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Who is the goodest boi?!🐶

A whole mess of puppers, doggos and woofers from 'The Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier' (1839)

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2019-12-06

We'll bring some pretty flowers to Stand 25 Mechelen (December 6-8). 772 chromolithographed plates in total. Find out more on our website:

https://t.co/hEyg84CysK

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2019-12-05

For day 3 of here's a little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). This was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates, with over 300 by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth.

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2019-12-03

Beautiful engraving from
Recueil des plans, élévations et coupes; an folio on French gardens and castles by Emmanuel Héré.
https://t.co/K9E7ncH0Cr

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2019-11-27

From December 6 to 8 you'll find us 1 of the items in our stand will be a depicting of the (#Vienna, 1879) by Austrian and former officer Joseph Machold

https://t.co/ZYGQgZb7xC

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2019-11-26

Just in case you felt like making a delicious soup, here's some inspiration from the 'The instructive picture book; or, lessons from the vegetable world' (1858)

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2019-11-18

Today is Day, celebrating and In this from 1867 you can see the Great Eastern ship picking up the Atlantic Cable and an electric telegraph office in Charing Cross.

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2019-11-06

It's night! In this from 1823 J. Badcock wrote about "winter amusements" including card tricks and making

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2019-11-05

Happy Halloween! 🧙‍♀️🧹🕷🎃
Come fly with some from
We will be sharing our favourite item ...

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2019-10-31

It's finally Halloween! 🦇🧛‍♂️🕷️

I'll be posting all things spooky from the

collection throughout today, starting with these bats from 'The Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier' (1835-40)

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2019-10-31

Of course they found the clues and put it all together using books!

https://t.co/5aHRPbiSYN

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2019-10-30

It's nearly Halloween! What's spookier than losing all of your skin, then losing all of your flesh and innards? Clumsy.

Inside the human body from 'Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle' (1849) from the collection

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2019-10-30

"The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands" (1928) contains 45 beautiful plates by Henrik Grönvold and Frederick W. Frohawk. Learn more about the process to digitize this from the Library for ➡️ https://t.co/YtENMIYabg

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2019-10-11

Only 225 copies of Gregory Mathews' "The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands" (1928) were produced. Marina Hunt & Brendan Bachman share their experience digitizing this for during a student placement at ➡️ https://t.co/YtENMIYabg

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2019-10-10

1901 the first Royal Navy submarine launched from This from 1866 describes the laying of the Atlantic Cable, a submarine cable, that began operation in August 1858, but failed a month later and it took six years for a new cable to be laid.

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2019-10-02

As millions march for change the world over, we're looking to our beautiful avian friends in the Blacker Wood Collection

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2019-09-27

R is for Rosa. Everything is coming up roses in this copy of The first and seconde partes of the Herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick [615.3 TUR].

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2019-09-18

Louis de Freycinet was born in 1779

Freycinet voyaged around the world in 1817-20, unusually accompanied by his wife Rose after she was able to pass as a man to be allowed on the ship

The ship, the L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands in Feb 1820

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2019-08-07

Getting hammered this weekend?

from ‘Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte’ by Gottleib Tobias Wilhelm (1799-1800)

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2019-08-03