02634nam 2200649Ia 450 991045492600332120200520144314.01-282-31096-897866123109661-4399-0197-X(CKB)1000000000794116(EBL)449805(OCoLC)489150722(SSID)ssj0000341369(PQKBManifestationID)11233737(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341369(PQKBWorkID)10390728(PQKB)10706372(MiAaPQ)EBC449805(Au-PeEL)EBL449805(CaPaEBR)ebr10335382(CaONFJC)MIL231096(EXLCZ)99100000000079411620090619d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerry's Arcana[electronic resource]A facsimile ed. /with a collation and explanatory essay by Richard E. Petit.Philadelphia Temple University Pressc20091 online resource (577 p.)Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811.1-4399-0195-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberatArcanaNatural history illustrationAnimalsPictorial worksPlantsPictorial worksNatural history illustratorsGreat BritainElectronic books.Natural history illustration.AnimalsPlantsNatural history illustrators590.22/2Perry Georgeb. 1771.883326Petit Richard E883327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454926003321Perry's Arcana1973021UNINA