13.2 librarian 66 3.7 president college 37 2.1 college treasurer 5 .3 clergy 247 14.0 judge 27 1.5 physician 23 1.3 governor 3 .2 unknown 689 38.9 Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782. Table Four Harvard College Library Circulation by Category, 1773-1782 Category Frq. Pct. Agriculture 2 .1 Alegbra 6 .4 Anatomy 7 .4 Antiquities 7 .4 Arts 15 .9 Astronomy 22 1.4 Greek Latin Authors 62 3.9 Bible 1 .1 Biography 39 2.4 Catalogi 1 .1 Chronology 1 .1 Chemistry Metal 16 1.0 Concordances 2 .1 Critica sacra 36 2.2 Ethics 21 1.3 Geography 4 .2 Geometry 1 .1 Grammar 10 .6 History Civil 168 10.5 Ancient Church Histo 29 1.8 Ancient Jewish 23 1.4 Natural History 19 1.2 Travel 67 4.2 Civil Law 11 .7 Municipal Law 56 3.5 Natural Law 43 2.7 Periodicals 102 6.4 Category Frq. Pct. Logic 2 .1 Materia medica 6 .4 Mathematics 9 .6 Metaphysics 56 3.5 Medicin Surgery 46 2.9 Misc 140 8.7 Music 1 .1 Numismatics 1 .1 Dramatic Works 12 .7 Rabinaical Lit 1 .1 Philology 12 .7 Physics natural phi 59 3.7 Poetry 62 3.9 Res politicae 9 .6 Rhetoric 4 .2 Learned Societies 23 1.4 Theology 354 22.1 Vocabulary 12 .7 Misc tracts 3 .2 Morals Metaphysics 1 .1 Philology tracts 1 .1 Poetry tracts 1 .1 Political tracts 3 .2 Theological tracts 15 .9 Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782; Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantbrigiae Nov-Anglorum (1790). Table Five Harvard College Library Top Fifty Titles by Circulation, 1773-1782 Rank Frq. Author Title 1 29 Hume, Dav. History of England 2 21 Doddridge, Philip Family expositor 3 18 Hawkesworth, John Collection of voyages to the southern hemisphere 4 17 Bolinbroke, Ld. Visct. Works, by Mallet 5 17 Goldsmith, Oliver History of England 6 14 Mosheim, Joh. Laur. Eccles. hist. trd by MacLaine 7 14 Royal Society in London Philosophical transactions (London, 1757-1783) 8 14 Voltaire, M. State of Europe 9 13 MacKnight, Ja. Harmony of the four gospels 10 12 Jortin, Jn. Sermons 11 12 Macaulay, Catherine Hist. of England, from the accession of James I 12 11 Scott, Tho. Book of Job in English verse 13 10 Brydone, Phil Tour thro' Sicily and Malta 14 10 Crevier Roman Emperors, 8vo, 10 vols. 15 10 Dodsley, Rob. Collection of poems 16 10 Hartley, Dav. Observations on man, 2 vols. 17 10 Harwood, Edw. Introduction to the study and knowledge of N.T. 18 10 Reid, Tho. Enquiry into the human mind 19 10 Robertson, Wm. History of Charles V 20 10 Robertson, Wm. History of Scotland 21 9 Blackstone, Sir Wm. Comment. on the laws of England 22 9 Bourne, Sam. Sermons 23 9 Crevier Roman emperors 24 9 Henry, Matt. Exposition on the works of the old and new testament 25 8 Anon. State trials (London, 1720) 26 8 Burlamaqui, J. J. Principes de droit nat. et politique, trd Nugent 27 8 Chambers, Edw. Dictionary of arts and sciences (London, 1728) 28 8 Grove, Henry Sermons and tracts 29 8 Lyttleton, Geo. Ld. History of the life of Henry II, and the age 30 8 Martin, Benj. Philosophia Britanica 31 8 Plutarchus Vitae parallelae, trd. by J & W Langhorne 32 8 Pope, Alex. Works 33 8 Rutherford, T. System of natural philosophy 34 8 Shakespeare, Wm. Works 35 8 Sharpe, Gregory Sermons 36 8 Smith, Adam Theory of moral sentiments 37 8 Watts, Isaac Works 38 7 Abernathy, Jn. Sermons on various subjects, with his life 39 7 Amory, Tho. Sermons 40 7 Burgh, Ja. Dignity of human nature 41 7 Campbell, Geo. Dissert. on miracles, in ans to Hume 42 7 Doddridge, Philip Lectures on ... pneumatology, ethics and divinity 43 7 Guthrie, Wm. General history of the world from creation to... 44 7 Herrera, An. General history of america, trd by Stevens 45 7 Lande, M. de la Astronomie 46 7 Leland, Jn. Sermons 47 7 Tacitus, C. Corn. trd by Gordon, with political discourses 48 7 Taylor, Jn. Para. with note on the epist. to the Romans 49 7 indet. Mixt tracts 8vo at least 16 vols 50 6 Anon History, universal, from the earliest acc'ots Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782; Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantbrigiae Nov- Anglorum (1790). Table Six Harvard College Library Top One Hundred Authors by Circulation, 1773-1782 Rank Frq. Author 1 105 Various 2 83 Anon 3 50 Undetermined 4 36 Hume, Dav. 5 27 Doddridge, Philip 6 23 Jortin, Jn. 7 21 Robertson, Wm. 8 20 Voltaire 9 19 Goldsmith, Oliver 10 19 Hawkesworth, John 11 17 Bolinbroke, Ld. Visct. 12 16 Martin, Benj. 13 16 Sykes, 14 15 Priestley, Jos. 15 14 Bourne, Sam. 16 14 Harwood, Edw. 17 14 MacKnight, Ja. 18 14 Mosheim, Joh. Laur. 19 14 Royal Society 20 13 Benson, Geo. 21 13 Macaulay, Catherine 22 11 Pope, Alex. 23 11 Price, Rich. 24 11 Scott, Tho. 25 11 Tacitus, C. Corn. 26 11 Taylor, Jn. 27 11 Watts, Isaac 28 10 Blackstone, Sir Wm. 29 10 Brydone, Phil. 30 10 Burns, Rich. 31 10 Chambers, Edw. 32 10 Crevier, 33 10 Dodsley, Rob. 34 10 Hartley, Dav. 35 10 Leland, Jn. 36 10 Reid, Tho. 37 9 Abernathy, Jn. 38 9 Henry, Matt. 39 9 Rollin, Charles 40 9 Rutherford, T. 41 9 Sully, Duke of 42 8 Burlamaqui, J. J. 43 8 Cicero, M. Tull 44 8 Clarke, Dr. Sam. 45 8 Grove, Henry 46 8 Lyttleton, Geo. Ld. 47 8 Lyttleton, Geo. Ld. 48 8 Macbride, Dav. 49 8 Plutarchus 50 8 Shakespeare, Wm. Rank Frq. Author 51 8 Sharp, Gregory 52 8 Sharpe, Greg. 53 8 Smith, Rob. 54 7 Amory, Tho. 55 7 Berkley, Geo. 56 7 Burgh, Ja. 57 7 Campbell, Geo. 58 7 Chandler, Sam. 59 7 Emerson, Wm. 60 7 Guthrie, Wm. 61 7 Herrera, An. 62 7 Hutchinson, Tho. 63 7 Lande, M. de la 64 7 Smith, Adam 65 7 Stackhouse, Tho. 66 7 Tillotson, Jn Abp. of Cant. 67 6 Academie Royal des sciences 68 6 Beattie, James 69 6 Boerhaave, Herm. 70 6 Duchal, James 71 6 Foster, James 72 6 Guyse, Jn. 73 6 Hallet, Jos. 74 6 Hutcheson 75 6 Lucan, Rich. 76 6 Montague, Mary Wortley 77 6 Pluche, Antoine 78 6 Ridgley, Tho. 79 6 South, Rob. 80 5 Bacon, Matt. 81 5 Beccaria, Marq. de 82 5 Bulkley, Cha. 83 5 Cervantes, Miguel 84 5 Cheseiden, Wm. 85 5 Churchill, Cha. 86 5 Demosthenes 87 5 Franklin, Benja. 88 5 Guiccardini, Franc. 89 5 Harris, John 90 5 Long, Roger 91 5 Mason, Wm. 92 5 Middleton, Conyers 93 5 Neuman, Casp. 94 5 Nollet, Abbe 95 5 Oswald, James 96 5 Pemberton, Henry 97 5 Percival, Tho. 98 5 Rapin, M. 99 5 Shuckford, Sam. 100 5 Temple, Wm. Source: HUL, Charging Records, 1773-1782; Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantbrigiae Nov- Anglorum (1790).