BOWRING, Sir John (1792-1872). Album amicorum.
BOWRING, Sir John (1792-1872). Album amicorum. The entries given at Exeter, Hackney, Dalston and other locations in London, Amsterdam, Geneva, Paris, Porto, Stockholm, Lisbon, Vittoria, Groningen, Berlin, Bordeaux, Cordoba, Cadiz, Madrid, Seville, Hamburg, St Petersburg, Brussels and elsewhere, 1811-1821, including inscriptions by writers including the Greek author and scholar ADAMANTIOS KORAIS (Paris, 6 August 1821), Manuel Maria de Arjona (Córdoba, 1819), Elizabeth Benger (London, 1819), Walter Coulson (Crane Court, 1821), Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz (Stockholm, 1820) and Frans Michael Franzen (Kumla, 1820), bookseller Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt (Berlin, 1819), botanist Mariano La Gasca y Segura (Madrid, 1819), chemist Johan Gadolin (Åbo, 1820), jurist Hendrik Constantijn Cras (Amsterdam, 1819), economists Álvaro Florez Estrada (London, 1819) and Robert Torrens (London, 1822), orientalist José Antonio Conde y García (Madrid, 1819), philhellene Edward Blaquiere (London, 1820), philologist Per Fabian Aurivillius (1820), zoologist Thomas Bell (1821), the Unitarian or dissenting ministers Robert Aspland (Hackney, 1819), Joseph Bretland (Exeter, 1813), Thomas Belsham (1819), William Johnson Fox (Hackney, 1819), William Frend (1819) and William Hincks (Exeter, 1820) as well as lieutenant Timothy Scriven of HMS Telegraph (1813) and others, the entries in a variety of languages including Latin, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew and others, the dates and places sometimes added in Bowring’s hand, along with occasional comments and transcriptions. Altogether approximately 107 inscriptions on 78 leaves , 107 x 188mm , early pagination (some discolouration from old dampstaining, a number of leaves neatly excised and lacking), contemporary diced calf, lettered ‘J. Bowring’ on upper cover (somewhat worn, the spine crudely repaired with tape). The album amicorum is an intriguing record of the formative years of the politician, diplomatist, writer, polyglot and later governor of Hong Kong Sir John Bowring: even in its somewhat mutilated state, it gives an indication of his precocious grasp of languages, and the range of his foreign travel before the age of 30, beginning in 1813-15 with a series of trips to the Iberian peninsula and southern France on behalf of his employers, suppliers to the Duke of Wellington’s army during the Peninsular War; two tours in the course of 1819 took him through Spain, France, the Netherlands, before passing through Germany to Russia and returning through Scandinavia. The entries in the album reflect the broad range of his intellectual interests, as well as his Unitarian background, and the influence of the circles around his close friend Jeremy Bentham.
BOWRING, Sir John (1792-1872). Album amicorum.
BOWRING, Sir John (1792-1872). Album amicorum. The entries given at Exeter, Hackney, Dalston and other locations in London, Amsterdam, Geneva, Paris, Porto, Stockholm, Lisbon, Vittoria, Groningen, Berlin, Bordeaux, Cordoba, Cadiz, Madrid, Seville, Hamburg, St Petersburg, Brussels and elsewhere, 1811-1821, including inscriptions by writers including the Greek author and scholar ADAMANTIOS KORAIS (Paris, 6 August 1821), Manuel Maria de Arjona (Córdoba, 1819), Elizabeth Benger (London, 1819), Walter Coulson (Crane Court, 1821), Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz (Stockholm, 1820) and Frans Michael Franzen (Kumla, 1820), bookseller Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt (Berlin, 1819), botanist Mariano La Gasca y Segura (Madrid, 1819), chemist Johan Gadolin (Åbo, 1820), jurist Hendrik Constantijn Cras (Amsterdam, 1819), economists Álvaro Florez Estrada (London, 1819) and Robert Torrens (London, 1822), orientalist José Antonio Conde y García (Madrid, 1819), philhellene Edward Blaquiere (London, 1820), philologist Per Fabian Aurivillius (1820), zoologist Thomas Bell (1821), the Unitarian or dissenting ministers Robert Aspland (Hackney, 1819), Joseph Bretland (Exeter, 1813), Thomas Belsham (1819), William Johnson Fox (Hackney, 1819), William Frend (1819) and William Hincks (Exeter, 1820) as well as lieutenant Timothy Scriven of HMS Telegraph (1813) and others, the entries in a variety of languages including Latin, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew and others, the dates and places sometimes added in Bowring’s hand, along with occasional comments and transcriptions. Altogether approximately 107 inscriptions on 78 leaves , 107 x 188mm , early pagination (some discolouration from old dampstaining, a number of leaves neatly excised and lacking), contemporary diced calf, lettered ‘J. Bowring’ on upper cover (somewhat worn, the spine crudely repaired with tape). The album amicorum is an intriguing record of the formative years of the politician, diplomatist, writer, polyglot and later governor of Hong Kong Sir John Bowring: even in its somewhat mutilated state, it gives an indication of his precocious grasp of languages, and the range of his foreign travel before the age of 30, beginning in 1813-15 with a series of trips to the Iberian peninsula and southern France on behalf of his employers, suppliers to the Duke of Wellington’s army during the Peninsular War; two tours in the course of 1819 took him through Spain, France, the Netherlands, before passing through Germany to Russia and returning through Scandinavia. The entries in the album reflect the broad range of his intellectual interests, as well as his Unitarian background, and the influence of the circles around his close friend Jeremy Bentham.
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