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“The Sea-Fight” — woodcut print by Dwiggins, c. 1907. (For sale at 50 cents each.)

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2021-09-08

"They seek him here, they seek him there..." in this case, the not quite so elusive scarlet pimpernel plant. Woodcut illustration from William Turner's Herbal, a fascinating 16th century work examining the medicinal properties of plants [1578, 615.3 TUR].

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2021-02-24

Travels with Ptolemy!

1540 hand-colored Cosmography with a side order of (putative) cannibalism.
One of my favorite woodcuts in

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2020-11-18

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

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2020-04-29

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

“What are the crying sins of this our State”
Barebones woodcut illustrating a Royalist broadside poem, ‘An Elegie and Epitaph upon ... Lord Francis Villars’ printed in London, 1648. Unique copy held

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2019-11-20

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

Bizarre sounding herbal remedy for removing "worms in the face" from the book Toilet of Flora [668.5 Buc]. The concoction included bean flowers, melon seeds & white lilies like those seen in this 16th century [945 HER].

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2019-05-30

It's Datura (also known as Jimsonweed, Locoweed, Devil's snare, and Hell's Bells) appears in this 16th century herbal by Cristóbal Acosta; via and . See more here: https://t.co/eFXZsfoNNZ

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2018-09-26

Anne Boleyn was crowned queen in 1533. This shows the ‘noble triumphant coronation’.

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2016-06-01

Beaver, from Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658) http://t.co/GkYIoLBMaT

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2015-10-01