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THE DODO: THE BIRD THAT DREW THE SHORT STRAW

by Jan Den Hengst

Published by Art Revisited. 1st. 2003

Slightly better than very good condition. Analysing and comparing 17th century illustrations along with eye-witness accounts, the book reconstructs an accurate portrait of the Dodo. Slightly oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 118 pages.

Spine lightly sunned. Corners lightly bumped/rubbed. Name & date in ink to first page else contents clean. A nice copy.

ISBN: 9072736265
Stock no. 1831166

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • the bird who drew the short straw
  • A bird in wonderland
  • Ninety fatal years
  • A failed frontier
  • Thieving monkeys an slavering pigs
  • The ship's logs
  • Cut and paste
  • The tale of a castaway
  • Start and progress
  • Imaginative representation
  • Learned gleanings
  • A trustworthy account
  • A dodo turned cuckoo?
  • Slow and stupid
  • The world of Pliny
  • Savery's animal kingdom
  • Roelant Savery
  • Wunderkammer
  • Seventgeenth Century pictures
  • Misshapen fatsos
  • The dodo of Adriaen van der Venne
  • Peckers, steppers and scratchers
  • A stuffed dodo as model?
  • Enlightening contributions
  • An eyewitness
  • Far travels of an islander
  • Watercolour by Cornelis Satfleven
  • The picture book of De Quade van Ravesteyn
  • Artists with and without talent
  • A tiny mark
  • A handful of bones and an egg
  • A controversial egg
  • Archimedes in Edinburgh
  • Fat or lean?
  • An elegant phantom in the family
  • A third species of dodo
  • Markies Hachisuka
  • Production line
  • Questionable sightings
  • The reconstruction
  • Colours and sizes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations

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