Kate Nessler

Kate Nessler

• Author(s): Kate Nessler, Lugene B. Bruno, London : Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery

• Categories: Botanical illustration

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Kate Nessler

• Author(s): Kate Nessler

• Categories: Botanical illustration

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Kate Nessler

• Author(s): Kate Nessler

• Categories: Botanical illustration

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Kate Nessler

• Author(s): Jonathan Cooper (London)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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On Parchment

• Author(s): Bruce Holsinger

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-02-03
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• Publisher: Yale University Press

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt ...