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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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2020-04-23

A printed page from 'The Adventures of William Friendly', corrected in pencil by an attentive reader. Find out more in today's blog by Dr Cynthia Johnston https://t.co/qkrO6xbfF1 On loan from

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2020-04-22

French diplomat Simon de La Loubère was born 1642. In 1687, he was appointed as Louis XIV's envoy extraordinary to the court of (#Thailand). His account is considered to be the best 17th-century work on Thailand:

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2020-04-21

Singing to the choir I know, but if you want to keep abreast of rare books and special collections matters you could do worse than ’s LIS-Rarebooks (a mailing list I help maintain). I promise 99% of the content will be “mildly interesting” or better☝️ https://t.co/AIYJXjGcnc

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2020-04-16

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

Today is World Health Day. This image is from a by Giovanni Aldini who is best known for his work on anatomy and galvanism. Aldini gave a display of electro-stimulaton of the limbs of a deceased man at Newgate in London in 1803.

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2020-04-07

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

Torn in Twain over which book to buy? Is the decision a real Hawthorne in your side? Or maybe looking for something with Poe-tential to take your mind off things? To Whit(man), here's our latest e-list of American Literature, all at 40% off: https://t.co/umkUSZJwZ9

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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

Though we weren't lucky enough to find a 🍀in our collections for here are lovely watercolor leaves in our French herbarium manuscript, possibly Explore this & 100+ other digitized https://t.co/RQDOj5jPQ0.

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2020-03-18

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

We have a gem of a for you today, John Mawe's 1813 Treatise on Diamonds. Mawe was a British mineralogist who opened a shop on The Strand in 1811 close to where the IET is now based in Savoy Place.

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2020-03-09

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