Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England /
A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnog...
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2001.
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Series: | Material texts.
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