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Important and fine old master pictures, the properties of the late Alexander Francis St. Vincent Baring, 6th Lord Ashburton, K.G., K.C.V.O., the late Robert Clarke, the late R.B.W. Clarke, the Scarfe charitable trust, the Zoological Society of London, property sold by order of Julian Byng, Esq., and from various sources
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Year: 1993 Publisher: London Christie's

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Old master & British paintings.
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Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Christie's,


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The proceedings of the Zoological society of London : an index to the artists 1848-1900
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ISBN: 0824087216 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Garland

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Transactions of the Zoological Society of London : an index to the artists, 1835-1936
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ISBN: 0824085485 Year: 1986 Volume: vol 697 Publisher: New York London Garland


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London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859
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ISBN: 1782042822 178204261X 0861933214 Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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At the beginning of the Victorian era, London Zoo thrived as the premier resort of the metropolis. It attracted myriads of people from different walks of life, from urban promenaders to gentleman menagerists, from Indian shipbuilders to Persian princes, and included such leading figures of the day as Charles Darwin. This examination of the Zoo places it within the broader context of nineteenth-century Britain, looking at the politics of culture in the new public domain of museums and galleries, the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a new, consumer society, and how the growing urban population regarded the animals on display. Dr Takashi Ito teaches at Kanazawa Gakuin University, Japan.


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Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology : Birds, books and business
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ISBN: 1526132303 1526116014 9781526116017 9781526116024 1526116022 9781784994136 1784994138 9781526132307 Year: 2017 Publisher: Manchester, [England] : Manchester University Press,

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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

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Ornithology. --- Ornithologists. --- Birds --- Birds. --- SCIENCE --- Ornithology --- Ornithologists --- Naturalists --- Zoologists --- Avian biology --- Zoology --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Collection and preservation. --- Life Sciences --- General. --- Nomenclature. --- Classification. --- History --- Dresser, H. E. --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Dresser, Henry Eeles --- Dresser, Henry Eeles, --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- American Civil War. --- English ornithologists. --- Henry Dresser. --- History of the Birds of Europe. --- Museum studies. --- Richard Sharpe. --- Scientific societies. --- Victorian ornithology. --- Victorian studies. --- Zoological Society of London. --- bird collecting. --- bird specimens. --- birds. --- cabinet collecting. --- environmental geography. --- exploration. --- field collecting. --- history of science. --- natural history. --- ornithology.


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Stripped Bare : The Art of Animal Anatomy
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ISBN: 069118397X Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A lavishly illustrated compendium of the art and history of animal anatomy from antiquity to todayFor more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy-the study of anatomical variation among different animal species-has been used to make arguments in natural philosophy, reinforce religious dogma, and remind us of our own mortality. This stunningly illustrated compendium traces the intertwined intellectual and artistic histories of comparative anatomy from antiquity to today.Stripped Bare brings together some of the most arresting images ever produced, from the earliest studies of animal form to the technicolor art of computer-generated anatomies. David Bainbridge draws on representative illustrations from different eras to discuss the philosophical, scientific, and artistic milieus from which they emerged. He vividly describes the unique aesthetics of each phase of anatomical endeavor, providing new insights into the exquisite anatomical drawings of Leonardo and Albrecht Dürer in the era before printing, Jean Héroard's cutting and cataloging of the horse during the age of Louis XIII, the exotic pictorial menageries of the Comte de Buffon in the eighteenth century, anatomical illustrations from Charles Darwin's voyages, the lavish symmetries of Ernst Haeckel's prints, and much, much more.Featuring a wealth of breathtaking color illustrations throughout, Stripped Bare is a panoramic tour of the intricacies of vertebrate life as well as an expansive history of the peculiar and beautiful ways humans have attempted to study and understand the natural world.

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Anatomy, Artistic. --- Anatomy, Comparative --- Animals in art. --- Aculeata. --- Alfred Russel Wallace. --- Anatomy. --- Andreas Vesalius. --- Archaeopteryx. --- Argyropelecus. --- Augury. --- Baculum. --- Balkh. --- Battle of San Romano. --- Bestiary. --- Bipedalism. --- Bird. --- Body plan. --- Bridget Riley. --- Canine tooth. --- Carlo Ruini. --- Cerebral cortex. --- Charles Darwin. --- Circulatory system. --- Circumnavigation. --- Comparative anatomy. --- Coracoid. --- Corona radiata (embryology). --- Cubism. --- Dromedary. --- Dugong. --- Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash. --- Edema. --- Embryo, Mammalian. --- Embryo. --- Engraving. --- Ernst Haeckel. --- Exponential growth. --- Fetal membrane. --- Fetus. --- Giacomo Balla. --- Gideon Mantell. --- Gonad. --- Haruspex. --- Histoire Naturelle. --- Human skeleton. --- Hyrax. --- Iridescence. --- Jackalope. --- Jellyfish. --- Karl Ernst von Baer. --- Leash. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Lepus cornutus. --- Longevity. --- Mammal. --- Mammalian Species. --- Mammary gland. --- Mathematical and theoretical biology. --- Measurement. --- Mesohippus. --- Naqshbandi. --- Nuremberg. --- On Growth and Form. --- Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book). --- Ovarian artery. --- Paleontology. --- Phenol. --- Pierre Belon. --- Placenta. --- Plesiosauria. --- Pliocene. --- Processing (Chinese materia medica). --- Pterosaur. --- Renaissance. --- Reproductive biology. --- Ring finger. --- Ruminant. --- Samarkand. --- Sayyid. --- Scaly leg. --- Scientist. --- Sea lamprey. --- Shafi'i. --- South America. --- Spindle apparatus. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supporter. --- Tasmanian devil. --- Thomas Willis. --- Toucan. --- Trachea. --- Transitional fossil. --- Umbilical artery. --- Vagina. --- Ventricle (heart). --- Vertebra. --- Vertebrate. --- Veterinary medicine. --- Western painting. --- Working animal. --- Wrist. --- Zoological Society of London. --- Zoology.


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Animal Attractions : Nature on Display in American Zoos
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ISBN: 0691186243 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton Univ. Press,

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On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.

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Albert Bierstadt. --- All in a Lifetime. --- American Museum of Natural History. --- American bison. --- Andrew Jackson Downing. --- Animal Health. --- Animal Park. --- Animal rights movement. --- Animal rights. --- Animal shelter. --- Animal welfare science. --- Animal welfare. --- Antwerp Zoo. --- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. --- Baynard Kendrick. --- Benson's Wild Animal Farm. --- Big-game hunting. --- Bird nest. --- Boone and Crockett Club. --- Bronx Zoo. --- Brookfield Zoo. --- Captive breeding. --- Carl Akeley. --- Carl Hagenbeck. --- Cat. --- Chimpanzee. --- Dallas Zoo. --- Daniel Beard. --- Desmond Morris. --- Detroit Zoo. --- Diorama. --- Edmund Heller. --- Ernest Thompson Seton. --- Ethology. --- Frank Buck (animal collector). --- Franklin Park Zoo. --- George Eastman. --- Giant panda. --- Golden lion tamarin. --- Heini Hediger. --- Hoop snake. --- Immersion exhibit. --- Inbreeding. --- Indian leopard. --- Island Press. --- Jules Verreaux. --- Liberia. --- Lincoln Park Zoo. --- London Zoo. --- Louse. --- Madison Grant. --- Mahout. --- Mange. --- Menagerie. --- Milwaukee County Zoo. --- Monitor lizard. --- Museum of Comparative Zoology. --- Museum. --- National Geographic Society. --- National Zoological Park (United States). --- Natural history. --- Nature study. --- Newspaper. --- Nobel Prize. --- Ornithology. --- Ota Benga. --- P. T. Barnum. --- Paola Cavalieri. --- Park. --- Petting zoo. --- Philadelphia Zoo. --- Prairie dog. --- Recreation. --- Rhesus macaque. --- Ringling brothers. --- Safari park. --- San Diego Zoo. --- Skunk. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. --- Species Survival Plan. --- Striped hyena. --- Suburb. --- Sun bear. --- Tapir. --- Taxidermy. --- The Machine in the Garden. --- Trophy hunting. --- V. --- Vivisection. --- Washington Park Zoo. --- Wildlife Conservation Society. --- William Beebe. --- William Morton Wheeler. --- Willie B. --- Works Progress Administration. --- Zoo. --- Zookeeper. --- Zoological Society of London. --- Zoology.

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