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Title The Origins of museums : the cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe / edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor
Published Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University, 1985

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Description xiii, 335 pages, 54 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Analysis Europe Private museums, ca 1500-ca 1800
Notes Conference papers of the International Symposium on the Cabinet of Curiosities held in Oxford, 1983 and also known as the Ashmolean Museum tercentenary symposium
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [281]-312
Subject Cabinets of curiosities -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Cabinets of curiosities -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History.
Museums -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Museums -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Museums -- Europe -- History.
Author Impey, O. R. (Oliver R.)
MacGregor, Arthur, 1941-
Ashmolean Museum tercentenary symposium
International symposium on the cabinet of curiosities (1983 : Oxford, England.)
LC no. 85230059
ISBN 0199521085