Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Library at not maiiy, but well selected. Tliere were the whole series Clapluun. . ot botanical works, such as might have been expected in the library of any worshipper of Linneus, and numerous presentation copies of standard treatises, as was also natural. There were rare editions of celebrated authors, some of great value ] a few specimens of the art of print- ing. There were Latin volumes of travel, and the nar- ratives of the early Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish explorers. The classics—French, German, and Italian literature—were included; while pamphlets that were either remarkable or unique, were clothed with costly and sometimes curiously devised bindings. These lux- urious clothings were bestowed on single, not on collected tractates. And tliere stood the well-read and constantly exhibited work of his friend Colonel Yule, The Travels of Marco Polo, which was seldom in his library, and was described to admiring visitors with warm praise; then there were the Latin folios, a fine copy of the Medicse artis Principes, Matthiolus, Avicenna, Galen, Valerius Cordus, and other ancient worthies; lastly, School Lexicons and Dictionaries of most elementary character, a few theological disquisitions, and so the total is complete, iiexicau An admiring botanical friend, with whom he had long corresponded, but whom he had never seen, bequeathed him his collection of water-colour drawings of the Mexican fungi. These were executed in a superior manner, and went to enrich his store of art illustrations of his favourite studies. Besides, he had in his pos- session a large assortment of photographs and sketches which belonged rather to the portfolio of the traveller than to the pharmacologist, and maps coloured for special purposes.
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