FlowerMart 2012 is here! Look at all the beautiful botanical books your eyes can feast on. Pretty, pretty, pretty!!!
Calm After the Storm!
Hurray! The George Peabody Library survived Hurricane Irene. What better way for a library chock-full of old books to celebrate than to focus on a lovely image from awesome 18th century “lady scholar” Marie Sybille de Merian’s Histoire Générale des Insectes de Surinam. Of course, being the Wunderkammer, this image of beautiful flowers and cute bee hives is now making us feel like we have fuzzy insects crawling all over us!
Info for You Bibliomaniacs: Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l’Europe : contenant leurs descriptions, leurs figures, leurs differentes metamorphoses, de même que les descriptions des plantes, fleurs & fruits, dont ils se nourissent … / par Mademoiselle Marie Sybille de Merian, en deux parties in-folio. Paris : L.C. Desnos, 1771.
Call No.: 500 X27 FOLIO
Location: George Peabody Library
