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This weekend we posted some moths from The Naturalist's Library volume on British Moths for #ScienceSaturday. See more here: https://t.co/ZOl3iIVMXe

Today we return to our time travels, arriving in the late 18th century with several hand-painted fashion plates (plate nos. 77-81) from 'Costumes of the World' which illustrate fashions of the late 18th century France. Learn more here: https://t.co/hod9FlSZvl #FashionFriday

It’s #FinePressFriday! This week we present select pages from 'The Branch of Hawthorn Tree' with poems by the prolific Irish poet Monk Gibbon and “colour designs” by the French artist Jean Picart Le Doux, published in 1927. Learn more here: https://t.co/ji0KsN4o9Q

The Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) is perhaps the most well known of the perching ducks in North America. This plate, is a hand-painted print from Rex Brasher’s limited-edition set Birds and Trees of North America, containing reproductions of Brasher’s paintings: https://t.co/yzPyC1acPK

These illustrations are from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, published in 1882. The illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator. https://t.co/C66dx4Y9Jl

Happy birthday anniversary to #SirArthurConanDoyle born on this day May 22, 1859! To celebrate, we present Sidney Paget’s illustrations from the first American edition of Doyle’s novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' published in 1902. More here: https://t.co/kLW6nMyOzR

Over the weekend we posted a very mothy #ScienceSaturday post featuring 'The Naturalist's Library' from our friends in the @AGSLib. Check it out! https://t.co/PHkLMgx8Au

These images are facsimiles of 'Chinese Color-Prints from the Painting Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden,' originally published in the early-Qing Dynasty of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Our copy is the first American edition. Learn more here: https://t.co/dbHU7zupY7

For this week's #FashionFriday we’re recommending large skirts and pale blues for your fancy wear, thanks to plates no 65-74 from Costumes of the World, which illustrate French fashions during the reign of Louis XV, also known as Louis the Beloved. More: https://t.co/9U9NywUhfM

It's time for #WednesdayFlora! This week we present a few plates from the massive, 1000-page-plus publication 'Orquídeas en acuarela: La obra inédita de Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero' published by Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica in 2018. Learn more: https://t.co/q5ZJcvsZxc