TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baione,Tom
ED  - American Museum of Natural History.
ED  - American Museum of Natural History.
TI  - NATURAL HISTORIES: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library / 
SN  - 9781402791499
U1  - 016.508 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Sterling Signature
KW  - American Museum of Natural History
KW  - Library
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Bibliography
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Rare books
N1  - At head of title: American Museum of Natural History; Second subtitle on case: Essays & plates; Includes bibliographical references (page 161- 162) and index; Foreword / by Ellen V. Futter; Introduction / by Tom Bainoe; 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
N2  - The Beauty of Natural Science Revealed!;  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" - a collection of over 450,000 volumes. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to zoology, accompany and discuss each rare tome's unique qualities and scientific contribution. Packaged with extraordinary prints suitable for framing and facsimile items inside bound-in envelopes, this deluxe edition will fascinate both natural science and art lovers alike
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