Author: Benjamin WilkesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Copper Plates of English Moths and Butterflies ... with a Natural History (etc.)
Author: Benjamin WilkesBook-prices Current
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The Notorious Sir John Hill
Author: George RousseauPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611461219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The first biography of one of Georgian England’s most notorious figures, who thrived on scandal, fracas, and the cultivation of notoriety. Despite this he managed to make contributions to diverse fields, including botany, geology, literature, medicine and the professionalization of science, whose value has stood the test of time. Hill appears here in the company of other illuminati such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Linnaeus, Haller and the Fellows of the Royal Society.
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Catalogue of Valuable Books and Rare Tracts, Many Relating to America
Author: Henry North Holroyd Sheffield (3d earl)Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography
Author: William UpcottPublisher: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor
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Category : Bibliotheca topographica britannica
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Book Auction Records
Author: Frand KarslakePublisher:
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.
Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004684557
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record color-related information about insects through studies on Hoefnagel’s glazed metal and hand-coloring practices; the lepidochromy technique used in paintings by Marseus van Schriek and later naturalists; the representation of sexual dimorphism of color and variable color of caterpillars in the images of Goedaert, Merian, Albin, and Rösel von Rosenhof; the painting-by-numbers technique applied to Schäffer’s bookplates on Regensburg insects; Schiffermüller’s watercolor originals of caterpillars; and finally, the color fading of exotic cabinet specimens and how this issue was tackled by Abbot and Smith. The volume is lavishly illustrated with rare and unpublished images and offers new insights into the interrelation between natural history and visual practices concerning the color of insects, with a special focus on butterflies and moths. Contributors are Harald Bruckner, Kay Etheridge, Beth Fowkes Tobin, Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel, Karin Leonhard, V.E. Mandrij, Kimberly Schenck, Stacey Sell, Giulia Simonini, and Friedrich Steinle.
Catalogue of the Contents of Section A-p
Author: Leeds Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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