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The Art of Insect Illustration and Threads of Entomological History

by (author) George E. Ball

Publisher
Bruce Peel Special Collections
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551951171
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

This catalogue explores the interrelationship between the science of entomology and the art of illustration by highlighting some of the key holdings of early and classic works on insects in the University of Alberta Library. George E. Ball demonstrates how advances in printing technologies from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries contributed to the developing body of entomological knowledge. Foreword by Merrill Distad.

About the author

George E. Ball is Emeritus Curator of the E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta.

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