{"id":397,"date":"2016-03-31T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=397"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:28:04","slug":"provenance-and-traces-of-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Provenance and traces of ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a consequence of institutional and national digitisation projects, an increasing number of copies of\u00a0<em>Travels<\/em> (in its original, reprinted, and translated forms) are available\u00a0for consultation on-line. Some of these scans, as I outline below, reveal interesting indications of provenance and ownership history. As new scans become available, I will add them to this post.<\/p>\n<p>[Macintosh, William.] <em>Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa; describing characters, customs, manners, laws, and productions of nature and art: containing various remarks on the political and commercial interests of Great Britain: and delineating, in particular, a new system for the government and improvement of British settlements in the East Indies: begun in the year 1777, and finished in 1781<\/em>. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1782.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/hvd.hw1ync\">Volume 1<\/a>: Google Books scan of Harvard University\u00a0copy, bearing <em>Ex Libris<\/em> of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeerage.com\/p16630.htm#i166295\">Sir Walter Blount, 7th Baronet (1768\u20131803)<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=82444253\">Samuel Bayard Woodward (1787\u20131850)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-397 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?attachment_id=402'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blount-237x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Ex Libris of Sir Walter Blount.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blount-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blount.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-402'>\n\t\t\t\tEx Libris of Sir Walter Blount.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?attachment_id=403'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/woodward-300x248.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Ex Libris of Samuel Bayard Woodward.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/woodward-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/woodward-768x636.png 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/woodward-624x516.png 624w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/woodward.png 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-403'>\n\t\t\t\tEx Libris of Samuel Bayard Woodward.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/uc2.ark:\/13960\/t2697150m?urlappend=%3Bseq=5\">Volume 2<\/a>: Google Books scan of\u00a0University of California copy, bearing the inscription &#8220;For the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">private<\/span> perusal of Captn Blanket [likely <a href=\"https:\/\/threedecks.org\/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&amp;id=122\">John Blankett<\/a>] \/ January 1782&#8243;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_405\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-image-405 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket.png\" alt=\"Inscription to Captain Blanket.\" width=\"840\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket.png 840w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blanket-624x305.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inscription to Captain Blanket.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[Macintosh, William.] <em>Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa: describing characters, customs, manners, laws, and productions of nature and art: containing various remarks on the political and commercial interests of Great Britain; and delineating in particular, a new system for the government and improvement of British settlements in the East Indies<\/em>. 2 vols. Dublin: Charles Lodge, [1785?].<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No open-access digital version of this edition exists. <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk\/eccoii-1519200201\">Volume 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk\/eccoii-1519200202\">2<\/a> of the National Library of Ireland&#8217;s copy has, however, been scanned under the auspices of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II. This appears to bear the ownership inscription of one Anthony O&#8217;Flaherty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Macintosh, William.] <em>Remarks on a tour through the different countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa; giving a particular description of the characters, customs, manners and laws of each, with their natural and mechanical productions<\/em>. The political and commercial interests of the English East India Company are accurately delineated: together with a proposed and well digested system, both for the improvement and better government of their possessions in the quarter. 2 vols. Dublin: J. Jones, 1786.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/remarksontourthr02dubl\">Volume 2<\/a>:\u00a0Internet Archive\u00a0scan of University of California copy, bound in a cover bearing the impression of &#8220;Celbridge Academy&#8221; [which occupied\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.igs.ie\/conservation\/project\/kildrought-house\">Kildrought House<\/a>, County Kildare, from\u00a01782 to 1814] and a plate showing the book to have been purchased under the auspices of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderson.ucla.edu\/documents\/areas\/adm\/acis\/robert_gross_collection.pdf\">Robert E. Gross Collection<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-397 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?attachment_id=407'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/celbridge-300x131.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Impression of Celbridge Academy on back cover.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/celbridge-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/celbridge.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-407'>\n\t\t\t\tImpression of Celbridge Academy on back cover.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?attachment_id=408'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gross-227x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gross-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gross.png 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-408'>\n\t\t\t\tPlate of Robert E. Gross Collection.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Macintosh, William. <em>Des Herrn Mackintosh\u2019s Reisen durch Europa, Asia und Africa, worinnen die Charaktere, Gebr\u00e4uche, Sitten und Gesetze der Bewohner dieser L\u00e4nder, nebst den darinnen vorhandenen Natur- und Kunst-Producten beschrieben werden; aus dem Englischen \u00fcbersetzt, und mit Anmerkungen versehen<\/em>. Translated by Christian August Wichmann. 2 vols. Leipzig: Friedrich Gotthold Jacob\u00e4er, 1785.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de\/urn\/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11248978-6\">Volume 1<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de\/urn\/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11248979-6\">Volume 2<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitale-sammlungen.de\/\">M\u00fcnchener Digitalisierungszentrum<\/a> scan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustb-augsburg.de\/\">Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg<\/a> copy, bearing <em>Ex Libris<\/em> reading &#8220;<span class=\"irc_pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Ex Bibliotheca Collegii Evangelici, Aug. Vindel&#8221; [i.e. from the library of an evangelical college in <a title=\"Augsburg\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augsburg\">Augsburg<\/a>, Bavaria].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_415\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\"wp-image-415 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Ex Libris from library of evangelical college.\" width=\"370\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled.png 370w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex Libris from library of evangelical college.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-rara.ch\/zuz\/content\/structure\/11004299\">Volume 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-rara.ch\/zuz\/content\/structure\/11004725\">Volume 2<\/a>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-rara.ch\/\">e-rara.ch<\/a> scan of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zb.uzh.ch\/\">Zentralbibliothek Z\u00fcrich<\/a> copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Macintosh, William. <em>Voyages en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, contenant la description des m\u0153urs, coutumes, loix, productions, manufactures de ces contr\u00e9es, &amp; l\u2019etat actuel des possessions angloises dans l\u2019Inde; commenc\u00e9s en 1777, &amp; finis en 1781, par M. Makintosh; suivis des voyages du Colonel Capper, dans les Indes, au travers de l\u2019Egypte &amp; du grand desert, par Suez &amp; par Bassora, en 1779. Traduits de l\u2019Anglois, &amp; accompagnes de notes sur l\u2019original &amp; de cartes g\u00e9ographiques<\/em>. Translated by Jacques-Pierre Brissot. 2 vols. Paris: Chez Regnault, 1786.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/data.onb.ac.at\/ABO\/%2BZ167232601\">Volume 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/data.onb.ac.at\/ABO\/%2BZ167232704\">Volume 2<\/a>: scan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onb.ac.at\/\">\u00d6sterreichische Nationalbibliothek<\/a> copy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k104382q\">Volume 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1043833\">Volume 2<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/\">Gallica<\/a> scan of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnf.fr\/\">Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France<\/a> copy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de\/urn\/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10469439-0\">Volume 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de\/urn\/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10469440-2\">Volume 2<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitale-sammlungen.de\/\">M\u00fcnchener Digitalisierungszentrum<\/a> scan of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsb-muenchen.de\/\">Bayerische Staatsbibliothek<\/a> copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a consequence of institutional and national digitisation projects, an increasing number of copies of\u00a0Travels (in its original, reprinted, and translated forms) are available\u00a0for consultation on-line. Some of these scans, as I outline below, reveal interesting indications of provenance and ownership history. As new scans become available, I will add them to this post. [Macintosh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}