The collectors : creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium / edited by Mark Carine.
The collectors : creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium / edited by Mark Carine.
The collectors : creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium / edited by Mark Carine.
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Publisher
London : Natural History Museum, [2020]
Call Numbers
G 2020/4948
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword / Tim Littlewood -- Introduction / Mark Carine and Robert Huxley -- The great collectors and cataloguers -- The gardeners -- Collectors in the field: Britain and Europe -- Collectors in the field: the Atlantic -- Collectors in the field: Asia and the Pacific -- Timeline.
Publication information
Publisher
London : Natural History Museum, [2020]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[2020]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the early modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. Sir Hans Sloane's herbarium, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, is probably the most extensive herbarium collection of its kind. It ex...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The collectors : creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium / edited by Mark Carine.
Portion of title
Creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2020
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2020/4948
Record Identifier
74VKaJmE2Ded
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJmE2Ded
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780565094881
DDC
580.74421
MMS ID
991024368714802626
