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On October 4, 1883, the long-distance passenger train service Orient Express made its first run. In commemoration, we present illustrations from the 1st ed of American author John Dos Passos’s travel memoir 'Orient Express', published in 1927, with 8 illustrations by the author.

To mark this milestone we present illustrations from The Book of Psalms from the 'Version of Miles Coverdale as Published in the "Great Bible" of 1539,' printed in an edition of 875 copies, published in London by the Haymarket Press in 1930. Learn more: https://t.co/VBjjigX2i8

Good news, everyone! It’s time for the best week of the year again: #FatBearWeek! To celebrate, some bears from 'In the Bear’s House' by N. Scott Momaday. Learn more: https://t.co/h8qbwJ5oGA

Today we highlight Conrad Gessner’s 'Historia animalium,' published in 1551-1557 that mark a shift into looking at animals in a scientific way. It is considered the start of modern zoology in the West and it was the most widely read of Renaissance natural history books.

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It is late September and breeding season has come to an end for most bird species in our area, nests are abandoned, and the breeding colors of some species revert to their winter plumage. These images are from 'Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States' by Thomas G. Gentry.

This week we present some lovely hand-colored calligraphic flourishes by California illustrator Mallette Dean for the opening chapters in California writer Gertrude Atherton‘s 'The Splendid Idle Forties: Six Stories of Spanish California.' Learn more: https://t.co/xiEozAtgX6

At UW-Madison Special Collections there are extensive natural history materials, including this wonderful folio titled 'A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes' by Daniel Giraud Elliot. This is the first edition, published in 1863. More: https://t.co/G1oVzot7Rx

These prints were printed directly from the original blocks and included in Howard Phipps’s article “A Painter's Approach to Wood-engraving” in 'Matrix 8,' Winter 1988, inserted as a separate 8-page signature between pages 80 and 81. Learn more: https://t.co/B462avWzLz