Arcana, or, The Museum of natural history : containing the most recent discovered objects embellished with coloured plates ... combining a general survey of nature
- Bib ID:
- 1545543
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Perry, George, 1771-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- London : Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford, 1811
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK7282.
- Notes:
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- Originally issued in monthly parts from 1 January 1810 to 1 September 1811.
- National Library of Australia's SR B691 copy is accompanied by an offprint of Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale, "Perry's Arcana : an overlooked work." [Melbourne ], 1912, p. 7-16, reprinted from The Victorian naturalist, volume 29, number 1. This copy of Arcana is complete with 84 plates (as collated against the copy in the British Museum of Natural History) and is half bound in green. It has bookplates for the British entomologist Herbert Druce (1846-1913) and Gregory M. Mathews.
- National Library of Australia's SR B692 copy lacks a title page and consists of parts 1-13 (out of 21). This copy is fully bound in red speckled leather.
- National Library of Australia's SR B693 copy lacks a title page and has a handwritten table of contents. 1810 is complete and 1811 is missing 4 parts. Six uncoloured plates have been bound in at the end. This copy is half bound in leather (rebacked) with marbled boards.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK7282.
- Selected plates also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-37189959
- Cited In:
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- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 524
- Mitchell catalog, v 27, p103
- Subject:
- Natural history
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1949
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1811
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