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🎨⏳🕯🖌🌾 Turkestan Sparrow, from The Birds of Asia, by John Gould 1804-1881. Considered the father of bird study, Gould's identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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2021-04-06

Here's the finished of the (Vol.1, pl.3) in Gould's Birds of Europe https://t.co/SGVNmXmvIz. All 5 volumes held by are freely available to view https://t.co/HN5wrG4P5U

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2021-03-04

Illustration of blue-collared parrots (male above, female below), today's from Gould's "The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands" (1878-1888). Pic via https://t.co/ywjXBQUrcw

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2021-01-27

Highlights from John Gould's groundbreaking Mammals of Australia (1845–63) — https://t.co/cWyu1mYB4Q

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2021-01-26

Just four more sleeps! 🎄🎅

Of course we had to get all festive up in here with this week's

We've got John Gould's classic red robins, and an illustration from our first edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

Have a go now: https://t.co/Kfli44Kbe2

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2020-12-21

From Glenn Gould's copy of the Goldberg Variations!

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2020-11-03

September is Australian Biodiversity Month 🐨🦜🦘

Over the month I'm going to post illustrations of Australian animals from rare books in the library collection, starting with these koalas from John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' (1863)

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2020-09-03

Are you flitting from task to task? Need five minutes to zone out & get your focus rolling again? Check out this week's jigsaws, featuring John Gould's beautiful hummingbirds and a section from our history roll. Play now 🧩 https://t.co/917cQs5RFg

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2020-06-15

Lithographs by from 'Birds of Europe', a large-scale work on European bird-life published in five volumes between 1832-1837. Gould wrote the text & it was illustrated with 448 lavish plates, 68 of these by Lear.

Now in 's Ruskin Collection.

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2020-06-12

🦚🦜 A Box of Cut-paper Featherwork Illustrations inspired by John Gould's Birds (1865). 🦆🕊 Each piece is given a three dimensional form by a judicious padding of the bird bodies which are, in turn, pricked with a pin to create texture.

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2020-06-02

In our new blog series, Glenn Gould's Guide to Social Distancing, we will be sharing Gould’s evergreen insight & wisdom as it pertains to our current era. In our latest post, we look at Glenn Gould’s essential listening for the isolated: https://t.co/LVwdYprukE

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2020-04-10

Birds in the park: Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing.......about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings, by S Diggles & J Gould, BHL/Smithsonian, 1877,
https://t.co/8gYh8FHXtz

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2020-04-09

‘Turtle Doves’ from John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain', issued in parts 1863-1873. Hopefully some Turtle Doves will arrive in the UK by late April.

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2020-04-05

Gould's Australian Collection and the park: please help BHL add machine tags to the images in this fabulous collection ........https://t.co/9bcWd2lVhS

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2020-02-06

A small selection of from John Gould's 'The Mammals of Australia', [1845-]63 for Lithographed by Henry Constantine Richter.

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2020-01-27

Highlights from John Gould's groundbreaking Mammals of Australia (1845–63) — https://t.co/cWyu1mYB4Q

Scientists estimate that the devastating in have killed more than one billion animals.

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2020-01-25

is open today but will be closed tomorrow Wednesday 18 December. We are open again as usual on Thursday. As a black-throated thrush has been spotted we thought you may like to see a lithograph of a couple from Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873.

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2019-12-17

SURPRISE ! We're your buddy 🎁!

We know you love peacocks & Asian art, so we're gifting you John Gould's "Birds of Asia", 7 big volumes of beautiful birds! https://t.co/f9Dyr6rJaI

Hope you like it! ❤️❤️

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2019-12-14

Off to Gangtok on assignment; leaving you all with this illustration from one of India's most beautiful that keeps eluding me- the Gould's Sunbird. Crossing fingers hoping to see one this time!

Order your copy of Bird Business on https://t.co/82ih76ZeFA

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2019-12-01

Pleased we managed to help and as a 'thank you' here are a pair of turtle doves from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', vol. 4.

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2019-12-01