POMIAN Krzysztof - Collectors and personalities.

[COLLEGE] POMIAN Christopher - Collectors and personalities. Paris-Venice XVI-XVIII century. Translated by Andrzej Pieńkos. Warsaw 1996. pIW. 8, pp. 424. pamphlet.
Minor discoloration of cover, good condition. "Krzysztof Pomian began practicing the history of collecting, connoisseurship, and museums as early as the 1960s; his first dissertation in this field was published, years late, in 1976. However, the book "Collectors and Curiosities" will surprise many Polish readers with both its subject matter and approach. Published in France in 1987 and quickly translated into several languages, this thing about Parisian and Venetian collections became a cultural event. It has been recognized as the founding work of a new field of cultural knowledge that uncovers often almost unknown areas of interest to modern Europeans and demonstrates the unexpected importance of collecting for the history of attitudes toward nature and toward the past, for the history of taste, and even for the history of thought." (From the Publisher).