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Add MS 89125
- Record Id:
- 032-002837550
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002837550
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023576121.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89125
- Title:
- Correspondence of George Smith, agent of Petris van Damme, bookseller, of Amsterdam
- Scope & Content:
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The letters are chiefly on bibliographical matters. Contains:
Letter from Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, to G. Smith, at Amsterdam (subsequently agent in London of Petris van Damme, bookseller, of Amsterdam) on the subject of F. Corsellis's printed books, and particularly of his 1469 Pliny; London, 10 Apr 1756.
Letter from G. Smith to Isaac Vanden Stoeck, bookseller, at the Hague; certified copy, Amsterdam, 8 Oct 1756.
Letter from G. Smith to F. L. Varon, bookseller, of s'Gravenhage; from Amsterdam, 13 Nov 1756.
Letter from G. Smith to an unknown recipient; n.d. [1757?].
Letter from G. Smith to Petris van Damme, at Amsterdam; from London, n.d. [1757?].
Letter from G. Smith to Petris van Damme, at Amsterdam; from London, n.d. [1757?].
Letter from G. Smith to Petris van Damme, at Amsterdam; from London, 17 Apr [1757?].
Letter from G. Smith to Petris van Damme, at Amsterdam; from London, n.d. [1757?]. With an extract from a letter from a bookseller named Osborne [probably Thomas Osborne of Gray's Inn, d 1767] to Smith.
Letter from A. Voomberg, at London, to an unknown recipient, stating that Smith had directed the "Plini Epistolae 1469" to be included in Osborne's catalogue; 16 June 1757.
Letter from B. Burman to Gerard Meerman relating to Corsellis's 1469 edition of Pliny; n.d.
Declaration by Meerman of redelivery of a copy of the Liber Helvici to Varon, on account of its bearing a fraudulent date; 5 Apr 1759. Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002837550", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 89125: Correspondence of George Smith, agent of Petris van Damme, bookseller, of Amsterdam" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002837550
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002837550
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Dutch
English - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1756
- End Date:
- 1759
- Date Range:
- 1756-1759
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Source of Acquisition:
- Transferred from Dutch section, c 2000.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Damme, Petris, bookseller, of Amsterdam, fl 1756-1757
Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Caius, also known as Pliny the Younger, 61-c 113
Smith, George, agent of Petris van Damme, bookseller, fl 1756-1757