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Place China, Asia Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) Level [40] File

1. Add MS 35300

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 35300
Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. I. Drawings by William Alexander and Samuel Daniell
Scope & Content:
37 watercolour drawings, made for the most part in 1792-3 on Lord Macartney's embassy to China (see also Add MS 33931), the rest on a mission with Sir John Barrow in southern Africa in 1801-2. Many of them have been engraved, either for Sir John Barrow's Voyage to Cochinchina (1806, containing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792-1802
Extent:

1 volume (37 folios)

2. Sloane MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2376
Title:
James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan Baptista Poggio and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Includes: 1. Plantae in Insula Palma Collectae Mense Januario 1697/1698, ff 5-9. 2. Copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Juan Baptista Poggio, 1698, ff 10-21; and copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1706
Extent:
1 volume