1662 –1669 GOEDAERT, Jan [GOEDARTIUS] (1620 – 1668)
Metamorphosis naturalis, ofte historische beschryvinghe.... 3 vols.
Engraved frontispieces in Latin; text in Dutch. None of the volumes is dated. An edition in Latin, also undated, was issued by the same publisher in 3 vols. during the same years with the following title: Metamorphosi…
GMN 291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8833
1784 –1812 MARTYN, Thomas (1760 – 1816)
[Vols I and II:] Figures of non-descript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764 ... [Vols III and IV:] The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell, accurately drawn and painted after nature: With a new systematic arrangement by the author.... 4 vols.
"The first two volumes, devoted to shells of the South Seas, were originally published as a separate work in 1784. Martyn then extended the work to four volumes with an additional 80 plates. ‘From the introduction to …
GMN 11742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13942
1807 –1834 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); BONPLAND, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773 – 1858)
Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.
In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…
GMN 7452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9624
1899 –1904 HAECKEL, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August (1834 – 1919)
Kunstformern der Natur.
Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…
GMN 7998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10174
1938 ANKER, Jean (1892 – 1957)
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
GMN 11771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13972
1986 GENTLING, Scott (1942 – 2011); GENTLING, Stuart (1942 – 2006)
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
GMN 13784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16071
1994 BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629); BARKER, Nicolas (1928 – )
Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.
GMN 8462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10639
c. 2000 SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …
GMN 9826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12014
2010 CONTADINI, Anna
Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.
GMN 8367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10543
2011 KAEPPLER, Adrienne Lois (1935 – )
Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustra…
GMN 7681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9853
2011 MEYERS, Amy R. W.
Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.
GMN 7805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9977
2013 MCHAM, Sarah Blake
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.
GMN 7997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10173
