Manila folder labelled 'An Explorer's Books Dumont d'Urv.'

Containers:

Box 4 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 63

Content Summary:

File contains two reader's reports [one by Prof. Wallace Kirsop] on the initial draft of an article by Edward Duyker on Dumont d'Urville's library drawn from two inventories and an auction catalogue compiled after the death of the explorer and that of his wife and son; Email from Edith Pirio, Archives nationales, 12 May 2010, with a copy of the books listed in ET/C/1200, Minutier central des notaires de Paris, '13 Juin 1842, Inventaire après Décès de Mr. Dumont d'Urville' '21 Juin 1842, Décharge donnée à M. Demanche'; The draft article contains annotations in red ink in the hand of Prof. Wallace Kirsop. Copies of the final published article and an ancillary article on the notarial inventories is also included in the folder: Duyker, E., 'An Explorer's Books: The Library of Dumont d'Urville', Explorations, no. 49, part ii, December 2010, pp. 66–81; Duyker, E., 'Dumont d'Urville's Library: The Notarial Inventories', Explorations, no. 49, part ii, December 2010, pp. 82–121

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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