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From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor and Michael Hunter.

Title: From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor and Michael Hunter.
Publication: London : The British Library, 2012.

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x, 310 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

This extensively illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on the great 18th-century physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose holdings formed the basis of the British Museum and ultimately of its dual offspring, the Natural History Museum and the British Library.

Alternative Title

Sir Hans Sloane and his collections

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Congress
Biography
Festschrift
History
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Festschrift.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-299) and index.

Contents

Collecting Hans Sloane / James Delbourgo Delbourgo, James 9 -- 'Settled in the North of Ireland': or, where did Sloane come from? / Mark Purcell Purcell, Mark 24 -- From benefactor to entrepreneur: Sloane's literary reputation 1685-1800 / Barbara M. Benedict Benedict, Barbara M. 33 -- Sloane and the public performance of natural history / Kathryn James James, Kathryn 41 -- Sloane as friend and physician of the family / Lisa Wynne Smith Smith, Lisa Wynne 48 -- Sloane and the Dutch connection / Eric Jorink Jorink, Eric 57 -- Sloane's travels: a colonial history of gentlemanly science / Pratik Chakrabarti Chakrabarti, Pratik 71 -- Knowledgeable readers: Jamaican critiques of Sloane's botany / James Robertson Robertson, James 80 -- Sloane's perspectives on the medical knowledge and health practices of non-Europeans / Wendy D. Churchill Churchill, Wendy D. 90 -- Obeah and the secret sources of Atlantic medicine / Julie Chun Kim Kim, Julie Chun 99 -- '...to be serviceable and profitable for their health': a seventeenth-century English herbal of East Indian plants owned by Sloane / Savithri Preetha Nair Nair, Savithri Preetha 105 -- Sloane's catalogues and the arrangement of his collections / Marjorie Caygill Caygill, Marjorie 120 -- Sloane's plant specimens at the Natural History Museum / Charlie Jarvis Jarvis, Charlie, Mark Spencer Spencer, Mark, Robert Huxley (with a supplementary account of Sloane's fossils by Cyrille Delmer) Huxley, Robert, (with a supplementary account of Sloane's fossils by Cyrille Delmer) 137 -- The elephants in the collection: Sloane and the history of the earth / Jill Cook Cook, Jill 158 -- Sloane's 'Pictures and drawings in frames' and 'Books of miniature & painting, designs, &c.' / Kim Sloan Sloan, Kim 168 -- Sloane as a collector of manuscripts / Arnold Hunt Hunt, Arnold 190 -- Sloane's incunabula / John Goldfinch Goldfinch, John 208 -- From London to Toronto: a case-study of the dispersal of Sloane's library / Julianne Simpson Simpson, Julianne 221 -- Sloane, slavery and science: perspectives from public programmes at the Natural History Museum / Tracy-Ann Smith Smith, Tracy-Ann, Katherine Hann Hann, Katherine 227.

ISBN

9780712358804 (hbk)
0712358803 (hbk)

OCLC

788270350

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Harvard Library