Beschreibung:
The British Library is the national library of the UK. The collection includes well over 150 million items, ranging from books, manuscripts, magazines and newspapers to maps, prints, drawings and music scores. The Library also stages regular exhibitions and visitor numbers exceed 1.5 million each year.
The British Library Desk Diary 2018 gathers together beautiful and fascinating images from the library's collection of natural history illustrations. Sourced from manuscripts, journals and rare books, the range of nature's beauty is represented, and includes birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles and fish. Artists include John J. Audubon, Maria Sybilla Merian, Archibold Thorburn and George Edwards.