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<dl><dd>[Part 1], composed primarily of shells</dd>
<dd>Compiled by George Humphreys</dd>
<dd>"It is matter of great regret to the proprietors, that owing to the length of time required to compile the following sheets ... little more than the shells will be found described."--P. iv-v (1st group)</dd>
<dd>No more published</dd>
<dd>Listing includes (from title page): "the most elegant and finely-coloured of the bird and insect tribes, the most splendid and uncommon shells, many of them unique; the various ores of gold, silver, and other metals, remarkable for colour, figure, or richness; the different crystallizations of spars, fluors, &amp;c. all the high gems, agates, and other beautiful stones; containing many superb and valuable specimens; together with some curious echini, fish, amphibia, matchless ludi naturae, being portraits in Egyptian pebbles, &amp;c. and various miscellaneous subjects."</dd>
<dd>Bibliography: p. viii (1st group)</dd>
<dd>ESTC (online)</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB has four copies</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 (39088006101000) is bound with: Noodt, J. Museum Boltenianum. Hamburg : C. Müller, 1819. Bound together subsequent to publication</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, 1902, U.S.N.M.; with handwritten note in ink, presumably by Dall: "An extremely rare book with an interesting history. Bought at the sale of Mörch's library and which had been in the libraries of Beck, Berg, Thomsen, and Spengler." It could not be determined when these two titles were first bound together, and this provenance history may apply to one of the works only. It seems that these two titles were bound together previous to the modern buckram binding, since the old sheets of interleaved paper with notes appear to be substantially the same throughout the volume. Lorenz Spengler, who died in 1807, might have been a former owner of this copy of the Museum Calonnianum (1797), but not an owner of the 1819 Museum Boltenianum</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has stamps: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library; Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D.C</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 is interleaved with extensive handwritten notes and markings in pencil and ink by various former owners. The annotations appear on the text, plates, and added blank leaves, in Latin or Danish[?]</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has a modern green buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and purple endpapers</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2-4 have extensive handwritten ink markings and annotations, apparently by the compiler, George Humphreys [also known as Humphrey]. The title page of each copy has Humphreys' inscription at bottom: "Sold by George Humphrey, dealer in shells, minerals, &amp;c., no. 4, Leiscester Street, Leicester Square." There are some variations in the type-settings (e.g. whether the spelling is "Savile House" or "Saville House" on title pages)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 (39088005747423) has bookplates: 1. Ex libris William Healey Dall, 1902, U.S.N.M.; with Dall's annotation in pencil: "The handwriting of the corrections in this copy agrees with that of labels ascribed to G. Humphrey in the Jeffreys Collection, cf. title page. The text is from a mss. by Hwass, said to have been edited by Da Costa. See Mörch's copy"; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. ... Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has handwritten note in ink on the front free endpaper, probably by Dall: "A reprint of part of this work without date or imprint is in the Congressional library, which was issued before 1830, and is referred to by pencil notes in the present volume."</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has stamp: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has been interleaved with blank leaves in an old full leather binding with gilt-tooled spine and red spine label; housed in an archival box</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 3 (39088005917562) has bookplates: 1. John Gwyn Jeffreys; 2. Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library, 1902, U.S.N.M.; 3. Ex libris John Brooks Henderson, no. 836</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 3 has stamp: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 3 has a later half-leather binding with brown cloth boards and gilt-lettered spine; housed in an archival envelope for preservation</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 4 (39088003127370) has bookplate: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit [crossed through]</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 4 has stamps: 1. (on front free endpaper) Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Feb. 2, 1939, accession no. 315432; 2. (on t.p., in red) Smithsonian Institution, accession no. 6508; 3. (on p. 84, in faint red) Oct. 16, 1856</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 4 has handwritten note in ink, presumably by Humphreys, on p. 84 (in addition to t.p. and elsewhere): The second part, which was intended to have given an account of the minerals, which were numerous, and fine, was never published: the public exposure of the museum not answering to the proprietors as an exhibition. G.H."</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 4 has an old half-leather binding over marbled paper boards; spine repaired with brown cloth tape; housed in an archival envelope for preservation</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802; Natural history; Natural history museums; Shells</div>
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<dl><dd>Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802</dd>
<dd>Humphreys, George, active 1797</dd>
<dd>Humphreys, George, active 1797, annotator. DSI</dd>
<dd>Mörch, O. A. L. (Otto Andreas Lowson), 1828-1878, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Beck, Henrik Henriksen, 1799-1863, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Bergh, Rudolph, 1824-1909, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen, 1788-1865, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Library of Congress, former owner. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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