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In need of some inspiration? Take a look at the beautiful Peony watercolours by Clara Marie Pope (1767-1838). 💐🌺🌷🌹 These are taken from Pope's collection on different species and varieties of the genus Paeonia. 💐

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2023-02-14

A sawfish and a boxfish from the beautifully illustrated & handwritten manuscript notes of Samuel Richard Tickell, 1811-75: https://t.co/Eqjt65hecc
Today is the 11th day of our 12 days of only one more day left for this celebration of fish in our 🐠

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2022-12-30

For Friday, here are three different depictions of David and his harp from some of our medieval psalters (i.e. books containing the Book of Psalms).

(Photos: MS 131, fol. 7r, MS 196, fol. 7r, MS 204, fol. 14r)



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2022-06-24

Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant born was born in 1726. Here are just a few of the 107 engravings from his book 'The British Zoology', 1766, this edition "published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society".

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2022-06-14

John Gerrard Keulemans was born in 1842. He provided many illustrations for ZSL's Proceedings and Transactions, now continued at . These are a few examples of his original art works in our

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2022-06-08

Jemima Blackburn née Wedderburn was 1823. Forming part of our we have this beautiful copy of her 'Birds drawn from nature', 1868. Her observations of cuckoos laying eggs were used by Charles Darwin in 6th ed. of 'Origin of Species'.

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2022-05-01

Happy
Did you listen to Usually begins with blackbirds, robins & thrushes then joined by woodpigeons, wrens & warblers.
Lithographs from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873 in our

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2022-05-01

For we are holding some library tours for & Patrons, getting up close to our including these Edward Lear plates in two books "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae" & "Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall"

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2022-04-23

Today is & so we are featuring images in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's "Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium"(1758) - a classic book on the study of amphibians.
One of our highlights this wonderful book: https://t.co/M8HjCtV04Q🐸

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2022-03-20

and items from : Shirley Temple Christmas Book (1937) from Lois Lenski Collection of 📚🎄#PaperDolls https://t.co/vwVocTzRkl

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2021-12-26

Which of our beautiful natural spaces are you going to be spending time in this summer? We 💚the incredible details in Flora Australasica by Robert Sweet with drawings by E. D. Smith (1827)
https://t.co/JbZ5DyAVeo
🌿🌿🌿

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2021-12-20

Image-A-Day🎥📚🐭
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and His Friends (1936) held in Lois Lenski Collection in Nichols https://t.co/tK7nyCHGm3

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2021-11-19

Happy
A lovely lithograph of a lemur by Lear (Edward Lear) from 'Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall', 1846-50.
We do like alliteration & tongue twisters, they do seem appropriate for someone remembered for his 'nonsense'.

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2021-10-29

We'll be looking out for these beauties in our backyards as part of this year. We love the idea of an too! So many possibilities with this Cockatoo!

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2021-10-21

Are you following all the drama of the Australian bird of the year voting? The Gang Gang Cockatoo is a clear front runner with 955 votes. It's day 3 of voting though, so the Gouldian Finch could make a comeback! https://t.co/ZC9uW6Czl6 1/2

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2021-09-29

As students start their first full week of classes, we want to share these delightful tricolour French curls. From William Somner's "The Antiquities of Canterbury" (1640). https://t.co/vsVNWbhwGX

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2021-09-14

Spring is blooming in our room, just in time for We hope this brings a little colour to your feed today ☀️🌸🌼 What's blooming in your garden? 👩‍🌾🏡More 👉https://t.co/oWJvIINurY

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2021-09-07

Image-A-Day📚🐘
For from Bass Business, Bizzell Bible, & Nichols Pictorial History of the American Circus (1957), Biblia sacra (1710), History of Four-footed Beasts (1658) and Babar the King (1935)

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2021-08-13

has become a whole week! 🦈
To begin celebrations, here are several examples of wonderful depicting All from a in our by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, published 1864.

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2021-07-14

🍓It’s season & we’ve been fruit picking in our illuminated collection 🍓 Can you spot the strawberries in our early 16th century French Book of Hours?

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2021-07-05