John Hancock's personal library
This is a list of John Hancock's personal library upon
his death. Hancock was a strong supporter of education. He donated over
1,000 books to Harvard's library and endowed a professorship of
languages and Hebrew there. As governor, Hancock supported legislation
requiring all towns with more than 200 people to provide a teacher of
Latin and Greek for their students and towns with less than that to have
a teacher proficient in English. Hancock could afford the best books
money could by and his library is larger than the typical home library
of the day.
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John Hancock's Personal Library
John Hancock
- Postlethwaite's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; 2 vols., folio
- Dart's History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's; 2 vols., folio
- Chamber's Dictionary: 2 vols., folio
- Willard's Divinity; folio
- Flavel's Works; folio
- Bacon's Philosophy
- Hollis's Memoirs; quarto
- Prussian Evolutions
- Carter's Epictetus
- Newton's Milton; 3 vols.
- Role's Conduct
- Universal History; 51 vols.
- Memoirs of Marlborough
- Magdalen Charities
- Hanway's Reflections on Life and Religion
- Varro's Husbandry
- Locke on the Understanding
- Beccaria on Crimes
- Annals of the Netherlands
- Constitution of the United States
- Zimmerman on Pride
- Dickinson's Political Essays
- Cato's Letters; 4 vols
- Field's Engineer
- Adams's Defence of the Constitution; 3 vols.
- Ramsay's History of the United States
- Belknap's New Hampshire
- Erkhard's Gazetteer, or the Newsman's interpreter
- Nature Displayed, or Spectacle de la Nature; 7 vols.
- Salmon's Short View
- Clarendon's Rebellion
- British Registers
- Whitelock's Historical Memoirs
- Age of Louis XIV
- British Customs
- England's Reformation
- Horneck's Great Law of Consideration
- Hervey's Meditations
- Chauncy's Thoughts on Religion
- Virgil
- Horace and Tully
- Estimate of Manners
- Greek Homer
- Caesar and Juvenal
- Tattler and Guardian
- Shakespeare and Spectator
- Female Spectator
- Pamela
- Mahew's Sermons
- Sir Charles Grandison
- Faith and Practice; 2 vols
- Collin's Rambler
- Gay
- Tom Jones
- Pope
- Dryden
- Glover's Leonidas
- Robertson's Scotland
- Military Instructor
- Essay on Slavery
- Journal of Congress
- Emily Montague
- Bibles in various languages
- Whole Duty of Man
- Archbishop Sharpe's Sermons and Discourses; 7 vols.
- Watts's Works
- Massachusetts Constitution
- Adam's Defence, in Dutch
- Ladies Library; 3 vols.
- Irwin's Tracts
- Boyer's French Dictionary
- Sim's Military Guide
- Historical Dictionary
- Hewett's Fables
- Memoirs of the Plague in London
- Mathematical works in French, Latin, Greek, and Dutch
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