Cabinets of Curiosities - Patrick Mauries - Books - Thames & Hudson Ltd - 9780500515945 - September 12, 2011
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Cabinets of Curiosities

Patrick Mauries

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Cabinets of Curiosities

Traces the history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole and Levinas Vincent.


256 pages, 272 illustrations, 139 in colour

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 12, 2011
ISBN13 9780500515945
Publishers Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pages 256
Dimensions 232 × 312 × 30 mm   ·   1.76 kg
Language English  

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