I know not what return to make in this kind more acceptable than of Dr. return my acknowledgm t for the books I haue recd. . . . The Dr’s Escot reprinted, with a Catalogue at the end, of all the Dr’s books.A defence of his 12 arguments in answer to Baxter.O, though I guess you have it, for which reason I do not send you his Meditations of Glory. An Acc o of the present state of the Prot.Samuel Baker of England wrote, September 2, 1684, 7Ībraham Kick of Amsterdam wrote in 1683 to Increase Mather, I have sent you herewith 2 treatises, which severall yeares agoe I drew up when I was a prisoner. I intend to send you another of Mr Stockton, entituled The best Interest when it is finished. I did also direct a few lines to you, with M r Stockton’s book entituled Consolation in Life & Death. . . . . if I knew what other such bookes would be acceptable to you, I would send them. also Mr Troughton of Divine Providence, . . . I have herewith sent you three books Christianismus Christianandus, and M r Ny’s paper, of a question which is much debated here, . . . I also intend to send with it, D r Owen of the reason of faith. Similarly Samuel Petto of Suffolk, England, wrote to Increase Mather in 1677, Boyle concerning the Origine and Vertue of Gems is not yet printed off: when it is, you shall not faile, God permitting, of hauing a Copy of it sent you by y e first ship y t shall goe for y r parts after its publication. but the Transactions of ye last year. . . . . I cannot but thank you for the particulars contained in y r letter for w ch I have nothing to return . . .
2ġ Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings, 1st Series, xvi. against y t great Sorbonist, Mons r Arnaud, touching y e Perpetuity of y e Romish Faith about the Eucharist. Monsr Charas’s New Experiments vpon Vipers.Boyl’s New Tracts about ye wonderful rarefaction and Condensation of the Air, etc. I herewith send you a few philosophical Books, lately printed here viz.: Boyles Continuation of ye Experimts concerning the Spring and weight of the Aire. In 1670 Henry Oldenburg, returning to Winthrop the thanks of the Royal Society for curiosities which he had sent, wrote, 1Īnd y t this returne may not be altogether verbal, you are to receiue wth it some few books lately printed here by several Fellows of y e Society, viz.: Gifts and shipments to individuals continued to come from England booksellers became numerous and both the Public Library and the Harvard Library grew in size.Īs in the earlier period, John Winthrop, Jr., was one of the chief recipients of books. THE flow of books to the New England colonies increased rather than diminished during the second period.
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