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Books, birds, sometimes both

A hand-coloured woodcut of seaweed, close up
A page from a 17th-century book, with text in Dutch and three woodcut illustrations of seaweeds. The woodcuts have wavy lines across to show they’re underwater
A stack of three cardboard cartons depicting the TGV, containing stale-looking baguette sandwiches . Captioned ‘ "Sandwich 260" offered on board TGVs, 1981.’
A mosquito trapped in the fibres of an 18th-century page
Part of a Dutch nautical chart of the north Atlantic, showing Ireland (captioned ‘Yrlant’). Place names around the coast are in antiquated Dutch spelling
A mosquito caught among the fibres of a page from an 18th-century book - TCD Fag.I.1.83
Page from a 16th-century botanical work, showing a black and white woodcut of a carnation. From Bock’s De stirpium … quad in Germania nostra nascuntur (Strasbourg: 1552). TCD Fag.I.7.6
Hand-coloured engraving of a harpy from Johnstonus De avibus (Frankfurt: Merian, 1650) — TCD Fag.M.4.51 no.2
Title page of a 16th-century book with water staining at top edge
Woodcut illustration captioned ‘onocentaurus’, printed in the 1623 Frankfurt edition of Aldrovandi’s De quadripedibus. Centaur has no front legs
15 letter ‘A’s in a row: A collation signature at the foot of a page of a large book printed in 1735
A small woodcut illustration of a gentleman in 17th-century dress flying a kite in the shape of a dragon. From Kircher’s Physiologia experimentalis (1680). TCD Fag.N.1.5 p.118
A sixteenth-century woodcut of a unicorn, with Latin citation from Psalm 28 below
Catalogue card with typewritten text: England: 1892 The Refuse Disposal Co. Steam power from house dust for electric lighting and other purposes; produced by the patented process of the Refuse Disposal io., Ltd. Landon: [n.pub], 1892 Printed: London: Adam Bros. OL Pa. 284/12
A hand-coloured copy of Johnstonus’s monstrous rooster (TCD Fag.M.4.51-52)
A chunky 17th-century book in a vellum binding, with a pencil for scale. (TCD Fag.G.16.36)
Spine of an 18th-century book, with red label reading ‘LESS DOGMATIK’. The book is by Gottfried Less, Christliche Religions-theorie fürs gemeine Leben, Oder Versuch einer praktischen Dogmatik (Göttingen: 1780). TCD Fag.A.10.112
Another version of the same signature from the same title page
A stylised signature on the title page of a 16th-century book
The flyleaf of a 17th-century book, inscribed ‘Joanna’ in ink with no other information. TCD Fag.H.8.30
Close-up of a page from a 17th century book, showing a manicule in the margin.
A black and white allegorical map unfolded from an eighteenth century book, titled ‘A new map of the land of matrimony’. It shows imaginary islands and coastline surrounded by the Ocean of Love. Topographical features include the ‘Gulf of Reproach,' 'Fortresse of Love Dismantled,' 'Dead Lake of Indifference,' and 'Divorce.’ From the Fagel Collection in Trinity College Dublin, shelfmark Fag.C.6.69a