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As students start their first full week of classes, we want to share these delightful #queensu tricolour French curls. From William Somner's "The Antiquities of Canterbury" (1640). #marbledmonday #marbledpaper #canterbury #rarebooks #specialcollections #… https://t.co/vsVNWbhwGX
Spring is blooming in our #RareBook room, just in time for #NatureBookWeek! We hope this brings a little colour to your feed today ☀️🌸🌼 What's blooming in your garden? 👩🌾🏡More #RareBooks 👉https://t.co/oWJvIINurY #SpecialCollections #UOMCulturalCommons #Flowers #Plants
#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🐘
For #WorldElephantDay from Bass Business, Bizzell Bible, #HistSci & Nichols #SpecColls: Pictorial History of the American Circus (1957), Biblia sacra (1710), History of Four-footed Beasts (1658) and Babar the King (1935)
#SharkAwarenessDay has become a whole week! #SharkWeek 🦈
To begin celebrations, here are several examples of wonderful #prints depicting #sharks. All from a #book in our #specialcollections by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, published 1864. #sciart
Born #OTD 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". #SpecialCollections
A bright placard pattern for #marbledmonday. This paper is from our #1stedition Falconry in the British Isles, by Francis Henry Salvin.
#marbledpaper #SpecialCollections #Falconry https://t.co/wmWkYEucLp
Happy #MarbledMonday! This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
#MarbledPaper #18thcentury #poetry #RareBooks #SpecialCollections https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv
Below is an image from the UFDC World Map Collection of the Northern Hemisphere that was published in 1817.
The Northern Hemisphere has more land, pollution, and around 90% of the world's population.
#MapMondays #DigitalLibrary #UFSpecialCollections
#DYK that there are three major #SpecialCollections relating to famous #fantasy and #sci-fi writer #TerryPratchett @SenateHouseLib @TCDResearchColl and @LivUniSCA. This is a hand-coloured illustration of The Carpet People by Pratchett held @SenateHouseLib #collectionsunited https://t.co/P8amgDGfsW
突然ですが #extremecloseup のクイズです。この挿絵が使われた本のタイトルは何でしょうか? #UMDSpecialcollections
A #tinytuesday thumb Bible! Published c. 1900, this miniature would have been given to a child for good behaviour. #specialcollections
From Journal des dames et des modes, September 10, 1913.
#fashion #fashionhistory #fashionplate #pochoir #fitspecialcollections #fitnyc #fashioninstituteoftechnology #designarchives
A Schiaparelli hat offered by Bergdorf Goodman, Spring 1948. #fashion #fashionhistory #fashionsketch #1948 #40sfashion #millinery #schiaparelli #elsaschiaparelli #fitspecialcollections #fitnyc #fashioninstituteoftechnology #designarchives
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was #BornOnThisDay in 1807. #Artist & #sculptor, known for the #dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park in London. The #SpecialCollections in #ZSLLibrary includes a few original #paintings by Hawkins.
#SciArt #BOTD #OTD
Attending #ZSLTalks Tues 11 Feb? We have a short #free talk beforehand at 4.45pm in #ZSLLibrary about our #SpecialCollections, featuring this time, Victorian wildlife artist Joseph Wolf, as we continue to celebrate his bicentenary. These #paintings & prints are our favourites!
Marbled boards and fore-edge on the 5 volume set “The Works of Lord Macaulay,” published in 1873.
#marbledmonday #marbledpaper #specialcollections https://t.co/gwB4mFIVku
Original sketch for a pink satin evening gown by Hattie Carnegie, undated 1950s.
#fashion #fashionhistory #hattiecarnegie #fashionsketch #fitnyc #fitspecialcollections #fashioninstituteoftechnology #designarchives
Landmark digitisation of works related to poet and humanist #Petrarch now available online https://t.co/yUMfSCcLKx #SpecialCollections