Extant copies of the Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703) and its 20th-century facsimile editions

ORIGINAL EDITION
Edward Millington, Bibliotheca Hookiana. Sive Catalogus Diversorum Librorum: viz. Mathematic. Philologicor. Philosophic. Hist. Natural. Medicorum, Navigat. &c. Plurimis Facultatibus Linguisque Insignium Quos Doct. R. Hooke, Mathem. Professor, & Regal. Societ. Londin. Socius, Magno Sumptu, & Summa Cura, sibi congessit . . . , London, 1703. ESTC no. T21590.

Copy 1
Location:
British Library shelfmark S.C.271.(1.); Sloane no. w 877. It does not appear to be listed in the main British Library catalogue; instead search the British Library Sloane Printed Books catalogue with the shelfmark entered exactly, including all the punctuation marks.
Notes:
Copy of the titlepage is provided in Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 101. Includes the Appendix, though this was possibly issued separately and only later bound with the Bibliotheca Hookiana; see Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 99, esp. note 4.

Copy 2
Location:
British Library shelfmark S.C.389.(2-3.); Sloane no. R 841-2. Not listed in the main British Library catalogue; instead search the British Library Sloane Printed Books catalogue with the shelfmark entered exactly, including all the punctuation marks.
Note:
Reproduced in the two facsimiles listed below.

Copy 3
Location:
Durham University Library shelfmark Routh 79.C.4/2
Note:
Previously owned by Martin Routh (1755-1854); see Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 100n9.

Copy 4
Location:
Grolier Club Library, New York, call no. \*05.42\1703\0429.
Notes:
First owner was probably William Jones (c. 1675-1749), the mathematician “who formed a library of mathematical books while serving as tutor to the first and second Earls of Macclesfield” [ref: Grolier Club Library catalogue; on Jones, see also Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 113]. This copy was listed in Sotheby’s, The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, part 4 (4 November 2004), lot 1054, and was purchased by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller of New York; see Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 100n9.

Copy 5
Location:
National Library of Ireland call no. 019.h1(1).
Notes:
Previously owned by William Betham (1779-1853, bookplate); see Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 100n9. While Mandelbrote specifies that only the two copies at the British Library have the Appendix, the physical description of this particular copy ([4],56,[2],17,[1]p.) suggests that it may also be included here.

Copy 6
Location:
University of California, Los Angeles, call no. Z997 .H6835 1703. There is no fixed URL in the library catalogue; search the library catalogue using the call number.
Note:
Previously owned by James West (1704-1773), Richard Heber (1773-1833), and Frank Marcham (d.1944); see Mandelbrote, ‘Sloane’s Purchases’ (2009), p. 100n9.

 

20th-CENTURY FACSIMILE EDITIONS

Facsimile 1
H. A. Feisenberger (ed.), Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons. Volume II: Scientists. Elias Ashmole, Edmund Halley, Robert Hooke, John Ray, London: Mansell, with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1975, pp. 37-116.
Notes:
This is a facsimile of British Library shelfmark S.C.389.(2-3.); Sloane no. R 841-2 (listed as “Copy 2” above); with manuscript interventions to make some numbers more legible (these are noted in the database). The main catalogue is reproduced on pp. 57-116; the Appendix on pp. 37-56.

Facsimile 2
Leona Rostenberg, the Library of Robert Hooke: the Scientific Book Trade of Restoration England, Santa Monica, CA: Modoc Press Inc., 1989, pp. 143-221.
Notes:
A facsimile of British Library shelfmark S.C.389.(2-3.); Sloane no. R 841-2 (listed as “Copy 2” above). The main catalogue is reproduced on pp. 143-202, and the Appendix on pp. 203-221, the latter is missing its last page.