Miscellaneous documents, portraits, and maps, 1681-1862 (bulk 1793-1862).

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Miscellaneous documents, portraits, and maps, 1681-1862 (bulk 1793-1862).

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Collection of portraits, views and documents representing various interests of Sir Thomas Phillipps. The collection includes certificates of his election to four learned societies: Georgia (United States of America) Historical Society; Gesellschaft für altere deutsche Geschichtskunde; Regia Scientarum Academia Borussia; and the Société Française de Statistique Universelle. The engraved portrait drawings include but are not limited to: the antiquarian John Dunkin; John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton); Hercules Humphreys; Sir William Wyndham and Moll Cutpurse. A passport allowing him to enter France in 1825 and his chromolithographed reproduction of the first printed map of Australia from Nicholas Vallard's Atlas (1547) are also part of this collection.

19 items ; 45 x 54 cm. and smaller.

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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

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English antiquary and collector. He began collecting while at Rugby School and Oxford. On inheriting his father's estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire, Phillipps embarked on a career of collecting manuscripts and books. His collection of manuscripts eventually numbered over 60,000 items. During Continental trips in the 1820s Phillipps bought heavily, and back in England he continued to do so, often buying up entire estate libraries at auction. He collected Eastern, Greek and Lat...

Georgia Historical Society

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In the spring of 1839, three Savannahians—Episcopal divine William Bacon Stevens, renowned autograph collector Israel K. Tefft, and educator, scientist, and American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold—hatched the idea of an organization whose mission would be to “collect, preserve, and diffuse the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of America generally.” In May of that year they held the first meeting of what was christened the Georgia Historical Society, the te...

Dunkin, John, 1782-1846

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John Dunkin, brother-in-law of writer Mary Hays. He was married to Hays's sister Joanna, who died in 1805. From the description of John Dunkin manuscript material : 5 items, 1807-1822 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 174115335 From the guide to the John Dunkin manuscript material : 5 items, 1807-1822, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: alias Duncan British Library Archives and M...

Gesellschaft für altere deutsche Geschichtskunde.

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Horblit, Harrison D.

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Wyndham, William, 1687-1740

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Cutpurse, Moll, 1584-1639

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Regia Scientarum Academia Borussica.

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Humphreys, Hercules,

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Horblit, Jean Mermin,

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Société Française de Statistique Universelle.

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Broughton, John Cam, Baron, 1786-1869

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