Special Collections
National Library of Finland
The Maurice de Coppet Collection
Collection materials in format
Analogue
The Finnish ambassador of France, Maurice de Coppet (1868–1930) bequeathed the main part of his library, around 11,000 volumes to the University of Helsinki.
Collection description
The Finnish ambassador of France, Maurice de Coppet (1868–1930) bequeathed the main part of his library, around 11,000 volumes to the University of Helsinki.
Content-wise, the collection focuses on fiction and history and it includes a significant amount of first editions' numbered pieces of French, limited circulation fiction works published during the 1920s. Literature concerning the First World War is very well represented in the collection, as well as literature about Ethiopia. Â
An exlibris ordered from artist Jukka Pellinen, "Gallia in Finlandia", was added to Coppet books in the National Library of Finland.
Material type
Books
Ephemera
posters
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern times (1900-)Main collection
Special CollectionsParent collection
Private libraries stored as separate entitiesRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading RoomCataloguing principles
Part of the collection has been placed in the Humanities Collection, for example on signums 883–904, 148.VI and F-57.
Catalogue information
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
The collection has been partly catalogued in the National Library Search.
Collection sizes
206
linear metres
11 000
volumes
Parallel collections
The National Collection's Picture CollectionMore info
Manuscripts, Maurice de Coppet (catalogue 351)
The donation by Maurice de Coppet also contains French tourism posters from the beginning of the 1900s as well as a collection of posters depicting the First World War from France, but also from German, Italy, England and America (300 posters). The posters have not been catalogued.
Signum
H Coppet
Provenance
The private library of Maurice de Coppet.
Collector
Maurice de Coppet