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ISBN/UID: 9780521866200
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 September 2006
Description
Collecting curiosities was a gentlemanly occupation for wealthy and educated 18th-century Europeans. Few creatures aroused more curiosity than those from Australia. But collections demand organisation, and classification itself reveals patterns to...
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212 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521866200
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 September 2006
Description
Collecting curiosities was a gentlemanly occupation for wealthy and educated 18th-century Europeans. Few creatures aroused more curiosity than those from Australia. But collections demand organisation, and classification itself reveals patterns to...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings