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Oct 08, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Botanical Rarities

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To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. from "God's Garden" -- Robert Frost The first Mesopotamian writings on clay tablets included information about plants. Ancient pharmacopoeias recorded...

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Jul 15, 2019 The Sphinx on our Shelves: the Voynich Manuscript

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"The former owner of this book asked your opinion by letter, copying and sending you a portion of the book from which he believed you would be able to read the remainder, but he at that time refused to send the book itself. To its...

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