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Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / by Neil Chambers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Pickering and Chatto, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
  • computer
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  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781851965359
  • 9781281124944
  • 9781317303640
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • AM343 .J674 2007
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Contents:
2 Ethnography -- 3 Natural history and zoology -- 4 Investigating natural history: expanding limits after 1800; -- 5 Earth sciences -- 6 Libraries and antiquities.
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Subject: Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1 Banks as an early traveller and collector, and the British Museum -- 2 Ethnography -- 3 Natural history and zoology -- 4 Investigating natural history: expanding limits after 1800; -- 5 Earth sciences -- 6 Libraries and antiquities.

Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.

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