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[Bookplate for University of Florida Library]

Black ink on white paper. Narrow double border surrounds text and cameo-style portrait.

Portraits

University of Florida Library

Still Image

From the University of Florida, this bookplate is used in the Maury A. Bromsen Medina Collection, which is a collection of works by the Chilean author Jose Toribio Medina. Maury Austin Bromsen (d. 1830) was a well known collector, bookseller, bibliographer and historian, known for his enthusiasm for colonial Spanish America materials and history. According to his obituary from the Boston Globe, Bromsen donated his renowned Bolivar Collection to the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and also endowed Boston Public Library with a fund for Latin American books and lecture series. To view the finding aid from the University of Florida Libraries for the Medina Collection, visit http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/medina.htm
References:
1) UF Library Bookplates." University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Accessed 14 Nov. 2008 from http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/bookplates/bplate.html
2) Negri, Gloria. "Obituary: Maury Bromson; historian, renowned scholar on Spanish America." The Boston Globe, reprinted by the San Diego Union-Tribune. 23 Oct. 2005. Accessed 14 Nov.2 008 from http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051023/news_lz1j23bromsen.html.

RBSC Bookplates

2006

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