Note 301 — Chapter V
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[Colonel Aspinwall collected during his long consulship at Liverpool a valuable American library, of about four thousand volumes (771 titles), which in 1863 was sold to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Esq., of New York, but all except about five hundred of the rarest volumes which Mr. Barlow had taken possession of were burned in that city in 1864. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xv. 2. This collection was described in a catalogue (a few copies privately printed), Bibliotheca Barlowiana, compiled by Henri Harrisse.—Ed.]