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Project / Collection Sloane Collection Place Java, Indonesia Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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)

2. Sloane MS 54

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Sloane MS 54
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Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Journal of the voyage of W. A. Cowley from Cape Virginia to the Cape de Verd Isles, to China, Java, Cape of Good Hope, and Holland: 1683-1686. Island of Java: Journals of voyage to, by W. A. Cowley: 1683-1686. Holland: Journal of voyage to, from the Cape of Good Hope, by W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1683-1686
Extent:
1 item

3. Sloane MS 1040

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Sloane MS 1040
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Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Rutter of lands and harbours without and within the Straits of Gibraltar, by Sir N. Miller: late 17th cent. Sir Nicholas Miller: Rutter of lands and harbours without and within the Straits of Gibraltar: late 17th cent. Mediterranean Sea: Rutter of lands and harbours within...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 1050

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Sloane MS 1050
Title:
Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Journal of the voyage of W. A. Cowley from Cape Virginia to the Cape de Verd Isles, to China, Java, Cape of Good Hope, and Holland: 1683-1686. Island of Java: Journals of voyage to, by W. A. Cowley: 1683-1686. William Ambrosia Cowley, Mariner: Journal of a voyage round the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1683-1686
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 2376

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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

6. Sloane MS 2910

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Sloane MS 2910
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Scope & Content:
Engelbert Kaempfer: Wrote MSS. Asia: Miscellanea de rebus Asiaticis, e MSS. Kæmpferi: 17th cent.: Fr., Germ. and Lat. Engelbert Kaempfer: Collections relating to Persia: 17th cent.: Dutch, Engl., Fr., Germ., Lat. and Russ. Writers of Manuscripts: Kæmpfer (Engelbert). Maps and Plans: Maps and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 2929 A

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Sloane MS 2929 A
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Scope & Content:
Writers of Manuscripts: Kæmpfer (Engelbert). Engelbert Kaempfer: Wrote MSS. Engelbert Kaempfer: Plantæ officinales Jaccatrenses: 17th cent. Island of Java: Plantæ officinales Jaccatrenses: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item