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John AUBREY 1626-97
Biographical Note
Biographer, scientist, antiquary.
Books
Bequeathed many of his books to the Ashmolean Museum (hence now in the Bodleian), but also gave books to Gloucester Hall (there are now ca. 40 of Aubrey’s books at Worcester College, Oxford).
Sources
- Bennett, K. John Aubrey’s collections and the early modern museum, Bodleian Library Record 17 (2001), 185-212.
- Buchanan-Brown, J. The books presented to the Royal Society by John Aubrey, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 28 (1974), 167-93.
- Fox, Adam. "Aubrey, John (1626–1697), antiquary and biographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Gunther, R. The library of John Aubrey, Bodleian Quarterly Record 6 (1931), 230-6.
- Hunter, M. John Aubrey and the realm of learning, London, 1975.
- Lee, B. N. British bookplates: a pictorial history. Newton Abbot, 1979, 4.
- Wilkinson, C. H. Worcester College Library, Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings & papers 1 (1927), 263-320, p.266.