Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / / by Neil Chambers
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| Autore: |
Chambers Neil
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| Titolo: |
Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / / by Neil Chambers
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 069.0942142 |
| 069.5094109033 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "First published 2007 by Pickering & Chatto (Publisher) Limited"--t.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Banks as an Early Traveller and Collector, and the British Museum; 2 Ethnography; 3 Natural History and Zoology; 4 Investigating Natural History: Expanding Limits After 1800; 5 Earth Sciences; 6 Libraries and Antiquities; Conclusions; Epitaph; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Chambers examines the ways different eighteenth-century collections (including Banks's own) were managed, and how the British Museum and collecting more generally grew and changed in this important period of travel, exploration and empire. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Joseph Banks and the British Museum |
| ISBN: | 1-315-64931-4 |
| 1-317-30363-6 | |
| 1-281-12494-X | |
| 9786611124946 | |
| 1-85196-535-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452103003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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