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The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.

Contributor(s): 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)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508.075 23
LOC classification:
  • AM401.C63 M33 2014
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
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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