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1. Add MS 5253

Reference (shelfmark):
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 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