Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum /
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the general public--the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo's biography of Hans Sloane recounts the story behind its creation, told through the life of a figure with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against sup...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press edition. |
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