George Perry, "Perry's Arcana: with a Collation and Systematic Review: A Fascimile Edition with a Collation and Systematic Review (Arcana, Or Museum of Nature)"
English | ISBN 10: 1439901953 | 2009 | PDF | 576 pages | 30,9 MB
From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. "The Arcana" or "Museum of Nature" ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands.