Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, Baione, Tom (Editor). Published by Sterling Signature. New York, 2014. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall; 164pp. with over 200 black and white and colour illustrations. In fine, unread condition.
Inside the American Museum of Natural History is an eight-story library—one of the largest natural-science libraries in the Western Hemisphere—that contains over 450,000 volumes of monographs, pamphlets, reprints, and original rare books. Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of these seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific works. Forty essays from the museum’s top experts in a variety of disciplines enhance each rare tome’s unique qualities and scientific contribution, and three to four illustrations accompany each one
