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West 2005: “In 1844, Ternaux-Compans abandoned bibliography for a political and diplomatic career, selling the greater part of his Hispanic Americana through Obadiah Rich. Many of the books are now in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island.”

Faulhaber: El supra-libros de Ternaux-Compans se compone de la cabeza de un caballo encima de las inicialas “H T” (Henri Ternaux).


En el facsm. de Harvard del Catálogue des livres et manuscrits, se lee manuscrito: “In the caption on p.1, the name is spelled Ræthsel. Ternaux-Compans sold part of his library under this pseudonym, and part under its English equivalent, Riddell. Note that the pseudonym is correctly spelled, Raethsel, in the caption, on p. 1.”