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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
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Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Mackenzie, Maggie
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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Books
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Drawings & Watercolors
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unknown
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19th century
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18th century
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watercolor
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botanical illustration
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ink drawing
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sketchbook
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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cut-paper work
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featherwork
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graphite drawing
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herbaria
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albums (books)
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engraving
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exercise book
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game
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recreation
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scientific illustration
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armorial bookplate
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decorated paper
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embossed print
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feather (material)
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notebook
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Women in natural history.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Ornithology -- Great Britain.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Birds -- Pictorial works.
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Botany -- Study and teaching.
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813.
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Flowers -- Pictorial works.
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Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941.
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Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778. Systema naturae.
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Natural history -- Study and teaching.
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School notebooks -- Great Britain.
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Women in science -- Great Britain.
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Zaehnsdorf (Firm) -- Bookbinder.
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Animal products -- Specimens.
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Astronomy -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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Baskets.
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Great Britain
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
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Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
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Burgess family
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Crafton, Edith C., 1833–
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Gould, John, 1804–1881
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Head, Frederick William, 1854–1886
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Howard, John, 1726–1790
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
1
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830
1
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746–1827
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
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Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762–1850
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Somerville, Julia Valenza, 1792–1879
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Withering, William, 1741–1799
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
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Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
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English
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
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Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds
1830s?
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Specimens of articles in common use
between 1840 and 1860?
4
Album of bird illustrations made from bird feathers
approximately 1880
5
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria
1796-1803
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
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Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
Edith C. Crafton science notebook, completed at South End House, Croydon
ca.1850
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Cut-paper basket
Great Britain,
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Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
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Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
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Featherwork corncrake,
circa 1850?
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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
The elements of botany
1837
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Mackenzie, Maggie
Maggie Mackenzie botany notebook
Great Britain,
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810
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[Paper quillwork picture of a flower vase]
[ca. 1820?]
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
Hepatics and mosses from the herbarium of the Countess of Aylesford
circa 1790-1810