COLLECTING NATURE The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens

Book by Clive Aslet and Svante Helmbaek Tirén

July 5, 2022

Published by Bokförlaget Stolpe

Press Contact: Alexandra Fanning | alexandra@alexandrafanning.com

A gorgeous leatherbound compendium of flora, shells, rare insects and more from the golden age of curiosities

Featuring amazing reproductions of floral specimens, minerals, seashells and more from rarely seen collections, and beautiful engravings of 18th- and 19th-century collections, this stupendously produced volume takes as its starting point the famous Timm Collection at Engelsberg Ironworks in Sweden, created by Gabriel Casper Timm and his son Paul August in the 19th century. 

Throughout their lives, father and son devoted much of their leisure time to collecting plants, insects, minerals and other natural treasures across Scandinavia, which they preserved in beautiful collector’s cabinets. Maintaining close contact with collectors and scientists, they also assembled a library of volumes on natural science along with books on spirituality and faith.

Drawing on a range of historical materials, Collecting Nature places the Timm Collection in a larger dialogue with other collectors, thinkers and scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries, showing how the world of ideas in collecting has developed and continues to influence us today.

PUBLISHER: BOKFÖRLAGET STOLPE

BOOK FORMAT: Hardcover, 10.75 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 100 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS: Pub Date 7/5/2022

DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. Exclusive 

PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN 9789189425644 

List Price: $40.00 CDN $54.00

About the Authors

Clive Aslet is an award-winning architectural historian and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life. Clive’s 'The Real Crown Jewels of England' will be published by Little Brown in September. He spent lockdown working on a book about country houses for Yale University Press.

Svante Helmbaek Tirén is a writer, editor and curator focused on architectural and decorative history. In addition to various projects with exhibitions and seminars, he teaches ornamentation and has worked with Axel and Margaret Ax: son Johnson's foundation for public benefit purposes since 2009.