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Which of our beautiful natural spaces are you going to be spending time in this summer? We 💚the incredible details in Flora Australasica by Robert Sweet with drawings by E. D. Smith (1827)
https://t.co/JbZ5DyAVeo
🌿🌿🌿

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2021-12-20

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This beautiful zebra is thought to be a sub-species called the Quagga, hunted to extinction. The illustrator George Edwards also drew the Dodo; both from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-64), in our collection 📖

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2021-11-30

Did you know that 46 exhibition catalogs, dating from 1956 to 2016, are now available online?

Check it out by visiting our digital collections: https://t.co/WTAk6f4xKc

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2021-11-25

1870 Scarce Book ~ Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker.

More info:
https://t.co/guiMFTpAI4

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2021-11-13

On the eve of we're re-sharing Library artworks, artifacts, books, and papers that remember and honour courage and sacrifice ➡️https://t.co/dzJbvH7vZw

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2021-11-11

1928 Scarce uncut Playbook - The Playbook of KING ARTHUR. His Court, Queens, Knights of the Round Table.

More info:
https://t.co/pl8SSFsn6E

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2021-11-06

Happy their any skeletons in your closet? They are rattling in our storeroom & the door is creaking open... !
These illustrations 'The Danse Macabre' are from our 1st Editions of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Imagines Mortis & The English Dance of Death.

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2021-10-31

Autumn is underway and it's We've harvested these images from our collections: John Keats' Ode To Autumn from the 1923 Curwen Press edition (Illustrator: Vivien Gribble), and a crop of autumn fruits from The Pomological Magazine (London, 1828-30)🍏🍂

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2021-10-21

We'll be looking out for these beauties in our backyards as part of this year. We love the idea of an too! So many possibilities with this Cockatoo!

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2021-10-21

Today's presented by Dutch translation of famous account by English William Dampier (1651-1715) about his travels to etc.

Firsts Netherlands opens October 1 at 3pm (CET).

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2021-09-21

We love the intricate details of these botanical illustrations from 'Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales' by John White, 1790, one of the many significant items within our Collection. https://t.co/QRrHIKhmyb

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2021-09-21

A little French book, very small but perfectly formed, with 12 illustrations by P. Bessa . . . . .

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2021-09-20