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BOCAGE, Jean-Denis Barbier du (1760-1825)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 SSC/7

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: BOCAGE, Jean-Denis Barbier du (1760-1825)

Date(s): 1790-1815

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 oversize box and 2 files

Name of creator(s): Bocage | Jean-Denis Barbier du | 1760-1825 | geographer and philologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jean-Denis Barbier du Bocage was a French geographer and philologist.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Jean-Denis Barbier du Bocage, 1790-1815, comprise a collection of notes relating to his 'Atlas du voyage d'Anacharsis', Paris, 1790, also other notes, maps, letters, sketches, mainly on Egypt and Bosnia, c 1810-1815, including notes by others such as Spencer Stanhope.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in original order.

Conditions governing access:

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

Description available online at Access to Archives and a hard copy catalogue and card list can be found in the Foyle Reading Room at the Royal Geographical Society.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids and edited by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 cataloguer. .

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 10 December 2001 and modified April 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Atlases | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Maps | Visual materials

Personal names
Bocage | Jean-Denis Barbier du | 1760-1825 | geographer and philologist

Corporate names

Places
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Eastern Europe
Egypt | North Africa