#fancybiobooks

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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.