Natural histories
Subtitle: notable illustrated books from the American Museum of Natural History Library
By: edited by Tom Baione
Publisher: Sterling Signature
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781402791499
Subjects: Bibliography; Illustrated books; American Museum of Natural History; American Museum of Natural History. Library; Natural history; Catalogs; Rare books
Description: "A 176-page monograph containing over two hundred illustrations an d forty essays on notable masterworks spanning four hundred years"--Insert.
Table of contents: title: The First Animal Book / Richard Ellis; title: Essay by David Hurst Thomas; title: The Uranometria Star Atlas / Michael Shara; title: Flora, Fauna, and Fifangha : Madagascar by Flacourt / Alex de Voogt; title: On the strangeness of Hooke's Micrographia / David Kohn; title: The Buyer's Guide to India, Circa 1676 / George E. Harlowe; title: Made Merian / Paula Schrynemakers; title: The Apothecary's Cabinet / Robert S. Voss; title: Louise Renard and His Book of Extraordinary Creatures / Mai Qaraman; title: Roesel von Rosenhof and His Natural History of Frogs / Darrel Frost; title: Knorr's Fossil Treasures from the Solnhofen / Neil H. Landman; title: Martini and Chemnitz's Iconographic Encyclopedia of Mollusks / Louise M.Crowley; title: Moses Harris : Naturalist and Artist / David Grimaldi; title: Observing Vesuvius with Sir William Hamilton / James Webster; title: The Volumes of Cramer and Stoll : A Timeless Contribution to the Science of Butterflies and Moths / James S. Miller; title: Bloch's Remarkable Fishes / Melanie L.J. Stiassny; title: A Beautiful Harvest : Herbst's Crabs and Crayfish / Bella Galil; title: At the Dawn of Malacology : The Salient and Silent Oeuvre of Giuseppe Saverio Poli / Ilya Temkin; title: Pith Paper Butterfly Souvenirs / Diana Shih; title: Alexander Wilson and the Birth of American Ornithology / Mai Qaraman; title: Egypt Revealed / Nina J. Root; title: Prince Maximillian zu Wied : A Military Man Turned Naturalist / Charles W. Myers; title: Discovering a New World : Francois Peron's Voyage to Australia / Richard Pearson; title: From the Depths of the Sea : Risso's Pioneering Studies of Deep-Sea Life / Bella Galil; title: Lorenz Oken and His Magical Numerology Tour / George F. Barrowclough; title: Art in the Service of Science / Nina J. Root; title: The First Comprehensive Description of the Amphibians and Reptiles of the World / Christopher J. Raxworthy; title: Burritt's Sky Atlases / Neil deGrasse Tyson; title: Colonel McKenney's Indian Gallery / Peter M. Whiteley; title: Darwin's Voyage of Discovery / Nancy B. Simmons; title: Schreber's World of Mammals / Miriam T. Gross; title: Sailing to the South Pole : Dumont D'Urville and the Discovery of East Antarctica / Ross D.E. MacPhee; title: The Last Hurrah : Audubon and Bachman's Mammals / Mary LeCroy; title: Transported to Another Planet : John Gould's The Mammals of Australia / Robin Beck; title: The Perfect Performance of a Particular Kind of Work / Eleanor Sterling; title: Elliot's Jewels : Birds in Paradise / Joel L. Cracraft; title: Seeing Is Believing / Tom Baione; title: The History of the World Is Written on a Fly's Wings / Stacy Schiff; title: Essay by Niles Eldredge; title: Books for the Naturalist in Everyone / Barbara Rhodes.