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Saturday we shared a few more etchings and engravings from the Italian scientific journal 'Opuscoli scientifici' published by the Università di Bologna in the early 19th century. We hold Volumes 1-4, published 1817-1823. Learn more here: https://t.co/adrGj4AVNQ

On Friday we had another great set of plates featuring folk costume, this time from Poland. 'Polish Peasant Costumes' published in 1939 by C. Szwedzicki in Nice, France features 40 pochoir plates of paintings by Polish artist Zofia Stryjeńska. Learn more: https://t.co/NWhuv4BSYx

Last Thursday we posted Shore Birds from Birds in Their Homes, a book for young people written by Addison Webb with lovely illustrations by Sabra Mallett Kimball, published in 1947 by Garden City Books in New York. Learn more: https://t.co/vmSBt6YgNR

This week we are getting back to basics with 'A Pictorial Primary Arithmetic: On the Plan of Object-Lessons' by George Walton and his wife, Electa Walton, published in Boston by Brewer and Tileston in 1867. The primer offers fifty basic arithmetic lessons. https://t.co/Yk7sb6RMZZ

These chromolithographs come from our 1907 edition 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds,' by Frank M. Chapman. Published in New York by D. Appleton & Company, it includes 75 full-page colored plates after drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. https://t.co/hY0oelUg7e

In remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor we share 'U.S. Navy War Photographs: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor,' a book of photographs taken during the war. The volume was compiled by photographer Captain Edward Steichen. Learn more: https://t.co/mL79gXA713

For #FashionFriday we have a selection of plates from 'Zur Geschichte der Kostüme' which features approximately 200 folded color plates covering costume design from antiquity to contemporary folk fashions from a variety of social classes. Learn more: https://t.co/uRlPgXvFO8

We are in the middle of #Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights! This storybook from our Historical Curriculum Collection by Beverly Rae Charette, 'The Story of Chanukah for Children,' presents the narrative of Hanukkah in verse for children. Learn more: https://t.co/tsRas4nAus

These hand-painted pochoir plates are from the anonymous, 2-volume set of hand-colored plates, 'La Mode Feminine,' published in Paris by Editions Nilsson in 1920. These plates feature fashions from 1910-1915.

One of the most famous Cabinet of Curiosities was that of Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba, who spent decades collecting specimens. He then hired artists to make illustrations of it that were published in his book 'Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri.' https://t.co/RWjkQYxevH