Destroyed, Damaged and Replaced:
The Legacy of World War II Bomb
Damage in the King’s Library
Adrian S. Edwards
Introduction
In the early hours of 23 September 1940, a little over a year into World War II, a bomb fell on the
East Wing of the British Museum. It damaged an important part of the King’s Library Gallery and
destroyed many of the books collected by King George III. A contemporary assessment estimated
that 124 volumes (96 works) had disappeared, 304 volumes (170 works) had been damaged beyond
repair, and about 1000 volumes were repairable.1 In this article, I shall review these figures in the
light of evidence found at shelf today, identify what was lost and determine what the British
Museum and the British Library have done to replace the books that were affected.
The King’s Library collection
The King’s Library was the personal collection of George III (1738-1820), king of Great
Britain and Ireland. It was put together during George’s lifetime, with the majority of books
acquired through the booktrade.2 Two librarians were employed to assist with this task:
Richard Dalton (c. 1715-1791) from 1755 to 1774, and Frederick Augusta Barnard (17421830) thereafter. Both current and antiquarian materials were sought out, and the aim appears
to have been to develop a universal library covering most subjects and most literary languages.
The books were housed in a series of rooms at the Queen’s House (later to be re-modelled
as Buckingham Palace), and it is known that access was sometimes granted to gentlemen
scholars on request. By the time of George’s death in 1820, the library comprised at least
65,000 volumes and a further 13,000 to 20,000 unbound pamphlets.3 Its future immediately
became the subject of discussion between George IV, Lord Liverpool and the Trustees of
the British Museum, among others, but by 1823 it was agreed that the books would go to the
British Museum.4
1BL Archives. DH2/105, VI, 195 (13 December 1940). The exact quotation is given below in the section ‘Initial
assessment of damage’.
2
For a description of the establishment of George III’s library, see P. R. Harris, ‘The King’s Library’, in Giles
Mandelbrote and Barry Taylor (eds.), Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed
Collections (London, 2009), pp. 296-317; see also Elaine M. Paintin, The King’s Library (London, 1989).
3
The number of pamphlets has usually been cited as 19,000 or 20,000. Harris, ‘The King’s Library’, p. 318,
estimates from the handwritten catalogues that a figure of 17,500 is more likely. A shelf count by this writer in
December 2011 identified 13,868.
4
For an outline of this debate, see John Goldfinch, ‘Moving the King’s Library: Argument and Sentiment 18231998’, in Mandelbrote and Taylor (eds.), Libraries within the Library, pp. 280-95.
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The King’s Library Gallery at the British Museum
New galleries were needed at the British Museum to accommodate the collection. The
eventual solution was the construction from 1823 to 1827 of an entire new East Wing to
the designs of Sir Robert Smirke, during which time the books were temporarily housed at
Kensington Palace. The King’s Library was transported to its new gallery in 1828,5 when it
increased the size of the British Museum Library collection by almost 50%.6 The volumes
were shelfmarked according to press (bookcase) numbers: presses 1 to 216 below a balcony
and 217 to 304 above. Following the norms of the day, the arrangement was by size and only
thereafter by subject. Manuscripts belonging to George III were at first shelved in the King’s
Library Gallery in presses 102-104 and elsewhere,7 but were moved to the Department of
Manuscripts in 1841. Also in the 1840s, 1504 printed books were moved into more secure
presses (called ‘cases’) and the books allocated shelfmarks in the range C.1.a.1 to C.16.i.16.
A number of large-sized volumes were always stored separately, along with some sets of
periodicals, in table (exhibition) cases located on the gallery floor.8
The incendiary bomb of September 1940
In late August 1939, over a week before the formal declaration of war, the Museum began
to move many of its more important objects to safer locations.9 Some printed books were
relocated within the Museum building. Others were sent to the National Library of Wales
at Aberystwyth over the next twelve months, including the majority of the King’s Library
books from the case shelfmark sequence.10 In September 1940 however far the largest part of
George III’s library was still on the shelves in the King’s Library Gallery.
The British Museum was first hit by a bomb on 18 September. Five days later, in the
early morning of Monday 23 September, an incendiary bomb passed right through the
Ethnographical Gallery on the first floor and into the northern end of the King’s Library
Gallery below, where it exploded (see fig. 1). Around thirty feet of bookcases were destroyed
and others set alight.11 The Museum’s own wartime firefighters brought the situation under
control. In a report to the British Museum Trustees the following week, Wilfred Alexander
Marsden, Keeper in the Department of Printed Books, described what happened:
George IV in fact retained thirty-three printed books (thirty-one of which were incunabula) and two
manuscripts, all of which are now at the Royal Library, Windsor. For a list see Harris, ‘The King’s Library’,
pp. 315-17.
6
Harris, ‘The King’s Library’, p. 310.
7
Ibid., p. 312.
8
These are now mostly in shelfmark ranges beginning T.C. or 1899, alongside material with different
provenances.
9
The principal source for the wider events of World War II and how they affected the British Museum Library
is P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ch. 10.
10
Most of the case books went first to the National Library of Wales and then from February 1942 to a workedout stone quarry at Westwood near Bradford-upon-Avon in Wiltshire; a listing of those transferred to the
quarry is given at the front of the ‘Quarry’ log book kept in BL Archives Box 56. Lists of those King’s Library
books sent directly from London to the quarry after February 1942 are also given in this log book; these
volumes would have still been on the shelves at the Museum when the bomb fell on 23 September 1940. For
more information about the quarry at Westwood see John Forsdyke, ‘The Museum in War-Time’, British
Museum Quarterly, xv (1952), pp. 1-9.
11
Harris, A History of the British Museum Library, p. 554.
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Fig. 1. Bomb damage to the northern end of the King’s Library Gallery, including bookpresses 139-147 and
275-277 on the right. The photograph was taken some time after autumn 1940, when the last of the undamaged
books were moved to the less vulnerable North-East Quadrant. BL Archives. Photograph Box A1 (Location J/2).
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The first action in the process of salvage was to collect together all the books and
fragments of books which had been thrown from the shelves and damaged by fire and
water, together with all the books remaining in the shattered wall-cases and table-cases
[...]. The wet and the dry were then separated and assembled into two groups in the
Archaic Sculpture Room and the Roman Gallery respectively.12
The bookpresses affected were those numbered 139-147 on the lower level and 275-277 directly
above. This was the only incident to cause loss and damage to the King’s Library during World
War II. Further bombs which fell during 1940-41 did not fall on the King’s Library Gallery,
and the books were in any case moved first to the ground floor of the North-East Quadrant,13
and in 1943 to the New Bodleian Library at Oxford where they stayed until November 1945.14
The case books were not returned from the quarry in Wiltshire until 1946.15
Initial assessment of damage
Marsden’s report of 5 October 1940 stated that ‘probably well under a thousand books [...]
will prove to have been lost or damaged beyond repair’.16 By 13 December, this figure had
been revised down to the numbers given in the introduction above, that is:
Not more than fifteen hundred volumes were actually involved in the disaster. Of these,
one hundred and twenty-four volumes (ninety-six works) have disappeared entirely.
Three hundred and four volumes (one hundred and seventy works) have suffered
damage which Mr Marsden considers irremediable; and what remains of these he asks
the Trustees’ permission to treat as fit only for pulping.17
This explains why relatively few damaged fragments are now found on the King’s Library
shelves: they appear to have been sent for disposal. The report continues:
Of the two hundred and sixty-six works represented by the above-mentioned four hundred
and twenty-eight volumes[,] one hundred and sixty-six works are available in other copies in
the Library. About a thousand volumes have suffered damage which is not irreparable; these
have been parcelled and will be returned to the shelves for the future attention of the binders.
Steps to repair and replace
The Museum began almost immediately to repair war-damaged material and acquire replacements.
For the tens of thousands of books destroyed in another World War II incident, the bombing
of the South-West Quadrant bookstacks on the night of 10-11 May 1941, typescript handlists
of destroyed books (often called the ‘Destroyed Registers’) were assembled. This was possible
because the compilers could make good use of copies of the cataloguers’ title-slips which were
filed in shelfmark order (‘fourth copies’) and used by staff to record moves and changes. No such
BL Archives. DH2/105, VI, 195 (5 October 1940). The BL Archives also hold an undated photograph that
purports to show King’s Library books set out to dry in an empty gallery (Photograph Box A1, Location J/1).
There appear to be considerably more than the 1500 books reported at the time to have been affected, and
the room is neither the Archaic Sculpture Room nor the Roman Gallery. These are more likely to be general
library books damaged during the bombing of the South-West Quadrant in 1941.
13
BL Archives. DH2/105, VI, 195 (2 November 1940).
14
Harris, A History of the British Museum Library, p. 558.
15
Ibid., p. 564.
16
BL Archives. DH2/105, VI, 195 (5 October 1940).
17
BL Archives. DH2/105, VI, 195 (13 December 1940).
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title-slips existed for King’s Library books and as a result it was not possible to include them in the
Destroyed Registers. Instead, one copy of the King’s Library catalogue was annotated to record
definite losses (‘Destroyed September 1940’) and books which continued to be missing since the
war (‘Missing September 1940’).18
A. F. Johnstone-Wilson wrote in 1952 ‘only a few of the books destroyed in the King’s
Library were not duplicated elsewhere in our collections; of these few some have already been
replaced, and all will possibly appear on the market eventually’.19 A file of eighty typescript
and manuscript slips now kept in the BL Archives20 appears to represent an attempt to
identify these few destroyed books which were not duplicated.
1952 was also the year in which it was decided to deal with the lost books for which a
duplicate copy had been located. A memorandum of 7 August from Principal Keeper Cecil
Bernard Oldman to the Trustees stated:
in order to replace books destroyed by enemy action in 1940 in the King’s Library he [Mr
Oldman] proposes to transfer duplicate copies from the General Library. In each case a
printed label will be inserted into the volume indicating that it has been transferred.21
The proposal was accepted and P. R. Harris reports that 265 of these transfers were made.22
The explanatory labels were indeed printed and inserted in the volumes (see fig. 2).
The need for a systematic survey
George III’s book collection was moved from the British Museum building to the British
Library’s new site on Euston Road in 1998. Subsequent audits of the collection have led to
the comparison of catalogue entries with the books on the shelves. This has proven complex
for the two shelfmark ranges affected by 1940 bomb damage. It had become apparent that
there were still records in the main online catalogue23 for books which had been destroyed,
and there were also books on the shelves with no associated catalogue entries. A systematic
approach to investigating and recording losses and replacements was needed.
Methodology
The task was approached from three angles.
1. To record the ‘destroyed’ and ‘missing’ statements in the annotated set of the Bibliothecæ
Regiæ Catalogus; combine these with the information in two undated short-title handlists;
and then check the accuracy of this data at shelf. 24
Frederick A. Barnard (comp.), Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus (London, 1820-29). This annotated copy is now
shelved behind the Delivery Enquiries Desk in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.
19
A. F. Johnstone-Wilson, ‘The Library’s Losses from Bombardment’, British Museum Quarterly, xv (1952),
pp. 9-11.
20
BL Archives, Box 139.
21
BL Archives. DH2/117, VI, 221 (7 August 1952).
22
Harris, ‘The King’s Library’, p. 314.
23
At the time this was the BL Integrated Catalogue at http://catalogue.bl.uk/.
24
I am grateful to Teresa Harrington for her assistance in surveying these catalogues and helping to resolve many
of the queries which they highlighted. The handlists were: (a) List of books noted as ‘destroyed’ or ‘missing’
due to ‘enemy action’ of Sept. 1940. Photocopy of manuscript list provided by P. R. Harris. (b) List of King’s
items destroyed in WW2 and not replaced. Photocopy of typescript list held by A. S. Edwards.
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Fig. 2. Transfer labels were inserted into most of the books moved from
the general library into the King’s Library in 1952. This example from
Jodocus Herman Nünning, Sepulcretum Westphalico-Mimigardico-Gentile.
Incorporates: Johann Heinrich Cohausen, Ossilegium historico-physicum
(Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1714). BL, 143.b.25.
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2. To browse the affected shelfmark ranges (139.a.1 to 147.a.20 and 275.a.1 to 277.k.34) in the
online catalogue in order to identify gaps, duplications or other inconsistencies; and then
investigate these at shelf.
3. To check every book at shelf in the affected ranges volume by volume in order to identify
gaps, evidence of serious damage, and replacements.
The findings of the 2010-11 survey
Lost and damaged
The survey identified 261 named works now lost in their entirety from the bomb-damaged
areas of the King’s Library. These are listed in shelfmark order in Appendix A below, where
information about replacements and alternative copies is also given.
The number of volumes affected will necessarily differ from the number of works, owing
to the fact that some were multi-volume works or periodicals and others were pamphlets
brought together in a single binding. The 261 works therefore represent 360 separately bound
and shelfmarked volumes. To this figure should be added a further eight instances where
between one and four parts were lost from a multi-volume work that otherwise survived.
This gives a total of 368 numbered volumes which were entirely lost.
Successful restoration work means that it is not now possible to confirm the total number
of works or volumes that were left damaged by fire or water. The survey, however, identified
thirty titles which still show significant damage that impairs text or illustrations. In extent
this ranges from the loss of four tomes from a thirty-four volume work, to a single page where
some of the text is no longer readable. Extreme but not unique examples of fire damage are
shown in figs 3 and 4. Dozens if not hundreds of volumes were affected by water, but the
evidence is no longer always clearly visible and content was not necessarily lost (see fig. 5 for
an example).
There are a further eight unresolved gaps on the shelves.25 Some or all of these may represent
further works lost in the bombing. They may equally represent losses or transfers unrelated
to the War. One proposition that it might be possible to explore further is the idea that these
were volumes transferred in the 1840s from the main bookpresses into the case sequence: in
other parts of the King’s Library some of these gaps were filled, but others remain unused to
this day.26 These gaps might also represent numbers that were never used for reasons that we
cannot now determine. A clear example of this can be found in George III’s copy of Giulio
Ferrario’s Il Costume antico e moderno (Milan, 1816-34). This is in twenty-one volumes which
ran across the shelves of two bookcases at 141.g.1-10 and 142.g.2-12. Shelfmark 142.g.1 is not
used; the work, however, is complete and the sub-section on European dress runs without a
break from 141.g.10 to 142.g.2.
It is possible to make some observations on the categories of material lost. Three broad
subject areas were affected:
•P
resses 139 to 144: Predominantly books about European antiquities and the ancient
world. Coins and medals, inscriptions and ruins constituted the main topics, but there were
also studies on vases, marbles, statues, burial customs, religion, government and military
affairs. Most related to ancient Rome or Greece, but Northern Europe (particularly Britain,
Germany and Denmark), Egypt and the Holy Land were also represented. Interfiled with
141.b.1-13; 142.f.9; 143.f.1; 143.g.16; 145.a.5; 275.i.4-7; 276.a.18; 277.k.29-30.
In the edition of Apollonius Rhodius (Venice, 1521) at shelfmark C.4.c.14, the former shelfmark of 166.a.9
is still visible written on a flyleaf. 166.a.9 has subsequently been reallocated to a copy of Russia seu Moscovia
itemque Tartaria commentario topographico (Leyden, 1630). On the other hand, when Champier’s Le Receil ou
croniques des hystoires des royaulmes daustrasie (Lyon, 1510) was moved from 88.e.3 to C.8.h.20, the original
shelfmark was left vacant. To date, however, no systematic survey has been published of former shelfmarks still
visible in the volumes at C.1.a.1 to C.16.i.16.
25
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Fig. 3. Fire damage. Andrea Rubbi, Elogi italiani (Venice, 1782), tom. 3, ff. *1v and *2r. BL, 276.g.23.
Fig. 4. Fire and water damage. Stephan Schönwiesner (ed.), Tabulæ numismaticæ pro Catalogo numorum
Hungariæ ac Transilvaniæ Instituti Nationalis Széchényiani (Pest, 1807?). BL, 140.b.14.
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Fig. 5. Water damage. G. P. Bellori, Il Bonino, overo Avvertimenti al Tristano intorno gli errori delle medaglie, nel primo tomo de’ suoi Commentari historici (Rome?,
1649?). BL, 139.d.17.
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these were works about ceremonies (royal weddings, funerals, coronations, etc.), genealogies
of European nobility, several plate volumes depicting contemporary costume, and one or
two apparently unrelated items.
• Presses 144 to 146: Books about European exploration and colonization. Most related
to North America or the Caribbean, but there were also works about South America, St
Helena, Mauritius, Australia, South-East Asia and Australia.
• Presses 275 to 277. Biographical dictionaries, individual biographies of historical figures,
autobiographies and personal memoirs. The single exception was a copy of Pierre
Bourdelot’s Histoire de la musique at 275.e.33,34.
The publication dates of the destroyed works range from 1517 to 1820, with the distribution
by century as follows:
Imprint Date
No. of titles
No. of titles destroyed
destroyed
expressed as a percentage
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
21
40
171
29
8%
16%
65%
11%
The largest category is therefore eighteenth-century books, the period in which George III
and his librarians were most actively collecting. As most incunabula had been moved to the
case sequence a century before the bombing it is unsurprising that no fifteenth-century works
were destroyed. In terms of country of printing, the 261 lost works break down as follows:
Country of printing
Italy
Britain
Germany
France
Netherlands
Denmark
Belgium
Spain
Austria
Switzerland
Sweden
Philippines 27
No. of titles
destroyed
No. of titles destroyed
expressed as a percentage
82
73
36
33
13
8
5
3
3
3
1
1
32%
28%
14%
13%
15%
3%
2%
1%
1%
1%
–
–
Juan Francisco de San Antonio, Chrónicas de la apostólica provincia de S. Gregorio de religiosos descalzos de N. S.
P. S. Francisco en las islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. (Manila, 1738-44) [145.f.17-19].
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Several volumes of engravings were among the books damaged or destroyed, which is not
unusual where subjects such as numismatics, antiquities and costumes are concerned. Almost all
were quarto in format. Of particular relevance to the British Museum was a collection of coloured
illustrations of the costumes of China by the artist William Alexander (1767-1816).28 Alexander
had travelled as part of Earl Macartney’s official embassy to Beijing in 1793, but three years after
the publication of this volume he joined the staff of the British Museum as assistant librarian in
charge of prints. A further lost volume contained fifty etchings of the Elgin Marbles published a
couple of years after they went on display in another part of the building.29 In both cases the royal
copies were destroyed, but replacements were found elsewhere in the library.
Replacements
Replacement books acquired in the decades after the War were sent to the same King’s
Library shelfmarks as the originals. An examination of acquisition stamps shows that thirty
books were obtained and sent to the original shelfmarks from 1948 to 1982.30 Twenty-nine
of these represent the replacement of an entire work which had been destroyed; the other
was to make good a multi-volume work which had only been damaged in part.31 The rate of
replacement was slow, as can be seen in the following table:
Year
No. of King’s Library
replacements obtained
1948
1949
1950
1951
1953
1955
1957
1960
1961
1963
1982
3
7
3
2
2
4
1
2
4
1
1
William Alexander, The Costume of China. Illustrated in Forty-Eight Coloured Engravings (London, 1805)
[142.f.16.(1.)].
29
Richard Lawrence, Elgin Marbles, from the Parthenon at Athens, Exemplified by Fifty Etchings (London, 1818)
[144.e.1]. Concerning the Earl of Elgin as collector, there were also copies of: William Hamilton, Memorandum
on the subject of the Earl of Elgin’s pursuits in Greece (London, 1811) [144.b.10] and Ennio Quirino Visconti, A
Letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova: and Two Memoirs … on the Sculptures in the Collection of the Earl of
Elgin (London, 1816) [144.b.18.(1.)].
30
All bear purchase stamps, except the replacement for 142.e.12, which was donated in 1948. Two further items
were acquired explicitly as replacements but were not sent to King’s Library shelfmarks. These were the 1979
replacement for 142.a.2, which went to C.106.cc.20, and the 1976 replacement for 145.a.22-27, which went to
C.144.a.7. Four Scandinavian losses were replaced with microfilms, which are stored in the ‘Mic.A.’ sequence.
31
Filippo Maffei, Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l’Amérique Septentionale (Paris, 1788)
[144.a.19,20]. Parts 1 and 2 had been destroyed, and were replaced with purchases made 31 July 1951. The
original parts 3 and 4 were saved.
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These figures show that only fifteen replacements had been acquired by 1952, when the decision
was taken to transfer duplicate copies from the general collection into the King’s Library.
Concerning these transfers, the survey identified ninety-three titles (in 106 volumes) which were
moved in this way. All but two of these works contain the specially printed transfer label described
above.32 The former shelfmarks can still be seen written on the fly-leaves of all these volumes, and
they show that the transfers came exclusively from the following shelfmark ranges:
Shelfmark sequence33
No. of works transferred
into King’s Library
500 – 599
600 – 699
700 – 799
800 – 899
1000 – 1099
1100 – 1199
1300 – 1399
1400 – 1499
4000 – 4099
9300 – 9399
10800 – 10899
21
39
7
5
6
6
2
3
1
1
2
These shelfmarks are all of the type that reflect the broad subject arrangement first applied in
the early nineteenth century. Reference to R. C. Alston’s pressmark index34 shows that these
subjects were exceptionally varied but, in line with an assessment of the titles themselves,
the principal categories covered by the above ranges were ‘Geography & Topography’,
‘Topography, Greece & Rome’, ‘History, Ancient’, ‘History, Roman’, ‘History, Germany’,
‘History, America’, ‘Archaeology’, ‘Numismatics’, ‘Art, Illustrated Books, Topography’,
‘Heraldry & Genealogy’, and ‘Biography’.
During the survey it became clear that many of the volumes moved into the King’s Library do
not always correspond as closely as might be expected with those they were intended to replace.
In one case, a 1761 edition was purchased to replace one from 1759.35 In eight instances an entire
tract volume was moved into the King’s Library even though only one (or rarely two) of the titles
it contained were originally held by George III. At least twenty-five new titles were introduced
into the collection in this way. The most egregious example relates to the seventeenth-century
French physician and antiquarian Charles Patin. Before 1940, the volume at 144.c.13 comprised
two Patin pamphlets. This was destroyed but a replacement for the second pamphlet was found
at shelfmark 602.h.27, and this volume was duly transferred in 1952. This new tract volume,
however, contains nine Patin pamphlets. By this single act, the British Museum added eight new
titles to the King’s Library. To complicate matters further, the replacement volume was sent to
shelfmark 144.c.30 instead of the original 144.c.13, which remains unused.
145.f.9-11 and 276.k.38.
These ranges represent the full extent of the shelfmark numbers that were employed in each, i.e. from 500.a.1
to 599.l.18, from 600.a.1 to 699.m.17, and so on.
34
R. C. Alston, A Topical Index to Pressmarks in use in the British Museum Library (1823-1973) and the British
Library (1973-1985) (London?, 1987).
35
Pier Luigi Galletti, Inscriptiones Piceni (Rome, 1759) [144.c.5].
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One replacement volume has been omitted from the calculations above because it falls within an
extensive run where there is no observable World War II damage (141.d.6 to 141.i.15). This is the
item at shelfmark 141.f.3, an edition of Imperatorum romanorum numismata by the same Charles
Patin.36 The copy currently at that shelfmark appears to have arrived in the British Museum with
the foundation collections as part of the bequest of Major Arthur Edwards (d. 1743). The evidence
for this is the characteristic red acquisitions stamp,37 supported by the title’s inclusion in Richard
Widmore’s 1755 manuscript catalogue of Edwards’s printed books.38 Rather than being shelved
in the general collection with other books from this source, the copy now at 141.f.3 seems to have
been sent to the Medal Room. The annotation ‘276d’ on the upper paste-down is consistent with
the historical shelfmarks used in the Museum’s departmental libraries, and the corresponding
undated title slip (draft catalogue entry) includes the words ‘Med. Room’ along the top. A further
annotation in the volume itself is a binding stamp on the lower paste-down which reads ‘Bound
1940’. Given wartime staffing levels, the likelihood must be that the decision to rebind was made
before the fire bomb of 23 September. None of this is consistent with the pattern of World War
II damage or the subsequent transfers of 1952, and it therefore seems reasonable to conclude that
this replacement was made at a different time, perhaps simply because George III’s copy had been
noted as missing from the shelf.
Catalogue records
Audits undertaken in recent years have shown that the King’s Library losses and replacements
are imperfectly recorded in the catalogues. During the course of the survey, the following
categories of inaccuracies were found:
•F
ourteen works were entirely absent from the British Library Integrated Catalogue. These
represent a mixture of original George III volumes and post-1940 replacements.
•F
our works were marked as destroyed in the Integrated Catalogue (shelfmark prefix ‘D-’)
and were thus unavailable to readers even though a copy was on the shelf. Three of these
copies were post-1940 replacements, but one was the original George III volume.
•F
ive works were in the catalogue and so apparently available even though they had been
destroyed in 1940 and no replacement found.
• I n three cases the shelfmarks had been incorrectly transcribed (e.g. 142.d.15 as 142.a.15).
Most of these records were amended during the course of 2010-11, although at the time of
writing a handful of new catalogue records remain to be created.
The opportunity was also taken to state explicitly when the volume at shelf was no longer
George III’s copy but a replacement. A recent British Library cataloguing policy on copy
specific information set the framework for holdings notes to be created along the lines:39
Copy at 143.a.26. Original copy destroyed by enemy action in 1940. Replacement copy
acquired 24 April 1960.
Understanding of the provenance of volumes is important for researchers who are interested
in marks of ownership and reading found in handpress books. It is therefore important that the
catalogues should avoid unintentionally misleading them. In addition, some of the copies moved
into the King’s Library after 1940 have important provenances of their own. For example, the
copy of Toldervy’s Select Epitaphs40 now in the King’s Library came directly from the collection
Charles Patin, Imperatorum romanorum numismata (Strasbourg, 1671) [141.f.3].
Die stamp Type Ic with red ink as described in P. R. Harris, ‘Identification of Printed Books Acquired by
the British Museum, 1753-1836’, Appendix I in Mandelbrote and Taylor (eds.), Libraries within the Library,
pp. 417, 422.
38
BL, C.120.h.2, f. 1.
39
British Library Policy for Copy-Specific Information (2009).
40
William Toldervy, Select Epitaphs (London, 1755) [143.a.24,25].
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of Sir William Musgrave (1735-1800), an early trustee of the British Museum, and the copy of
Hamilton’s Account of the Discoveries at Pompeii 41 was donated with the library of the antiquarian
Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838). Three items from the Sloane library were moved into the
King’s Library: Dijkman, Historiske anmärckningar (141.a.25), Bircherod (praeses), Disputatio
(142.a.20) and Bouquet, Bref et sommaire recueil (143.d.22).42
Even after all the catalogue corrections and additions have been completed, twenty-seven lost
works are still unlikely to appear in the Integrated Catalogue.43 These are instances where a gap on
the shelf represents a work that was only ever held in a single copy and for one reason or another
its record was either omitted or deleted from the main British (Museum) Library catalogues. The
identities of these volumes have been tentatively ascertained by analysing the annotated copy of
the Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus. Given that online catalogues today primarily serve as resource
discovery tools, it seems inappropriate to create outline records for volumes which no longer exist
in the collection and whose bibliographical details cannot be verified by examining a copy.
Conclusions
The following table summarizes the survey’s findings in terms of statistics:
no. of works affected
no. of volumes affected
no. of works replaced at shelf with
a purchase or donation
no. of works replaced at shelf with
a transfer from the general library
no. of works not replaced at shelf ...
... of which there is no other copy in
the British Library (b)
totally
destroyed
261
368
29
severely
damaged
17
11
1
total
92
1
93
140 (a)
60 (c)
15
6
155
66
278
379
30
Notes
(a) 142 when two works are added that were only partially replaced by transfers: 142.a.20
(still wanting sections 2 to 7) and 276.c.15-18 (still wanting vols 7 and 8).
(b) Excluding digital or microform surrogates.
(c) 61 when the partially replaced work at 276.c.15-18 is included.
Losses
The damage of 1940 caused the loss of a wide range of King’s Library books, among them
significant numbers of illustrated works on antiquities, numismatics, exploration and biography.
All had been evidence not only of George III’s passion for collecting but also of the interests of
William Hamilton, Account of the Discoveries at Pompeii, Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London
(London, 1777) [144.d.1].
42
See the Sloane printed Books database: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/Home.aspx.
43
141.a.20; 141.a.34; 141.b.18-20; 142.a.11; 142.a.17; 142.c.16; 143.a.7; 143.b.2.(2.); 143.b.10; 143.c.13; 143.d.3;
143.d.7.(1.); 143.d.11.(2.); 143.e.20; 143.e.21; 143.f.6,7; 144.a.8,9; 144.b.22; 144.c.6; 144.c.29.(3.); 144.b.22;
144.c.6; 144.c.29.(3.); 144.d.2; 275.a.35; 275.e.19; 276.e.40.(1.); 277.i.27.(1.); 277.i.27.(2.); 277.i.27.(3.). Titles
can be found by reference to Appendix A.
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the day. The presence of replacement volumes with different provenances goes only part way
to satisfy the needs of researchers as they attempt to establish the place of this collection in the
intellectual and cultural life of Britain during and after George III’s time.
The survey of 2010-11 identified 261 named works which were lost as a result of enemy
bombing on 13 September 1940. This compares with 266 lost works reported in December 1940
by Marsden (96 works ‘disappeared entirely’, plus 170 works damaged beyond repair). There is an
even greater discrepancy when the number of volumes is considered: 368 volumes counted as lost
in 2010-11 and 428 reported in 1940. There may be several contributing factors to these differences.
By early October the collection was already split across three locations (King’s Library Gallery,
Archaic Sculpture Room and Roman Gallery), and from November further disruption occurred
when the undamaged volumes were sent to the North-East Quadrant. Without a catalogue listing
in shelfmark order, it would have been a complex task to undertake a systematic assessment and
any conclusions would necessarily have needed to be provisional. It is interesting that the markedup copy of the Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus identifies only 249 missing or destroyed books, fewer
than either Marsden or this survey. These annotations, however, are not always accurate. Two of
the ‘destroyed’ books are now back on shelf,44 as are eight of those recorded as ‘missing’.45
Replacements
The evidence shows that the process of replacing destroyed and damaged books with new
acquisitions was a slow one. After thirty-eight years, just thirty replacements had been obtained
and shelved in the King’s Library. This, however, hides the fact that other replacements were
acquired but placed elsewhere. We know that the volumes at C.106.cc.20 and C.144.a.7 were
acquired in the 1970s to replace 142.a.2 and 145.a.22-27 only because this is made explicit in
their catalogue entries; there may well be others. We also know of four microfilms that were
supplied by Scandinavian libraries to serve as replacements, and again there may be others.
Numerically, the most significant contribution to replacing lost volumes was made by
transferring duplicates from the general collection into the King’s Library in 1952. The
survey identified ninety-three works moved into George III’s collection in this way, which
appears to equate to around 111 bound parts. As stated above, P. R. Harris gives a figure of
265 for these transfers. A small number of transferred volumes might have gone unnoticed
during the survey if they lacked their transfer labels and their former shelfmarks were no
longer visible. The disparity is, however, too great for this to be the only explanation and the
two sets of figures are in essence irreconcilable at this stage.
Desiderata
According to the survey, sixty destroyed works are still not represented in the British Library
by original printed books, although a few are available as digital or microfilm facsimiles made
from copies held elsewhere. Bibliographical details can be determined from Appendix A by
extracting those works described as ‘Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.’, and these
could be used by the Library’s antiquarian book selectors to compile lists of desiderata. The
figure of sixty compares well with the undated typescript handlist, which gives sixty-one titles.
The difference is explained by the inclusion of a work where only one part of a two-volume
work was lost, and which the survey therefore considered as ‘damaged’ rather than ‘lost’.46
Raffaello Fabretti, Inscriptionum antiquarum quæ in ædibus paternis asservantur explicatio et additamentum (Rome,
1699) [144.f.15] and Istoria di Thamas-Kouli-Kan, Sofi di Persia, tradotta dal francese (Londra [i.e. Venice], 1740-1)
[146.a.5,6]. Both works have bindings and library stamps associated with original George III copies.
45
The eight works are those at shelfmarks: 141.a.7; 141.c.18; 144.a.16,17; 145.b.19; 147.a.2,3; 276.f.39; 276.k.15;
277.f.20-27.
45
Louis Daniel Le Comte, Nouveaux mémoires sur l’état présent de la Chine. 3e éd. (Amsterdam, 1698) [147.a.2,3].
Vol. 1 destroyed; vol. 2 is the original George III copy, repaired.
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Final word
The incendiary bomb which exploded in the King’s Library Gallery had far-reaching
effects. The staff of the British Museum Library rescued, repaired or replaced substantial
numbers of antiquarian books during the decades following World War II. The transfer of
the collection to the British Library’s St Pancras site and the arrival of new online catalogue
software have allowed their work to be picked up again in a systematic way. There remains a
small amount of work to be completed, such as creating new catalogue entries for a handful of
previously unrecorded replacements, but in essence the Library and its readers should now
have an accurate record of what is on the shelves in those parts of the King’s Library affected
by the explosion of Monday 23 September 1940.
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APPENDIX A
WORKS DESTROYED BY THE BOMB OF 23 SEPTEMBER 1940
Statements about replacements and other copies relate to the situation in autumn 2011.
The entries are listed by shelfmarks as they were in 1940, which may vary slightly from those
in use today. Alternative copies are always of the same edition.
139.d.12. Erasmus Froelich, Notitia elementaris numismatum antiquorum illorum (Vienna, 1758).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
139.d.13. Michele Mercati, De gli Obelischi di Roma (Rome, 1589).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 795.k.9.(1.); C.47.g.21.(1.).
140.a.39. Johann Daniel Major, De nummis Græce inscriptis epistola (Kiel, 1685).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.c.23.(7.).
140.b.1. Nicolas Damas Marchant, Mélanges de numismatique et d’histoire (Paris [Metz], 1818).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
140.b.17-24. Johann Hieronymus Lochner, Sammlung merkwürdiger Medaillen (Nuremberg,
1737-44).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 603.e.14,15.
140.b.25-39. Johann Christoph Rasche, Lexicon universæ rei numariæ veterum, et præcipue
Græcorum ac Romanorum (Leipzig, 1785-1805).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 1509/528; 685.f.9-21.
141.a.1. Carlo Antonioli, Antica gemma etrusca spiegata ed illustrata con due dissertazioni
(Pisa, 1757).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.125.de.9.
141.a.2.(1.). Girolamo Francesco Zaneti, Ragionamento dell’origine e dell’antichita della moneta
viniziana (Venice, 1750).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1103.b.25.(3.).
141.a.2.(2.). Girolamo Francesco Zaneti, Commentariolum de nummis regum Mysiæ seu Rasciæ
ad Venetos typos percussis (Venice, 1750).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1103.b.25.(5.).
141.a.3. Joseph Harris, An Essay upon Money and Coins (London, 1757-8).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1139.k.10.
141.a.13. Stamford Wallis, A Dissertation in Vindication of the Antiquity of Stone-Henge, in
Answer to the Treatises of Mr Inigo Jones (Salisbury, 1730).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 812.b.5.
141.a.20. Vorstellung der Königliche Preussischen Armée [plates] (Potsdam?, 1799).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
141.a.25. Petter Dijkman, Historiske anmärckningar öfwer, och af en dehl runstenar, i Swerige...
(Stockholm, 1723).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1437.d.19.
141.a.34. Finnus Johannaeus, Tractatus theologico-historico-criticus de noctis prae die naturali
praerogativa aut dubia aut nulla (Copenhagen, 1782).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
141.b.18-20. Johann David Köhler, Historische Münz-Belustigung in Kupffer gestochen,
beschrieben, und aus der Historie erklaret werden (Nuremberg, 1726-65).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
141.c.1. Jean Foy-Vaillant, Selectiora numismata ærea maximi moduli (Paris, 1694).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.g.10.
141.d.1. Sextus Julius Frontinus, S. J. Frontini de aquæductibus Urbis Romæ commentarius,
antiquæ fidei restitutus atque explicatus, opera et studio J. Poleni (Padua, 1722).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.8140.
141.d.5. Jean Dassier, Six Plates of the Medals of the Sovereigns of England by John Dassier,
engraved and described by Charles Pye (London, 1797).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: RB.37.b.18.
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142.a.1. G. F. Krebel, Europäisches genealogisches Handbuch (Leipzig, 1784).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 975.f.24.
142.a.2. Joseph van den Leene, Le Théâtre de la noblesse du Brabant (Liège, 1705).
Not replaced at shelf; copy at C.106.cc.20 acquired 15 August 1979 as a replacement.
142.a.5. Gio Vicenzo Giobbi Fortebracci, Lettera istorico-genealogica della famiglia
Fortebracci da Montone (Bologna, 1689).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held, although a microfilm facsimile is at: MF1/178.
142.a.11. Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch, Marmor Hispaniæ antiquum (Jena, 1753).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.a.15. Gabriel Kaltermarkt, Paradis-wasser, das ist Beschreibung der vier Wasser, Pison,
Gihon, Hidekel und Phrath (Leipzig, 1605).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.a.17. Johann Christoph Kleffel, Abhandlung von den Vorzügen der alten Nordischen
Seekunst vor den Römern und Griechen (Kiel, 1753-55).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.a.20. Hans Bircherod, Praes. Disputationes septem, circa disquisitiones antiquitatum patriæ
Daniæ gentilis (Copenhagen, 1701-18).
Replaced in part at shelf with copy moved from 590.e.32 (Disp. I of 1701 only). Other
copies: 1568/2567; 590.e.7 (Disp. IV-VII); 9425.bb.23 (Disp. I).
142.a.31. Pierre Joseph Cantel, De Romana Republica (Venice, 1730).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 21 January 1950.
142.b.1-21. Johann David Koehler, Johann David Köhlers ... wöchentlich herausgegebener
historischer Münz-Belustigung erster(-zwey und zwanzigster) Theil (Nuremberg, 1729-65).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.c.1. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Description des pierres gravées [du Cabinet] du feu
Baron de Stosch (Florence, 1760).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 682.g.15.
142.c.3. Luigi Pindemonti, Sacre antiche inscrizioni lette ed interpretate dal Domenico Vallarsi
e demonstrate puramente ideali (Verona, 1762).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.c.16. Costanzo Landi, Selectiorum numismatum (Leiden, 1695).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.c.17. Michelangelo Zorzi, Il Marmo illustrato, o sia dissertazione epistolare intorno ad
un’antica iscrizione di Gordiano III (Padua, 1735).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 660.e.22.
142.c.18. Jacobus Lydius, Jacobi Lydii Syntagma sacrum de re militari nec non de jure jurando
dissertatio philologica (Dordrecht, 1698).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 28 January 1950.
142.c.19.(1.). Giovan Gastone, Esequie dell’altezza reale del serenissimo Giovan Gastone, Gran
duca di Toscana, fatte celebrare in Firenze (Florence, 1737).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 813.f.58.
142.c.19.(2.). Giuseppe Buondelmonti, Delle Lodi dell’altezza reale del serenissimo Gio:
Gastone. VII Gran duca di Toscana, orazione funerale (Florence, 1737).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 27 June 1950.
142.c.19.(3.). Giuseppe Buondelmonti, Orazione funebre in morte di S. A. R. Elisabetta
Carlotta, Duchessa vedova di Lorena (Florence, 1745).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
142.c.27. Thomas Chapman, An Essay on the Roman Senate (Cambridge, 1750).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 589.f.17.
142.c.28. Alexius Symmachus Mazochius, In mutilum Campani amphitheatri titulum aliasque
nonnullas Campanas inscriptiones, commentarius (Naples, 1727).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 663.e.10.
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142.d.1. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, et al., Beschreibung der grossen und denckwürdigen Feyer,
die bey der allerhöchsten Anwesenheit ... Georgs des Andern ... auf deroselben Georg Augustus
hohen Schule in der Stadt Göttingen im Jahre 1748 am ersten Tage des Augustmonates
begangen ward (Göttingen, 1749).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.1173.
142.d.2. William Stukeley, The Medallic History of Marcus Aurelius Carausius (London, 1757-9).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 603.g.5,6.
142.d.6-9. Paolo Alessandro Maffei, Gemme antiche figurate, date in luce da D. de’ Rossi
(Rome, 1707-9).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 685.h.14-17.
142.d.13. Michael Angelus Causeus de la Chausse, Gemme antiche figurate (Rome, 1700).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 31 January 1949.
142.d.14. Rinaldo Reposati, Della Zecca di Gubbio e delle geste de’ Conti e Duchi di Urbino
(Bologna, 1772-3).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 660.f.13,14.
142.d.15. William Roberts, Marmorum Oxoniensium inscriptiones Græcæ, cum versione latina
(Oxford, 1791).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 685.g.9.
142.d.16-18. Henrique Florez, Medallas de las colonias, municipios, y pueblos antiguos de
España (Madrid, 1757-73).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 674.h.11-13.
142.d.19.(1.). Samuel Pegge, the Elder, An Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin (London, 1766).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 603.g.12; item is now shelfmarked 142.d.19.(2.).
142.d.19.(2.). Samuel Pegge, the Elder, An Assemblage of Coins, Fabricated by the Authority
of the Archbishops of Canterbury (London, 1772).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 603.g.12; item is now shelfmarked 142.d.19.(3.).
142.e.1,2. John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities (London, 1813).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 799.n.1.
142.e.12. Thomas Hope, Costumes of the Ancients [200 plates] (London, 1809).
Replaced at shelf with copy donated 13 November 1948; item is now shelfmarked
142.e.12,13.
142.e.13. John Hervey, Letters between Lord Hervey and Dr Middleton, Concerning the Roman
Senate (London, 1778).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy at 1489.f.14. Shelfmark re-used for vol. 2 of the
preceding work.
142.e.19.(1.). Philip Carteret Webb, An Account of a Copper Table ... Discovered in the Year
1732 near Heraclea, in the Bay of Tarentum (London, 1760).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 112.e.5; 604.f.22.(5.); etc.
142.e.19.(2.). John Pettingal, The Latin Inscription, on the Copper Table, Discovered in the
Year 1732, near Heraclea, and Published by Mazochius, at Naples, in 1758 (London, 1760).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 604.f.22.(4.); 604.f.22.(6.).
142.f.16.(1.). William Alexander, The Costume of China. Illustrated in Forty-Eight Coloured
Engravings (London, 1805).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 562*.e.12.
142.f.16.(2.). Charles Gold, Oriental Drawings: Sketched Between the Years 1791 and 1798
(London, 1806).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 562*.e.9; item is now shelfmarked 142.f.18.
143.a.1. Johann Christoph Gatterer, Abriss der Genealogie (Göttingen, 1788).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 30 May 1963.
143.a.4. François de Chassepol, Traité des finances et de la fausse monnaie des Romains
(Paris, 1740).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 4 June 1957.
143.a.7. Erasmus Froelich, Animadversiones in quosdam numos veteres urbium (Vienna, 1738).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
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143.a.9. Andrea Fulvius, Illustrium imagines. End. imperatorum & illustrium virorum ac
mulierum vultus ex antiquis numismatibus expressi (Rome, 1517).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 588.c.31.
143.a.11. Cesare Vecellio, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo (Venice, 1598).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 811.b.18.
143.a.12. Pierre Daniel Huet, Storia del commerzio e della navigazione degli antichi
(Venice, 1737).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 18 October 1949.
143.a.13. Rijklof Michael Cuninghame van Goens, Diatriba de Cepotaphiis (Utrecht, 1763).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.a.14,15. T. Webb, A New Select Collection of Epitaphs (London, 1775).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1078.i.5; item is now shelfmarked 143.a.14.
143.a.16. Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger, Observations sur les antiquités de la ville
d’Herculaneum (Paris, 1757).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 663.a.23.
143.a.17,18. Gottfried Schuetze, Schutzschriften für die alten deutschen und nordischen Völker.
Neue Ausgabe (Leipzig, 1773-6).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 9326.b.2.
143.a.19. Lambert Bos, Antiquitatum Græcarum præcipue Atticarum descriptio brevis (Leipzig, 1749).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.a.20. Jacopo Belgrado, Epistolæ IV. De rebus physicis, et antiquis monumentis sub Retina
recens inventis (Venice, 1749).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 1507/549.
143.a.21. Friedrich Samuel von Schmidt, Opuscula; quibus res antiquæ, præcipue Ægyptiacae,
explanantur (Karlsruhe, 1765).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.a.22. Andreas Christian Eschenbach, Dissertationes academicæ, varia antiquæ sapientiæ
rituumque gentilium argumenta reponentes (Nuremberg, 1702).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1090.e.12.(1.).
143.a.23. Onofrio Panvinio, Reipublicae Romanae commentariorum libri tres (Venice, 1558).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 31 October 1955.
143.a.24,25. William Toldervy, Select Epitaphs (London, 1755).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1078.i.1,2; item is now shelfmarked 143.a.24.
143.a.26. Pierre Petit, De Sibylla libri tres (Leipzig, 1686).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 24 April 1960.
143.a.27. Domenico Mellini, Descrizione dell’entrata della ... reina Giovanna d’Austria ...
fatto in Firenze ... per le ... nozze di S. Altezza et dell’illustrissimo S. Don Francesco de Medici
(Florence, 1566).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.b.20.(1.).
143.b.1. Giacopo Salomini, Agri Patavini inscriptiones sacræ et prophanæ (Padua, 1696).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 661.d.20.
143.b.2.(1.). Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Urbis Patavinae inscriptiones sacræ et prophanæ
(Padua, 1649).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 661.d.19.
143.b.2.(2.). Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Territorii Patavinæ inscriptiones sacræ et profanæ
(Padua, 1654).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.3. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, De sestertiis, seu Subsecivorum pecuniæ veteris
Græcæ et Romanæ libri IV. (Leiden, 1691).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.104.cc.19.
143.b.4. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions ... to which is Prefixed, an
Essay by Dr Johnson (London, 1806).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 30 September 1960.
143.b.5. Erasmus Froelich, Quatuor tentamina in re numaria vetere I. Dissertatio (Vienna, 1737).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 674.h.17.
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143.b.6. Jacobus de Wilde, Signa antiqua e museo Jacobi de Wilde (Amsterdam, 1700).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 787.k.17.(2.).
143.b.7. Niccolò Marcello Venuti, Descrizione delle prime scoperte dell’antica città d’Ercolano
(Rome, 1748).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 662.f.11.
143.b.8. Jean Jacques Chifflet, Portus Iccius Julii Cæsaris demonstratus cum antiqua
descriptione Portuum Morinorum Icci (Antwerp, 1627).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.77.b.26.
143.b.9. Stefano Egidio Petroni, La Napoléonide (Paris, 1813).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.10. Jacobus de Strada a Rosberg, Epitome du thrésor des antiquitéz (Lyon, 1553).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.11. Enea Vico, Le Imagini delle donne auguste, intagliate in istampa di rame ... delle loro
medaglie antiche (Venice, 1557).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.e.13.
143.b.12. Johann Georg Wachter, Archæologia nummaria (Leipzig, 1740).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.13. Enea Vico, Omnium Cæsarum verissimæ imagines ex antiquis numismatis desumptæ
addita (Venice, 1554).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 31 October 1955.
143.b.14. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Lettre au citoyen Chaptal, Ministre de l’Intérieur ...
au sujet de l’inscription égyptienne du monument trouvé à Rosette (Paris, 1802).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 584.d.28.
143.b.15. Sebastiano Erizzo, Discorso ... sopra le medaglie degli antichi. 4a ed. (Venice, not
before 1584).
Replaced at shelf with a copy moved from 602.d.3.
143.b.16. Saverio Scilla, Breve notizia delle monete pontificie antiche e moderne (Rome, 1715).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 5 July 1948.
143.b.17. Antonio Zantani, Le Imagini, con tutti i riversi trovati, e le vite de gli imperatori,
tratte dalle medaglie et dalle historie de gli antichi (Parma, 1548).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.e.12.(1-2).
143.b.18. Cesare Antonio Vergara, Monete del regno di Napoli (Rome, 1715).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 5 July 1948.
143.b.19. Joannes David Akerblad, Inscriptionis Phœniciæ Oxeniensis nova interpretatio
(Paris, 1802).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: B.542.(4.).
143.b.20. Johann Heinrich Waser, Abhandling vom Geld (Zürich, 1778).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.21. Lorenzo Pataroli, Series Augustorum, Augustarum, Caesarum et Tyrannorum
omnium (Venice, 1740).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 25 March 1949.
143.b.22. Enea Vico, Ex Libris XXIII commentarium in vetera Imperatorum Romanorum
numismata ... liber primus (Venice, 1560).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.24.b.23.
143.b.23. Anthony Lefroy, Catalogus numismaticus Musei Lefroyani (Livorno, 1763).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 603.c.6.
143.b.24. Antony van Dale, Dissertationes de origine ac progressu idiolatriæ et superstitionum
(Amsterdam, 1696).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.b.25. Jodocus Herman Nünning, Sepulcretum Westphalico-Mimigardico-Gentile. Incorporates:
Johann Heinrich Cohausen, Ossilegium historico-physicum (Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1714).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 591.c.21.
143.c.1-7. Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Recueil
d’antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines ... (Paris, 1752-67).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 673.g.3; G.2628-34.
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143.c.8,9. Thomas Hyde, Syntagma dissertationum (Oxford, 1767).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 14003.h.15; G.552,3.
143.c.10. Thomas Hyde, Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia.
2nd edn. (Oxford, 1760).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: G.551; V 21876.
143.c.11. Michael Conrad Curtius, Commentarii de Senatu Romano post tempora Reipublicæ
liberæ (Geneva, 1769).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.c.12. Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεια, or the Art of Embalming (London, 1705).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.f.2.
143.c.13. Octavianus Gentilius, De Patriciorum origine, varietate, præstantia, et juribus
(Rome, 1736).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.c.14.(1.). Jacobus Gutherius, De Officiis domus Augustæ publicæ et privatæ (Paris, 1628).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 500.f.12.(1.).
143.c.14.(2.). Jacobus Gutherius, Rupella rupta (Paris, 1628).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 500.f.12.(2.).
143.c.15. George III (King of Great Britain), The Form and Order of the Service that is to be
Performed, and of the Ceremonies that are to be Observed, in the Coronation of their Majesties
King George III. And Queen Charlotte … 22d of September, 1761 (London, 1761).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 469.a.18; 9930.pp.5.(3.).
143.c.16. Erasmo Gesualdo, Osservazioni critiche … sopra la storia della via Appia di D.
Francesco M. Pratilli (Naples, 1754).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 11 April 1949.
143.d.1. Clemente Biagi, Monumenta Græca ex Museo Jacobi Nanii (Rome, 1785).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 1 February 1949.
143.d.2. Clemente Biagi, Monumenta Græca et Latina ex Museo Jacobi Nanii (Rome, 1787).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.f.31.
143.d.3. Francesco de’ Ficoroni, Le Maschere sceniche, e le figure comiche d’antichi romani
(Rome, 1748).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.d.4. Thomas Jean Pichon, Le Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, roi de France et de
Navarre, dans l’Église de Rheims, le 11 Juin 1775 (Paris, 1775).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 605.e.20.
143.d.5,6. Antonio Rivautella, Marmora Taurinensia dissertationibus (Turin, 1743).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 660.i.7,8.
143.d.7.(2.). Edoardo Corsini, Epistola de Burdigalensi Ausonii consulatu (Pisa, 1764).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.d.9. Félix François Le Royer d’Artezet de la Sauvagère, Recueil d’Antiquités dans les
Gaules (Paris, 1770).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 576.k.1.
143.d.10. Emmanuele Campolongo, Litholexicon intentatum (Naples, 1782).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.d.11.(1.). Jacob Spon, Recherches curieuses d’antiquité (Lyon, 1683).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.2635.
143.d.11.(2.). Description d’une figure de bronze antique (Lyon?, 1690?).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.d.12. Paolo Maria Paciaudi, Monumenta Peloponnesia, commentariis explicata (Rome,
1761).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 678.f.16.
143.d.13. Pieter Burman, Vectigalia populi Romani, et Ζευς Καταιβατης sive Jupiter
Fulgerator in Cyrrhestarum nummis (Leiden, 1734).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1307.k.15.
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143.d.14. Franciscus Antonius Vitale, In binas veteres inscriptiones L. Aurelii Commodi
Imperatoris ætate positæ Romæ recens detectas dissertatio (Rome, 1763).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 15 January 1961.
143.d.15.(1.). Ridolfino Venuti, De Dea Libertate, ejusque cultu apud Romanos, et de
libertinorum pileo dissertatio (Rome, 1762).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.f.13.
143.d.15.(2.). Ridolfino Venuti, La favola di Circe rappresentata in un antico greco bassorilievo
di marmo (Rome, 1758).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.f.13.
143.d.15.(3.). Ridolfino Venuti, Spiegazione de’ bassirilievi che si osservano nell’urna sepolcrale
detta volgarmente d’Alessandro Severo che si conserva nel Museo di Campidoglio
(Rome, 1762).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.d.16. Casto Innocente Ansaldi, De forensi Judæorum buccina commentarius (Brescia, 1745).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 689.e.17.(3.).
143.d.18,19. Francesco Maria Bonada, Anthologia, seu collectio omnium veterum inscriptionum
poeticarum tam Græc. quam Lat. in antiquis lapidibus sculptarum (Rome, 1751).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 671.g.1,2.
143.d.20. Joannes Rosinus, Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum (Utrecht, 1701).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 21 December 1951.
143.d.21. John Warburton, Vallum Romanum: or the History of the Roman Wall, commonly
call the Picts’ Wall, in Cumberland and Northumberland (London, 1753).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 578.g.1.
143.d.22. Simon Bouquet, Bref et sommaire recueil de ce qui a esté faict ... a l’entrée de Charles
IX, en la cité de Paris, le 6 Mars 1571 (Paris, 1572).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 813.e.10.
143.d.23. Petrus Faber, Agonisticon ... sive De re Athletica ludisque veterum gymnicis (Lyon, 1595).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 584.h.1.
143.e.1. Philip V (King of Spain), Ragguaglio delle nozze delle maestà di Filippo Quinto e di
Elisabetta Farnese ... celebrate in Parma l’anno 1714 (Parma, 1717).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 598.i.12.
143.e.3. Laurentius Schrader, Monumentorum Italiæ, quæ hoc nostro sæculo et a Christianis
posita sunt (Helmstadt, 1592).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.74.e.7.
143.e.5,6. Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England,
from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time (London, 1796-99).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 687.h.20,21; G.2214,15.
143.e.9. Jacobus Mazzochius, Epigrammata antiquæ urbis Romæ (Rome, 1521).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 658.h.21; C.48.h.10; C.80.d.7.
143.e.10. Joseph Hager, A Dissertation on the newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions
(London, 1801).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 704.g.11.(2.).
143.e.12. Pierre François Hugues, Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek,
Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir William Hamilton (London, 1804).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: RB.31.b.251.
143.e.13. John Hervey, Letters between Lord Hervey and Dr Middleton concerning the Roman
Senate (London, 1778).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 1489.f.14.
143.e.14,15. Gaetano Luigi Marini, Gli Atti e monumenti de’ Fratelli Arvali, scolpiti già in
tavole di marmo, ed ora raccolti, diciferati e comentati (Rome, 1795).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 589.i.5,6.
143.e.16. Henry Moses, Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (London, 1820).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 27 July 1955.
143.e.17. Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Ælia Lelia Crispis non nata resurgens (Bologna, 1683).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 664.i.25.(6.).
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143.e.18. Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Marmora Felsinea (Bologna, 1690).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.e.19. Guido Ferrari, Inscriptiones in solemni funere Johannis Conradi de Olivera,
marchionis Turbigi (Parma, 1785).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.e.20. André Lens, Le Costume ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples
de l’antiquité (Liège, 1776).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.e.21. Hubertus Goltzius, Thesauri rei antiquariæ huberrimus, ex antiquis tam numismatum
quam marmorum inscriptionibus descriptus (Antwerp, 1618).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.e.22. Joannes Baptista Ferretius, Musæ lapidariæ antiquorum in marmoribus carmina
(Verona, 1672).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.h.2.
143.f.3. Louis XIII (King of France), Éloges et discours, sur la triomphante réception du roy en
sa ville de Paris après la réduction de la Rochelle (Paris, 1629).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 603.k.17.
143.f.5. Wolfgang Lazius, Reipublicæ Romanæ in exteris provinciis, bello acquisitis, constitutæ
(Frankfurt am Main, 1598).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.76.f.8.
143.f.6,7. Tableaux des anciens grecs, des romains, et des nations contemporaines, n. 1-2 (Paris,
1785).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.f.10. Edmé Bouchardon, Statuas hasce antiquas (Nuremberg, 1732).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.f.12. Johann Wilhelm Stuck, Operum (Leiden, 1696).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 589.l.19.
143.f.14. Joannes Huttichius, Collectanea antiquitatum in urbe atque agro Moguntino
repertarum (Mainz, 1525).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 794.i.4.
143.f.15. Raffaello Fabretti, De Columna Traiani syntagma (Rome, 1683).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 1471.cc.10.
143.f.19. Francesco Maria Pratilli, Della Via Appia riconosciuta e descritta da Roma a Brindisi
(Naples, 1745).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 588.i.18.
143.f.20. Joachim Richard Paulli, Zuverlässiger Abriss des anno 1734, bey Tundern gefundenen
güldenen Horns (Copenhagen, 1734).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
143.f.21. Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, De sacris ædificiis a Constantino Magno constructis,
synopsis historica (Rome, 1693).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 27 October 1953.
143.f.22. John Hayter, A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts (London, 1811).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 616.l.15.
143.f.24. Thomas Hearne, Ectypa varia ad historiam Britannicam illustrandam ære olim
(Oxford, 1737).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 597.k.15.
143.g.14. Michael Maittaire, Marmorum Arundellianorum, Seldeniarorum, aliorumque
Academiæ Oxoniense donatorum. 2nd edn. (London, 1732-3).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 603.l.14.(2.); 678.h.11.
143.g.22. Joannes Lamius, In antiquam tabulam aheneam decurionum nomina et descriptionem
continentem (Florence, 1745).
Replaced at shelf with a copy purchased 9 June 1949.
144.a.1. William Somer, A Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent (Oxford, 1693).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 579.c.40.(1.); G.3991; G.3993.(3.).
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144.a.2. John Tubervillus Needham, De Inscriptione quadam Ægyptiaca Taurini inventa
(Rome, 1761).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 604.b.3.(2.); 665.b.19; 681.b.1.(2.).
144.a.3,4. Louis Jobert, La Science des médailles antiques et modernes. Nouvelle éd. (Paris, 1739).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 683.d.27; RB.23.a.4176.
144.a.5. Charles Patin, Histoire des médailles, ou introduction à la connoissance de cette science
(Amsterdam, 1695).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 979.a.2.(2.).
144.a.6. Thomas Ruddiman, An Introduction to Mr James Anderson’s ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’
(Edinburgh, 1773).
Not replaced at shelf; no other copies held.
144.a.7. Andreas Fulvius, Opera di A. Fulvio delle antichità della città di Roma, et delli edificii
memorabili di quella (Venice, 1543).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 575.c.3.
144.a.8,9. Dominique Georges Frédéric de Riom de Prolhiac de Fourt de Pradt, Des
Colonies et de la révolution actuelle de l’Amérique (Paris, 1817).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.a.10,11. Giovanni Rinaldo Carli, Lettres américaines, dans lesquelles on examine l’origine,
l’état civil, politique, militaire et religieux ... pour servir de suite aux Memoires de Don Antonio
de Ulloa (Paris & Boston, 1788).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 17 September 1953.
144.a.22. William Smith, A Natural History of Nevis and the Rest of the English Leeward
Charibee Islands (Cambridge, 1745).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 980.k.30; G.16645.
144.a.23-25. Miguel Venegas, Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal, y espiritual,
hasta el tiempo presente (Madrid, 1757).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 798.f.30; 978.i.23.
144.b.1. William Stukeley, An Account of a Roman Temple and other Antiquities near
Graham’s Dike in Scotland (London, 1720).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 600.i.16.(1.).
144.b.2. Giorgio Domenico, Interpretatio veteris monumenti in Agro Lanuvino detecti
(Rome, 1737).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 664.e.27.(5.).
144.b.3. Agostino Argenti, Cavalerie delle città di Ferrara (Ferrara, 1566).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 605.c.34.
144.b.4-8. Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, Prodromo delle antichità d’Ercolano (Naples, 1752).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 31 October 1955.
144.b.9. Thomas Twinning, Avebury in Wiltshire, the Remains of a Roman Work, Erected by
Vespasian and Julius Agricola (London, 1723).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 577.h.24.(1.).
144.b.10. William Hamilton, Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin’s pursuits in
Greece (London, 1811).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 787.h.23; also replaced at shelf with a photographic
facsimile of selected pages from the original copy, shelfmarked 144.b.10*.
144.b.11. Ivar Hertzholm, Den Stormaectigste-Arffve Monarchs K. Christiani den V. ...
Salfvings korte Beskriffvelse (Copenhagen, 1671).
Not replaced at shelf; a microfilm of a copy in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, is at
Mic.A.9092.
144.b.12. Marco Sadeler, Vestigi delle antichità di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzuolo & altri luoghi
(Rome, 1660).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.b.15. Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de la Barre, Description de la France Équinoctiale,
cydevant appellée Guyanne, et par les Espagnols, el Dorado (Paris, 1666).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.32.g.45.
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144.b.18.(1.). Ennio Quirino Visconti, A Letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova: and Two
Memoirs … on the Sculptures in the Collection of the Earl of Elgin (London, 1816).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 564.c.13.(1.).
144.b.20. George II (King of Great Britain), A Particular Account of the Solemnities used at
the Coronation of ... King George II ... and of ... Queen Carolina (London, 1760).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 605.c.4.
144.b.21. Lorenzo Pignoria, Vetustissimæ tabulæ æneæ sacris Ægyptiorum simulachris cœlatæ
explicatio (Venice, 1605).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.d.2.
144.b.22. Joannes Baptista Casalius, De profanis et sacris veteribus ritibus (Frankfurt,
Hanover, 1681).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.b.24.(1.). Gabriele Simeoni, Illustratione de gli epitaffi et medaglie antiche (Lyon, 1558).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.d.1.(1.); item is now shelfmarked 144.b.28.(1.).
144.b.25. University of Glasgow, Monumenta Romani imperii, in Scotia, maxime vero inter
vestigia valli (Glasgow, 1792).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.5084.
144.b.27. Josiah Wedgwood (The Elder), Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals, Bas-reliefs,
Busts and Small Statues. 6th edn. (Etruria [Stoke-on-Trent], 1787).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 679.d.22.(3.).
144.b.28. Johann Caspar Hagenbuch, De Græcis thesauri novi muratoriani marmoribus
quibusdam metricis (Zürich, 1744).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1103.b.28.(3.).
144.c.1. Giacomo Lauro, Antiquæ urbis splendor (Rome, 1641).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 559*.b.23.
144.c.2. Ole Worm, Fasti Danici, universam tempora computandi rationem antiquitus in Dania
et vicinis regionibus observatam (Copenhagen, 1643).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 435.g.15; 590.h.5; G.4318.
144.c.3. William Vincent, De Legione Manliana quæstio ex Livio desumpta, et Rei Militaris
Romanæ studiosis proposita (London, 1793).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.c.4. Richard Brinsley Peake, French Characteristic Costumes (London, 1816).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.c.5. Pier Luigi Galletti, Inscriptiones Piceni (Rome, 1759).
Replaced at shelf with a copy of the 1761 edition purchased 15 May 1961.
144.c.6. Costumes en Saxe [18 plates] (Dresden, 1805).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.c.7. Giovanni Battista Passeri, De pueri Etrusci aheneo simulacro a Clemente XIIII. in
Museum Vaticanum inlato dissertatio (Rome, 1771).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 18 March 1949.
144.c.8. Joseph François Tôchon, Dissertation sur l’inscription grecque Ίασονος Λυκιον, et sur
les pierres antiques qui servaient de cachets aux médecins oculistes (Paris, 1816).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.h.24.(5.).
144.c.9.(1.). John Taylor, Commentarius ad L[egem] Decemviralem de inope debitore in partis
dissecando (Cambridge, 1742).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 518.l.3.(4.); 692.e.10.(1.); G.3304; etc.
144.c.9.(2.). John Montague, Marmor Sandvicense (Cambridge, 1743).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 604.f.28; 682.e.10.(2.).
144.c.10. Christian Gottlob Heyne, The Pretended Tomb of Homer, Drawn by Dominic
Fiorillo, from a Sketch of M. Le Chevalier (London, 1795).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 604.e.32.(3.).
144.c.11. Francesco Bianchini (The Elder), De tribus generibus instrumentorum musicæ
veterum organicæ dissertatio (Rome, 1742).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 557*.e.6.(1.); 558*.c.24; 604.e.25.(6.); etc.
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144.c.12. John Ogilby, The Relation of his Majestie’s Entertainment [King Charles II] passing
through the City of London, to his Coronation (London, 1661).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 115.i.41; 601.m.29.(1.); C.102.k.15; etc.
144.c.13.(1.). Charles Patin, Thesaurus numismatum, e Musæo Caroli Patini (Amsterdam, 1672).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.c.13.(2.). Charles Patin, Commentarius C. Patini in tres inscriptiones Græcas (Padua, 1685).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 602.h.27.(7.); item is shelfmarked 144.c.30.(7.).
144.c.14. Paolo Maria Paciaudi, Diatribe, qua Græci Anaglyphi interpretatio traditur
(Rome, 1751).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 604.e.27.(3.); 813.g.14.(2.).
144.c.15,16. Aubin Louis Millin de Grandmaison, Monumens antiques, inédits ou nouvellement
expliqués (Paris, 1802-6).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 575.i.7,8.
144.c.17. Jacques Martin, Explication de divers monumens singuliers, qui ont rapport à la
religion des plus anciens peuples (Paris, 1739).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 704.g.2.
144.c.21. Laurentius Beger, Contemplatio gemmarun quarundam dactyliothecæ Gorlæi
(Neukölln, 1697).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 602.h.22.(8.).
144.c.24. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, Bucaniers of America (London, 1684-5).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.7198.
144.c.26. William Baxter, Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum (London, 1719).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 278.d.26; C.28.g.2; etc.
144.c.27,28. Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, Histoire de l’Isle Espagnole, ou de S.
Domingue (Paris, 1730-1).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 981.e.22,23.
144.c.29.(1.). Giovanni Grisostomo Scarfò, Lettera, nella quale vengono espressi colle figure in
rame, e dilucidati colle annotazioni, varj antichi momumenti (Venice, 1739).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 30 March 1961.
144.c.29.(2.). Giovanni Grisostomo Scarfò, In collectanea antiquitatum Romanarum quas
centum tabuis æneis incisas (Venice, 1739).
Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 30 March 1961.
144.c.29.(3.). Giovanni Grisostomo Scarfò, Castigationes in easdem observationes incerti
auctoris (Lucca, 1740?).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.d.1. William Hamilton, Account of the Discoveries at Pompeii, Communicated to the
Society of Antiquaries of London (London, 1777).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 662.h.18.
144.d.2. Pietro Luigi Galletti, Inscriptiones Bononienses infimi ævi Romæ extantes (Rome, 1766).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.d.4-6. George Stanley Faber, The Origin of Pagan Idolatory (London, 1816).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 694.l.10-12.
144.d.22. Richard Rauthmell, Antiquitates Bremetonacenses, or the Roman Antiquities of
Overborough (London, 1746).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: G.3006.
144.e.1. Richard Lawrence, Elgin Marbles, from the Parthenon at Athens, Exemplified by Fifty
Etchings (London, 1818).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 560.c.7.
144.e.20. André Valladier, Labyrinthe royal de l’Hercule gaulois triumphant. Sur le suject des
fortunes … de … Henry IV. (Avignon, 1601).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.e.22. Giovanni Domenico Polcastro, Apologia in difesa del cavaliere conte S. Orsato contra
le censure dell’autore del Museo Veronese (Padua, 1752).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 811.k.39.
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145.a.22-27. Antonio de Herrera Tordesillas, The General History of the Vast Continent and
Islands of America, Commonly Call’d the West-Indies (London, 1725-6).
Not replaced at shelf; copy at C.144.a.7 acquired 30 August 1976 as a replacement.
145.b.1,2. Joseph-François Lafitau, Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des
premiers temps (Paris, 1724).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 454.d.15,16; G.2435,6.
145.b.9. Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Description géographique de la Guiane (Paris, 1763).
Not replaced at shelf; the maps were saved and sent to the Map Library. Other copies:
454.d.22; G.15597.
145.b.10. William Innes Pocock, Five Views of the Island of St. Helena (London, 1815).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
145.c.2. William Keith, The History of the British Plantations in America. Part 1 (London, 1738).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 601.h.24.(1.).
145.c.7-10. Francesco Javier Mariano Clavigero, Storia antica del Messico cavata da’ migliori
storici spagnuoli (Cesena, 1780-1).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 983.d.21,22.
145.d.1. Bernal Díaz de Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of Mexico (London, 1800).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1197.k.21.
145.d.2. Alexander Clúny, The American Traveller; or, Observations on the Present State,
Culture, and Commerce of the British Colonies in America (London, 1769).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 601.de.3; C.125.de.3.
145.d.9. Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St Domingo
(London, 1797).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 984.f.22.
145.d.15,16. Robert Southey, History of Brazil (London, 1810-19).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 601.i.18-20; item is shelfmarked 145.d.15,16,16*.
145.d.20. Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries
within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia (London, 1820).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 563.b.13.
145.d.21. Charles Grant, The History of Mauritius (London, 1801).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: G.4299; 984.e.22.
145.f.9-11. Andrés González de Barcia Carbillado y Zúñiga, Historiadores primitivos de las
Indias Occidentales (Madrid, 1749).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1324.m.1 (wanting the transfer label).
145.f.17-19. Juan Francisco de San Antonio, Chrónicas de la apostólica provincia de S. Gregorio
de religiosos descalzos de N. S. P. S. Francisco en las islas Philipinas, China, Japon, &c. (Manila,
1738-44).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 4789.g.8.
146.a.12-14. Claude-Marie Guyon, Histoire des Indes orientales, anciennes et modernes
(Paris, 1744).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: RB.23.a.2981; T 4001.
146.a.17-20. Sharaf al-Din ‘Ali Yazdi, Histoire de Timur-Bec, connu sous le nom de Gran
Tamerlan, Empereur des Mogols & Tartars (Paris, 1744).
Not replaced at shelf. Other copies: 680.a.30-33; G.14974-7; IOL.1947.a.985.
146.a.22. Louis d’Ussieux, Histoire abrégée de la découverte et de la conquête des Indes par les
Portugais (Bouillon, 1770).
Not replaced at shelf; no other copies held.
275.a.19. Jean Masson, P. Ovidii Nasonis vita ordine chronologico sic delineata (Amsterdam, 1708).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1067.c.4.
275.a.35. Pietro Gerardo [i.e. Sebastiano Fausto da Longiano], Vita di Ezzelino Terzo da
Romano (Venice, 1560).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
275.e.19. Jakob Friedrich Reimmann, Historia literaria de fatis studii genealogici apud
Hebræos, Græcos, Romanos et Germanos (Quedlinburg, 1702).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
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275.e.33,34. Pierre Bourdelot, Histoire de la musique et de ses effets, 1715 (Amsterdam, 1726).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1042.f.4,5.
275.i.22. Polycarp Leyser, Historia poetarum et poematum medii ævi decem (Halle an der
Saale, 1721).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1161.h.5.
275.k.19. Rowlande Broughton, A Briefe Discourse of the Lyfe and Death of the Late Right
High and Honourable Sir William Pawlet. New edn. (Lee Priory, 1818).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 10815.bb.22.
275.l.5. The Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers, with a Critical Catalogue of Books in Occult
Chemistry (London, 1815).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 718.h.30.
276.c.15-18. Johann Albert Fabricius, Memoriæ Hamburgenses (Hamburg, 1710-30).
Vols 1-6 replaced at shelf with copy moved from 614.d.3-5. Vols 7-8 not replaced at shelf.
No other copies held.
276.e.40.(1.). Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des berühmten D. Alberti Crantzii (Hamburg, 1722).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.e.40.(2.). Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben der berühmten Lindenbrogiorum (Hamburg, 1723).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 614.d.19.(3.).
276.e.40.(3.). Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des gelehrten Lucæ Holstenii (Hamburg, 1723).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 614.d.19.(2.).
276.e.40.(4.). Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des berühmten Joh. Friderici Gronovii (Hamburg, 1723).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 614.d.19.(1.).
276.e.40.(5.). Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des gelehrten Petri Lambecii (Hamburg, 1724).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 614.d.19.(4.).
276.f.33,34. Giulio Roberto di Sanseverino, Les Vies des hommes et des femmes illustres d’Italie
(Yverdon, 1768).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.g.17. Ann Ford, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France. vol. 1.
(London, 1778).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.g.28-32. George Anne Bellamy, An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, written
by Herself (London, 1785).
Replaced at shelf with a copy purchased 15 December 1982.
276.g.34-37. Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs of His Own Life (York, 1790).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 641.b.8-11.
276.g.38-42. Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
(London, 1753).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 10854.a.1.
276.g.44. William Pittis, Some Memoirs of the Life of John Radcliffe. 2nd edn. (London, 1715).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1414.e.39.
276.h.47. John Mainwaring, Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederick Handel
(London, 1760).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1416.h.59.
276.i.9,10. The Lives of all the Lords Chancellors, Lord Keepers, and Lords Commissioners of
the Great Seal of England (London, 1760).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.i.20-24. Plutarch’s Lives, Translated from the Greek by Several Hands (London, 1702
[i.e. 1711]).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.i.39,40. Edward Harwood, Biographia Classica. New edn. (London, 1778).
Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 1578/7789.
276.k.38. Michael Huber, Notices générales des graveurs divisés par nations, et des peintres
rangés par écoles (Dresden & Leipzig, 1787).
Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 1042.h.26 (wanting the transfer label).
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277.i.27.(1.). Christian Friderik Wadskiær, Aula eruditi septentrionis tergemina, id est de
principibus doctis Danis, Suecis, Norvegis commentatio historico-literaria (Copenhagen,
1767).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
277.i.27.(2.). Christian Friderik Wadskiær, Prologum commentationis de principibus doctis
Danis, Suecis, Novegis (Copenhagen, 1768).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
277.i.27.(3.). Christian Friderik Wadskiær, Disputatio de principibus doctis Norvegis
(Copenhagen, 1774).
Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
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APPENDIX B
WORKS LEFT SEVERELY DAMAGED BY THE BOMB OF 23 SEPTEMBER 1940
In addition to the volumes listed below, a significant number of further works were
damaged by water or fire, but without loss to text or illustrations.
140.b.14. Stephan Schönwiesner (ed.), Tabulæ numismaticæ pro Catalogo numorum Hungariæ
ac Transilvaniæ (Pest, 1807?).
Severely damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
141.b.14-17. Dominique Magnan, Miscellanea numismatica (Rome, 1772-74).
Preliminaries to vol. 1 destroyed; replaced at shelf with photographic facsimiles. Another
copy: 681.c.4.
141.c.19-24. Tomás Andrés de Gusseme, Diccionario numismático general, para la perfecta
inteligencia de las medallas antiguas (Madrid, 1773-77).
Vol. 6 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 602.h.1-3.
142.h.5-14, 143.h.1-12 & 144.h.1-12. Blasius Ugolinus, Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum
(Venice, 1744-69).
Vols 14, 17, 19 and 20 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
144.a.12-15. François Alexandre Frederic Rochefoucauld-Llancourt, Voyage dans les ÉtatsUnis d’Amerique, fait en 1795, 1796, et 1797 (Paris, 1799).
Vols 1-4 destroyed. Replaced at shelf with copy moved from 792.f.13,14.
144.a.16,17. Daniel Neal, The History of New-England, to the year 1700. 2nd edn. (London, 1747).
Everything after vol. 2, p. 310 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 9555.bb.14.
144.a.19,20. Filippo Maffei, Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de
l’Amérique Septentionale (Paris, 1788).
Parts 1 and 2 destroyed. Replaced at shelf with copy purchased 31 July 1951.
144.d.7-9. Pietro Luigi Galletti, Inscriptiones Romanæ infimi ævi Romæ exstantes (Rome, 1760).
Vol. 1 severely damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: 7708.t.42.
145.e.19. Arthur Phillip, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London, 1789).
Text destroyed, only plates remain. Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: C.47.i.10.
146.a.25-27. Bartolomé Leonardo y Argensola, Histoire de la conquête des isles Moluques
(Amsterdam, 1706).
Vol. 2 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf. Another copy: T 11984.
147.a.2,3. Louis Daniel Le Comte, Nouveaux mémoires sur l’état présent de la Chine. 3e éd.
(Amsterdam, 1698).
Vol. 1 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
275.a.25. Aesop, La Vita di Esopo historiata, latina et italiana (Venice, 1538).
Severely damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
275.k.17. Sven Bring, Kongl. Rådets General Gouvernerens och Fält-Marskalkens Gref
Rutger von Aschebergs lefwerne (Lund, 1751).
Severely damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf; a microfilm of a copy in the Royal Library,
Stockholm is at Mic.A.7381/3.(4.).
276.a.17. Carl Christian Rothe, Waldemar Graeve af Løwendahls Levnet og Bedrifters
Beskrivelse (Copenhagen, 1750).
Everything after p. 242 destroyed. Not replaced at shelf; a microfilm of a copy in the Royal
Library, Copenhagen is at Mic.A.7724.(1.).
276.e.40.(6.). Ernst Salomon Cyprian, Vita Th. Campanellæ. 2a ed. (Amsterdam, 1722).
Title-page and last two leaves damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
276.f.6-9. Georg Gezelius, Försök til et biographisk lexicon öfver namnkunnige och lärde
svenske män (Stockholm, Uppsala & Åbo, 1778-87).
Vol. 3 destroyed and vol. 4 damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf; a microfilm of a copy in
Royal Library, Stockholm is at Mic.A.7402.(1-4).
276.g.20-25. Andrea Rubbi, Elogi italiani (Venice, 1782).
Vol. 3 severely damaged by fire. Not replaced at shelf. No other copies held.
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