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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