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November 7, 2024
Seventeenth century botanical illustrations discovered at New College Library TAGS: Botany | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | New College Library | rare books | science | seventeenth-century Recently catalogued online and now on display in New College Library’s entrance hall is this seventeeth century botanical work, Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarium plantarum centuria prima. Written by Jakob Breyne, it …Continue reading →
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