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• Title:The WunderCabinet : the curious worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen
  
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• Variant Title:Wunder Cabinet
  
• Author/Creator:Hodgson, Barbara, 1955- designer
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cohen, Claudia, 1953- designer
  
• Published/Created:[Vancouver] : Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2011.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS oversizeWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: AM221 .H623 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Natural history--Catalogs and collections
  Curiosities and wonders--History.
  Collectors and collecting--History.
  
• Description:various pieces ; in wooden box 30 x 29 x 5 cm.
  
• Notes:Box contains 1 bound volume, 1 six-panel tunnel book, 1 album of Japanese family crest stencils, 1 paper ready-to-assemble Egyptian obelisk, fossilized sharks' teeth, 1 modular paper star, 1 plaster cameo medallion, watch faces and movement, red and white coral fragments, 1 glass magic lantern plate, 1 microscopic slide of leaf fragment, 1 molar, 1 silkworm cocoon, 1 quail egg, 1 poppy seed pod, 1 artificial eyeball, 1 vial of gum arabic, 1 cryptic saying, rock specimens, scallop shells, jingle shells, 1 sea urchin skeleton, 1 sand dollar, 1 polished stone fragment, worked bone counting tools and a wax seal .
  Title from title page of bound volume included in box.
  "This book was designed and set in Bembo by Barbara Hodgson. Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey printed it damp on paper made by Reg Lissel ... Claudia Cohen bound each copy ... Peter Braune and Lesley Anderson of New Leaf Editions printed the frontispiece copperplate etching ... hand colouring and other embellishments have been done by the authors"--Colophon of printed volume.
  Limited edition of thirty numbered and six A.P. copies, each signed by the authors.