Emanuel Swedenborg

The sale catalogue drawn up at the death of Swedenborg lists 470 bibliographic descriptions articulated according to format, divided in a document summary and in two appendices which list books which most probably were not part of the library of Swedenborg, but sold in the same auction. Indices of names and the classification scheme are missing. The books of the library were sold, on 28 November 1772, at Chamber’s in Stockholm. A copy of the original catalogue, published in octavo, is kept at the Royal Library of Stockholm, while two other copies can be found at the Carolina Rediviva Library in Uppsala. A part of the books included in the catalogue list can be found in the Swedenborg Library of the Academy of New Church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. The catalogue was alphabetically reorganized and republished with the title "Swedenborg’s Library. An Alphabetical List", in The New Philosophy, LXXII, 1, 1969, pp. 115-126.