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.'s recent screen share is the perfect visual feast! A sample from the 1894 Steele, Briggs, Margon Seed Co. Lt'd's seed catalog Commercial catalog coll., Uncat.

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2021-07-29

Live shots of me trying to summon the will to deal with another Monday morning

This cursed animal is from Cuvier’s ‘Animal kingdom’ (1837)
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2021-07-19

🍓It’s season & we’ve been fruit picking in our illuminated collection 🍓 Can you spot the strawberries in our early 16th century French Book of Hours?

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2021-07-05

Some Australian native plants for a sunny humpday: a Bottlebrush on the left and a Banksia on the right

Both are hand-coloured engravings from Curtis' botanical

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2021-06-30

Pretty proteas from issues of Curtis' botanical magazine, published in 1803 and 1805

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2021-06-29

New on website: (1824) of popular for children by Jeanne-Sophie Mallès de Beaulieu. With engraved plates in exceptionally fine colouring. More:

https://t.co/FOxvTiDlHd

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2021-06-08

Because I REALLY love Rare books myself.
I just HAD to do it.. PRESENTING
The Book of Sarah RARE LIMITED ONLY 3 BOOKS
This will be available on KICKSTARTER in a VERY Limited backing
https://t.co/F1vYfQ1KMw
^^^^ Kickstarter Link Above ^^^^^

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2021-06-05

For we are finding ways to The in our & are in bloom all year round🌷
From the 1951 edition of Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) & 1745 edition of Dieterichs’ Phytanthoza Iconographia (Vol. IV)

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2021-05-12

This Bolbophyllum is from W J Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849). In writes how the dark delicate hairs are thought to lure the dipteran pollinators of these tiny flowers by imitating a fly mating swarm

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2021-04-30

🌹 A beautiful pair of roses from our collection!

Pierre Joseph Redoute’s celebrated work ‘Les roses’ was published in Paris in 3 volumes between 1817 and 1824.

👀 See a selection of digitised illustrations: https://t.co/5blpkUtlog

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2021-04-30

1/2 On the front cover of is Coryanthes speciosa, pl.36 of James Bateman's The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala ([1837]-1843). With a print run of only 125 copies, it remains one of the finest (and heaviest!) books on orchids ever published

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2021-04-01

Today marks the of naturalist Mark Catesby, who was born in 1683. hold a copy of his Natural History of Carolina [581.9 (7P) CAT], which is filled with vivid, plates depicting the flora & fauna he encountered during his

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2021-03-24