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copy of Charles Sorel’s La bibliothèque françoise (1664) with a very interesting collecting genealogy.

By 1583, its position had changed again; ‘library moves’, which occasionally bedevil browsers of the present-day stacks, have a long genealogy!

ii] His collection concentrates on adab texts (works of premodern literary culture), spanning fields such as historiography, poetry, literary criticism, biography, geography, genealogy, and rhetoric.

It is a long shot but in a book by Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers entitled:’The early Germans of New Jersey : their history, churches, and genealogies'(Dover, N.J. :

I’d guess that it was these which were used to compile the 6′ x 4′ lacquered canvas family tree which is now in Australia – ” Genealogy – Bradshawes of Bradshaw, Haigh and