Creator
Clap, Thomas.
Title
A catalogue of the library of Yale-College in New-Haven.
Coverage
N. London, [Conn.]
Publisher
T. Green
Date
1743
Description
This catalogue, the first issued by the Yale College library, is also the earliest catalogue of an American institutional library in the Grolier Club. The catalogue comprises 1,100 short author entries, and headings include languages, mathematics, philosophy, anatomy and “chirurgery,” voyages and travels, morality, and divinity. Compiler Thomas Clap (1703–1767), served as fifth rector and first president of Yale.
Source
Gift of Donald Oresman, 2002.