Turning the Book Wheel
Shoes, shoes, and more shoes! Gazette du bon ton, 1921, t.2
I wish the fish on the bottom could write messages with those appendages. Icones piscium : indicem systematicum
A book plate illustrating various echinoderms is the last place Patrick should be surprised to find himself.
Detail of the Echinodermata plate from Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people: in three parts…by William Forshell Kirby et al (1889) with a few edits.
The Newfoundland Dog, from an Italian translation of The Naturalist’s cabinet, Il gabinetto del giovane naturalista, t.2 by Thomas Smith.
Newfoundland’s exhibit a natural ability to rescue people from the water, in fact, In 1828,Ann Harveyof Isle aux Morts, her father, her brother, and a Newfoundland Dog named Hairyman saved over 160 Irish immigrants from the wreck of the brig Dispatch.
And out of the night came a silver bird bearing a boy who carried letters of introduction to Paris.
Reblogging this post to for TDIH Charles Lindbergh is born February 4, 1902
For Hannukah - an Illustration by E. M. Lillien in Die entwicklung der modernen buchkunst in Deutschland by Otto Grautoff. (1901)
I can’t 100% tell if that candelabra is a Menorah or not, but it’s vaguely Hannukah-ish….anyone who reads Hebrew feel free to correct me!
Robert John Thornton New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus …(1807) not the birds and the bees…the birds and the roses. June is national rose month. (via Smithsonian Institution Libraries : Roses SIL7-290-03)
