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James Smithson, after whom the Smithsonian Institution is named, was a rock hound.
This 1820 manuscript, in his hand, is an inventory describing the collection he kept in a mahogany cabinet. At the top, Smithson has written, Catalogue of my Cabinet: 1820 before commencing to list his rocks and minerals pyrites, green micaceous stone from Switzerland, bog iron ore, etc.
The incredible document, almost certainly the only one in private hands says bookseller Nathan Raab of the Raab Collection, was recently deaccessioned from a New Jersey institution and is now for sale for $75,000. Prior to its NJ residency, the manuscript had been owned by William Jones Rhees, the Smithsonian s chief clerk from 1852 until the early 1890s. ....

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