Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery / Sir David Attenborough ... [et al.].
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- 9780979845628 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0979845629 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- R 508.0222 ATT/Ama 22
- QH46.5 .A884 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference books | Goa University Library Reference Section | Reference | R 508.0222 ATT/Ama (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 141509 |
Originally published to accompany exhibitions of watercolors from the Royal Collection, which took place at Queen's Gallery (Edinburgh) and at Queen's Gallery (Buckingham Palace) in 2007.
Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Previous ed. catalogued under Attenborough.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Jane Roberts -- Picturing the natural world / David Attenborough -- Leonardo da Vinci : "All the works of Nature which adorn the world" / Martin Clayton -- The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo : "With the true eye of a lynx" / Rea Alexandratos -- Alexander Marshal : "His curious booke of flowers in miniature" / Susan Owens -- Maria Sibylla Merian : "Great diligence, grace and spirit" / Susan Owens -- Mark Catesby : " A genius for natural history" / Susan Owens.
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