Gray’s Purchases – Professor Gray and the Secret Life of Books

The following is a list of books thought to have been purchased by Asa Gray himself while abroad in Europe [1].

A classical and archaeological dictionary of the manners, customs, laws, institutions, arts, etc., of the celebrated nations of antiquity and of the Middle Ages. To which is prefixed a synoptical and chronological view of ancient history

P. Austin Nuttall

London 1840 [2]

A comparative view of the Huttonian and Neptunian systems of geology: in answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth, by Professor Playfair

John Murray

Edinburgh 1802

A further inquiry into the expediency of applying the principles of colonial policy to the government of India; and of effecting an essential change in its landed tenures, and in the character of its inhabitants. By the author of the original “Inquiry”

Gavin Young

London 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001753106

A history of music

William Cooke Stafford

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001454352

A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the frontiers of China, the Frozen Sea, and Kamtohatka. New ed.

John Dundas Cochrane

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001857388

A popular guide to the observation of nature; or, Hints of inducement to the study of natural productions and appearances, in their connexions and relations

Robert Mudie

London 1832

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001987403

A tour in Germany and some of the southern provinces of the Austrian Empire in 1820, 1821, 1822. New ed. With additions

John Russell

Edinburgh 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000371407

Adventures of British seamen in the southern ocean, displaying the striking contrasts which the human character exhibits in an uncivilized state

Hugh Murray

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001285871

Alliterative poem on the deposition of King Richard II. Necardi Maydiston De concordia inter Ric. II et civitatem

Thomas Wright

London 1838

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000663369

American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States. By Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Edited by Robert Jameson, with a memoir of Wilson, by W.E. Hetherington

Alexander Wilson

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001501618

An account of an embassy to the kingdom of Ava, in the year 1795. To which is now added, A narrative of the late military and political operations in the Birmese Empires; with some account of the present condition of the country, its manners, customs, and inhabitants, by H. G. Bell

Michael Symes

Edinburgh 1827-31

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001869124

An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South and Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arr. From the extensive communications of William Mariner, several years resident in those islands, by John Martin. 3d ed. considerably improved

William Mariner

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001275504

An autumn in Italy, being a personal narrative of a tour in the Austrian, Tuscan, Roman and Sardinian states, in 1827

J.D. Sinclair

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000350771

An enquiry into the origin of honour, and the usefulness of Christianity in war. By the author of The fable the bees.

Bernard Mandeville

London 1732

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001390667

An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness. With an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. 6th ed.

Thomas Robert Malthus

London 1826

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001310291

An historical essay on architecture. Illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. 3d ed.

Thomas Hope

London 1840

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002618987

An historical essay on the Magna Charta of King John. To which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English; the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III and Edward I; the original charter of the forests; and various authentic insturments connected with them; explanatory notes on their several privileges; a descriptive account of the principal originals and edititions extant, both in print and ms; and other illustrations, derived from the most interesting and authentic sources

Richard Thomson

London 1829

An inquiry into the state of national subsistence, as connected with the progress of wealth and population

William Turner Comber

London 1808

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001737302

Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poësy

Joseph Haslewood

London 1811-15

Arrian on coursing. The Cynegeticus of the younger Xenophon, translated from the Greek by William Dansey with classical and practical annotations, and a brief sketch of the life and writings of the author. To which is added an appendix, containing some account of the Canes venatcici of classical antiquity, by a graduate of medicine. With embellishments from the antique.

Flavius Arrianus

London 1831

Austria

Peter Evan Turnbull

Edinburgh 1840

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001599585

Converts from infidelity; or, Lives of eminent individuals who have renounced libertine principles and sceptical opinions and embraced Christianity

Andrew Crichton

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001414995

Cristallographie; ou, Description des formes propres a tous les corps du regne minéral, dans l’etat de combinaison saline, pierreuse ou métallique. 2. éd.

Jean Baptiste Louis de Romé de l’Isle

Paris 1783

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001035389

Description of the ruins of an ancient city discovered near Palenque, in the kingdom of Guatemala in Spanish America. Translated from the original ms. Report. Followed by Teatro critico americana; or, A critical investigation and research into the history of the Americans, by Paul Felix Cabrera

Antonio del Rio

London 1822

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001446950

Dissertations on man, philospophical, physiological, and political, in answer to Mr. Malthus’s “Essay on the principle of population”

Thomas Jarrold

London 1806

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001310299

English works. Now 1st collected and edited by Sir William Molesworth, bart. Vols. 1 & 3.

Thomas Hobbes

London 1839

Essays on political economy; in which are illustrated the principal causes of the present national distress, with appropriate remedies

G. Robertson

London 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002240350

Experiments and observations on different kinds of air and other braches of natural philosophy connected with the subject. Abridged and methodized, with many additions.

Joseph Priestly

Birmingham 1790

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000278165

Extracts from a journal, written on the coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexio, in the years 1920, 1821, 1822. 5th ed.

Basil Hall

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001973010

Familiar lectures on moral philosophy

John Prior Estlin

London 1818

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001920326

Government of Canada. Debates of the House of Commons in the year 1774, on the bill for making more effectual provisions for the government of the province of Quebec. Drawn up from the notes of Sir Henry Cavendish. Now 1st published, by J. Wright, with a map of Canada

Sir Henry Cavendish

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001749971

Gray versus Malthus. The principles of population and production investigated; and the questions: Does population regulate subsistence, or subsistence population; has the latter, in its increase, a tendency to augment or diminish the average quantum of employment and wealth; and Should government encourage or check early marriage. Discussed by George Purves (pseud)

Simon Gray

London 1818

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001888139

Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez and Talomeoo, in the thirteenth century, by the Monguls, accompanied with elephants; and the local agreement of history and tradition, with the remains of elephants and mastadontes found in the New World

John Ranking

London 1827

History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. To the restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. Vols. 1-7

Sir Archibald, bart. Alison

Edinburgh 1835-9

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000556881

History of remarkable conspiracies connected with European history, during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

John Parker Lawson

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000673804

History of sculpture, painting and architecture

John Smythe Memes

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000290058

History of the civil wars of Ireland, from the Anglo-Norman invasion till the union of the country with Great Britain

William Cooke Taylor

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000197532

History of the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards

Jocquin Telesforo Trueba y Coafo

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001269989

History of the Ottoman Empire, from its establishment till the year 1828

Edward Upham

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001239506

History of the principal states of Europe from the peace of Utrecht

John Russell

London 1826

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000397217

History of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746. 4th ed.

Robert Chambers

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000152474

History of the rebellions in Scotland under the Viscount of Dundee and the Earl of Mar, in 1689 and 1715

Robert Chambers

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000152471

History of the rebellions in Scotland, under the Marquis of Montrose and others, from 1638 till 1660

Robert Chambers

Edinburgh 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000111935

History of the revolutions in Europe, from the subversion of the Roman Empire in the west, till the abdication of Bonaparte. From the French, by Andrew Chrichton

Christophe Guillame Koch

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000538253

History of the war of independence in Greece

Thomas Keightley

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000653269

Hungary and Transylvania; with remarks on their condition, social, political, and economical

John Paget

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001604683

Illustrations of the history of Great Britain: an historical view of the manners and customs, dresses, literature, arts, commerce and government of Great Britain, form the time of the Saxons down to the eighteenth century

Richard Thomson

Edinburgh 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000233899

Journal of a residence in Normandy

James Augustus St. John

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000346379

L’Europe et l’Amerique en 1822 et 1823

Dominique Georges Frédéric de Riom de Prolhiac de Fourt, Abp. Of Mechlin de Pradt

Paris 1824

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000400302

Lecutres on astronomy, delivered at King’s College, London

Henry Mosely

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001476010

Lettres de Madame de Sévingé, de sa famille et des ses amis, précédées d’une notice par Charles Nodier. Nouv. Éd

Marie (de Rabutin-Chantal) Sévingé

Paris 1836

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002616848

Library of the fine arts; or, Repertory of painting, sculpture, architecture, and engraving. V. 1-4; Feb. 1831-Oct. 1832

London

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000063483

Life of Hernan Cortes

Jacquin Telesforo Trubea y Cosic

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001445705

Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. 2d.ed.

Henry Glassford Bell

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000110810

Life of Oliver Cromwell.

Michael, Bp. Of Glasgow and Galloway Russell

Edinburgh 1829

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000770326

Life of Robert Burns. 3d ed. Corr.

John Gibson Lockhart

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000588297

Life of Sir William Wallace, of Elderslie

John Donald Carrick

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000109533

Medulla poetarum Romanorum; or, The most beautiful and instructive passages of the Roman poets. Being a collection (disposed under proper heads) of such descriptions, allusions, comparisons, characters, and sentiments, as may best serve to shew the religion, learning, politicks, arts, customs, opinions, manners, and circumstanes of the ancients. With translations of the same English verse

Henry Baker

London 1737

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001054699

Memoir and correspondence. Edited by Lady Smith

Sir James Edward Smith

London 1832

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001493516

Memoir written by Sir Hew Dalrymple of his proceedings as connected with the affairs of Spain, and the commencement of the Peninsular War.

Sir Hew Whiteford, bart. Dalrymple

London 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000446500

Mémoirs de l’Institute National des Sciences et Arts, pour l’an IV.-XIII. Sciences mathématiques et physiques. T.1-4

Académie des Sciences, Paris

Paris 1798-1804

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/003913743

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestly, to the year 1795, written by himself. With a continuation to the time of his decease, by his son Joseph Priestly; and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper and William Christie

Joseph Priestly

London 1806-7

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001486567

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (from the French) by John S. Memes. New edition

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000605364

Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts, including the Protectorate

John Heneage Jesse Jesse

London 1840

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000234212

Memoirs of the Empress Josephine

John Smythe Memes

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000648849

Memoirs of the life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole, earl of Oxford, new ed.

William Coxe

London 1800

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000234820

Memoirs of the life and works of Sir Christopher Wren with a brief view of the progress of architecture in England, from the beginning of the reign of Charles the First to the end of the seventeenth century. And an appendix of authentic documents

James Elmes

London 1823

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000453419

Memoirs of the life and writings of the Rev. Arthur Collier, rector of Langford Magna, in the country of Wilts from A.D. 1704 to A.D. 1732, with some account of his family

Robert Benson

London 1837

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001592902

Memoirs. Translated from the French. Edited with an introduction by Sir Walter Scott

Marie Louis Victoire (de Donnissan) marquis de La Rochejaquelein

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000605493

Memorials of the late war. New ed.

Edinburgh 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000374325

Miscellaneous works

Joseph Addison

Oxford 1830

Morceaux extraits de l’Histoire naturrelle de Pline, par P.S.C Gueroult. Nouv ed. Revue et augmentée, avec des notes critques et historiques

C. Plinius Secundus

Paris 1809

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe

Robert Fitzroy

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001269367

Narratives of voyages and excursions on the east coast and in the interior of Central America. Describing a journey up the river San Juan, and passage across the lake of Nicaragua to the city of Leon, pointing out the advantages of a direct commerical intercourse with the natives. With notes and observations, by Edward Iriving

Orlando W. Roberts

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001446871

Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs. Lehrbuch für öffentlich Vortage, tesonders auch in Gymnasien und Realschulen, so wie zum Selbststudium. 2, sher vorm und verb auf Vol. 1.

Karl Cäser von Leonhard

Heildelberg 1833

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002001885

Ocullus Lucanus. On the nature of the universe, Taurus, the Platonic philosopher. On the eternity of the world; Julius Firmicus Maternus. Of the thema mundi, in which the positions of the stars at the commencement of the several mundane periods is given. Select theorems of the perpetuity of time, by Proclus. Translated from the originals by Thomas Taylor

Thomas Taylor

London 1831

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001984936

Oeuvres de Condillac, rev. corr. Par l’autuer imprimées sur ses manuscripts autographes, et augm. De la langue des calculs, ovrage posthume

Étienne Bonnot de Concillac

Paris 1798

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001916199

Oriental memoirs, selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India, including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages. Illustrated by engravings from original drawings

James Forbes

London 1813

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001266235

Personal sketches of his own times.

Sir Jonah Barrington

London 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000155716

Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816, by C. A. Dard. Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785. Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001271254

Plans referred to in a report on prisons in the West Indies. Twenty-two plans

J.W. Pringle

1838 Poetical works

Henry Hart Milman

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002616783

Practical essays on agriculture; containing an account of soils, and the manner of correcting them; an account of the culture of all field plants…also an account of the culture and management of grass-lands; together with observations on enclosures, fenses, farms, and farm-houses, etc. Carefully collected and digested from the most eminent authors, with experimental remarks

James Adam

London 1789

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002015521

Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Triopoly eastward, in MDCCCXXI. And MDCCCXXIX. Comprehending an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenalop, and of the ancient cities composing the pentapolis. By Captain F. W. Beechey and H. W. Beechey

Frederick William Beechey

London 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001608712

Rapports du Physique et du moral de l’homme

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis

Paris 1815

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000619972

Recueil d’observations astronomiques, d’operations trigonométriques et de mesures barométriques, faites pendant le cours d’un voyage aux régions equinoxiales du nouveau continent, depuis 1799 jusqu’en 1803. Rédigées et calculées, d’apres les tables les plus exactes, par Jabbo Oltmanns. Ouvrage auquel on a joint des recherches historiques sur la position de plusieurs points importans pour les navigateurs et pour les géographes

Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt

Paris 1810

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/008559283

Recueil des éloges historiques lus dans les séances publiques de l’Institut Royal de France

Georges, baron Cuvier

Strassbourg 1819-27

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001985738

Report on the penitentiaries of the United States, addressed to his Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. Presented by His Majesty’s command. Ordered to be printed 13th March, 1835

William Crewford

London 1835

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001745391

Roman portraits, a poem in heroick verse. With historical remarks and illustrations

Robert Jophson

London 1794

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000482298

Selections of the most remarkable phenomena of nature

Henry Glassford Bell

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001474118

Shakespeare’s himself again; or, The language of the poet asserted; being a full but dispassionate examen of the readings and interpretations of the several authors. The whole comprised in a series of notes, sixteen hundred in number, and further illustrative of the more difficult passages in his plays, to the various editions of which the present volumes form a complete and necessary supplement

Andrew Becket

London 1815

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001365784

Shipwrecks and disasters at sea; or, Historical narratives of the most noted calamities and providential deliverances which have resulted from maritime enterprise

Sir John Graham Dalyell

Edinburgh 1827

Some information respecting America, collected by Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper

London 1794

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000289800

Switzerland, the south of France, and the Pyrenees in M.DCCC.XXX.

Henry David Inglis

London 1831-35

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001237865

Table-talk; or, Selections from the ana. Containing extracts from the different collections of ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With bibliographic notices.

George Moir

Edinburgh 1827

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001901296

The achivements of the knights of Malta

Alexander Sutherland

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001597534

The book of butterflies, sphinges and moths. Illustrated by one hundred and forty-five engravings, coloured after nature

Thomas Brown

London 1834

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001500400

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

London 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/008662391

The Edinburgh philosophical journal, exhibiting a view of the progress of discovery in natural philosophy, chemistry, natural history, practical mechanics, geography, navigation, statistics, and the fine and useful arts

Edinburgh June 1819-April 1824

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000531292

The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated. Published with the sanction of the council, under the superintendence of the secretary and vice-secretary of the Society

Edward Turner Bennett

London 1835

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001998314

The general register of politics and literature in Europe and America, for the year 1827. Preceded by a memoir of the Right Honourable George Canning.

Edinburgh 1828

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000400286

The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments. 3d ed., corr. And enl.

Joseph Priestly

London 1775

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001985663

The history of chivalry and the crusades

Henry Stebbing

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000631885

The history of the life and reign of Queen Anne. Illustrated with all the modals struck in this reign, with their explanations. To which is added an appendix containing several authentick and romarkable papers, and an annual list of the most eminent persons who dy’d in this reign, with characters of the most conspicuous.

Abel Boyer

London 1722

The life of Izaak Walton

Thomas Zouch

London 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001425376

The life of King James the First

Robert Chambers

Edinburgh 1830

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000767278

The natural history of Selbourne. With additions, by Sir William Jardine. New ed.

Gilbert White

London 1832

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001993011

The Parian Chronicle; or, The Chronicle of the Arundelian marbles; with a dissertation concerning its authenticity.

Joseph Robertson

London 1788

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000656021

The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. Abridged, methodized, and disposed under the gernal heads of physics, statics, pheumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. The whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time, by Peter Shaw

Hon. Robert Boyle

London 1725

The poetical decameron; or, Ten conversations on English poets and poetry, particularly of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I

James Payne Collier

Edinburgh 1820

The rise and progress of the English commonwealth. Anglo-Saxon period. Containing the Anglo-Saxon policy and the institutions arising out of laws and usages which prevailed before the conquest

Sir Francis Palgrave

London 1832

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000308153

The stranger’s guide to the Roman antiquities of the city of Treves. From the German. To which are added, plates from unpublished drawings, and other illustrations. Edited under the direction of Dawson Turner

Johann Hugo Wyttenbach

London 1839

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000574628

The works of Abraham Cowley. Consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design’d for the press, publish’d out of the author’s original copies. With the cutter of Coleman-street. 10th ed. Adorned with cuts

Abraham Cowley

London 1707-08

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001019558

The works of Adam Smith. With an account of his life and writings, by Dugald Steward

Adam Smith

London 1811-12

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001324426

The works, political, metaphisical, and chronological, of the late Sir James Stewart of Coltness, bart. New first collected by General Sir James Stewart, bart. His son, from his father’s corrected copies. To which are subjoined annecdotes of the author

Sir James, bart. Steuart Denham

London 1805

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001308445

Théorie de la terre. 2. éd., corrigée, et augmenté d’une minéralogie

Jean Claude de la Métherie

Paris 1797

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002003758

Tixall poetry; with notes

Arthur Clifford

Edinburgh 1813

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000947380

Traité d’économie politique…2 éd., entirèrement refondue et augmentée d’un épitome des principles fonda-montaux de l’économie politique

Jean Baptiste Say

Paris 1814

Travels along the Mediterranean and ports adjacent, in company with the Earl of Belmore, during the years 1816-17-18; extending as far as the second cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbeo, etc, etc., Illustrated by plans and other engravings

Robert Richardson

London 1822

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001246686

Visits to remarkable places: old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry. The illlustrations designed and executed by Samuel Williams. Vol. 1

William Hewitt

London 1840

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000150926

Voyage dans les parties sud le l’Amerique septentrionale; savoir: les Carolines septentrionale et méridionale, la Georgie, les Florides orientale et occidentale, le pays des Cherokées, le vaste territoire des Muscogulges ou de la confédération Creek, et le pays des Chactaws. Imprimé à Philadelphie en 1791, et à Londres en 1792, et trad. de l’angl. par P. V. Benoist

William Bartram

Paris 1801

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001874108

Voyage de Néarque, des bouches de l’Indus jusqu’a l’Euphrate; ou, Journal de l’expédition de la flotte d’Alexandre, rédigé sur le journal original de Néarque conservé par Arrien…Traduit de l’englais de William Vincent, par J.B.L.J de Billecocq.

William Vincent

Paris 1800

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001270367

Voyage to Loo-Choo, and other places in the eastern seas, in the year 1816. Including an account of Captain Maxwell’s attack on the batteries at Canton; and notes of an interview with Buonaparte at St. Helena, in August, 1817

Basil Hall

London 1832

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002617035

Voyages de M.P.S. Pallas en différentes provinces de l’empire de Russie, et dans l’Asie septentrionale. Traduits de l’allemend, par M. Gauthier de la Peyronie

Peter Simon Pallas

Paris 1788-93

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001604760

Vues des Cordillères, et monuments des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique

Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt

Paris 1813

http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/002573145

[1] Russell E. Bidlack, “The University of Michigan General Library, a History of its Beginnings, 1837-1852.” (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1954), 323-599.

[2] Several of the titles in the Gray Collection have publishing dates of 1840–a year after Gray left Europe. It is unclear why this is the case, as Bidlack does not specify in his work. These works may have been sent to U-M after Gray returned to the U.S., as the final “library” collection was not moved to Ann Arbor from Detroit until the spring of 1840.