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OF THE

NEW-YORK STATE LIBRARY:

1855.

GENERAL LIBRARY.

ALBANY :

CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSEN, PRINTER.
1856.

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THE Trustees of the State Library are required by law to report annually to the Legislature the additions to the Library, and also at the end of every five years a full catalogue of its contents. The Catalogue of 1850 was comprised in one octavo volume of nearly eleven hundred pages; but the additions to the Library have since been such as to render it expedient to issue the present Catalogue in three volumes, of a size more convenient than the former.

The present volume contains the Catalogue of the printed books in the General Library. The remaining two volumes contain, one, the Catalogue of the Law Books and State Papers in the Law Library; the other, the Catalogue of the manuscripts, maps, engravings, coins, etc. in the General Library.

The number of volumes in the Library at the time of the publication of the Catalogue in 1850 was 23,274. The whole number now on the shelves of the Library is 43,634; of which, 30,011, including 144 volumes of manuscripts, are in the General Library, and the remaining 13,623 in the Law Library. This shows an increase of 20,360 volumes in five years; of which, 16,607 appertain to the General Library, and 3753 to the Law Library.

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