The WunderCabinet : the curious worlds of / Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen.
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver, B. C. :
Heavenly Monkey Editions,
2011.
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MSU: Copy 1 of 30 copies. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume unnumbered (56 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations, samples ; in box 29 x 31 x 6 cm |
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Curious worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen.
Wunder cabinet. [Spine title] |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | One volume [56 pages], housed in a box decorated with onlaid wood veneers. In addition to the book, each box contains a unique assortment of approximately two dozen objects, divided between several compartments. A handwritten catalogue [4 pages] itemizes each object contained in the box. "This book was designed and set in Bembo by Barbara Hodgson. Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey printed it damp on paper made by Reg Lissel of Vancouver. Peter Braune and Lesley Anderson of New Leaf Editions printed the frontispiece copperplate etching. Hand colouring and other embellishments have been done by the authors. Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio. The edition is thirty numbered and six A.P. copies, each signed by the authors."--Colophon. Contains the following objects in box [from the list of catalogue contained in the box]: "1. Six-panel tunnel book of the studiolo of Neapolitan apothecary, Ferrante Imperato, 1599, from his catalogue Dell'historia naturale, 2nd edition 1672. 2. An album of kamon, Japanese family crest stencils, c. 1910[?]. 3. Ready-to-assemble Egyptian obelisk, modelled after the obelisk in the Piazza della Minerva, Rome. 4. Fossilized sharks' teeth ... 5. Modular star constructed from the gazelles[?] of the Persian poet, Hafiz of Shiraz ... 6. Plaster antique cameo medallion. 7. Watch face. 8. Red & white coral fragments. 9. Glass magic lantern slide. 10. Microscope slide of a skeletonized magnolia leaf fragment. 11. Plaster molar from the collection of Peter the Great. 12. Silkworm ... cocoon. 13. Quail ... egg. 14. Papaver somniferum pod. 15. Glass eyeballs. 16. Vial of gum arabic from Kordofan, the Sudan. 17. Cryptic saying intended to provoke paradox. 18. Rock specimens: 5 opalized wood, 6 pink agate wood replacement, 8 citrine. 19. Scallop and jingle shells from the Gulf of Mexico. 20. Sea urchin skeleton. 21. Cast of a finger of Catherine Vorontsov, Mme la Princesse de Dashkov (1743-1810). 22. Hexahedron construction. 23. Worked bone counting tool. 24. Polished stone 'obelisk'. 25. Nineteenth-century English seal." |
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| Call Number: | N7433.4.H635 W8 2011 XX oversize |