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Lives of Eminent Naturalists, with Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each. (Memoirs and Portraits ... Published in Successive Volumes of "The Naturalist's Library"
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Lives of Eminent Naturalists with Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each
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Lives of Eminent Naturalists, with Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each
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Lives of Eminent Naturalists
Author: Arthur William Crichton
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Lives of Eminent Naturalists, With Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Excerpt from Lives of Eminent Naturalists, With Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each: Contents, Bruce, Bewick, Lacépède, Lamark, Sibbald, Le Vaillant, Hallar, Aldrovandi Ethiopia above Egypt, which corresponds to the Nubia and Abyssinia of modern geography. The knowledge of these districts possessed by the Greeks and Romans was chiefly traditionary, derived from the merchants of the Red Sea, who imported into Egypt the rich products and manufactures of Arabia, Persia, and India. But their poets and philosophers universally regarded that mysterious region as the cradle of those arts which, at a later period, covered the kingdom of the Pharaohs with so many won derful monuments and stupendous edifices; as also of those religious rites, which, after being slightly modified by the priests of Thebes, were adopted by the predecessors of Homer and Virgil as the basis of their mythology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396421013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Excerpt from Lives of Eminent Naturalists, With Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each: Contents, Bruce, Bewick, Lacépède, Lamark, Sibbald, Le Vaillant, Hallar, Aldrovandi Ethiopia above Egypt, which corresponds to the Nubia and Abyssinia of modern geography. The knowledge of these districts possessed by the Greeks and Romans was chiefly traditionary, derived from the merchants of the Red Sea, who imported into Egypt the rich products and manufactures of Arabia, Persia, and India. But their poets and philosophers universally regarded that mysterious region as the cradle of those arts which, at a later period, covered the kingdom of the Pharaohs with so many won derful monuments and stupendous edifices; as also of those religious rites, which, after being slightly modified by the priests of Thebes, were adopted by the predecessors of Homer and Virgil as the basis of their mythology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Lives of Eminent Naturalists, with Engraved Portraits Accompanying Each. Contents. Sloane, Pliny, Werner, Camper, Hunter, Merian. [By Various Authors. Extracted from "The Naturalist's Library," Edited by Sir W. Jardine.].
Author: Sir William Jardine
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Lives of Eminent Naturalists, with Engraved Portraits... Cuvier, Linnaeus, Buffon, Sir Joseph Banks, Pennant, Aristotle, Sir T. S. Raffles
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Pages : 16
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Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
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Pages : 200
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Auction catalogues of books
Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)
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Pages : 942
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Nature's Engraver
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild--a journey to the beginning of a lasting obsession with the natural world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild--a journey to the beginning of a lasting obsession with the natural world.