A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 1. Pt. 1st
Author : John Latham
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1781
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Author : John Latham
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1781
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Author : David W. Forbes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824820428
This comprehensive, annotated, multivolume bibliography is a record of all printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands-from the first printed notice mentioning the Islands (in a German periodical of January 1780) to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Islands ceased to be a separate political entity. Volume I covers the period from 1780 to 1830, when exploratory voyages to the northern Pacific had largely concluded and the arrival of improved printing equipment in the Islands resulted in a substantial increase in the number of works printed by the Mission Press in Honolulu. In addition to books and pamphlets, the bibliography includes newspaper and periodical accounts and single sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills because they often contain the only eyewitness or contemporary description of an important event or individual. Entries pertaining to Captain Cook's Third Voyage dominate the first twenty years of the bibliography. They reflect the profound impact of the voyage on both the Hawaiian culture and on nineteenth-century European thought. Extensive annotations provide a brief summary of approximately 760 published works in the first volume of the bibliography. All known editions of each work are listed, together with the exact title, date of publication, size of the volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies. The bibliography will be invaluable to scholars, librarians, rare book sellers, and book collectors within the field of Hawaiiana.
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Zoology
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Author : Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Birds
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Author : Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Birds
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Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Amphibians
ISBN : 0642277060
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white, birds built shell-strewn avenues of sticks to cavort in and parrots walked on the ground. The mammals carried their young in a pouch and there were furred animals that laid eggs. This 'miscellany of the curious' fuelled the rage for Australian natural history amongst the upper classes of Europe, bringing income and, occasionally, fame to its collectors and documenters. On the ground, in the colony, it contributed to great change for the animals and, in some cases, extinction. In Upside Down World author Penny Olsen documents how our scientific knowledge evolved, using collectors' and naturalists' journals to enhance her stories.
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Field Museum of Natural History
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Zoology
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Page : 1528 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Autographs
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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.