BIB_ID
107423
Accession number
MA 38.29
Creator
Rémusat, Abel, 1788-1832.
Display Date
1817 July.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 24.5 cm.
Notes
Address panel addressed to "Mr. J. Burney, Esq. F.R.S. London / Care of Mr. J. Murray, Albemarle Street."
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Sending him a copy of a publication he has authored; saying he would be "happy, if my extract of Japanese Geographers could obtain a simple mention in the further editions that will undoubtedly be published of that excellent book [referring to Burney's "A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean]."
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