Product Description: Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature looms large; thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and zoos as we know them today has been so poorly documented...read more

Product Description: First edition, limited to 500 copies.Table of contents, acknowledgments, list of plates, author's note, list of abbreviations. Biographical sketches of Pierre-Joseph Redouté's students. 32 black and white plates follow text. 64 pages, plates. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..