Cabinets of wonder : a passion for collecting / text by Christine Davenne ; photographed by Christine Fleurent.

New York : Abrams, 2012.

231 pages : illustrations (mostly colour) ; 32 cm

Translation of Cabinets de curiosités, published in Paris by Martinière in 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230).

Enter the world of the curious -- The cabinet of curiosities, then and now -- The studioli, between glory and melancholy -- Portrait: Malplaquet House -- The cabinet of curiosities as theater of the world -- Portrait: Jacques Garcia -- Monsters from elsewhere: the exoticae -- Portrait: Joan Fontcuberta -- Scientificae, the scientific cabinets -- Portrait: Henri Cueco -- A laboratory of mutations.