Whilst most Sir Hans Sloane& #39;s natural history specimens took flight to @NHM_London in the 1880s some remained @britishmuseum and came instead to @britishlibrary
Quite the trail for these little beasts - still preserved in this 17th-century & #39;Insectorum& #39;
#collectionsunited
Whilst most Sir Hans Sloane& #39;s natural history specimens took flight to @NHM_London in the 1880s some remained @britishmuseum and came instead to @britishlibrary Quite the trail for these little beasts - still preserved in this 17th-century & #39;Insectorum& #39; #collectionsunited
Whilst most Sir Hans Sloane& #39;s natural history specimens took flight to @NHM_London in the 1880s some remained @britishmuseum and came instead to @britishlibrary Quite the trail for these little beasts - still preserved in this 17th-century & #39;Insectorum& #39; #collectionsunited
The book & #39;Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum& #39; printed in London in 1634, is in very fragile condition. We have many books with plant specimens, few (maybe just this one) with bugs. With @BL_CollCare & @BL_Digitisation we are carefully conserving and digitising the item
The book & #39;Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum& #39; printed in London in 1634, is in very fragile condition. We have many books with plant specimens, few (maybe just this one) with bugs. With @BL_CollCare & @BL_Digitisation we are carefully conserving and digitising the item
The book & #39;Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum& #39; printed in London in 1634, is in very fragile condition. We have many books with plant specimens, few (maybe just this one) with bugs. With @BL_CollCare & @BL_Digitisation we are carefully conserving and digitising the item
The book & #39;Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum& #39; printed in London in 1634, is in very fragile condition. We have many books with plant specimens, few (maybe just this one) with bugs. With @BL_CollCare & @BL_Digitisation we are carefully conserving and digitising the item
We are taking very good care of the Gadfly - perhaps a contender for one of the #smallest items @britishlibrary ?!
The volume is recorded on the Library& #39;s online catalogue
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01002567712">https://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSC... but had no note about the specimens. Brief catalogue records are one of the problems with such large historical collections and it& #39;s not surprising it missed the trip to @NHM_London
As many of Sloane& #39;s books have been dispersed throughout collections, work is under way to indentify them and catalogue them. This particular volume is recorded on The Sloane Printed Books Catalogue: a & #39;Virtual reconstruction& #39; of Sloane& #39;s Library:
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=025-000000714&QueryID=2&Type=0">https://www.bl.uk/catalogue...
Collection moves, reorganisations; sales of duplicates (to raise money for new acquisitions in the past) mean some of Sloane& #39;s books can be found in other libraries around the world. 42,000 have been identified for the catalogue; we continue to trace them
https://www.bl.uk/projects/sloane-printed-books">https://www.bl.uk/projects/...
#collectionsunited #DYK you might find some of Sloane& #39;s books in ... @NLNZ (Alexander Turnbull Library); @RareBooksOfBod; @BPLBoston; @No1Cathedral; @ChelsPhysicGdn; @EdUniLibraries; @FolgerLibrary; @UofGlasgowASC; @ransomcenter; @TheJohnRylands; @subugoe; @MorganLibrary & others
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