Note: Layers are contributed from many sources by many people or derived by computer
and are the responsibility of the contributor.
Layers may be incomplete and locations and dates may be imprecise.
Check the layer for details about the source. Absence in TLCMap does not indicate absence in reality.
Use of TLCMap may inform heritage research but is not a substitute for established formal and legal processes and consultation.
Publication date to date of last book bound in the set. Probably taken by Chambers to India, explaining the mahogany travelling case in the catalogue notes.
Binding Type
Full
Binding Colour Simplified
Blue
Owner Start Full
1771-1775
Owner End Date Full
1800
Owner Date Explanation
Chambers died in the early 1800s.
Owner
Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803)
Owner Location
Fort William, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Owner Location Explanation
Chambers was Vinerian Professor of Law during period of bookbinding, but left Oxford for India later in the 1770s, where he lived for most of the remaining century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers_(English_judge)
Book Location
Houghton Library, Harvard
Morocco Binding or MaghrebRelated Book
Morocco Binding
Unique Identifier
Search within a polygon using a KML file. Eg:
you may have a KML file of an LGA suburb or national park.