While abroad in Europe, Gray purchased approximately 125 titles (or 279 volumes) [1]. Below is a sample of this small collection, with each title representing a larger genre. Press “FLIP” to see an alternative image of the volume. Press “READ” to open the book and link to the University of Michigan Library Online Catalogue. From this catalogue record, you can access a digital form of the text or request to view the physical item in the Special Collections Library.
You may also access a complete, text-only list of Asa’s Gray’s purchase.
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. With an essay on his language and versification, an introductory discourse, notes, and a glossary, by Tho. Tyrwhitt
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Lettres de Madame de Sévingé
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévingé
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Familiar Lectures on Moral Philosophy
John Prior Estlin
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Shakespeare’s Himself Again; or, the Language of the Poet Asserted
Andrew Becket
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Memoirs of the Court of England during the reign of the Stuarts
John Heneage Jesse
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Medulla Poetarum Romanorum; or, The most beautiful and instructive passages of the Roman poets.
Henry Baker
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The History of Chivalry and the Crusades
Henry Stebbing
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Cristallographie. 2. éd.
Jean Baptiste Louis de Romé de l’Isle
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History of the Ottoman Empire, from its establishment till the year 1828
Edward Upham
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Essays on Political Economy
Book Front Cover
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Hungary and Transylvania
John Paget
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Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren
James Elmes
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An Historical essay on Architecture. 3d ed.
Thomas Hope
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The Parian Chronicle
Joseph Robertson
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History of the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards
Joaquin Telesforo Trueba y Coafo
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[1] Russell E. Bidlack, “The University of Michigan General Library, a History of its Beginnings, 1837-1852.” (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1954), 135, 321-599.