Author: Blackwell's Rare Books
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Eighteenth-century Books from the Library of John Cator
Author: Blackwell's Rare Books
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-century Natural History Exchange
Author: Jean O'Neill
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Collinson's life is a microcosm of 18th-cent. natural history. A gardener and naturalist by avocation, he was what we would now call a facilitator in natural science, disseminating botanical and horticultural knowledge during the Enlightenment. He influenced the Comte de Buffon and Linnaeus. He found clients for the Phila. naturalist John Bartram. American plants populated great estates like those of the Dukes of Richmond, Norfolk, and Bedford, as well as the Chelsea Physic Garden, and the nurseries of James Gordon and Robert Furber. Botanic painters such as Mark Catesby and Georg Dionysius Ehret painted American plants in Collinson's garden. He had an unprecedented effect on the exchange of scientific info. on both sides of the Atlantic. Illus.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Collinson's life is a microcosm of 18th-cent. natural history. A gardener and naturalist by avocation, he was what we would now call a facilitator in natural science, disseminating botanical and horticultural knowledge during the Enlightenment. He influenced the Comte de Buffon and Linnaeus. He found clients for the Phila. naturalist John Bartram. American plants populated great estates like those of the Dukes of Richmond, Norfolk, and Bedford, as well as the Chelsea Physic Garden, and the nurseries of James Gordon and Robert Furber. Botanic painters such as Mark Catesby and Georg Dionysius Ehret painted American plants in Collinson's garden. He had an unprecedented effect on the exchange of scientific info. on both sides of the Atlantic. Illus.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
Author: John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Pages : 746
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Library Association Record
Author: Library Association
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;
Author: John Nichols
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Literary Anecdotes Of The Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs Of William Bowyer ... And Many Of His Learned Friends
Author: John Nichols
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Pages : 742
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: pt. 1. Index to vols. 1-6. pt. 2. Index to vols. 8-9
Author: John Nichols
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During Thelast Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artist; with a Very Copious Index. By John Nichols ... In Six Volumes. Volume 1. [- 9.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Pages : 746
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The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
Author: Norman Penney
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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English Literature and Books Printed in England Prior to 1800
Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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