- Creator:
- Tobin, Beth Fowkes
- Title:
- The Duchess's shells : natural history collecting in the age of Cook's voyages / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
- Published / Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages ; 26 cm
- Collection:
- Reference Library
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Shells -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Shells -- Private collections -- England. | Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785 -- Natural history collections. | Natural history -- England -- History -- 18th century.