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200 10$aPerry's Arcana$b[electronic resource]
205   $aA facsimile ed. /$bwith a collation and explanatory essay by Richard E. Petit.
210   $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (577 p.)
300   $aOriginally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811.
311   $a1-4399-0195-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
330   $aFrom 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 deliberat
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606   $aPlants$vPictorial works
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