Primula Auricula by Pierre-Joseph Redouté for the book ‘Choix des plus belles fleurs’ Published in Paris from 1827-1832. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections. #PierreJosephRedouté #flowerillustration #botanicalart #naturalhistory #PrimulaAuricula #sciart

Insects from ‘Zoologischer Hand-Atlas zum Schulgebrauch und Selbstunterricht’ by German Zoologist Hermann Burmeister. Second edition. Published in Berlin, Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1860. #sciart #naturalhistory #insectart #insectillustration

Aurora Borealis on January 2, 1904 from the book ‘The Ziegler Polar Expedition, 1903-1905; by Commander Anthony Fiala. Published for the National Geographic society in 1907. #ZieglerPolarExpedition #AuroraBorealis #naturalhistory #scientificart #celestial #sciart

Snowdrops illustrated by Frederick Edward Hulme for ‘The Garland of the Year, or, The Months: their poetry and flowers : with twelve chromographs of flowers, one for each month.’ London, 1873. From my personal collection. ❄️ #FrederickEdwardHulme #LanguageofFlowers #chromolithograph #snowdrops

“Pilgrimage of the Comet” by J. J. Grandville from the book 'Un autre monde' (“Another World”). Paris; H. Fournier, 1844 #JJGrandville #rarebooks #19thcentury #bookillustration

Rothmannia longiflora from ‘Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe, annales générales d’horticulture.’ Gand (Belgique): Louis Van Houtte. Volume Two, 1846. University of Chicago Special Collections. #naturalhistory #botanicalart #flowers

Decorative patterns from “Plants, Their Natural Growth and Ornamental Treatment” by Frederick Edward Hulme, 1874. #botanicalart #flowerillustration #decorativearts #chromolithography

‘Cloud Crystals; A Snow-Flake Album’ collected and edited by Mrs. Frances E. Chickering. Lithographed plates and title page by J. F. Richardson. The book was published in New York by D. Appleton & co. in 1864. #CloudCrystals #snowflakes #snowflakeart #hernaturalhistory #bookhistory

‘Entomology in sport, and entomology in earnest’ by Mrs. W. (Mary King Ward, 1827-1869) and her sister Lady M. (Lady Jane Mahon), published in London, [1859]. University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections. #insectart #hernaturalhistory #19thcentury #rarebooks #bookhistory

Mineral and crystal illustrations by Maurice Dessertenne from Nouveau Larousse illustré encyclopedia, published under the direction of Claude Augé for Éditions Larousse between 1897 and 1904, in 7 volumes and a supplement. #mineralart #MauriceDessertenne #sciart #minerals #naturalhistory

Pheasants from the portfolio ‘Das thier in der decorativen kunst’ by Anton Seder, published in Vienna by Gerlach & Schenk in 1896. #AntonSeder #DecorativeArt #ArtNouveau #birdart

Insect Publishers' Binding! Martin P. Duncan and Emile Blanchard's 'The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects: (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea),' Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1870. #publishersbindings #publishersbindingthursday #insectart #beetleart

Bouquet of Anemone and Narcissus from 'Flora's Gems: Or, The Treasures of the Parterre: Twelve Bouquets,' drawn by Louisa Anne Twamley. Text by James Andrews. Published in London by Charles Tilt, 1837. UW-Madison Special Collections. #HerNaturalHistory #botanicalart #flowers

Animal engraving from “The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature," by Abraham Rees, London, 1820. Also known as "Rees's Cyclopædia." #scientificillustration #scientificart #engraving #vintageencyclopedia #naturalhistory #animalart

Meteors from ‘Bilder Atlas der Sternenwelt,’ edited by Edmund Weiss, professor of astronomy at the University of Vienna, and published in Esslingen, Germany, by J. F. Schreiber in 1888. UW-Milwaukee Special Collections. #sciart #chromolithograph

Insects from 'Physica sacra' or 'Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder, geheiligte Natur-wissenschafft derer in Heil' by Swiss naturalist and geologist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733). Published in Augsburg, 1731-1735. Northwestern University Special Collections. #rarebooks

Le Rollier à longs brins (Coracias caudatus) by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806. University of Chicago Special Collections. #rarebooks #birdart

I'm so excited that #RBMS26 is coming to Milwaukee, Wisconsin! My city has so many wonderful things to offer. I'm thrilled to be on the RBMS Conference Local Arrangements 2026 Committee helping to plan tours and other highlights. The deadline to submit proposals is this Friday December 12, 2025!

Anatomy of mouse 🐁 from 1916 featuring fold out details! ‘La souris (anatomie et dissection): planches coloriées à feuillets découpés et superposés’ by Jules Philippe Louis Anglas. UW-Madison’s Special Collections. #foldoutanatomy #animalanatomy #naturalhistory #scientificart #rarebooks #sciart

Death's head hawkmoth from “The Genera of British Moths. Popularly Described and Arranged According to the System now Adopted in the British Museum” by Henry Noel Humphreys, London, undated, c1860. I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections Library. #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart

Nautilus shells from ‘Deliciae naturae selectae’ by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Published in Nuremberg, 1766-67. Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections. #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart #rarebooks #bookhistory

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from ‘Illustrations of the British Salmonidae with Descriptions’ by Sir William Jardine. Edinburgh, 1839-1841. Drawings by Jardine, engraved by William Home Lizars, and colored by Gabriel Bayfield. Harvard’s Houghton Library. #rarebooks #sciart #naturalhistory

‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830. #printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks

Beetles from ‘Collection de fleurs, d’oiseaux d’insectes.’ Drawn and colored, some from nature, others from the colored plates of Buffon, Roezel, and Catesby by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789. Harvard’s Houghton Library. #naturalhistory #sciart #beetleart

Steel engraving after Audubon’s ‘Wild Turkey, Female and Young’ for ‘The Naturalist’s Library’ published by William Home Lizars, Edinburgh, 1834. Copperplate engraving from Audubon’s ‘The Birds of America,’ published 1827-1838. Engraved, printed, and colored by Robert Havell & Son. #rarebooks

Close up of Rachel Ruysch's 'Still Life with Fruit,' 1711. I saw this at the 'Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer' exhibtion at the MFA Boston. #hernaturalhistory #naturalhistory #insectart #animalart

It is National Game and Puzzle Week! ‘Floral Loto: A New Round Game’ was produced in London by Jaques & Son, [ca. 1872]. I saw this at University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections. #specialcollections #historyofgames #19thcentury

Beautiful marbled endpapers and speckled edges of the book ‘Traité de la construction des chemins’ by the French engineer Henri Gautier. Published in Paris by Chez Duchesne, 1755. Milwaukee Puiblic Library Rare Books. #marbledpaper #papermarbling #bookhistory

Mantis from 'An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas' by Edward Donovan. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800. I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library. #naturalhistory #insectart #HoughtonLibrary #insects #rarebooks #sciart

Gems and minerals from “Erdgeschichte” by Melchior Neumayr. Leipzig; Bibliographisches Institut 1897. #naturalhistory #sciart #chromolithography #minerals #mineralogy

Mollusks from 'Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome' by Giuseppe Saverio Poli. Parmae: Ex regio typographeio, 1791-1827. I saw this at the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington DC. #sciart #naturalhistory

November from Robert Furber’s ‘Twelve Months of Fruits,’ London, 1732. Plate designed by Pieter Casteels & engraved by James Smith. I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in August while taking the class ‘Cultural and Natural Ecologies’ taught by Amy Meyers and Therese O’Malley. 📚🌿

African spurred tortoise from ‘Cimelia physica’ engraved and colored by John Frederick Miller with descriptions by George Shaw. Printed by T. Bensley for B. and J. White, London, 1796. Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections. #rarebooks #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart

Phasianus colchicus, ring-necked pheasant, from ‘A Monograph of the Phasianidæ, or family of the Pheasants’ by Daniel Giraud Elliot. New York, 1870-72. I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections library @uwmadspec. #naturalhistory #antiquarianbooks #rarebooks

I spotted a book I have in my personal collection in Guillermo del Toro new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Elizabeth shows Victor a book she bought and it is “Episodes of Insect Life” by Acheta Domestica, M. E. S. a pseudonym for Louise M. Budgen, London, 1851. #hernaturalhistory

One of my favorite things I saw while I was in Boston was the Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) exhibition at the MFA. As a flower, insect, and book enthusiast it was a dreamy experience. #RachelRuysch #hernaturalhistory

Hand painted title page of ‘Collection de fleurs, d'oiseaux d'insectes.’ Drawn and colored, some from nature, others from the colored plates of Buffon, Roezel, and Catesby by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789. I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

Passiflora caerulea from ‘Ten Lithographic Coloured Flowers with Botanical Descriptions’ drawn and coloured by a lady. Printed from the stone by R. H. Nimmo. Published in Edinburgh by David Brown, 1826. UW-Madison Special Collections. #hernaturalhistory #botanicalart #passionflower

Crab from Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst’s ‘Versuch Einer Naturgeschichte Der Krabben Und Krebse Nebst Eiener Systematischen Beschreibung Ihrer Verschiedenen ARten.’ Zürich: Berlin: J.C. Fuessley; G.A. Lange, 1782. University of Chicago Special Collections #Crustaceans #sciart #naturalhistory

'The Infant's Cabinet of Insects.' London: Printed and Sold by John Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church-Yard, in Bow Lane, 1801. I saw this at Harvard's Houghton Library. Someone should recreate this! #insectart #naturalhistory #specialcollections #sciart

Fish from John Hill’s ‘A general natural history, or, New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world…’ London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, in Gray’s-Inn, Holbourn, 1748-1752 UW-Madison Special Collections. #rarebooks #naturalhistory

Two versions of Night-blooming cereus from Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora” in his book "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus." Published in London in 1807 and 1812. The first edition and the smaller "quarto" edition. UW-Madison Special Collections. #rarebooks

Early 20th century biological wall chart of jellyfish titled ‘Méduses Acalèphes’ from a series created by French biologists Rémy Perrier and Casimir Cépède, drawn by P. Méry and edited by Jean Montaudon. Published by F. Champenois in Paris. UWM Special Collections. #WorldJellyfishDay #animalart

Brown rat from ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,’ originally issued in 30 parts from 1845-1848. Drawn from nature by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The plates were printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Milwaukee Public Library Rare Books Collection.

The month of November from Durward’s ‘Floral Calendar Gathered from the Glen’ by artist and naturalist Charles P. Durward (1844-1875). Milwaukee Public Library’s Rare Books Collection. Each of the twelve months is represented with a beautifully delicate painting of plants. #botanicalart

Personified vegetables illustrated by Amedée Varin from ‘L’empire des légumes. Mémoires de Cucurbitus 1er‘ by Eugène Nus and Antony Meray.  Paris: G. de Gonet, 1861. I saw this at the Newberry Library in Chicago. 🥕🎃 #rarebooks #vegetableart #botanicalart

Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven.’ This edition was published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1884. The hauntingly beautiful illustrations are by Gustave Doré. Milwaukee Public Library #EdgarAllanPoe #GustaveDoré #TheRaven #woodengraving #bookhistory

Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’ #chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart

‘The Phantom Bouquet: A Popular Treatise on the Art of Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed-vessels and Adapting Them to Embellish the Home of Taste’ by Edward Parrish. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott ; London : Alfred Bennet, 1863. Milwaukee Public Library 🍁🍂 #leafart #botanicalart

Beetle illustrations from ‘Abbildungen Zu Oken’s Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte Für Alle Stände’ by Lorenz Oken. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1843. University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections. #naturalhistory#insectart #insectillustration #beetles #beetleart #beetleillustration #sciart