Natural histories : extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library

9781454912149

Hardcover edition

xi, 163 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

American Museum of Natural History natural histories

At head of title: American Museum of Natural History
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index

The first animal book / Richard Ellis
First glimpses of a new world / David Hurst Thomas
The Uranometria star atlas / Michael Shara
Flora, fauna, and fifangha : Madagascar by Flacourt / Alex de Voogt
On the strangeness of Hooke's Micrographia / David Kohn
The buyer's guide to India, circa 1678 / George E. Harlow
Made Merian / Paula Schrynemakers
The apothecary's cabinet / Robert S. Voss
Louis Renard and his book of extraordinary creatures / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer
Rösel von Rosenhof and his Natural history of frogs / Darrel Frost
Knorr's fossil treasures from the Solnhofen / Neil H. Landman
Martini and Chemnitz's Iconographic encyclopedia of mollusks / Louise M. Crowley
Moses Harris : naturalist and artist / David Grimaldi
Observing Vesuvius with Sir William Hamilton / James Webster
The volumes of Cramer and Stoll : a timeless contribution to the science of butterflies and moths / James S. Miller
Bloch's remarkable fishes / Melanie L.J. Stiassny
A beautiful harvest : Herbst's crabs and crayfish / Bella Galil
At the dawn of malacology : the salient and silent oeuvre of Giuseppe Saverio Poli / Ilya Tëmkin
Pith paper butterfly souvenirs / Diana Shih
Alexander Wilson and the birth of American ornithology / Mai Qaraman Reitmeyer
Egypt revealed / Nina J. Root
Prince Maximillian zu Wied : a military man turned naturalist / Charles W. Myers
Discovering a new world : François Péron's voyage to Australia / Richard Pearson
From the depths of the sea : Risso's pioneering studies of deep-sea life / Bella Galil
Lorenz Oken and his magical numerology tour / George F. Barrowclough
Art in the service of science / Nina J. Root
The first comprehensive description of the amphibians and reptiles of the world / Christopher J. Raxworthy
Burritt's sky atlases / Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alcide d'Orbigny : Darwin's rival naturalist / Niles Eldredge
Colonel McKenney's Indian gallery / Peter M. Whiteley
Darwin's voyage of discovery / Nancy B. Simmons
Schreber's world of mammals / Miriam T. Gross
Sailing to the South Pole : Dumont d'Urville and the discovery of East Antarctica / Ross D.E. MacPhee
The last hurrah : Audubon and Bachman's mammals / Mary LeCroy
Transported to another planet : John Gould's The mammals of Australia / Robin Beck
The perfect performance of a particular kind of work / Eleanor Sterling
Elliot's jewels : birds in paradise / Joel L. Cracraft
Books for the naturalist in everyone / Barbara Rhodes
Seeing is believing / Tom Baione
Fashion in the natural world / Stacy J. Schiff

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