![]() For example, typing "Gaignat" in the search box of the printers, place and provenance search will bring up a list of items purchased by Hunter in the Gaignat sale. All known provenances have been included in the catalogue records for Hunterian printed books.Records for all the printed items may be found by using the the rare books search or browse through a list of titles (Tip! As nearly 7,000 titles are listed here, searching for specific titles by using title, author, or keyword searches is recommended).Go to William Hunter website for more information and background in Hunter's collections across the University: this site provides a search for all Hunter-related collections. ![]() ![]() How to find material from the Hunterian Collection See also the Hunterian Museum and Hunterian Art Gallery. Additional printed and manuscript material is purchased to supplement the Hunterian Collection, but only in those fields on which Hunter’s professional reputation rests, i.e. Hunter’s papers also contain valuable materials relating to the formation of his library and his other collections. Hunter’s library includes the working papers of his mentor, James Douglas and also a large corpus of Hunter’s own papers representing his research in anatomy and medicine and including a series of drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk for Hunter’s major work, The anatomy of the human gravid uterus (1774). A strong section of books on exploration and travel contains a wealth of Americana as well as important materials on the East Indies and on contemporary voyages to the South Seas.Ī group of early bibliographies, histories of printing and book sale catalogues no doubt aided Hunter in the development of his collection. important editions of Rabelais, Cervantes, Chaucer and Shakespeare. The non-medical section of Hunter’s library reflects interests both deep and wide: fine topography, botany, zoology, astronomy, numismatics, fine art, and certain aspects of vernacular literature, e.g. naval medicine, the deficiency diseases, inoculation against smallpox, is also evident. Anatomy and obstetrics - the two fields in which Hunter made his fame and fortune - are particularly well represented, though an interest in other topics, e.g. Despite the 18th-century predilection for rebinding, not a few of Hunter’s 15th- and 16th-century volumes are still in their original bindings, including four examples from Grolier’s library.Ībout one third of Hunter’s books - not unnaturally - are to do with medicine, with a good balance struck between the great historical texts (such as editions of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Harvey) and the writings of his own contemporaries (men like Smellie, the Monros, Albinus, Haller). The printed books include 532 incunabula (amongst them ten Caxtons) and over 2,300 volumes with 16th-century imprints - Hunter was especially keen on the products of the scholar-printers of Venice, Florence and Paris. ![]() Of the 650 manuscripts, around two thirds are medieval or Renaissance in origin and over 100 of the remainder are oriental - largely Persian and Arabic with some important Sinological materials collected originally by T.S. Under the terms of Hunter’s will, his library and other collections remained in London for several years after his death - for the use of his nephew, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) - and finally came to the University in 1807. It was assembled by Dr William Hunter (1718-83), anatomist, teacher of medicine, Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, and collector of coins, medals, paintings, shells, minerals, and anatomical and natural history specimens, as well as of books and manuscripts. Probably the best known of the Library’s rare book collections, the Hunterian Library contains some 10,000 printed books and 650 manuscripts and forms one of the finest 18th-century libraries to survive intact.
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