Autograph letter signed (“Jo Aubrey”), [to John Ray], passing on a proposal, with the support of Sir Christopher Wren which has been put to him by the Rev Andrew Paschal (“…He hath given an account to some friends of his of some Tables that [might be] made according to those of yours in the Bps Essays and fitted to be [hung up] in Garden howses in the manner of Mappes. He desires me to advise [with you] if it might not be worth the while to gett those…donne at London and made pub[lick] and that if the name of each plant were adsigned a neate Cutt, and to the description in the foot of the table in English were added the severall na[mes in] English, Lat. Greeke, they might become a fine ornament for summer howses, & very usefull for those that delight in that kind of knowledge. If this be approved, the like may be done for those other Tables of Stones, & Metalls, & those also of Insects, Birds, Beastes. The same may be also putt into a little pocket-booke w.ch may be of use where the larger Tables cannot be had. He addes, (& Sr Chr. Wren &C: agrees with him in it) This may doe good service to occasion the Real Character to be taken notice of. and the way and manner of it to be understood…”), adding that Paschal desires that “the Learned contriver of those Tables Mr Ray may be consulted with for making such alterations & additions as he shall see cause for”, and asking him to direct his reply “to me at Mr Hookes at Gresham coll”; docketed by Derham “paper 92/Mr Aubrey to Mr Ray/July. 9. 1678//Lr 90” and marked at the head “P.144.7”, one page, folio, marked up for excision in red crayon, on paper with a fleur-de-lis within a crowned shield above the initials H.C., rodent damage at top right-hand edge (with missing words supplied in a late seventeenth-century hand, probably that of Derham), small section removed from bottom right-hand corner, guard, printed identification slip, London, 9 July 1678 JOHN AUBREY TO JOHN RAY SUPPORTING, WITH WREN’S BACKING, THE INVENTION OF THE NATURALIST’S WALLCHART AND POCKET FIELD-GUIDE. Manuscript material by Aubrey – discoverer of the Avebury Rings and author of the incomparable Brief Lives – very rarely occurs for sale: only one manuscript (some rough notes written on an incoming letter) being listed in American Book Prices Current.
Autograph letter signed (“Jo Aubrey”), [to John Ray], passing on a proposal, with the support of Sir Christopher Wren which has been put to him by the Rev Andrew Paschal (“…He hath given an account to some friends of his of some Tables that [might be] made according to those of yours in the Bps Essays and fitted to be [hung up] in Garden howses in the manner of Mappes. He desires me to advise [with you] if it might not be worth the while to gett those…donne at London and made pub[lick] and that if the name of each plant were adsigned a neate Cutt, and to the description in the foot of the table in English were added the severall na[mes in] English, Lat. Greeke, they might become a fine ornament for summer howses, & very usefull for those that delight in that kind of knowledge. If this be approved, the like may be done for those other Tables of Stones, & Metalls, & those also of Insects, Birds, Beastes. The same may be also putt into a little pocket-booke w.ch may be of use where the larger Tables cannot be had. He addes, (& Sr Chr. Wren &C: agrees with him in it) This may doe good service to occasion the Real Character to be taken notice of. and the way and manner of it to be understood…”), adding that Paschal desires that “the Learned contriver of those Tables Mr Ray may be consulted with for making such alterations & additions as he shall see cause for”, and asking him to direct his reply “to me at Mr Hookes at Gresham coll”; docketed by Derham “paper 92/Mr Aubrey to Mr Ray/July. 9. 1678//Lr 90” and marked at the head “P.144.7”, one page, folio, marked up for excision in red crayon, on paper with a fleur-de-lis within a crowned shield above the initials H.C., rodent damage at top right-hand edge (with missing words supplied in a late seventeenth-century hand, probably that of Derham), small section removed from bottom right-hand corner, guard, printed identification slip, London, 9 July 1678 JOHN AUBREY TO JOHN RAY SUPPORTING, WITH WREN’S BACKING, THE INVENTION OF THE NATURALIST’S WALLCHART AND POCKET FIELD-GUIDE. Manuscript material by Aubrey – discoverer of the Avebury Rings and author of the incomparable Brief Lives – very rarely occurs for sale: only one manuscript (some rough notes written on an incoming letter) being listed in American Book Prices Current.
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