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Commissioned by Catherine the Great, Flora Rossica is a beautifully illustrated study of Russian flora & fauna published in St Petersburg in 1780s.

It will be on display with other natural history books at our next library event Sat 21 March.

Tickets: https://t.co/YD6Gm3FNiW

@RHUL_Library @natlibscot @BLprintheritage @bodleianlibs @LivUniLibrary @OrkneyLibrary @BtfdLibrary Beelzebub has a devil put aside....

#LibraryBohemianRhapsody

Today is the #WinterSolstice.

Dark skies of the arctic circle from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

Only 89 days until Spring Equinox on 20 March!

#RareBooks #Winter

For the 19th day of #LibraryAdvent, a reindeer & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus.
Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?
#RareBooks

Today is day 16 of #LibraryAdvent, so here's a delightful arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

#RareBooks #MondayMorning

For day 3 of #LibraryAdvent here's a little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of #Birds' (1738-40). This was the first British work of #ornithology to feature hand-coloured plates, with over 300 by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth. #RareBooks

Did you know medieval pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in @durhamcathedral?

We have an inventory of gifts dated 1383 which lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw. 🦄

Can you guess what these mysterious objects were?

#MysteriousArchives #ExploreYourArchive

@BtfdLibrary @natlibscot Right. We've done the research and you were spot on!

As long as a platypus with tail & as wide as a platypus without tail. 😀

@RHUL_Library

In 995 the monks came to Durham. (Here’s the bishop and the cow part of the #DurhamGospels story!)
Bishop Aldhun had a vision of St Cuthbert, instructing that his body should be taken to 'Dunholme' (hill island), but no one knew where it was...
#ShareAStory #WorldBookDay