Acquired tastes: two hundred years of collecting for the boston athenaeum
Auteur :
Cushing, Stanley Ellis
Éditeur :
Cushing, Stanley EllisDearinger, David B.,
ISBN :
9780934552738
Date de publication :
15 févr. 2007
Dimensions :
30,5 x 23,5 x 3,4 cm
Poids :
2499 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The historic Boston Athenaeum is one of the country's most prestigious repositories of books, paintings, sculpture, engravings, maps, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts, and other artifacts. This book discusses the Boston Athenaeum's collections and the manner in which they were gathered from the early 19th to the early 21st centuries.