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ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF NATURAL HISTORY.
Been, Anita Cavagnaro
with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards.
First edition. Based on an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library in 1998-99, this richly illustrated work presents the full range of New World animals as recorded by early naturalists. The book deals with North American, Caribbean, and Latin American species as presented in various narrative contexts, and comments on the distinctive style and emphasis of eighteenth-century observers who wrote from first-hand experience. Foreword by Norman Fiering, Director & Librarian. Printed under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at Stamperia Valdonega and designed and composed by Mark Argetsinger. Filled with illustrations, including many in full color.
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MARY'S ROSE GARDEN.
Limited to 12 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. A tribute to Mary, mother of Christ, who according to tradition revealed the rosary to St. Benedict (1170-1221). Illustrated with reduced-size facsimies of oil paintings. Slipcase lightly worn at edges.
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