Research Catalog

Title

Natural histories : extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library / edited by Tom Baione.

Publication

New York : Sterling Signature, c2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Baione, Tom.
• American Museum of Natural History. Library.
• American Museum of Natural History.

Description

xi, 163 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 28 cm., in case 31 x 24 x 4 cm. +

Summary

• "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...."--
• "A 176-page monograph containing over two hundred illustrations and forty essays on notable masterworks spanning four hundred years"--Insert.

Alternative Title

• Extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
• Rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library

Subjects

• Bibliographies > Catalogs
• Catalogs
• American Museum of Natural History > Library > Catalogs
• Rare books > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Illustrated books > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Natural history > Bibliography > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies – Catalogs
• Catalogs

Note

• Reproductions of illustrations include works by artists Albrecht Dürer, Joseph Wolf, Moses Harris, John Woodhouse Audubon, and Maria Sibylla Merian.
• At head of title: American Museum of Natural History.
• Second subtitle on case: Essays & plates.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-162) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 --
• Prince Maximillian zu Wied : a military man turned naturalist / Charles W. Myers -- Discovering a new world : François Péron's voyage to Australia / Richard Pearson -- From the depths of the sea : Risso's pioneering studies of deep-sea life / Bella Galil -- Lorenz Oken and his magical numerology tour / George F. Barrowclough -- Art in the service of science / Nina J. Root -- The first comprehensive description of the amphibians and reptiles of the world / Christopher J. Raxworthy -- Burritt's sky atlases / Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Alcide d'Orbigny : Darwin's rival naturalist / Niles Eldredge -- Colonel McKenney's Indian gallery / Peter M. Whiteley -- Darwin's voyage of discovery / Nancy B. Simmons -- Schreber's world of mammals / Miriam T. Gross -- Sailing to the South Pole : Dumont d'Urville and the discovery of East Antarctica / Ross D.E. MacPhee -- The last hurrah : Audubon and Bachman's mammals / Mary LeCroy -- Transported to another planet : John Gould's The mammals of Australia / Robin Beck -- The perfect performance of a particular kind of work / Eleanor Sterling -- Elliot's jewels : birds in paradise / Joel L. Cracraft -- Books for the naturalist in everyone / Barbara Rhodes -- Seeing is believing / Tom Baione -- Fashion in the natural world / Stacy J. Schiff.

ISBN

• 9781402791499
• 1402791496

LCCN

^^2012008399

OCLC

• 778416372
• SCSB-10230073

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library