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- 1817-1869 (Creation)
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"H.T. Colebrooke - Memoirs and Autographs", A red calf bound book, containing printed and handwritten material including biographical material concerning Colebrooke, obituary notices for Horace Hayman Wilson, and correspondence from Colebrooke to Nathaniel Wallich. On the inside cover there is a bookplate with "Ex Libris Frederick Hendricks, F.S.S., F.S.A., Knight of Vasa. 1893" and a printed auction listing "226. Colebrook (H.T.) Notice historique sure la vie et les ouvrages de M. Colebrooke par M. C.A. Walckenaer, Paris, 1848, with biographical notices from various periodicals and numerous interesting autograph letter of Colebrooke, half red calf". Frederick Hendricks is an ancestor of the donor who also has family connections with the Colebrooke family.
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- French
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- East India Company (Subject)
- Linnean Society of London (Subject)
- Geological Society of London (Subject)
- Horticultural Society of London (Subject)
- Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Wilson Horace Hayman 1786-1860 Orientalist (Subject)
- Banks Sir Joseph 1743-1820 Baronet, botanist (Subject)
- Carey William 1761-1834 Orientalist and missionary (Subject)
- Hodgson Brian Houghton 1801-1894 Naturalist, ethnologist (Subject)
- Haughton Sir Graves Chamney 1788-1849 Orientalist (Subject)
- Turner Dawson 1775-1858 Banker, botanist, art collector and antiquary (Subject)
- Henslow John Stevens 1796-1861 Botanist and Church of England clergyman (Subject)
- Walckenaer Charles Athanase 1771-1852 French civil servant, scientist, biographer (Subject)
- Colebrooke Henry Thomas 1765-1837 Sanskrit Scholar, Founder of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Wallich Nathaniel 1786-1854 Botanist (Subject)
- Kennedy Vans 1784-1846 Sanskrit and Persian Scholar (Subject)
- Colebrooke Sir William Macbean George 1787-1870 Knight General Colonial Governor (Subject)