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For we are holding some library tours for & Patrons, getting up close to our including these Edward Lear plates in two books "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae" & "Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall"

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2022-04-23

Today is & so we are featuring images in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's "Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium"(1758) - a classic book on the study of amphibians.
One of our highlights this wonderful book: https://t.co/M8HjCtV04Q🐸

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2022-03-20

and items from : Shirley Temple Christmas Book (1937) from Lois Lenski Collection of 📚🎄#PaperDolls https://t.co/vwVocTzRkl

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2021-12-26

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)
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2021-12-20

Image-A-Day🎥📚🐭
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and His Friends (1936) held in Lois Lenski Collection in Nichols https://t.co/tK7nyCHGm3

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2021-11-19

Happy
A lovely lithograph of a lemur by Lear (Edward Lear) from 'Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall', 1846-50.
We do like alliteration & tongue twisters, they do seem appropriate for someone remembered for his 'nonsense'.

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2021-10-29

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

Got a brand new AL for the collection thanks for the amazing work
get one on

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2021-10-19

Are you following all the drama of the Australian bird of the year voting? The Gang Gang Cockatoo is a clear front runner with 955 votes. It's day 3 of voting though, so the Gouldian Finch could make a comeback! https://t.co/ZC9uW6Czl6 1/2

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2021-09-29

As students start their first full week of classes, we want to share these delightful tricolour French curls. From William Somner's "The Antiquities of Canterbury" (1640). https://t.co/vsVNWbhwGX

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2021-09-14

Spring is blooming in our room, just in time for We hope this brings a little colour to your feed today ☀️🌸🌼 What's blooming in your garden? 👩‍🌾🏡More 👉https://t.co/oWJvIINurY

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2021-09-07

Image-A-Day📚🐘
For from Bass Business, Bizzell Bible, & Nichols Pictorial History of the American Circus (1957), Biblia sacra (1710), History of Four-footed Beasts (1658) and Babar the King (1935)

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2021-08-13

has become a whole week! 🦈
To begin celebrations, here are several examples of wonderful depicting All from a in our by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, published 1864.

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2021-07-14

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2021-06-15

Born in 1726 - Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Here are a few engravings from his book 'The British Zoology', 1766, this edition "published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society".

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2021-06-14

Hollyhocks, tulips and hydrangeas - some popular garden flowers from the for The hydrangea specimen is the holotype for Hydrangea aspera collected in Nepal in 1802: https://t.co/IUwYHS9MGp

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2021-04-30

A bright placard pattern for This paper is from our Falconry in the British Isles, by Francis Henry Salvin.
https://t.co/wmWkYEucLp

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2021-04-19

This week's comes from our Reference Library.
Arteries of the head from 1856 edition of 'A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body...' by John Lizars, Edinburgh surgeon, anatomist and medical author. https://t.co/FDMtbg3ebM

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2021-03-23

Stag beetles, mushrooms, oxalis, butterflies, swans, iris & lilies are all in this wonderful Maurice Verneuil's chromolithograph published in 1897 in 'L'animal dans la decoration'. More images to explore on at https://t.co/nJLWUiXDsj

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2021-03-16

Happy This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv

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2021-02-02