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John james audubon set the standard for fine prints of birds and mammals. This extraordinary work was originally composed and written in classical latin around ad 70, and was divided into thirtyseven books. The book examines the history of the depiction of the natural world, and is a must for anyone interested in natural history, art or bookmaking. Books of 2019, featuring our favorite reads in more than a dozen categories. Full text of the natural history of pliny see other formats. On the surface, my book, a natural history is a crazy story about a man deciding to live his life to the extremes along with a bunch of dirty sex stories, but its much more than that.
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