April 1880 SLIV/69 Artist and children’s book creator Walter Crane illustrated this book for his daughter Beatrice to tell the story of seasonal weather changes from April to June and their effects on plants. Seasons reveal weather’s ties to time hidden in many words for weather: Greek kairos means season, good timing, a decisive moment and Italian tempo, Spanish tiempo and French temps mean both weather and time.
Gwasg Gregynog (The Gregynog Press) Newtown, Powys, reprinted 1981 [S.L.] III [Gregynog Press] (P.C.) Weather is fundamentally tied to local knowledge and woven into local tradition. Weather signs gave people ways to read their county’s natural geography such as: ‘If the mist ascends out of the valleys to the hill-tops it is a sign of rain’. These sayings were collected by the prominent collector of Welsh folklore Reverend Elias Owen and later reprinted by the Gregynog Press (Gwasg Gregynog) in Tregynon, Wales. The Press was founded by the sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies to produce artistic prints using traditional skills to celebrate Welsh culture.
Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humourous tale written principally by a lady of ninety. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature.
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima. She doesn't look happy to see Cerberus!
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Plate from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Depicts Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Frontispiece of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759), Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium : in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur = Die natürliche Historie der Frösche hiesigen Landes : worinnen alle Eigenschaften derselben, sonderlich aber ihre Fortpflanzung umständlich beschrieben werden / cum praefatione illustris viri Alberti v. Haller ; edidit accuratisque iconibus ornavit, Augustus Iohannes Roesel von Rosenhof (Norimbergae = Nürnberg : Typis Iohannis Iosephi Fleischmanni = Gedruckt bey Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1758).
Description of the cocoa plant in Latin with handwritten English translation and illustration. From Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium : in qua erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus, ad vivum delineantur & describuntur, singulis eorum in plantas, flores & fructus collocatis, in quibus reperta sunt : tum etiam generatio ranarum, busonum rariorum, lacertarum, serpentum, araneorum & formicarum exhibetur ... / per Mariam Sibyllam Merian (Amstelodami : Sumptibus auctoris, ... ; venuntur & apud Gerardum Valk ..., Anno 1705).
Printed for A. Wilde London, 1764 [Rare] N [Book] The weather is an important influence on everyday life, including agriculture and trade. This is why instructions about how to predict weather were highly valued. Advice on weather prediction was published in educational and instructional manuals. Although this book sells itself as the ‘newest’ and ‘best’ and includes references to Francis Bacon, it is still steeped in weatherlore. It lists how different animal behaviours can indicate the arrival of certain types of weather.
The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather : grounded on forty years experience, by which you may know the weather for several days to come, and in some cases for months, to which is added a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c / by John Claridge, shepherd. ImprintLondon : printed for Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance, & Co., 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1827.
Bohun, R. (Ralph), d. 1716. A discourse concerning the origine and properties of vvind : with an historicall account of hurricanes, and other tempestuous winds / by R. Bohun Fellow of New Coll. in Oxon. ImprintOxford : printed by W. Hall for Tho. Bowman, anno Dom. 1671.
The little marine botanist : or, guide to the collection and arranging of sea-weed / by the author of "The little entomologist." (London : Darton and Clark, [184-]). ULL copy is from the Quick Memorial Library.
Title and first pages of Cats' Castle : with an account of how it was besieged and taken by the rats. Children's chapbook in the Quick Memorial Library, items related to the history of education.
