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Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale & the First Popular Museum of Natural Science Hardcover - 1980
by Charles Coleman Sellers
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- Title Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale & the First Popular Museum of Natural Science
- Author Charles Coleman Sellers
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 370
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Barra Foundation, New York
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780393057003 / 0393057003
- Weight 2.03 lbs (0.92 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.3 in (24.38 x 16.51 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Peale, Charles Willson, Museum directors - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 80139055
- Dewey Decimal Code 069.097
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First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and author's initials in gold on front cover. Book displays light shelfwear. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. xiv/370 pages."Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art. Peale's Museum, born of the painter's revolutionary idea that museums should be for everyone―not just for scientists and connoisseurs as had always been the case―was begun in the painter-naturalist's Philadelphia home, and over a seventy-five-year span it grew to include branches in New York City and Baltimore. In its day, Peale's Museum was an institute of learning and science comparable in national prestige to the Smithsonian Institution today. This is the story of that amazing endeavor and of the fascinating man who, virtually singlehandedly, made it happen. We see Peale, democrat to…
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barra Foundation/W.W. Norton, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped, with several enclosed tears and scratches along top and bottom edges. This collectible, " FINE" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY
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