Amazing rare things
Subtitle: the art of natural history in the age of discovery
By: Sir David Attenborough ... [et al.].
Contributors: Attenborough, David, 1926-; Royal Collection (Great Britain); Queen's Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland); Queen's Gallery (London, England)
Edition: Trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Kales Press; In association with the Royal Collection
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Carlsbad, CA]; [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780979845628
Subjects: Natural history illustration
Notes: Originally published to accompany exhibitions of watercolors from the Royal Collection, which took place at Queen's Gallery (Edinburgh) and at Queen's Gallery (Buckingham Palace) in 2007.

Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Previous ed. catalogued under Attenborough.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Jane Roberts; title: Picturing the natural world / David Attenborough; title: Leonardo da Vinci : "All the works of Nature which adorn the world" / Martin Clayton; title: The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo : "With the true eye of a lynx" / Rea Alexandratos; title: Alexander Marshal : "His curious booke of flowers in miniature" / Susan Owens; title: Maria Sibylla Merian : "Great diligence, grace and spirit" / Susan Owens; title: Mark Catesby : " A genius for natural history" / Susan Owens.