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245	1	4	_aNATURAL HISTORIES : _bExtraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library / _cEdited by Tom Baione.
246	3	0	_aExtraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
246	3	0	_aRare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
264		1	_aNew York : _bSterling Signature, _c2012
264		4	_c©2012
300			_a163 pages : _billustrations (chiefly colour), colour map, photographs (chiefly colour) ; _c28 cm., in case 31 x 24 cm. + _e40 leaves of plates (chiefly colour ; 28 x 22 cm.)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aAt head of title: American Museum of Natural History.
500			_aSecond subtitle on case: Essays & plates.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (page 161- 162) and index.
505			_tForeword / by Ellen V. Futter _tIntroduction / by Tom Bainoe. _tThe first animal book / Richard Ellis _tFirst glimpses of an new world / David Hurst Thomas _tThe Uranometria star atlas / Michael Shara _tFlora, fauna, and fifangha : Madagascar by Flacourt / Alex de Voogt _tOn the strangeness of Hooke's Micrographia / David Kohn _tThe buyer's guide to India, circa 1678 / George E. Harlow _tMade Merian / Paula Schrynemakers _tThe apothecary's cabinet / Robert S. Voss _tLouis Renard and his book of extraordinary creatures / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer _tRösel von Rosenhof and his Natural history of frogs / Darrel Frost _tKnorr's fossil treasures from the Solnhofen / Neil H. Landman _tMartini and Chemnitz's Iconographic encyclopedia of mollusks / Louise M. Crowley _tMoses Harris : naturalist and artist / David Grimaldi _tObserving Vesuvius with Sir William Hamilton / James Webster _tThe volumes of Cramer and Stoll : a timeless contribution to the science of butterflies and moths / James S. Miller _tBloch's remarkable fishes / Melanie L.J. Stiassny _tA beautiful harvest : Herbst's crabs and crayfish / Bella Galil _tAt the dawn of malacology : the salient and silent oeuvre of Giuseppe Saverio Poli / Ilya Tëmkin _tPith paper butterfly souvenirs / Diana Shih _tAlexander Wilson and the birth of American ornithology / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer _tEgypt revealed / Nina J. Root _tPrince Maximillian zu Wied : a military man turned naturalist / Charles W. Myers _tDiscovering a new world : François Péron's voyage to Australia / Richard Pearson _tFrom the depths of the sea : Risso's pioneering studies of deep-sea life / Bella Galil _tLorenz Oken and his magical numerology tour / George F. Barrowclough _tArt in the service of science / Nina J. Root _tThe first comprehensive description of the amphibians and reptiles of the world / Christopher J. Raxworthy _tBurritt's sky atlases / Neil deGrasse Tyson _tAlcide d'Orbigny : Darwin's rival naturalist / Niles Eldredge _tColonel McKenney's Indian gallery / Peter M. Whiteley _tDarwin's voyage of discovery / Nancy B. Simmons _tSchreber's world of mammals / Miriam T. Gross _tSailing to the South Pole : Dumont d'Urville and the discovery of East Antarctica / Ross D.E. MacPhee _tThe last hurrah : Audubon and Bachman's mammals / Mary LeCroy _tTransported to another planet : John Gould's The mammals of Australia / Robin Beck _tThe perfect performance of a particular kind of work / Eleanor Sterling _tElliot's jewels : birds in paradise / Joel L. Cracraft _tBooks for the naturalist in everyone / Barbara Rhodes _tSeeing is believing / Tom Baione. _tFashion in the natural world / Stacy J. Schiff.
520			_aThe Beauty of Natural Science Revealed! _b For the first time, "Natural Histories" allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the "American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection" - a collection of over 450,000 volumes. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to zoology, accompany and discuss each rare tome's unique qualities and scientific contribution. Packaged with extraordinary prints suitable for framing and facsimile items inside bound-in envelopes, this deluxe edition will fascinate both natural science and art lovers alike.
610	2	0	_aAmerican Museum of Natural History _bLibrary _vCatalogs.
650	1	0	_aNatural history _vBibliography _vCatalogs.
650		0	_aPictorial works _vBibliography _vCatalogs.
650		0	_aRare books _vBibliography _vCatalogs.
700	1		_aBaione, Tom. _eeditor
710	2		_aAmerican Museum of Natural History. _bLibrary.
710	2		_aAmerican Museum of Natural History.
830		0	_aThe parental intelligence way
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