Autograph letter signed : College of Physicians, London, to [Thomas Pennant], 1761 Dec. 5.
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Edwards, George, 1694-1773
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George Edwards, an ornithologist and artist, studied etching under Mark Catesby. His success as an artist enabled Edwards to self-publish via the Royal College of Physicians his multi-volume work: A natural history of uncommon birds (1743-1750). The buyer, noted on the receipt, is James West. West was a politician and noted bookcollector. As R. Charles Lucas notes, in his work, Book-collecting in the eighteenth century: The library of James West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949): West "was...
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982
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Henry Sturgis Morgan (1900-1982) was the youngest of the four children of J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943) and Jane Norton Morgan (1868-1925). He worked for Morgan Stanley, first at 2 Wall Street (1935-1967), then at 140 Broadway (1967-1973), and then in the Exxon building at Rockefeller Center. He and his wife, Catherine Adams Morgan (b. 1902), had five children, Henry S. Morgan Jr. (b. 1924), Charles Francis Morgan (b. 1926), Miles Morgan (b. 1928), John Adams Morgan (b. 1930), and Peter Angus Morg...
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
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Natural historian, scientist, traveller and Fellow of the Royal Society in London, Pennant was acquainted with all the notable scientists of his time and was a close friend of Sir Joseph Banks. Pennant was a prolific writer and his publications include The British zoology (1766), A tour of Scotland, 1769 (1771), Arctic zoology (1784). Pennant incorporated information about Australian fauna in his books A history of quadrupeds (1781) and the fourth volume of Outlines of the globe (1798). ...
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
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Naturalist. From the description of Mark Catesby correspondence, 1744. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452847 ...
