The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
Publisher: New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015Description: 495 pages : illustrations ; 31 cmISBN:- 9780300204353 (cl : alk. paper)
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- AM401.C63 M33 2014
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Non-Loanable Book | Library | Oversized Reserve | 508.075 COB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 000435121 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction-The cabinet of curiosities at the turn of the nineteenth century: the Cobbe museum and its contemporaries -- Archbishop Cobbe Swiftiana -- Cabinets and furniture -- Zoological curios and taxidermy -- Insects -- Shells -- Charles Cobbe's herbarium -- Minerals, rocks and fossils, and geological curios -- Antlers of Megaceros -- Stone projectile tips -- Classical and Egyptian antiquities -- Coins and medals -- Lithophane -- Gem facsimiles -- Early modern curiosities -- Anatomical illustration -- India -- Burma -- Nepal -- China and Japan -- Africa, the Pacific and North America -- The continuing collection.
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