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One person's trash is another's treasure!
In his newly revised classic, All the Best Rubbish, Ivor Noel
Hume traces the fascinating history of collecting from its recorded
beginnings and describes the remarkable detective work that goes
into establishing the probable facts about uncovered and often
underappreciated treasures. Now expanded with hints, tips, and
helpful information about antique-hunting online, All the Best
Rubbish is the ideal book for the antiquarian or amateur, the
historian or professional collector--for anyone who knows that
there's no such thing as "just junk."
Noel Hume, former head of the Department of Archaeology for
Colonial Williamsburg, has pursued bottles, pottery, clocks, and
coins through junk shops, street markets, attics, and cellars on
two continents. He's unearthed the most fascinating--and
valuable--rubbish from the most unlikely places: the shores of the
Thames in London; the lagoons of the Caribbean; the bottom of
Martha Washington's well. Hume knows everything that's worth
knowing about collecting--why we do it, what we can find, where we
can find it, and what we can learn from it.
The sheer quantity of volumes pertaining to medicine and health
published in Great Britain from 1660 to 1800 attests to George
Macaulay Trevelyan's claim that the medical profession was moving
out of the dark ages into the light of science. Thus this
bibliography of more than 2,000 entries surveys the publication of
medical tracts, treatises, narratives, guides, and references
published in Great Britain during one of the most significant
periods in the history of science in the Western world. Coverage is
thorough and representative, identifying both the principal
practitioners and theorists of the period and their areas of study
and interest. The work is organized into twenty-four topical
sections. Annotations provide brief information about the writer.
The work also includes subject and name indexes. The volume will
provide a useful reference for historians of medicine and for
scholars whose research carries them into the social and scientific
aspects of life in eighteenth-century Britain.
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