The doctrines of heathen philosophy : compared with those of revelation

Pages 175-176 repeated in numbering; p. [260] misnumbered 062

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams Library copy contains: significant annotations

John Adams Library copy: transcriptions of handwritten annotations available

John Adams' signature on half-title: "John Adams."

John Adams Library copy contains note in Adams' hand on verso of half-title: "This is the work of a dying man of extraordinary application and research. But Enfields History of Philosophy will show its glaring imperfections. But Enfield is but an abridgment of Brukers Historia critica Philosophia in five volumes folio or large octavo. Of this work there is probably but one copy in America. That was brought from Europe, by Mr. Buckminster, and sold at a great price, at his auction, when Mr. Shaw in[sic] behalf of the Athenæum, was outbidden by the deeper purse of Harvard College. It would be more useful in the Athenæum, than in the Cambridge Library."

The "Mr. Shaw" in Adams' annotation was William Smith Shaw (1778-1826), the first librarian of the Boston Athenaeum and a nephew of John Adams. The "Mr. Buckminster" was likely Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784-1812), a founder of the Athenaeum