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These beautiful peonies appear in ‘Flora Rossica’ by German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was published in St Petersburg in 1780s. This copy once belonged English botanist Dawson Turner.
#RareBooks #Peonies

We couldn't resist joining in, so here's our library #FoxOfTheDay.

A delightful arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

Happy St Scholastica’s day!

Today is the feast of St Scholastica, sister of St Benedict, and patron saint of books and reading.

We recommend celebrating with a good book!

📷 Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

#OnThisDay #Libraries #LibraryTwitter #Books

@BtfdLibrary @CityofBrantford Happy Birthday!

Our library #AdventAlphabet letter for today is O.

📷 MS B.II.13 (11th century)
📷 MS A.I.18b (15th century)

We've found one of the Skeksis from the Dark Crystal.

#TheDarkCrystal #MedievalTwitter

For #WorldWildlifeDay some beautiful images by George Edwards. Edwards was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1750 for his work on natural history.
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #RareBooks

P is for Pilgrimage! #ArchiveZ
St Cuthbert’s Shrine @DurhamCathedral was a major site of pilgrimage in medieval England.
In 1383 the Shrine Keeper listed the gifts brought by pilgrims: relics, treasures 😍, and exotic objects such as a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw ... 🦄

Eleazer Albin’s 'A Natural History of Birds' (1738-40) was the first British printed book of #ornithology to feature hand-coloured plates. In fact many of the 300 illustrations were the work of his daughter Elizabeth. #HerNaturalHistory #IWD2020 #InternationalWomensDay

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! The #wildlife and #biodiversity of our planet is extraordinary - let's not take it for granted.

These beautiful images are all by George Edwards who was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1750 for his work on natural history.