New Books
- Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
- Charles Cotton - Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
- Gabriel de Foigney - The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia
- Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
- Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
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“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)