London, Royal Society
Owner Id2735
TypeCorporate body
Biographical dates - Period of existence1660-
Other InformationBod-inc: on the library and its early printed books see de Ricci, English Collectors, 25-6, and Marie Boas Hall, The Library and Archives of the Royal Society 1660-1990 (London, 1992); Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1825); R. Farquharson Sharp, Catalogue of a Collection of Early Printed Books in the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1910); de Ricci notes that in 1873 the Royal Society sold books to Quaritch; this disposal might explain why certain books are not found in the 1910 catalogue; sale (London: Sotheby's, 4 May, 1925); see also the online Fabian Handbuch
Variant NamesRoyal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge
Societas Regalis
Societas Regia in Anglia
Société Royale, London
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnc00005673
https://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
https://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/fabian?Royal_Society_Library
Activity
Start (year)1660
NoteBMC V:
p. 231: IC.20238; p. 259: IC.20718; p. 400: IA.22652; p. 458: IC.23278; p. 583: IA.25090a; p. 597: IB.22731.
BMC VI:
p. 662: IA.27527; p. 753: IA.26545b; p. 779: IA.26651; p. 782: IC.26691.
BMC VII:
p. 920: IA.29989; p. 922: IA.30050, IA.30052; p. 923: IA.30018, p. 924: IA.30034; p. 926: IA.30086; p. 975: IB.31126a; p. 999: IA.31365; p. 1009: IC.21376; p. 1010; IC.31498; p. 1019: IC.31625; p. 1020: IA.31651; p. 1125: IA.36875.
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
Profession / Type of InstitutionAcademy
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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