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1. Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31

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Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31
Title:
Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing the Himalayan regions through which he passed.
Scope & Content:
Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1825
Extent:
51 volumes

2. Add MS 5253

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Add MS 5253
Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

3. Add MS 8803

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Add MS 8803
Title:
MATTEO RICCI: Treatise on Friendship; 1595-1599, 1724. Chinese, Italian, and Latin. Autograph. A collection of moral sentences from ancient Western authors put together and translated into Chinese by father Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the famous Jesuit missionary, in Nanchang at the end of 1595, and dedicated to Qian Zhai, prince of Jian'an (Jian'an wang). Ricci's main literary source was probably the 5th edition of Andrea de Rèsende, Sententiae et exempla ex probatissimis quibusque scriptorib...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled brown calf, with original xylographic pastedowns: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 7-29v Matteo Ricci, Jesuit and mathematician: Treatise on Friendship: 1595-1599: Chinese and Ital: autogr. ff. 33-34 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1595-1724
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 11703

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Add MS 11703
Title:
SUPPLÉMENT à la Géographie Impériale intitulée, Tae tsing yih tung che. Par M. Henri Jules Klaproth. Autogr. Folio. [11,703.]
Scope & Content:
Henri Jules Klaproth: Supplément à la Géographie Imperiale. China: Supplément à la Géographie Impériale de la Chine, par H. J. Klaproth.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 11704

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Add MS 11704
Title:
HISTORISCHER Atlas von China, in ein und zwanzig Karten, von H. J. Klaproth, 1821 [only the explanatory text];-Geographical nomenclature of the country of the Mongols, Kalkas, etc., by M. Klaproth. Autogr. Folio. [11,704.]
Scope & Content:
Mongols: Geographical nomenclature of the country of the Mongols, Kalkas, etc. by H. J. Klaproth. Maps and Charts: Collection of maps of China, drawn by H. J. Klaproth. Henri Jules Klaproth: Geographical nomenclature of the Country of the Mongols, Kalkas, etc. Henri Jules Klaproth: Historisch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 11706

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Add MS 11706
Title:
中國和韃靼局部地圖集 中国和鞑靼局部地图集 Zhongguo he dada ju bu di tu ji [Atlas containing European maps of parts of China and of Tartary]
Scope & Content:
Tartary: Maps of Chinese and Northern Tartary. Maps and Charts: Map of the province of Omsk, in N. Tartary, and of the central north of Mongolia, by H. J. Klaproth. Maps and Charts: Map of Chinese Tartary, with notes by H. J. Klaproth. Maps and Charts: Original map of Cochin China, drawn by t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Manchu
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 item (7 maps bound into one volume)

7. Add MS 19763-19765

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Add MS 19763-19765
Title:
DRAWINGS of Chinese manufactories of tea, china, rice, silk, and cotton, and of Chinese boats, by a native artist trained in a European school. Three volumes. Paper; xixth cent. Oblong Folio.
Scope & Content:
China: Drawings of Chinese manufactories and boats: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
3 items

8. Add MS 20228

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Add MS 20228
Title:
LETTERS of J. W. Stott to Sir H. Lowe; Cape Town, 13 Nov. 1816-27 June, 1820, f. 1; Letters of T. T. Harrington to T. H. Brooke, Secretary to Government at St. Helena, and others; Cape Town, 29 April, 1817-11 Sept. 1819, f. 21; Letters of James B. Urmston to Sir H. Lowe; Macao and Canton, 4 Dec. 1817-20 Nov. 1821, f. 53. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:
China: Letters from merchants in, to Sir H. Lowe: 1816-1821. Cape of Good Hope: Letters from merchants at, to Sir H. Lowe: 1816-1821. Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, GCMG; Governor of St Helena: Official correspondence and papers: 1794-1827. Island of St Helena: Correspondence and papers ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Nov 1816-20 Nov 1821
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 21416

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Add MS 21416
Title:
LETTERS to M. [Joseph] de Guignes, member of the Académie des Inscriptions, etc., upon the supposed connection between the modern Chinese and the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphical characters and inscriptions, as exemplified by a bust of Isis in the Turin Museum, viz.: 1. Letters from R. Sanchez ; Belleville, 24 July [1761]. Fr. f. 2. 2. John Turberville Needham (5 letters); Rome, 8 July-4 Nov. 1761. Fr. f. 3. 3. Paper signed by [Augustus Henry, Duke of] Grafton, F[rancis, Marquis of] Tavis...
Scope & Content:
Hieroglyphics Egyptian: Letters to Prof. de Guignes relating to: 1759-1767. Antiquities: Engraving of the bust of Isis in the Turin Museum: circ. 1760. Language and Literature of China: Letters, papers, and drawings relating to: 1759-1767. Joseph de Guignes, orientalist: Letters to, on Egypti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1759-1764
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 27231

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Add MS 27231
Title:
1. "DIALOGO dos Montes, composto pelo doctissimo e clarissimo sr Hacham a-salem, morenu arab, Saul Levi Morteira, em Amsterdam, Anno 5406 [A.D. 1645];" a poem in the form of a dialogue between the mountains of the Holy Land and Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, with a pen-and-ink drawing. Portuguese and Hebrew. f 4. 2. "Repuesta a las objeciones con que el Sinense injustamente calumnia al Talmud. Compuesta por el muy docto señor Haham Saul Levi Mortera, en Amsterdam, Anno 5406" [A.D. 1645]. Span...
Scope & Content:
Lemuel de Casseres: Wrote: in the 18th cent. includes: f. 4 Saul Levi Mortera, Rabbi, of Amsterdam: Dialogo dos Montes,: 1645.: Portug. and Hebrew. f. 55 Talmud: Reply to Chinese objections to the Talmud, by Haham S. L. Mortera: 1645.: Span. f. 55 Saul Levi Mortera, Rabbi, of Amsterdam: Reply ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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