Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
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- ISBN: 0674737334
- ISBN: 9780674737334
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Physical Description:
xxxi, 504 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in the United Kingdom as Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane in 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd., London"--Title page verso |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The original Sloane Ranger -- Part One. Empire of curiosities: Transplantation -- Island of curiosities -- Keeping the species from being lost -- Part Two. Assembling the world: Becoming Hans Sloane -- The world comes to Bloomsbury -- Putting the world in order -- Creating the public's museum |
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Subject: | Sloane, Hans Sir 1660-1753 British Museum History Physicians England London Biography Cabinets of curiosities England London |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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