The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Europe
London: House of Stratus, 2001. Softcover. Blue wraps with white lettering and bw illustrations, xx, 431 pages, illustrations (some color). "In late sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe a new phenomenon was developing: learned gentlemen who had perfected their gardens and libraries were setting about the business of creating the first..... More