Perry's Arcana

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From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but a…

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Title Statements

Full title :Perry's Arcana.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.
Edition:A facsim. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Temple University Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

Notes

Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 567 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781439901977, 143990197X
oclc:ocn489150722
LC Classification:QH46
Dewey Decimal:590.22/2

Subjects

Animals Animals -- Pictorial works Animaux -- Ouvrages illustrés Great Britain Illustration en sciences naturelles Natural history illustration Natural history illustrators Natural history illustrators -- Great B… NATURE -- Animals Perry, George Pictorial works Plants Plants -- Pictorial works Science -- General SCIENCE -- Life Sciences