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A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver by William Saunders
Acquired in honour of Michael Houghton
A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver
Acquired in honor of Dr Michael Houghton
A System of Phrenology
The title page of A System of Phrenology boasts that the volume features “upward of one hundred engravings.” Photography had been discovered by the time the book was published, but the dominant processes of the time (the daguerreotype and the…
A Set of Mimeographed Press Releases: Summaries of Discoveries Presented to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, 17-19 November 1947
Acquired in recognition of Dr Brian Cox
A Selection of Fish
In addition to the diversity of perspectives that non-Western books bring to my collection, the physical books themselves reveal differing characteristics of book-making around the world. These Japanese books are bound by punching holesthrough the…
A Pumpkinseed Sunfish
This plate from Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) features the Pumpkinseed Sunfish, a fish of personal significance to me. This species was one of the first fish I captured from a local pond and is…