Perry's Arcana

• Autore: Perry George <b. 1771.>
• 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
• ISBN: 9786612310966; 9781282310964; 1282310968; 9781439901977; 143990197X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969981803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II