BHLさんのイラストまとめ

🕷 Carl Ludwig Koch and Carl Wilhelm Hahn's "Die Arachniden" (1831–1848) helped establish wider German scientific interest in arachnology. Explore the multi-volume work in #BHLib thanks to @mayrlibrary & @BPLBoston ➡️ https://t.co/9Kh11IJA00 #spiders

"Recueil des plantes dessinées et gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV", with over 300 beautiful engraved plates, was never formally published or offered for public sale. Explore the royal gift issue, produced in 1786, in #BHLib via @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/EcWqewmy4t #FloraFriday

A variety of shells from Georges Cuvier's "The Animal Kingdom", v. 3 (1834) — an English translation of Cuvier's famous "Le Règne Animal" (first published in French in four octavo volumes in 1817). Contributed in #BHLib thanks to @NHM_Library ➡️ https://t.co/nlC9RzoEwu 🐚

"The Botanical Cabinet" (1817-1833) was a richly illustrated guide — featuring ~2,000 colored plates — to the plants that could be viewed & purchased from the Conrad Loddiges & Sons Nursery in London. View the work in #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/LZ2lCZImnH

Meehan's "The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States" (1878-79) presented a selection of indigenous US plants, with chromolithographs by L. Prang & Company after #SciArt from life by Alois Lunzer. In #BHLib via @MBLWHOILibrary ➡️ https://t.co/4rHIueQXY0 #BotanicMonday

Thistle is often used for members of the tribe Cardueae — especially members of the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. Explore some of these species in J. Sturms "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 14 (1906), in #BHLib via @Kew_LAA ➡️ https://t.co/VIfjJsC7ll #FloraFriday

Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was born #OTD 1522! Aldrovandi amassed a collection of 1000s of natural history objects & set out to publish a series of books detailing the known natural world. Explore his volume on sea life via @SILibraries ➡️ https://t.co/U0FNXySjF0

A variety of fish for #FishyFriday! #SciArt based on a watercolor drawing by William Saville Kent for his "Great Barrier Reef of Australia" (1893) — the first publication to extensively depict a coral reef in photographs. In #BHLib by @SILibraries ➡️ https://t.co/apOG0qIamY 🐠

"A history of the fishes of the British Islands" (1862-65) by Jonathan Couch was the 1st widely-available book on British fish featuring color plates, which were based on recently-caught specimens. In #BHLib via @Fisher_Library & @SILibraries: https://t.co/nF7DUrB7f0 #FishyFriday

You can learn more about Bauer and Lindley's work, "Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants", on our blog thanks to @NHM_Library ➡️ https://t.co/MUnlSVx0tQ #FloraFriday