The origins of museums : the cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe
1985
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In this fully illustrated second revised edition, scholars from around the world describe the activities and achievements of numerous collectors, drawing comparisons of their aims, methods and sources of acquisition and the principles they employed in display, cataloguing and publication.
Main title:
The origins of museums : the cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe / edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor.
Imprint:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1985.
Collation:
xiii,335p.,[54]p. of plates : ill., facsims.,plans,ports. ; 29cm.
Notes:
Conference papers.Bibliography: p281-312. _ Includes index.
ISBN:
9780199521081
Dewey class:
069
Language:
English
BRN:
70280
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