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Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England /

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnog...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Collection:Material texts.
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