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The Ashmolean Museum. A brief history of the Museum and its collections
by MacGregor, Arthur
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1854441493
- ISBN 13
- 9781854441492
- Seller
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About This Item
(Oxford: Ashmolean Museum / London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 2001) 1854441493. 8vo; pictorial boards; pp. 80; liberally illustrated, largely in full colour. Fine condition. "The Ashmolean Museum, the oldest public museum in Britain, houses the University of Oxford's unrivalled collection of art and antiquities from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Three centuries and more of unbroken history render the Ashmolean one of the most venerable institutions of its kind in the world. When, in 1683, Elias Ashmole endowed the University of Oxford with the already famous Tradescant collection, many of the the exhibits had by that time been on public display for fifty years, extending the origins of the collection to the very threshold of the Stuart era. This book traces the eventful history of the Ashmolean and its collections from its origin as a cabinet of curiosities ..." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10892
- Title
- The Ashmolean Museum. A brief history of the Museum and its collections
- Author
- MacGregor, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1854441493
- ISBN 13
- 9781854441492
- Publisher
- (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum / London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 2001) 1854441493
- This edition first published
- July 25, 2006
- Keywords
- Art. Archaeology. Oxford Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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