Editore: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 1998
Da: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Some areas of wrappers are faded, and wrappers have general light shelf wear. ; Contents: Meyers, Introduction. Brigham, "Ask the beasts, and they shall teach thee": the human lessons of Charles Willson Peale's natural history displays. O'Malley, "Your garden must be a museum to you": early American botanical gardens. Rigal, Empire of birds: Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. Partridge, By the book: Audubon and the tradition of ornithological illustration. Haltman, The poetics of geologic reverie: fiures of source and origin in Samuel Seymour's landscapes of the Rocky Mountains. Bedell, Thomas Cole and the fashionable science. ; 10.0" tall; 207 pages.