Item of the Day: Oliver’s Essay on Comets (1772)

Full Title:
An Essay on Comets, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing an Attempt to explain the Phænomena of the Tails of Comets, and to account for their perpetual Opposition to the Sun, upon philosophical Principles. Part II. Pointing out some important Ends for which these tails were probably designed: Wherein it is shewn, that, in [...]

Item of the Day: A Sermon Preached in the Jews Synagogue (1756)

Full Title:
A Sermon Preached in the Jews Synagogue, On Friday, February 6, 1756; Being the Day Appointed by Authority for a General Fast. By Isaac Netto, Archsinagogus of the Portuguez Jews Synagogue. Translated from the Spanish Language by the Author. Published at the Desire of the Rulers of the Synagogue, and addressed to them.
Written and [...]

Reading Room Access Policy

The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room is located in room C/196.05 on the Concourse Level of the Mina Rees Library at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Access to and use of the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room and its materials is by appointment only. To make an appointment [...]

Item of the Day: State of Prisons (1777)

Full Title:
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons.
Bound With:
Appendix to the State Prisons in England and Wales, &c. By John Howard, F.R. S. Containing A Farther Account of Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, with Additional Remarks on the Prisons of this Country. Warrington: Printed [...]

Item of the Day: Letters of Junius (1770)

The Letters of Junius
Attributed to Sir Philip Francis. Printed in London in the year 1770.
From Letter I:
Addressed to the Printer of the Public Advertiser.
Sir,
The submission of a free people to the executive authority of government is no more than a compliance with laws, which they themselves have maintained abroad, and while justice is impartially administered [...]

Item of the Day: America Painted to the Life (1658)

Full Title:
America Painted to the Life. A True History of the originall undertakings of the advancement of Plantations into those parts, with a perfect relation of our ENGLISH Discoveries, shewing their beginning, progress, and continuance, from the year, 1628, to 1658. declaring the forms of their Government, Policies, Religions, Manners, Customes, Military Discipline, Warres with [...]