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1806Catalogue of the Leverian Museum : part I[-VI] ... the sale of the entire collection by Messrs. King and Lochee will commence on Monday, the 5th of May, 1806 at twelve o'clock.
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788) DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1808Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1809A companion to the Liverpool Museum, containing a brief description of upwards of seven thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities and productions of fine arts, collected during several years of arduous research, and at an expense of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. And now open for inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new.
BULLOCK, William (1773 – 1849)
BULLOCK, William (1773 – 1849)
1815A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.
DICK, Peter ( – 1821)
1823Histoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
DELEUZE, Joseph-Philippe-François (1753 – 1835)
1827Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly The Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To which are prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the collection; with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor.
FOX, George Townsend (1810 – 1886)
1828A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné, of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. etc. Part the first; and of the anatomical preparations; part the second, which will be sold by auction in various lots about the middle of May, unless the whole be previously purchased by private contract, including the large and interesting department of nature history, etc. & c., the catalogue of which is now preparing, and will be published as speedily as possible. Likewise the extensive premises....2 vols.
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
1830Museum Brookesianum: A descriptive and historical catalogue of the remainder of the anatomical & zootomical museum, of Joshua Brookes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. &c.: comprising nearly one half of the original collection, and embracing an almost endless assemblage of every species of anatomical, pathological, obstetrical, and zootomical preparations, as well as subjects in natural history, of the choicest and rarest species in every department : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Wheatley & Adlard, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, Great Marlborough Street, on Monday, the 1st of March, 1830, and 22 following evenings, (Saturdays & Sundays excepted,) at half-past six o'clock precisely
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
1830​–1860Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Parts I-II , Plants and invertebrate animals in the dried state (1860); Part III, The human and comparative osteology (1830); Part IV, Fasiculus I, Comprehending the first division of the preparations of natural history in spirit (1830); Part V, comprehending the preparations of monsters and malformed parts in spirit, and in a dried state (1831); Part VI, Comprehending the vascular and miscellaneous preparations in a dried state (1831).
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
1831Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
1836Catalogue des oiseaux.
LAUGIER DE CHARTROUSE, Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren (1772 – 1843)
1843Catalogue of Reptiles contained in the Museum of the Medical Department of the Army, Fort Pitt, Chatham.
GREAT BRITAIN. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
1850​–1863Museum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt, mit kritischen Anmerkungen und Beschreibung der neuen Arten, systematisch bearbeitet von Jean Cabanis. 4 vols.
CABANIS, Jean Louis (1816 – 1906)
CABANIS, Jean Louis (1816 – 1906) HEINE, Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand (1809 – 1894)
1854Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et les développements successifs de l'établissement; Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leur enseignement ou par leurs découvertes, histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles auxquels le muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture; description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et de la ménagerie.
GRATACAP, Paul-Antoine (CAP) (1788 – 1877)
1859Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the museum Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
1862On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history.
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
1872Notice sur le musée d'histoire naturelle de Colmar et aperçu historique sur le musée des Unterlinden en général.
FAUDEL, Charles Frédéric (1826 – 1893)
1879​–1891Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899)
FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899)
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
1893Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
1898Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history.
FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899)
FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899)
1904​–1912The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909) GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929) LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937) POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947) SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916) KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)
1913Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.
HORNADAY, William Temple (1854 – 1937)
HORNADAY, William Temple (1854 – 1937)
1924​–1929A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
MEISEL, Max
1976Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
CHALMERS-HUNT, J. M.
1987Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) STACE, Helen E. PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )
1992Finders, Keepers: Eight collectors.
GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002)
GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002) PURCELL, Rosamond Wolff (1942 – )
1998Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844) JACKSON, Christine Elisabeth (1936 – )
2009Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 1, Le collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche.
BARSANTI, Giulio CHELAZZI, Guido
2010Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 3, Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche.
MONECHI, Simonetta ROOK, Lorenzo
2012Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 4, Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche.
PRATESI, Giovanni & et al.
2014Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.
CECCHI, Jacopo Moggi STANYON, Roscoe
2017Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
DAVIDSON, Kathleen
2017Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.
BARNDT, Kerstin SINOPOLI, Carla M. (1956 – )