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For today a selection of illustrations from Sebastian Schedel's Calendarium (1610), the oldest item in . These drawings were produced for the Hortus Eystettensis, a catalogue of the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt's garden 🌺🌼💐🌹

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2018-05-24

Coleoptera (& flowers) from "Donovan's Epitome of the Insects of New Holland" 1805. https://t.co/jfPXwR683i via

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2018-05-24

For today we bring you this beautiful volume of poetry & pressed flowers collected in Scotland c.1880-1910 by a Ms Adams-Acton 🌺🌼💐🌹"

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2018-05-18

Tree Peonies (Paeonia × suffruticosa). "Paeonia" comes from "Paeon", the Greek name for the physician of the gods who used a peony concoction to heal Pluto. Favourite Flowers of the Garden & Greenhouse, V1 (1896) via : https://t.co/9g3mpBswWa

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2018-05-17

The library doesn’t have much botanical material, we transferred most of it to the at some point, so starting to struggle with posts! Here is gorgeous Merian’s ‘De Europische insecten’ (1730)

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2018-05-17

Rushy Tetratheca from "Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent" by George Shaw, 1793. (Tetratheca juncea https://t.co/LtMqWhAXtD via

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2018-05-17

Waratah, illustrated by James Sowerby, from "Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent" by George Shaw, 1793. https://t.co/QiOJTU9qOr via

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2018-05-10

"Illustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour" by Sir Joseph Banks. https://t.co/qTJNivDDPd via

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2018-05-10

For the second week of the challenge I've taken advantage of 's BRAND NEW full-text search feature to find some inhabiting some

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2018-05-10