Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens

by Svante Helmbaek Tirén and Clive Aslet

A gorgeous leatherbound compendium of flora, shells, rare insects and more from the golden age of curiosities

Featuring amazing reproductions of floral specimens, minerals, seashells and more from rarely seen collections, and beautiful engravings of 18th- and 19th-century collections, this stupendously produced volume takes as its starting point the famous Timm Collection at Engelsberg Ironworks in Sweden, created by Gabriel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9189425642
• ISBN13: 9789189425644
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Bokforlaget Stolpe
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 12.0"