Title:
Natural histories : extradinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Tom Baione.
Publication Information:
New York : Sterling Signature, 2012.
Physical Description:
xi, 163 p., 40 leaves of plates (some col, ; 28 x 22 cm.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm., in case 31 x 24 x 4 cm.
ISBN:
9781402791499
Abstract:
"A 176-page monograph containing over two hundred illustrations and forty essays on notable masterworks spanning four hundred years"--Insert.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author:
Contents:
The First Animal Book / Richard Ellis -- Essay by 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 1676 / George E. Harlowe -- Made Merian / Paula Schrynemakers -- The Apothecary's Cabinet / Robert S. Voss -- Louise Renard and His Book of Extraordinary Creatures / Mai Qaraman -- Roesel 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 Temkin -- Pith Paper Butterfly Souvenirs / Diana Shih --
Alexander Wilson and the Birth of American Ornithology / Mai Qaraman -- Egypt Revealed / Nina J. Root -- Prince Maximillian zu Wied : A Military Man Turned Naturalist / Charles W. Myers -- Discovering a New World : Francois Peron'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 -- 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 -- Seeing Is Believing / Tom Baione -- The History of the World Is Written on a Fly's Wings / Stacy Schiff -- Essay by Niles Eldredge -- Books for the Naturalist in Everyone / Barbara Rhodes.