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Rare treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum

Title

Rare treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum / edited by Judith Magee.

Author

Natural History Museum (London, England). General Library.

Publication

London : Published by the Natural History Museum, London, [2015]
©2015

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Request in advance	QH70.G72 L663 2015g	Off-site

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Description

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm +

Summary

The Library of the Natural History Museum contains one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds over half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain's biggest art collections and representing all the great natural history artists, and many thousands of books, including some richly illustrated volumes of great historical significance. Rare Treasures is a stunningly illustrated guide to a special selection of some of its most highly valued books, chosen for their scientific and artistic merit. For each book there is an essay by a Museum expert, explaining the role it played in the development of natural history.

Alternative Title

Rare treasures

Subject

Genre/Form

Bibliographies – Catalogs.
Catalogs.

Note

In clam shell case, 36 x 28 x 4 cm.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-224) and index.

Contents

Pliny the Elder : Historia naturalis / Lisa Di Tommaso -- Jacob Meydenbach : Ortus sanitatis / Judith Magee -- Basilius Besler : Hortus eystettensis / Andrea Hart -- John Gerard : The herball or generall historie of plantes / Robert Huxley -- Ulisses Aldrovandi : Monstrorum historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium / Lisa Di Tommaso -- Michał Piotr Boym : Flora Sinensis / Andrea Hart -- Robert Hooke : Micrographia / Robert Huxley -- Maria Sibylla Merian : Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium / S. Grace Touzel -- Louis Renard : Poissons, écrivisses et crabs, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires / Judith Magee -- Mark Catesby : The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands / Victoria R.M. Pickering -- Robert Furber : Twelve months of flowers / Andrea Hart -- Albertus Seba : Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri / Lisa Di Tommaso -- Christoph Trew : Plantae selectae / Andrea Hart -- Moses Harris : The Aurelian / Paul M. Cooper -- William Hamilton : Campi Phlegraei : observations on the volcanoes of the Two Sicilies / Lisa Di Tommaso -- James Barbut : The genera insectorum of Linnaeus / Andrea Hart -- Thomas Martyn : The universal conchologist / Kathie Way -- John Abbot : The natural history of lepidopterous insects of Georgia / S. Grace Touzel -- Robert John Thornton : Temple of Flora / Robert Huxley -- Commission des Sciences et Arts d'Égypte : Description de l'Égypte / Judith Magee -- Pierre-Joseph Redouté : Les roses / Sandra Knapp -- John James Audubon : The birds of America / Paul M. Cooper -- Edward Lear : Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots / Paul M. Cooper -- John Edward Gray : Illustrations of Indian zoology / Ann Datta -- Richard Owen : Memoir of the pearly nautilus / David Williams -- Louis Agassiz : Recherches sur les poissons fossiles / Zerina Johanson -- Georges Cuvier : Le règne animal / David Williams -- James Bateman : The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala / Sandra Knapp -- John Gould : Monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds / Ann Datta -- Daniel Giraud Elliot : A monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise / Robert Prys-Jones -- Ernst Haeckel : Art forms in nature / Ronald Jenner.

ISBN

0565093487
9780565093488

LCCN

2015513727

OCLC

ocn921186126
921186126
SCSB-9305978

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Columbia University Libraries