A Silver Anniversary · KU Libraries Exhibits

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Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814.

Plate 42, "Red Owl, Warbling Flycatcher, Purple Finch, and Brown Lark"

The comparative anatomy of the avian and human skeletons, pp. 40 and 41 of Pierre Belon's L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, Paris: Gilles Corrozet, 1555.

John Gould, Chlorostilbon Portmanni (Poortman's Emerald hummingbird).

John Gould, A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds, London, 1849-1861, 5v. Shown here is plate 358 in v.5, 1861 (published 1860). The name of this bird from the neighborhood of Bogota should be Poortmanni rather than Portmanni. From the collection of Ralph Ellis, acquired by him from H. Sotheran.

Carl von Linné, Systema naturae, Lugduni Batavorum: T. Haak, 1735.

Inula helenium, or Fleabane (Elenium), original woodblock designed and cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for the 1562 and 1565 editions of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica.

This block is from the only surviving series of original blocks representing the great folio woodcut-illustrated scientific books of the mid-sixteenth century. Shown with the block is its image as printed in T.J. Fitzpatrick's copy (exhibit 8) of the…

Inula helenium, or Fleabane (Elenium), original woodblock designed and cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for the 1562 and 1565 editions of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica.

"The Vosper Hours," France, ca 1470.

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.

"The Vosper Hours," France, ca 1470.

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.