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British Museum guide /

By:

British Museum

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0714100471
9780714100470
071410048X
9780714100487

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

069/.09421/42

LOC classification:

AM101 .B865 1976
N1040 .B86 1976

Production credits:

Maps drawn by Michael Robinson.

Summary: From the Foreword - "As an institution the British Museum is unique. It is liable on a first visit to appear portentous and unwelcoming. This is due to its history and the architecture of the building in which it is housed. from the time that curiosities were first assembled, it was assumed that the purpose of collecting them was to assuage curiosity. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were countless private museums comprising classical and Egyptian antiquities and specimens illustrative of geology and natural history. This is the tradition from which the British Museum springs....."

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	AM101 .B865 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001341

Includes index.

Index and maps pg. 281 - 295

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