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Havell, Robert, 1793-1878.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

History of science miscellaneous manuscripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4700
Scope and content Letters, documents, and offprints given to or purchased by the History of Science Collections from 1967-1978. Includes signed letter from John James Audubon to Robert Havell, typewritten letters to A.D. White and Simon Henry Gage, a letter from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon to the abbé de Launay; two letters from Schilling to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring; a 1757 contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture various diet drinks; and documents concerning...
Dates: 1757-1978-(bulk 1780-1920).

John James Audubon artwork

 Collection
Identifier: 6721
Abstract

Collection includes loose prints from Audubon books, The birds of America (double elephant folio of 1827-1838 and a subsequent octavo edition) and The viviparous quadrupeds of North America (1846-1854), as well as later reproductions of Audubon prints.

Dates: 1829-2002,-1829-1860 (bulk)

John James Audubon letter, to Robert Havell

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113564011]
Identifier: 4700-0003
Scope and content

Letter from Audubon to his engraver, Robert Havell. Includes article on the Havell family by Brian Dunning, in Country Life, February 22, 1973.

Dates: 1833 September 9.

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Subject
Birds -- North America -- Pictorial works. 1
Birds in art. 1
Chromolithographs. 1
Engravings -- United States -- 19th century. 1
Hand coloring. 1