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Perry's Arcana



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Autore: Perry George <b. 1771.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Perry's Arcana Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2009
Edizione: A facsimile ed. /
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
Disciplina: 590.22/2
Soggetto topico: Natural history illustration
Animals
Plants
Natural history illustrators - Great Britain
Altri autori: PetitRichard E  
Note generali: 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.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Paul Callomon -- Perry's Arcana: Collation and Systematic Review -- Introduction -- Date and Format -- Title Page―Introduction -- Dedication -- Covers -- Collation -- Price -- Rarity -- Plates, Artists, and Engravers -- Watermarks -- Publisher, Printer, and "Index -- Sources -- Text -- Taxa -- Acknowledgments -- Literature Cited -- Perry's Arcana: Facsimile Edition -- Reader's Guide to Perry's Arcana -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 deliberat
Altri titoli varianti: Arcana
Titolo autorizzato: Perry's Arcana  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612310966
9781282310964
1282310968
9781439901977
143990197X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910969981803321
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