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Our Chris Brooks Collection includes several festive books for children, such as 'Snap-Dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve' by Juliana Horatia Ewing, published in 1888. We love the cover art! 🐉 [Brooks 828.8/EWI]

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2019-12-16

Today is day 16 of so here's a delightful arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

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2019-12-16

The 7th day of
Will you be eating figgy pudding at Christmas? This tradition dates back to 16th century when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured botanical illustration by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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2019-12-07

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

Have you been to see the moon yet?
Come along to Jubilee to see free a collection of beautiful &
Find out more here: https://t.co/NShbM1FAqG

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2019-11-29

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

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