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Systemvoraussetzungen :: System requirements
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
MacOS 9.2, Mac OS X 10.1 oder höher
Linux
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Thomas Bell's "A Monograph of the Testudinata" is one of the great reptile books, containing the finest series of colored plates of turtles ever published. A dental surgeon and professor of zoology, Bell was also a leading English naturalist when he began his ambitious attempt to summarize all the world's turtles, living and extinct. Working with Bell to produce the forty plates was natural history artist James de Carle Sowerby, to whom Bell would send live specimens. But the genius of the published plates is largely attributable to Edward Lear (known to generations for his nonsense verse), whose reputation as the finest natural history lithographer of his age had earlier been established by a monumental folio on parrots.
Tortoises are troublesome subjects, all too often drawn as mere doorstops, with at best the vivacity of a limpet. Lear imparted to them the curiosity, the individuality, the roving eye and quizzical alertness of his parrots. No one since has equaled him in conveying the gestalt of the turtle. In addition to the forty colored plates of Bell's "Monograph" - left uncompleted on his publisher's bankruptcy - this Octavo Edition includes the twenty-one additional plates by Lear and Sowerby that were issued in 1872.
Features:
- Commentary by Kraig Adler, noted specialist on amphibians and reptiles
- Binding description, collation, and provenance
- Searchable live text
- Digital images of every page of this rare book, cover to cover, in full color, presented as uncropped spreads
- Auto-start PDF file for quick access
- Ability to magnify and examine fine details
- Print and Thumbnails files for creating printed references
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 with Search software
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