of science, by Evans.—Philosophic solitude, by Livingston.—Sketches of American history, by Freneau.—An Indian eclogue, by Jos. Smith.

Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798. An eclogue, occasioned by the death of the Reverend Alexander Cummings, A.M., on the 25th of August A. D. 1763. Ætat. 37.... (By J. Belknap, B.A.) Boston: Printed by D. & J. Kneeland, for J. Edwards, 1763. 8 p. 16º.

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Benedict, David, 1779-1874. A poem delivered in Taunton, September 16th, A.D. 1807, at the anniversary election of the Philandrian Society. By David Benedict. Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, printers, No. 70, State-Street. 1807. 1 p.l., (1)4-19 p. 8º.

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—— The watery war: or, A poetical description of the existing controversy between the Pedobaptists and Baptists, on the subjects and mode of baptism. By John of Enon. Boston: Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, No. 2, Cornhill. 1808. 2 p.l., (1)6-34 p. 12º.

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Bernard, Francis. See Pietas et gratulatio....

Beveridge, John. Epistolae familiares et alia quædam miscellanea. Familiar epistles, and other miscellaneous pieces, wrote originally in Latin verse, by John Beveridge, A.M. Professor of languages in the College and Academy of Philadelphia. To which are added several translations into English verse, by different hands, &c. Philadelphia. Printed for the author by William Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, at the corner of Market and Front-Streets. m, dcc, lxv. xi, 88 p. 12º.

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Bible. Old Testament: Psalms. English. 1640. The whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullness, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. Imprinted, 1640. [Cambridge: Stephen Daye.] 147 l. 12º.

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The first book printed in English in North America. The version of the Psalms was made about the year 1636, the principal divines of the country each translating a portion. The principal part of the work was committed to Mr. Richard Mather, minister of the church in Dorchester, who probably wrote the preface also, and to Mr. Thomas Weld and Mr. John Eliot, associate ministers of the church in Roxbury. The work of printing was completed in 1640, and the new Psalm book was adopted at once by nearly every congregation in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and for that reason it came to be known as the Bay Psalm book. Of this famous book there are only ten copies known to be extant, of which only four are perfect.

For detailed statement and description see the facsimile reprint with the introduction by Wilberforce Eames.

—— The Bay Psalm book; being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640. With an introduction by Wilberforce Eames. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. 1 p.l., v-xvii p., 147 l. 8º.

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One of 975 copies on plain paper.

—— —— Prepared for the New England Society in the City of New York [190-?]. 1 p.l., v-xvii p., 147 l. 8º.

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With an introduction by Wilberforce Eames. Introduction dated: October, 1903.

—— A literal reprint of the Bay Psalm book, being the earliest New England version of the Psalms, and the first book printed in America.... Cambridge: C. B. Richardson, 1862. vii p., 149 l. 8º.

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Bigelow, Samuel, fl. 1776. A poem suitable for the present day, in five parts, Worcester, 1776. New York: repr. for C. F. Heartman, 1915. 2 p.l., 7-26 p. 8º. (Heartman’s historical series, no. 14.)

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No. 8 of forty copies printed on Fabriano hand-made paper.

Biglow, William, 1773-1844. Commencement, a poem: or rather commencement of a poem, recited before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in their dining hall, in Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1811. By a brother [i.e., William Biglow]. Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing. 1811. 1 p.l., (1)4-8 p. 8º.

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With bookplate of Henry B. Anthony.

—— Education; a poem: spoken at Cambridge at the request of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; July 18th 1799; By William Biglow. Salem: Joshua Cushing. 1799. 2 p.l., (1)4-17 p. 8º.

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First 2 l. and last leaf lacking. Title-page supplied in ms.

—— Re-re-commencement: a kind of a poem: calculated to be recited before an “assemblage” of New-England divines, of all the various denominations; but which never was so recited, and in all human probability never will be. By a friend of every body and every soul. Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing. 1812. 1 p.l., (1)4-8 p. 8º.

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The Bladensburg races. Written shortly after the capture of Washington City, August 24, 1814. [Probably it is not generally known, that the flight of Mahomet, the flight of John Gilpin, and the flight of Bladensburg, all occurred on the twenty-fourth of August.] Printed for the purchaser. 1816. 1 p.l., 3-12 p. 24º.

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—— Printed for the purchaser. 1816. 1 p.l., (1)4-16 p. 4º.

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A reprint issued in 1865.

No. 35 of seventy-five copies.

—— n.t.-p. n.p., n.d. 8 p. 8º.

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A reprint.

Bland, Theodoric, 1742-1790. [Patriotic poem on the battle of Lexington.] (In: The Bland papers. Edited by Charles Campbell. Petersburg, 1840. 8º. v. 1, p. xxi-xxiii.)

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Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza Schuyler, 1752-1783. An evening prospect. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York. 1791. 8º. v. 2, p. 475-476.)

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—— Lines, written by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8º. v. 2, p. 294.)

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—— Lines, written by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8º. v. 2, p. 356.)

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—— On reading Dryden’s Virgil. [Written in 1778, by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker.] (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8º. v. 2, p. 670.)

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—— The posthumous works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in prose and verse. To which is added, a collection of essays, prose and poetical, by Margaretta V. Faugeres. New-York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, No. 27, William-Street. 1793. 6 p.l., xviii,