Pober Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming reprint publication
of David Murray's Museums: Their History & Their Use. New Introduction by
Paula Findlen, author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and
Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.

Volume one of this 3 volume work is a general history of museums and
collecting.

The 704 page bibliography (volumes 2 and 3) is divided into five sections:

I.   Literature of museums: bibliography of bibliographies.
II.  Museography
III. The collections, preparation, and preservation, registration and
exhibition of   specimens.
IV. Catalogues and other works relating to particular museums.
V.  Travels and general literature.

For more information about this work please request a copy of our
descriptive brochure. There will be a pre-publication discount for orders
received before the expected publication date of October 1999.

Please send all requests for information directly to Pober Publishing and
not to the list. Thank you.

Stephen E. Pober
Pober Publishing
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