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Pages : 320
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Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
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Pages : 794
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Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Category : Bibliography
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Pages : 1572
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Author: William Jardine
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Mercantile Library
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Pages : 792
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Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Author: United States. Library
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Bibliography
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Pages : 1208
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Author: Richmond library, Richmond, Va
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Pages : 112
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Author: Charlotte Sleigh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644726X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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As children, our first encounters with the world’s animals do not arise during expeditions through faraway jungles or on perilous mountain treks. Instead, we meet these creatures between the pages of a book, on the floor of an obliging library. Down through the centuries, illustrated books have served as our paper zoos, both documenting the world’s extraordinary wildlife in exquisite detail and revealing, in hindsight, how our relationship to and understanding of these animals have evolved over time. In this stunning book, historian of science Charlotte Sleigh draws on the ultimate bibliophile’s menagerie—the collections of the British Library—to present a lavishly illustrated homage to this historical collaboration between art and science. Gathering together a breathtaking range of nature illustrations from manuscripts, prints, drawings, and rare printed books from across the world, Sleigh brings us face to face (or face to tentacle) with images of butterflies, beetles, and spiders, of shells, fish, and coral polyps. Organized into four themed sections—exotic, native, domestic, and paradoxical—the images introduce us to some of the world’s most renowned natural history illustrators, from John James Audubon to Mark Catesby and Ernst Haeckel, as well as to lesser-known artists. In her accompanying text, Sleigh traces the story of the art of natural history from the Renaissance through the great age of exploration and into the nineteenth century, offering insight into the changing connections between the natural and human worlds. But the story does not end there. From caterpillars to crabs, langurs to dugongs, stick insects to Old English pigs; from the sinuous tail feathers of birds of paradise to the lime-green wings of New Zealand’s enormous flightless parrot, the kakapo; from the crenellated plates of a tortoise’s shell to imagined likenesses of unicorns, mermaids, and dinosaurs, the story continues in this book. It is a Paper Zoo for all time.
