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Paperback. Condition: New condition. First Edition in English. 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 25,000 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.