Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauries

Cabinets of Curiosities : Hardback : Thames & Hudson Ltd : 9780500515945 : 0500515948 : 04 Jan 2012 : Traces the history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole and Levinas Vincent.