The hummingbird cabinet a rare and curious history of romantic collectors
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the collecting obsessions of the period: birds, books, Napoleonic relics, botanical specimens, Egyptiana, and fossils. Judith Pa...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Schlow Library
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821.7091 PAS |
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| Copy 606980 | Checked In Place a Hold |
