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Perry's Arcana : A Facsimile Edition
From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, f...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | A facsim. ed. / |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberat. |
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| Notas: | Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (576 pages): illustrations (chiefly color) |
| ISBN: | 9781439901977 |