<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11535">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Manuscript of Le Miroir d’Alchemie]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This book once belonged to two famous scientists.  This French translation of a work attributed to Roger Bacon (1214-94), The Mirror of Alchimy, once belonged Dunedin’s own, Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938), world famous inorganic chemist and ceramicist. Mellor’s bookplate was drawn in 1911 by ‘G.M.F.’, and contains imagery pertinent to Mellor’s career in science.  The owl, a symbol of wisdom, sits atop a flask over a Bunsen burner surrounded by books. The Latin inscription loosely translates to ‘Knowledge and the laws of nature truly come together when they agree with experimentation.’]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Roger+Bacon">Roger Bacon</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1860]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplate%3B+inscriptions">Pictorial bookplate; inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Mellor Collection]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11534">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Claims of Labour. An Essay on the Duties of the Employers to the Employed. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Perhaps Harry Soane (1844-1927) or someone in his Oxford Street workshop, produced the bookplate (above) for James E. Matthew in 1877. As per the inscription, Matthew, a musicologist and writer, owned this book from 1857, and in 1907, his ‘entire musical library of some 5000 items’ was bought by an antiquarian book dealer from Berlin. The traffic of books has its own mysteries. Special Collections has one of his books; an incunable (a pre-1501 printed book) on the musical theory of Gregorian chants is owned by the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Arthur+Helps">Arthur Helps</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[William Pickering]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1845]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplate%3B+inscriptions">Pictorial bookplate; inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1845 H]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11533">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Memoirs of the Life of Sir Stephen Fox]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The intertwined initials of Walter Henry Whitear make up this aesthetically pleasing bookplate from a volume about Samuel Pepys’ contemporary and friend, Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716). <br />
As can be seen, the book was gifted to Whitear from a ‘W.M. Chute’ in ‘March 1897’. Perhaps this gift is what prompted Whitear to pursue his research of Samuel Pepys that culminated in the publication of his More Pepysiana. Notes on the Diary of Samuel Pepys, published in 1927. Not much is known about Whitear except he was a member of the Royal Historical Society and lived in Chiswick, West London.<br />
]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=William+Pittis">William Pittis</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for John Sackfield and sold by J. Roberts]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1717]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplate%3B+inscriptions">Pictorial bookplate; inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1717 M]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Manuscript of Le Miroir d’Alchemie. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Before Mellor owned this manuscript, it was in the possession of French physicist and science historian, Pierre Duhem (1861-1916). ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Roger+Bacon">Roger Bacon</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1860]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscription%3B+pictorial+bookplate">Inscription; pictorial bookplate</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Mellor Collection]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sonnets and Other Small Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The bookplate of Newcastle businessman, Middleton Hewitson (1771-1845) was executed by engraver and author, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Now known as the ‘Father of Modern Wood Engraving’ for reviving the technique of engraving on boxwood against the grain, Bewick’s artistic talents have been compared to Holbein (d. 1543) and J. M. W. Turner (d. 1851). He was a ‘white-line engraver’, which meant that each cut became white space upon printing of the woodblock. The idyllic riverside vista, with the mill house across the water, most probably represents a Tyne River scene of the time. After Hewitson’s death, the book came into the possession of author and bookseller, John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), and he pasted in his book label.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Thomas+Park">Thomas Park</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for G. Sael]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1797]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplates%3B+Book+labels">Pictorial bookplates; Book labels</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1797 P]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11530">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Publick Employment and an Active Life with all its Appanages, such as Fame,]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Huddersfield businessman, Sir John Arthur Brooke (1844-1920) lived at Fenay Hall from about 1872. The Brookes were wealthy and made their money from a woollen mill in the area. Brooke amassed a fine library over his lifetime, and after the death of his older brother, Thomas (d. 1908), inherited four Shakespeare First Folios. Brooke’s bookplate (1911) was executed by accomplished designer, George W. Eve (1815-1914) who also produced royal bookplates for the Windsor Castle Library.  Upon his death, Sir John’s library was sold by Sotheby’s, in an eight day auction, that yielded over £32,000 (about NZ$3 million). This work by Evelyn was one of the lots.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Evelyn">John Evelyn</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed by J.M. for H. Herringham]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1667]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplates">Pictorial bookplates</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1667 E]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11529">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Works of John Suckling]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[On the front paste-down of this volume is the bookplate of American artist, Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) and his first wife Esther Tane. Their initials are worked into the design with one of Baskin’s favoured mottos ‘Nihil humanum a me alienum pute’ – a modified quote from Roman playwright, Terence (2nd cent. BC) – meaning ‘nothing human is alien to me’. The bookplate dates from 1950, and the image of the eagle fits with Baskin’s life-long fascination with raptors. In 1942, while studying at Yale, Baskin established Gehanna Press; and in 1952, he published ‘The Candle’, a poem by John Suckling (1609-41), which features in this volume (above) on page 79. This may explain why he once owned this book. The ‘Gift of’ Esmond de Beer bookplate is pasted on the adjacent page.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Suckling">John Suckling</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for Jacob Tonson]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1719]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplates">Pictorial bookplates</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer 1719 S]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11528">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Select Collection of Modern Poems, Moral and Philosophical. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Here is the bookplate of one ‘John Murray’. The Murray clan in Scotland dates back to the 12th century and in Gaelic Moireabh (which became Murray) means sea-settlement, so it seems fitting a mermaid appears on the Murray badge. The legendary sea creature is portrayed traditionally, as she holds a mirror in her right (dexter) hand and a comb in her left (sinister) hand. The mermaid’s tale rests on a two-toned wreath. The image of the mermaid in Scotland dates back to 400 A.D, and is found on Pictish stone carvings dating from that time. The banner above her head reads ‘Tout prest’ meaning ‘all ready’. So who is the John Murray, that this book belonged to?]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Robert+Urie">Robert Urie</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for Robert Urie]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1759]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pictorial+bookplates">Pictorial bookplates</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Sb 1759 S]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11527">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[At the front of this volume are two designations of provenance. On the left is the bookplate of the Scottish poet, James Hogg (1770-1835). The harp image symbolises the Gaelic tradition of the musical recitation of poetry, and links to the appearance of a harp in Hogg’s epic poem, ‘The Queen’s Wake’ (1813). Although he did not play the harp, it fits with Hogg’s self-styled ‘bardic identity’. The Latin motto – Naturae Donum, meaning ‘Gift of Nature’ – signifies that his talent as a poet was raw, self-taught, and ‘rooted in the culture of his native Ettrick’. The inscription is to James Hogg Junior (b. 1821), Hogg’s first born, from the book’s editor, Mrs Anna Maria Hall (1800-81) with her ‘best respects’.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Edited+by+Mrs+S.+C.+Hall">Edited by Mrs S. C. Hall</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1830]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Bookplates%3B+Inscriptions">Bookplates; Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Hogg AY13 JZ2]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11526">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poems on Several Occasions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This book contains the writing of Anglo-Irish poet, Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). An ordained priest, Parnell counted Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift amongst his friends. The book was once owned by a Mrs Hanbury: ‘Mrs Hanbury her book god give her therin to so look for she is a very good woman’. Who was Mrs Hanbury? In the eighteenth century, the term ‘Mrs’ did not necessarily mean a woman who was married. It was in fact a shortened version of ‘mistress’, and ‘applied to all adult women of higher social status, whether married or not’ (Erickson, 2014). Whoever she was, Mrs Hanbury believed in God, and she was ‘very good’.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Thomas+Parnell">Thomas Parnell</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for B. Lintot]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1722]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1722 P]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11525">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This book contains several inscriptions. The dedicatory inscription (top right) reads ‘To Dr+ Mrs Truby King, from F. L.+A.J.H’. As King has inscribed underneath, the book was gifted to the Kings by Australian artist and architect, Albert Hanson (1867-1914), and his wife Frances Lanly (F.L). Hanson spent time in Dunedin in the late 1890s conducting an art school, and may have known the Kings. The book’s author and subject is significant, as Hanson designed a house for Stevenson when he was in Australia, and King studied medicine in Edinburgh. King’s note on the left hand side reminds a ‘Mr Scott’ to return the book to Matron at the Karitane Hospital in Melrose, Wellington. He only had four days to read it!]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Seeley and Co.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1896]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Truby King Collection DA890 E3 S86 1896]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marmora Arundelliana]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This catalogue of the Arundel Marbles (‘inscriptions on stone…of immense historical importance’) was once part of the Bibliotheca Colbertina, belonging to Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-83): just evident from ripped corner. As Finance Minister to Louis XIV, he amassed a personal library of over 20,000 volumes. Upon his death, the library passed down to Colbert’s descendants. In 1728, the library was sold in Paris. The book was somehow acquired by the antiquary William Henry Black (1808-72), who was a tutor in London by age 17, had Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, and published a work on Arundel’s Manuscripts. This book was in his library from 1824. Shoults’s stamp is above Black’s ownership inscription.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Selden">John Selden</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Apud Ioannem Billium]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1629]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Eb 1629 M]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11521">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Holy Bible]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[‘Betsey daughter of Mary Harris…her book 5th March 1833’. This book, containing the Bible, a Book of Common Prayer and a Book of Psalms, has been passed down from mother to daughter. Mary probably wrote the ownership note here, and Betsey practised writing her name underneath. Mary’s maiden name was possibly Greenwood, with other ownership inscriptions reading ‘John Greenwood’, and ‘Grace Greenwood her Book’ within. The volume was most probably a family heirloom passed down and much read, a common practice at the time. It is unknown how the book came to be in Special Collections, but it is part of the de Beer collection.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[John Baskett]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1737]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1737 B]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11520">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[‘Andw Lavington. His Book. July ye 2d /1730’. This ownership inscription is written on the pages of the back of this Hebrew lexicon. Andrew Lavington was probably studying Hebrew to better understand his Bible. Above his name is a mnemonic written in Latin to help him remember the rules surrounding ‘serviles’ and ‘radicals’, Hebrew letters used in word root formation and the construction of grammatical sentences. It is hard to tell who Lavington was exactly. There is an online record of a so-named man, born in Essex in 1716, who studied medicine in Leiden and worked as a doctor in Tavistock, Devon. Could it have been his book?<br />
]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Johann+Buxtorf">Johann Buxtorf</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[typis Jacobi Junii &amp; Mosis Bell sumptibus Richardi Whitakeri &amp; Samuelis Cartwright]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1646]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Eb 1646 B]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11518">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[It is not surprising to find James Tyrrell’s abridged translation of Richard Cumberland’s De Legibus Naturae (1672), entitled A Brief Disquisition on the Law of Nature (1692), in Esmond de Beer’s Locke Collection. After all, Tyrrell (1642-1718) was a close friend of Locke’s. Hidden under the ripped preliminary leaf, there is an ‘Ex dono’ inscription that reveals that this copy was gifted to an unknown friend by Tyrrell himself. And before it was acquired by de Beer, it was owned by ‘William Leader, 27 September 1821, at Cottenham’, near Cambridge. Interestingly, this copy is one of the few that contains de Beer’s penmanship designating it a ‘Locke’ book. One can only presume that this was written before he had his ‘Locke’ labels printed.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=James+Tyrrell">James Tyrrell</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1692]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1692 T]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11517">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Collection of Curious Travels &amp; Voyages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The date that Ray’s Travels &amp; Voyages was given appears to be 9 October 1699(?) - as on title page - and perhaps the recipient was Bulkeley, whose name is written opposite. It may be coincidence, but one strand of the Bulkeley family was attached by marriage to the powerful Griffith family of Penrhyn.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Ray">John Ray</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1693]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1693 R]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11516">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Collection of Curious Travels &amp; Voyages. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Until the last century, Latin was the major language used in many educational systems throughout Europe. Many inscriptions in books are in Latin, with many personal names Latinised, for example Joannes Brocus (John Brock), and here: ‘ex dono Guilholmi Griffith de Kichley’, who is William Griffith of Kichley. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Ray">John Ray</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1693]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1693 R]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11515">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Antiquitatum Angelicarum Alteris Testamenti libri tres. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Palaeography (from Greek: παλαιός, palaiós, ‘old’, and γράφειν, graphein, ‘to write’) is the study of ancient and historical handwriting. Correctly reading inscriptions is an obvious skill needed for any student of book history, especially when dealing with provenance. Handwriting can be difficult to decipher. This small inscription concerning an unidentified European library in 1744 is a case in point. A teasing written clue (at back) reveals that this small vellum work was given to the library (‘ex dono’) by Rudolphi Sonneberger, who is noted as a Professor of Poetry. Unfortunately, no further details on him are forthcoming.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Johann+Bissel">Johann Bissel</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Formis Joannis Burger]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1670]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Gb 1670 B]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11514">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historian’s Guide, or, Britain’s Remembrancer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Mary Jolliffe’s elegant book label is pasted on the front endpaper, opposite the concocted University of Otago Library’s label marking the gift of Esmond de Beer’s Locke Collection. About 1670, there was a Lady Mary Jolliffe (née Hastings), who married Sir William Jolliffe of Caverswell. This label, however, is far too modern to attribute it to her. It appears to be of the late nineteenth- or early twentieth century vintage. Until there is something definite, this female book collector remains a mystery. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Samuel+Clarke">Samuel Clarke</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed by W. Horton, for W. Crooke]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1688]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+label">Book label</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1688 H]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11513">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The noted chemist and physicist Robert Boyle (1627–1691) was deeply involved in theology, and Some Considerations, first published in 1681, was one of his treatises written over his lifetime. This third edition was once in the library of Rufford Abbey, an estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire. In 1931, the estate passed to George Halifax Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile (1919-2008), who was only 12. By then, however, the Trustees had made a decision to sell the Abbey. The library and all the fittings were sold on 11 October 1938. A large ‘Rufford Abbey’ book label carries a terse reminder to wayward borrowers. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Robert+Boyle">Robert Boyle</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed for Henry Herringman]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1668]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+labels">Book labels</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1668 B ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11512">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are added Memoirs of his Life and Writings. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The decorative book label on display is an apt one for Charles Francis Bell (1871-1966), who was head of the Fine Art Department at the Ashmolean Museum between 1909 and 1931. He counted as friends the Renaissance art scholar Bernard Berenson, T. E. Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’), and Kenneth Clark. He was fastidious, and did not suffer fools gladly. Bell was once observed kicking an exhibition catalogue that he thought poorly written across his library floor. This edition of Gray’s Poems is fine; and presumably did not meet with a similar fate.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed by A. Ward]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1778]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+label">Book label</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1778 G]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11511">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Peri Kathēkontōn Biblos Syngrapheisa]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was an English schoolmaster and minister who, according to the bookseller H.G. Bohn, had an excellent library. Parr modelled himself on Samuel Johnson, although he did not match the Great Cham’s wit and authority. Parr had a simple book label constructed for his library, which was sold in May 1828. There are ten ‘Parr’ books in Special Collections: nine in Shoults, and one once owned by Willi Fels. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Nikolaos+Maurokordatos">Nikolaos Maurokordatos</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Samuel Palmer]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1724]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+label">Book label</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Eb 1724 M]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11510">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[A book label is a printed paper label carrying the name of the book owner. Often they are unadorned and unpretentious. However, here is a leather, gilt-edged book label belonging to Mrs M. Pimlowe. An inscription within reveals the book’s history. In essence, it was presented to Mrs M. Pimlowe by Queen Charlotte of England after the birth of the Prince of Wales. Pimlowe had nursed the Queen at the birth of the Prince.  Some years after, she married Mr Edward Burbidge of Aynhoe who survived her. After the death of Mr Burbidge the book passed to John Martin Watson of Aynhoe, who left it to John Harris Jnr, Esquire of Deddington. The armorial bookplate is that of John Hyde Harris (1826–1886), the lawyer who became Mayor of Dunedin.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed by John Baskerville]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1760]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+labels%3B+bookplates%3B+inscriptions">Book labels; bookplates; inscriptions</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[De Beer Eb 1760 C]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11509">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vita Joannis Mabillonii Presbyteri &amp; Monachi Ordinis S. Benedicti.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Ink stamps in books can be traced as far back to the sixteenth century. And while rubber has been used for stamps since the nineteenth century, many before that were from engraved metal or wood, or pieced together type. They are effective provenance markers, especially if a full name and date is included. Again, identification can be tricky. The circular stamp with a ‘G’ and an Earl’s coronet on this title-page belongs to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford, who, as revealed in cabinet 3, also had a bookplate. About 1894, administrators at Selwyn Theological College added the purple Shoults stamp to this book. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Thierry+Ruinart">Thierry Ruinart</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Typographia seminarii, apud Joannem Manfre]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1714]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+stamps">Book stamps</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Itb 1714 R]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/11508">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[De Arte Vitraria, Libri VII]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Cipher or monogram? According to David Pearson, a monogram consists of two or more letters superimposed so that the letters merge with one another. A cipher has superimposed letters that remain distinct. There is often repetitive symmetry, and a mirror effect. Some owners add their names to the label. In this instance, working out the owner’s initials, and then their name is a complex task. The ‘Stephens’ may be sculptor and artist Edward Bowring Stephens (1815-1882).]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Antonio+Neri">Antonio Neri</a>]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Henry Wetstenium]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1686]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Book+label">Book label</a>]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Shoults Lb 1686 N]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>
