William Sherard to Hans Sloane – October 17, 1698
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Date: October 17, 1698 Author: William Sherard Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 138-139
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English
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British Library, London
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Library, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Books, Booksellers, Botany, Catalogues, Italy
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Date (as written)
October 17, 1698
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Frascati, Italy
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Gjuro Baglivi (Georgius Baglivus) Mr Pullagni Frederik Ruysch Captain Hatton Dr Comeline
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Sherard discusses the Italian book trade and his pursuit of the books Sloane is interested in purchasing. He will be returning to Rome soon and will write Sloane when he gets there. Sherard details his botanical observations. Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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