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Add MS 8629
- Record Id:
- 032-002029510
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029510
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000087
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8629
- Title:
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PAOLO MERCATI: The Isle of Zante (Zakynthos); circa 1811. Italian. Geographical and historical description of the island in 18 short chapters. Title (f. 1) 'Notizie / riguardanti l'Isola del Zante / Compilate / dal Signor Conte Paolo Mercati', inc. (f. 2) 'Capo. I. / Latitudine, longitudine, lunghezza, larghezza, circonferenza dell'Isola di Zante e sua descrizione / L'Isola del Zante, che a detta di Plinio', expl. (f. 15v) 'sino all'estinzione della Veneta Repubblica'. The main text is followed (ff. 16-19v) by 11 endnotes and a short text (ff. 19v-20) on the possible location of the stadium of Aeneas. Published with the title Saggio storico statistico della città ed isola di Zante compilato dal co. Paolo Mercati nell'anno 1811 [Zante, 1811], with a dedication letter to Sir John Stuart dated Zante 5/17 Sept. 1811 (see É. Legrand – H. Pernot, Bibliographie Ionienne, I (Paris, 1910), no. 834, p. 234). Armorial bookplates of the Hon. Frederick North with shelfmark 'L/18/B' (front pastedown), and of 5th Earl of Guilford (back pastedown, reversed). '361' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8630, 8631, 8633, and 8635, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 361 (part).
Paper; ff. 20+iv, plus 4 unfoliated blanks (2 interleaved and 2 at the end). 275 x 192mm. Early 19th-cent. quarter binding of dark brown leather with marble paper covers on pasteboards.
- Scope & Content:
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828.
Bindings: Quarter leather with marble paper covers on pasteboards: bef. 1817.
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford, (L/18/B): bef. 1817.
Geography: Zante, the Ionian Islands: Count Paolo Mercati: Greece: Account of the Isle of Zante by Count Paolo Mercati: circa 1811: Ital.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029510
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029510
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1806
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- c 1811
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 361, part), 8 Dec. 1830.
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Mercati, Paolo, Count
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770 - Places:
- Greece
Zante, the Ionian Islands