Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

by James Delbourgo

Book Overview

Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize
A Times Book of the Week
A Guardian Book of the Week

"A wonderfully intelligent book."
--Linda Colley

"A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself."
--Times Literary Supplement

When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067423748X
• ISBN13: 9780674237483
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"