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Some Australian native plants for a sunny humpday: a Bottlebrush on the left and a Banksia on the right

Both are hand-coloured engravings from Curtis' botanical
#RareBooks #SciArt

Pretty proteas from issues of Curtis' botanical magazine, published in 1803 and 1805
#RareBooks #flowers #SciArt

September is Australian Biodiversity Month 🐨🦜🦘

Over the month I'm going to post illustrations of Australian animals from rare books in the @museumsvictoria library collection, starting with these koalas from John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' (1863)

#BiodiversityMonth

More gorgeous rare book illustrations of living things in our 'deep blue' oceans for #ScienceWeek

Here are two corals from 'The naturalist's miscellany' by George Shaw (1789-1813)

Some stunning illustrations of cephalopods from the Valdivia reports, these particular volumes are by Carl Chun (1910-15)

This is making me miss all of my marine colleagues from the museum!

Uhhhhh... maybe it's just sleeping?

This is from 'Indian zoology' by Thomas Pennant (1790), which is not in our collection but I had reason to look it up on @BioDivLibrary and very much enjoyed flicking through the plates (including a v grumpy owl):
https://t.co/sE8ceOmUZb

Today is cow appreciation day

Here is something for you to appreciate on this, truly the best of all the commemorative days: a Zetland from 'The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands' by David Low (1842)

A rare steak and a tall glass of milk tonight, perhaps

I try to #CreateFun with rare books to get people to look & think about them in a different way

Sure, they are historically important and expensive, but they have value in lots of other ways and are an underused resource

These illustrations are begging to be memes...!
#LIW2020 https://t.co/R6NPNk2hVp

Historical babe alert

J.J. Halley was a reverend and ornithologist who, while living in Ballarat, published 'A monograph of the Psittacidae or parrot family of Australia' (1871)

Only one part was published due to a lack of subscribers & only four copies are known to exist today

Some pretty vignettes from 'De Europische insecten' by Maria Sibylla Merian, who was born #OnThisDay in 1647

I've just had the most pleasurable and relaxing few minutes flicking through this on @BioDivLibrary and I recommend you do the same!
https://t.co/QaKmoKPjZ8