Title: Natural histories : extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library /
Authors: Baione, Tom.; American Museum of Natural History.; American Museum of Natural History.
Publisher: Sterling Signature,
Year: 2012
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History. Catalogs.; Natural history Bibliography Catalogs; Illustrated books Bibliography Catalogs.; Rare books Bibliography Catalogs
Abstract: "For the first time, Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to zoology, accompany and discuss each rare work's unique qualities and scientific contribution. Packaged with 40 extraordinary prints...."--
Contents: The first animal book / Richard Ellis -- First glimpses of an new world / David Hurst Thomas -- The Uranometria star atlas / Michael Shara -- Flora, fauna, and fifangha : Madagascar by Flacourt / Alex de Voogt -- On the strangeness of Hooke's Micrographia / David Kohn -- The buyer's guide to India, circa 1678 / George E. Harlow -- Made Merian / Paula Schrynemakers -- The apothecary's cabinet / Robert S. Voss -- Louis Renard and his book of extraordinary creatures / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer -- Rösel von Rosenhof and his Natural history of frogs / Darrel Frost -- Knorr's fossil treasures from the Solnhofen / Neil H. Landman -- Martini and Chemnitz's Iconographic encyclopedia of mollusks / Louise M. Crowley -- Moses Harris : naturalist and artist / David Grimaldi -- Observing Vesuvius with Sir William Hamilton / James Webster -- The volumes of Cramer and Stoll : a timeless contribution to the science of butterflies and moths / James S. Miller -- Bloch's remarkable fishes / Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- A beautiful harvest : Herbst's crabs and crayfish / Bella Galil -- At the dawn of malacology : the salient and silent oeuvre of Giuseppe Saverio Poli / Ilya Tëmkin -- Pith paper butterfly souvenirs / Diana Shih -- Alexander Wilson and the birth of American ornithology / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer -- Egypt revealed / Nina J. Root --