This catalogue of the additions to the collection of the Australian Subscription Library was the third Addenda to the major catalogue published in 1839, An Arranged Catalogue of the Books in the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room. Printed in Sydney by Kent and Fairfax, printers of the Sydney Morning Herald, the preliminaries to the catalogue include a list of new members of the library and a financial statement for the year 1841.
The catalogue lists 238 new titles added to the library since the publication of the previous Addenda. By category, the main acquisitions were made in Works of Fiction (57 titles), History and Biography (42 titles) Geography, Voyages and Travels (23 titles), Miscellaneous (23 titles), Theology (17 titles), Jurisprudence (16 titles), Antiquities (12 titles), Classics (9 titles), Architecture (9 titles), Philology (6 titles), Periodicals (5 titles), Poetry and the Drama (4 titles), Natural History (4 titles), Moral Philosophy (3 titles), Mechanical Arts (2 titles), Agriculture (2 titles), Natural Philosophy and Chemistry (2 titles), Political Economy and Commerce (1 title) and Medicine (1 title).
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