History and reference
- Alfred
Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum
- ANNUAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY
- Annual
Report for Science
- The Art and Science of William Bartram
- ART
SERIES
- Arthur
Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
- Banks/Cook
Portfolio
- BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY
SPECIMENS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE OF
CAPTAIN COOK, 1768-1771
- BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE,
1800-1864
- BULLETIN
OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: HISTORICAL SERIES
- A
Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General
Library of The Natural History Museum, London
- A
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Entomology Library
of The Natural History Museum, London
- A
Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at
The Natural History Museum, London
- The
Challenger Expedition 1872-1876, A Visual Index
- Dictionary
of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists
- EARLY
AMERICAN HERBARIA AND RELATED DRAWINGS FROM THE BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)
- Evolution
- Ferdinand
Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings
- Ferdinand
Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
- Footsteps
in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon
- Gilded
Canopy: Botanical Ceiling Panels of the Natural History
Museum
- A
Guide to the Official Archives of The Natural History
Museum, London
- Herbarium
Linnaean CD
- The Human Story
- The
Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy May and
June 1837 - Richard Owen
- Images
from Nature: Drawings and Paintings from the Library
of The Natural History Museum
- John
Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders
- John
Gould in Australia: Letters and Drawings
- The
Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820
- Life
and Earth Sciences Collections: Curatorial Policies
and Collections Management Procedures
- Life
Through a Lens
- Manuscripts
and Drawings in the Ornithology and Rothschild Libraries
of The Natural History Museum
- The
Natural History Museum at South Kensington: A History
of the Museum 1735-1980
- The
Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse
- The
Natural History Museum Library Serials
- Peixes
do Río Negro/Fishes of the Río Negro
- Potted
Histories
- Richard
Owen Commemoration: Three Studies
- Sarah
Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds
- Surviving Antarctica
- The
Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse
- Triennial
Report 1990-1993
- William
MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
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Alfred
Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum
Mark
Girouard
Paperback,
210
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200
mm
64 pp, 1990, reprint May 1999
0 565 09135 2, £9.95
Illustrated in colour and black and white
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ANNUAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume
1 Publications of 1982, Published 1985
Volume2
Publications of 1983, Published 1986
Volume3
Publications of 1984, Published 1987
Volume4
Publications of 1985, Published 1990
Volume5
Publications of 1986, Published 1991
Volume6
Publications of 1987, Published 1993
£12.00
each (incl. postage)
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from Library and Information
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Annual
Report for Science
Free
Available
from Press Office, The Natural
History Museum
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The Art and Science of William Bartram
Hardback, 230 x 305 mm
276 pp, June 2007
Illustrations: colour throughout,
ISBN 13: 987 0 271 02914 6, £30.00
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ART
SERIES
A
series of books that brings to light, often for the first
time, the artistically and scientifically fascinating
painting and drawing collections of the Natural History
Museum, London. Each book introduces pioneer artists whose
names have until now been undeservedly little known. With
splendid colour plates and a readable and scholarly commentary,
published
titles include:
Arthur
Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
Ferdinand
Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
John Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other
Wonders
Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from
the New Worlds
William
MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
Forthcoming
titles:
Franz Bauer
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Arthur
Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
David
Mabberley
Hardback,
290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September
2000
100 illustrations, 60 in
colour
1 85894 116 4, £29.95
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Banks/Cook
Portfolio
Facsimile
archival treasures including:
Intaglio map 510 x 355 mm
Chart 560 x 545 mm
Letter 455 x 300 mm
3 prints 510 x 355 mm
Available
from Hill House Publishers
Book of historical essays:
Edited by Pam Gilbert
on Banks by Harold Carter and on Cook by Lt Cdr ACF David
390 x 270 mm
110 pp, 1990
0 947352 06 0, £490
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from Hill House Publishers
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BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY
SPECIMENS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN
COOK, 1768-1771
Contains
around 1,000 botanical specimens, over 300 zoological
and over 1,500 botanical illustrations
Microfiche
38 colour and 18 monochrome fiche
Parts of the collection can be purchased separately
£1,300
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
The
catalogue is available in three parts as follows:
Part 1 Botany: Australia
Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
183 pp, 1985
0 930466 92 6 , £62.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Part
2 Botany: Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society
Islands and Tierra del Fuego
Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
200 pp, 1987
0 930466 93 4, £62.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Part
3 Zoology
Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
172 pp, 1988
0 930466 98 5, £62.00
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from Chadwyck-Healey
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BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 1800-1864
Pamela
Gilbert (Ed)
1,800
nineteenth-century monographs from the most comprehensive
natural history library in the world.
Complete
Microfiche Collection
6,003 microfiche
£19,900
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Guide
Entomological Literature, 1800-1864.
Guide to the Microfiche Edition
0 85964 218 6, £35.00
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from Chadwyck-Healey
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BULLETIN
OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: HISTORICAL
SERIES
Volumes
1 to 19
2 parts per volume
All parts available except Volume 4, part 2
Various prices
Available
from Library and Information
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A
Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General Library
of the Natural History Museum, London
John
C Thackray
Hardback,
244 x 186 mm
126 + xiii pp, 1995
0 7201 2291 0, £95.00
Available
from Mansell Publishing
Ltd
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A
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Entomology Library of
the Natural History Museum, London
Julie
M V Harvey, Pamela Gilbert and Kathy S Martin
Hardback,
244 x 186 mm
251 + xvi pp, 1996
4 colour plates
0 7201 2290 2, £95.00
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from Mansell Publishing
Ltd
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A
Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the
Natural History Museum, London
John
C Thackray
Hardback,
244 x 186 mm
70 + xii pp +131 half-tone plates, 1995
0 7201 2289 9, £95.00
Available
from Mansell Publishing
Ltd
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The
Challenger Expedition 1872-1876, A Visual Index (2nd edition)
Eileen
V Brunton
Wiro
bound, 210 x 295 mm
243 pp, November 2004
0 565 09191 3, £25.00
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from Library and Information
Services, the Natural History Museum
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Dictionary
of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists
Ray
Desmond
Hardback
826 pp, January 1994
0 85066 843 3, £224
Available
from Taylor & Francis
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The Discovery of Evolution (Second edition)
David Young
Hardback
352 pp, July 2007
978 0 521 68746 1, £65
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EARLY
AMERICAN HERBARIA AND RELATED DRAWINGS FROM THE BRITISH
MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)
Five
American herbaria reproduced on microfiche available separately
or as a single collection.
William
Bartram Herbarium
2 colour and 3 monochrome microfiche
£78.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Mark
Catesby Specimens in the Samuel Dale Herbarium
2 monochrome microfiche
£21.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
John
Leonard Riddell Herbarium
4 monochrome microfiche
£42.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Thomas
Walter Herbarium
2 monochrome microfiche
£21.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
William
Young Herbarium
2 colour and 2 monochrome microfiche
£68.00
Available
from Chadwyck-Healey
Complete
Microfiche Collection
4 colour and 13 monochrome microfiche
£200.00
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from Chadwyck-Healey
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Evolution
(2nd edition)
Colin Patterson
Hardback/Paperback,
246 x 189 mm
166
pp, 1998
Hardback: 0 565 09134 4, £12.00
Paperback: 0 565 09133 6, £12.00
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Ferdinand
Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings
M
J Norst
Paperback,
276 x 219 mm
120 pp, 1989
Colour and black and white illustrations
0 11 310037 X, £9.95
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from The Stationery Office
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Ferdinand
Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
David
Mabberley
Hardback,
290 x 230 mm
128 pp, November 1999
1 85894 087 7, £29.95
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Footsteps
in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon
Sandra
Knapp
Hardback,
225 x 180 mm
128 pp, September 1999
0 565 09143 3, £12.00
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The
Gilded Canopy: Botanical Ceiling Panels of the Natural
History Museum
Sandra Knapp and Bob Press
Hardback with jacket, 171 x 216 mm
168 pp, 21 November 2005
colour throughout
0 565 09198 0, £15.00
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A
Guide to the Official Archives of the Natural History
Museum, London
John
C Thackray
Hardback,
252 x 190 mm
174 + xix pp, 1998
0 901 843 08 3, £25.00
Available
from The Society for the History
of Natural History
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Herbarium
Linnaeanum CD ROM
The Linnaean Collection of the Herbarium of Moscow State
University: Digital Images, Comments, Historical Review
Sergey
Balandin, Ivan Gubanov, Charles Jarvis, Sergey Majorov,
Sergey Simonov, Dmitry Sokoloff and Sergey Sukhov
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information
Published by Dehlia Co Ltd, Moscow
September 2001
5 86476 174 5, £49.99
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The
Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy May and June
1837 - Richard Owen
Phillip
Reid Sloan (Ed)
Hardback/paperback,
240 x 155 mm
338 pp, 1992
Illustrated in black and white
Hardback: 0 11 310006 X, £37.50
Paperback: 0 11 310007 8, £7.50
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from The Stationery Office
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The Human Story
Charles Lockwood
Paperback,
192 x 253 mm
112 pp, October 2007
Colour illustrations throughout
Paperback: 978 0 565 09214 6, £9.99
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Images
from Nature: Drawings and Paintings from the Library of
the Natural History Museum
Introduction:
Christopher Mills
Paperback,
200 x 210 mm
112 pp, 1998
0 565 09029 1, £12.95
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John
Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders
Pamela
Gilbert
Hardback,
290 x 230 mm
128 pp, 1998
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 064 8, £29.95
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John
Gould in Australia: Letters and Drawings
Ann
Datta
Hardback,
284 x 209 mm
502 pp + xiv, 1997
0 522 84780 3, £55.00
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from CSIRO Publishing
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The
Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820
Neil
Chambers (Ed)
Hardback,
248 x 152 mm
200 pp, December 2000
1 86094 204 0, £33.00
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Life
and Earth Sciences Collections: Curatorial Policies and
Collections Management Procedures
297
x 210 mm
35 pp, January 1988
Available free
Available
from Department of Entomology,
the Natural History Museum
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Life
Through a Lens:
Photographs from the Natural History Museum 1880-1950
Susan
Snell and Polly Tucker
Foreword by David Bellamy
Hardback,
230 x 212 mm
112 pp, 27 October 2003
0565091867, £15.00
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Manuscripts
and Drawings in the Ornithology and Rothschild Libraries
of The Natural History Museum
Effie
Warr
January
1997
0 9522886 13, £16.00
Available
from British Ornithologists'
Club
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The
Natural History Museum at South Kensington:
A History of the Museum 1753-1980
William
T Stearn
Paperback,
235 x 156 mm
414 + xxiii,
Published 1981, Reprint July 1998, Reprint 2001
0 565 09030 5, £30.00
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The
Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse
John
Thackray and Bob Press
Paperback,
234 x 154 mm
144 pp, November 2001, reprinted with corrections 2004
0 565 09164 6, £11.00
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The
Natural History Museum Library Serials
Published
twice a year in January and July
7 microfiche
£25.00
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from Library and Information
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Peixes
do Río Negro/Fishes of the Río Negro
Mônica de Toledo-Riza Ragazzo
Hardback
517 pp, 2002
85 314 0633 1
Portuguese and English parallel text
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Potted
Histories: An Artistic Voyage through Plant Exploration
Sandra Knapp
Hardback
336 pp, October 2003
1 902686 28 4, £45.00
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Richard
Owen Commemoration: Three Studies
Jacob
W Gruber and John C Thackray
Hardback,
245 x 180 mm
188 pp, 1992
0 11 310008 6, £14.95
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from The Stationery Office
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Sarah
Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds
Christine
E Jackson
Hardback,
290 x 230 mm
160 pp, 1998
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 063 X, £29.95
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Surviving Antarctica
David N. Thomas
Foreword by Ray Mears
Hardback,
228 x 273 mm
96 pp, May 2007
Colour illustrations throughout
978 0 565 09217 7, £9.99
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The
Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse
Colin
Cunningham
Paperback,
279 x 217 mm
192 pp, December 2000
0 471 48949 2, £34.95
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Triennial
Report 1990-1993
Free
Available
from Press Office, the Natural
History Museum
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William
MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
Robert
Ralph
Hardback/Paperback,
290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September 1999
100
illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 088 5 (hb), £29.95
1
85894 100 8 (pb), £9.95
(normal
rrp £29.95)
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