"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" Library Exhibition
The University of Delaware Library announces a new exhibition, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Selections from the University of Delaware Library Natural History Collection,” which will present selections from the extensive natural history collection in Special Collections located on the Second Floor of the Morris Library. The exhibition will be on view in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery from Tuesday, August 19, 2014, through Friday, December 19, 2014.
Natural history research, whether the work of amateur naturalists or highly trained scholars, has produced many of the most remarkable books ever printed from the very first century of printing up to the present day. “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” will feature an eclectic selection of natural history books from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, including a1511 printing of the Hortus Sanitatis, a late medieval natural history whose woodcuts depict real animals alongside such fantasies as the unicorn and the manticore; foundational works on American zoology, such as Alexander Wilson’s American Ornithology (1808-1814) and John Edwards Holbrook’s North American Herpetology (1842), which were among the first books to provide systematic, illustrated descriptions of their respective subjects; early treatises on geology and mineralogy such as Charles Lyell's Elements of Geology (1838) and Giovanni Maria Bonardo's La Minera del Mondo (1589); and scarce sixteenth century Herbals and Materia Medica.
Friday, December 19, 2014 at 8:00am
Morris Library, Special Collections, 2nd Floor
Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA