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This week's #Feathursday bird is a day late, but it's the Puffin!!! Their striking appearance makes them ideal subjects for bird painters and these images are from paintings reproduced in the book 'Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond. Learn more: https://t.co/nlM9fjBR4F

Still playing #ArchivesHashtagParty games over here. Learn about the story of the Limited Editions Club edition of James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' with illustrations by Matisse here: https://t.co/mXNJHU2wa0

This week we bring you images from Florence Page Jaques’s 1939 book 'The Geese Fly High,' illustrated by her husband Francis Lee Jaques and published by the University of Minnesota Press. They married in 1927 and enjoyed a lifetime of outdoors adventures. https://t.co/jd3LJtbHmp

Published in Philadelphia by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. in 1852, the report includes 27 steel-engraved plates and 21 maps and geological charts. Learn more: https://t.co/oKefUHxhTB

David Owen conducted the 1st geological surveys of the Upper Midwest. His 'Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota...' greatly increased the knowledge of the structural geology, paleontology, natural history, & mineral wealth of Midwestern states.

Looking for Halloween costume ideas for next year? Maybe you'll be inspired by these chromoliths, of French fashions from our 3-volume set, 'Le costume historique,' by Auguste Racinet, published in Paris by the firm of Firmin-Didot in 1888. Learn more: https://t.co/8rsRVPeQMj

Today we are highlighting a book from our sibling department the @AGSLib: Geographer Julian R. Jackson’s 'Minerals and Their Uses: In a Series of Letters to a Lady' published in London in 1849. It features a hand-colored engraving by Joseph W. Lowry.
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From the same anonymous gift we mentioned yesterday is this Literary Guild edition of of English novelist and travel writer Alec Waugh’s travel memoir to tropical regions 'Hot Countries' with wood engravings by Lynd Ward, printed in 1930. Learn more: https://t.co/VDadjYqhxg

We discovered this lovely German handwriting manual in an anonymous gift. The book is 'Schreiblesefibel für den Unterricht der Elementarflassen' published in St. Louis by the Concordia Publishing House somewhere around the turn of the 20th century. https://t.co/M08N4UgK4r

As part of our Flora and Sylva series we present this group of images by the noted Japanese nihonga painter Yuki Ogura (1895-2000) from her eponymous catalogue raisonné published in Tokyo by Konisada in 1988. Learn more: https://t.co/vfKK3A6g0l