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The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum : Comprising the Books Formerly Belonging to the Wisbech Literary Society, and those of the Townshend Bequest
ISBN: 1139034480 1108031188 Year: 1882 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Wisbech in north Cambridgeshire was a wealthy port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was home to bankers, writers and influential social reformers including Thomas Clarkson. Its museum, founded in 1847, contains about six thousand books bequeathed by Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868), a friend of Charles Dickens who shared Dickens' fascination with mesmerism and the occult. His library was typical of 'a gentleman of wealth and great culture' and contained works of fiction in several languages, non-fiction and science, many of which were rare and finely bound. Since 1877 the Museum has also housed the library of the Wisbech Literary Society (founded in 1781), which focused on history, biography and travel. This 1882 catalogue of the 12,000 volumes in the two Wisbech collections provides fascinating insights into the reading habits of a successful British business community on the one hand, and an influential Victorian collector on the other.

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Etudes algériennes : L'Algérie politique et économique. A travers la province d'Oran. Lettres sur l'insurrection dans le Sud Oranais
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Paris : Guillaumin,

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Du St Gothard à Syracuse : voyage en Italie et en Sicilie
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Paris : Dentu,

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Chili : le Chili, l'Araucanie, le Détroit de Magellan et retour para le Sénégal
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Paris : Plon,

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The head-hunters of Borneo : a narrative of travel up the Mahakkam and down the Barito
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Year: 1882 Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,

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Voyage dans l'Oudoé et l'Ouzigoua, Zanguebar
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Lyon : Impr. Mougin-Rusand,

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Donau-Bulgarien und der Balkan : historisch-geographisch-ethnographische Reisestudien aus den Jahren 1860-1879
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Leipzig : Renger'sche buchhandlung,

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Une visite à la Station Zoologique et à l'Aquarium de Naples
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Bruxelles : Weissenbruch,

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The diary of an idle woman in Sicily
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Year: 1882 Volume: 2038 Publisher: Leipzig : B. Tauchnitz,

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La marine d'autrefois : souvenirs de la navigation à voiles : La Sardaigne en 1842, le protectorat français à Taiti, les grandes flottilles
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Paris : E. Plon,

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