This 1850 catalogue of the additions to the collection of the Australian Subscription Library was the third Addenda to the major catalogue published in 1843, A Catalogue of the Books in the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Rooms, Systematically Arranged. Printed in Sydney by Kent and Fairfax, printers of the Sydney Morning Herald, the preliminaries include a list of the officer-holders of the library society, a list of the life members and new subscribers of the library, a financial statement (for the year 1849), a list of recent donations, and an ‘estimate of the assets of the library’.
The catalogue lists 331 new titles added to the library since the previous Supplement. Significant acquisitions were made in the categories of Biography and History (82 titles), Geography, Voyages and Travels (86 titles), Works of Fiction (49 titles), and Miscellaneous (41 titles). The other new acquisitions were in the categories of Philology (10 titles), Natural History (9 titles), Periodicals (8 titles), Jurisprudence (5 titles), Theology (6 titles), Poetry and the Drama (9 titles), Antiquities (7 titles), Mathematics, Astronomy etc (5 titles), Political Economy and Commerce (5 titles), Natural Philosophy and Chemistry (3 titles), Agriculture (6 titles, Mechanical Arts (2 titles), and Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery (3 titles)
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