Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 /
Chambers, Neil.
Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / by Neil Chambers. - London : Pickering and Chatto, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781851965359 9781281124944 9781317303640
British Museum--History.
Collectors and collecting--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Collectors and collecting--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic Books.
AM343 / .J674 2007
Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / by Neil Chambers. - London : Pickering and Chatto, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781851965359 9781281124944 9781317303640
British Museum--History.
Collectors and collecting--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Collectors and collecting--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic Books.
AM343 / .J674 2007