This #FloralFriday enjoy a 🌸 bouquet 🌸 from “Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent” by George Shaw, James Edward Smith and #JamesSowerby in 1794.

1 (Zoology) - Zoology of New Holland - Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

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It's #MarsupialMonday! The feathertail glider is the smallest gliding mammal in the world – one of these weighs only 12 grams ⚖️ . This image by #JamesSowerby is from George Shaw's The Zoology of New Holland (1794). Thanks to Museums Victoria. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653669

@silibraries 🌈 Hope your weekend’s been as fun as this colorful Opah fish from “The British miscellany” (1806). Author James Sowerby described unusual natural history specimens from his own collection.

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British & Exotic Mineralogy All 2,242 of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compe...

#Mineralogy #art 🤩 - All 2,242 illustrations from #JamesSowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by #color.

https://www.c82.net/mineralogy/