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These strawberries in various stages of ripeness have us looking forward to summer already. The entire book of fruit and flower series images from Darrow and Brothers is full of luscious looking plates.

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2020-04-11

Published in 1697, this edition of Myographia Nova, written by John Browne, has some interesting drawings added by an early hand.
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2020-04-09

Anyone else been snacking a lot recently?

Another one from Mark Catesby’s ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’

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2020-03-29

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2020-03-27

3-5: some very flirty flowers, from Les Fleurs Animees (The Flowers Personified) by J.J. Grandville, 1847. Clockwise from left: water arrow, thistle, and wallflower.

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2020-03-23

Pierre Jean François Turpin was born in 1775. He learned botany from his collaborator Pierre Antoine Poiteau, but taught himself how to draw; and he didn’t do too bad a job judging by these fine examples held in the Lindley Library.

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2020-03-11

Seaweed collecting was a popular Victorian pastime, with enthusiasts including Queen Victoria and George Eliot. ‘Ocean flowers and their teachings’ (1846) contains pressed seaweed specimens and was perfect for budding phycologists!

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2020-03-11

For we have some wonderful hand-coloured prints from ‘Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarum effigies’ published in Frankfurt in 1652.

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2020-02-26

You can take the librarian out of the library (and into the museum, particularly in Berlin) but...😬

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2020-02-25

Including the very rare unfinished 7th volume, this fine complete set of the Mineral Conchology of Great Britain by & his son is a highlight in this week's auction of in Learn more: https://t.co/L0knYxFOVF

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2020-02-18

Everyone loves a cockatoo!

I think these two are particularly charming, from 'Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte' by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1795)

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2020-02-17

Scottish naturalist made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing the hugely popular We are delighted to offer this collection of books in our 19 Feb sale in - https://t.co/SJ0gIIQznt

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2020-02-12

Tag yourself: I’m the baby bird giving out serious side-eye

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2020-02-10

Flicking through John Gould’s ‘Monograph of the Trochilidae’ (1849-61) for the first time and I was surprised to see that some of the hummingbirds have been heightened with metallic paint, they are SO beautiful!

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2020-02-06

The sheer ridiculousness of asking someone which monkey they think is the most erotic far overshadows the challenge I was going to post 🐒

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2020-02-05

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2020-01-29

A highlight in our catalogue for Stuttgarter (January 24-26, Stand 71) is rare copy of 1 of finest works on by Johann Elias Ridinger (Augsburg, 1768), with 127 beautiful plates. Find out more:

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2020-01-22

Met a couple of real derpy looking insects today

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2020-01-20

Got a lot of work to do in the rare book room today which is distracting me from my 291 unread emails

Here are some beautiful illustrations of Australian plants from ‘Botany of Cook’s first voyage’ by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander

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2020-01-17