An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world /
Larson, Frances, 1976-
An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world / Frances Larson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xi, 343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.
Roots: Herewith please find three rolls of chocolate foil ; A very full and complete volume ; The ideal of my heart -- Tactics: An historical exhibition of rare and curious objects ; Excuse me Mr Treve ; Fellow feeling as a collector ; The whole of India should be ransacked ; An impossible man to deal with -- Outcomes: The finest historical medical museum in the world ; When the whole is complete, it will be an exact facsimile of the original ; This is the history of medicine ; All tied up in knots ; We need very complete collections of all their fabrications ; This International Historical Museum -- Legacies: Shelve it ; Ingrained habits of cautiousness ; Sir Henry Wellcome is dead ; Honour to whom honour is due.
9780199554461 0199554463
2009928977
GBA956184 bnb
015285903 Uk 101552566 DNLM
Wellcome, Henry S. Sir, 1853-1936.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum--History.
Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography.
Collectors and collecting--Great Britain--Biography.
Philanthropists--Great Britain--Biography.
Medical instruments and apparatus--Private collections--History.
Medicine--History.
Pharmacists--Great Britain--Biography.
Drug Industry--history--Great Britain.
History of Medicine--Great Britain.
History, 20th Century--Great Britain.
Medicine in Art--Great Britain.
R489.W3945 / L37 2009
2011 B-736 WZ 100
Wellcome, Henry S. --1853-1936.
An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world / Frances Larson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xi, 343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.
Roots: Herewith please find three rolls of chocolate foil ; A very full and complete volume ; The ideal of my heart -- Tactics: An historical exhibition of rare and curious objects ; Excuse me Mr Treve ; Fellow feeling as a collector ; The whole of India should be ransacked ; An impossible man to deal with -- Outcomes: The finest historical medical museum in the world ; When the whole is complete, it will be an exact facsimile of the original ; This is the history of medicine ; All tied up in knots ; We need very complete collections of all their fabrications ; This International Historical Museum -- Legacies: Shelve it ; Ingrained habits of cautiousness ; Sir Henry Wellcome is dead ; Honour to whom honour is due.
9780199554461 0199554463
2009928977
GBA956184 bnb
015285903 Uk 101552566 DNLM
Wellcome, Henry S. Sir, 1853-1936.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum--History.
Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography.
Collectors and collecting--Great Britain--Biography.
Philanthropists--Great Britain--Biography.
Medical instruments and apparatus--Private collections--History.
Medicine--History.
Pharmacists--Great Britain--Biography.
Drug Industry--history--Great Britain.
History of Medicine--Great Britain.
History, 20th Century--Great Britain.
Medicine in Art--Great Britain.
R489.W3945 / L37 2009
2011 B-736 WZ 100
Wellcome, Henry S. --1853-1936.
