"Explores how artists depicted the natural world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, drawing on the works of renowned painters, naturalists, and explorers to explain how their images changed the way nature was seen and understood."
"An elegant book with natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married with beautiful prose. This collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than 500 years."
"This illustrated book records some defining moments in the art of natural history, taken from the world-famous collection of drawings at Windsor Castle. It accompanies the exhibition which opened at the Queen's Gallery, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in January 2007, moving to the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in Spring 2008."
"Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery."@en

"Amazing rare things the art of natural history in the age of discovery ; [Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mark Catesby]"
"Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery"
"Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery"@en
"Amazing rare things"
"Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery : [drawings and watercolours by Leonrado da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby and the works collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo, all held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle]"