Médailles

1996 · 014639 — Haarlem The Netherlands: The Teyler Museum 1996. A new copy. Flawless condition. Sharp corners. NO creases. NO rubbing. First Edition in English. 21 cm wide by 28 cm tall. Illustrated with over 200 beautiful full-color photos of objects from the collections. This is a gem of a museum and library located a few minutes west of Amsterdam. It has major collections of early scientific instruments fossils paleontology mineralogy and numismatics. Among its paintings and drawings are Michelangelo sketches including studies for the Sistine Chapel and art by Raphael Rembrandt Peter Paul Rubens Hendrick Goltzius Adriaen van Ostade Romeyn de Hooghe Albrecht Durer Jacques Callot Piranesi over 25000 prints from the Dutch school etc. No other library in the Netherlands contains such a splendid and complete collection of 18th and 19th century literature on botany zoology and earth sciences. Introduction by Eric Ebbinge. Translated by Shirley Fawcett et al. Bound in the original red pictorial wrappers. First Edition in English. Oversize Softcover. New condition. 97pp. The Teyler Museum Paperback