#fancybiobooks

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Quick catching up on my #Pride #FancyBioBooks binding for the #librariesofinstagram challenge this week for #libraryloveisloveislove. Monday was red, so here is a bright red #bookcover from Histoire Naturelle des Champignons Comestibles et ve´ne´neux (1883) by Guillaume Sicard. View more in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/DnKK30klZIz _________________________________________________ #Mushrooms #Fungi #BookBinding #PrideMonth #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory

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We're celebrating the wonder of #trees for #Feathursday! Explore Tenants of the Trees (1907) by Clarence Hawkes, which was contributed for digitization by @amnh to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6478661 _________________________________________________ #Birds #Tree #PublishersBindingThursday #BookBinding #BookCovers #FancyBioBooks #FancyBookBinding #AMNH #AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #AMNH

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Happy #Pride! Today's featured color of the rainbow for #FancyBioBooks binding is #orange! This cover comes from Beautiful Ferns (1882) by Daniel Cady Eaton, which was digitized by Harvard Botany Libraries for inclusion in #BHLib: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48314815 -- Thanks to NUL Transportation and San Francisco Public Library for sponsoring the colorful pride fun! _________________________________________________ #PrideMonth #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibrariesChallenge #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory

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Even #bookcovers have #SciArt! This #FancyBioBooks cover is from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1853) by Emmanuel Le Maout in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/SFAx30hAG3b View more book covers on my @pinterest board for #PublishersBindingThursday: http://ow.ly/kBKZ30hAG5a _________________________________________________ #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory

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Exquisite #bookplate of Scotland's Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. More #FancyBioBooks #bookplates on my Pinterest: http://ow.ly/HyBe30eHSSZ

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Beautiful marbled paper from François André Michaux, The North American Sylva, Vol. 2 (1853) for #MarbledMonday! The deep blue reminds us of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Libraries (@silibraries) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/207141 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #MarbledPaper #Marbling #FancyBioBooks #DecorativePaper #SmithsonianLibraries

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Marbled Monday!

This lush green marbled paper makes us think of rainforests! From inside Moths and Butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains (c1900) by Sherman F. Denton. Contributed for digitization by @smithsonianlibraries.

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday! 

Lovely gilt and dark blue book cover of The Common Moths of England (1870) by the Rev. John George Wood with illustrations by E. Smith, T.W. Wood, and W.S. Coleman. Contributed for digitization by @smithsonianlibraries.

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Art Nouveau Type Tuesday 

Title Page to Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Papilionine tribe Troides of Hubner, or Ornithoptera [bird-wing butterflies] of Boisduval, Vol. 2 (1907) by Robert R.F. Rippon. One of our absolute favorites and an excellent representation of Art Nouveau style. Contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Libraries (@smithsonianlibraries).

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Marbled Monday!

Inside Vol. 1 of Morphologie der Erdoberfläche (Morphology of the Earth's surface) (1894) by Albrecht Penck (1858-1945). Contributed for digitization by Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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Type Tuesday!

Bookplate of Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), ornithologist, paleontologist, naturalist, explorer, and 6th Secretary of the @smithsonian for this #TypeTuesday! His field notebooks and photo albums are a favorite of many #volunpeers of @smithsoniantranscriptioncenter, Smithsonian Archives, and @smithsonianlibraries! This plate is inside Dodo-studiën (1917) by Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, which was contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday! 

Dreaming of sailing away to far off lands? Cover of The Voyage of Francois Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope by François Le Guat, edited and annotated by Captain Pasfield Oliver. Contributed for digitization by University of Pittsburgh Library System via @internetarchive.

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Type Tuesday!

Beautiful Celtic design on this bookplate for #TypeTuesday! The owner's name appears to be Alfred T. de Lury, and the bookplate is signed by A.S. Carter. The plate has a quotation from Lionel Johnson's poem, "Ireland", which reads "By the forgetful waters they forget / Not thee, O Inisfail!" If you have any other information or ideas on the plate, please let us know! 

Found inside the book: Contributions towards a fauna and flora of the county of Cork, read at the meeting of the British association held at Cork in the year 1843. The Vertebrata by Dr. Harvey. The Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata by J.D. Humphreys. The flora by Dr. Power. (Published by the Cuvierian society of Cork) (1845). Contributed for digitization by the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto Libraries.

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Need inspiration for a personalized bookplate? Charles William Case Deering (1876 - 1924) in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/5e7u30aY205 #FancyBioBooks

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday!

Cover of Practical Camellia Culture: a treatise on the propagation and culture of the Camellia japonica (1880) by Robert J. Halliday. Contributed for digitization by @ncsulibraries via @internetarchive to Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

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Publisher’s Binding Thursday!

Cover of Die Alpenpflanzen nach der Natur gemalt, Vol. 1 (1879) by Joseph Seboth. Contributed for digitization by the United States Geological Survey Libraries Program.