Catalogue of Books belonging to George Finlay, Athens, 1 January 1848'

Department Archive
Collection George Finlay Papers
Reference No. FIN/GF/A/34
Level Item
Dimensions 23 x 31 cm
Donor/Creator Finlay, George
Scope and Content Green leather boards, gilt lettering 'CATALOGUE' on both spine and front cover, paginated by George Finlay as far as used ( = pp. 1-109), handwritten, bound.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to George Finlay, Athens, 1 January 1848' [arranged alphabetically].
Notes Greece was one of the last European countries to adopt the newer Gregorian calendar. For most of the nineteenth century, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian. British correspondents in the Finlay Collection tend to use the newer calendar. Letters with two dates 12 days apart, eg. 24 April / 6 May 1828, refer to both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.