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Happy Butterfly Day to those who celebrate! 😉🦋 Hayley, the Manager of Museums Victoria Library sure does! Take a look behind the scenes of our new Rare Book Collection, now available at Museums Victoria Store: https://brnw.ch/21wHR8I 📖 An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and Other Islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans (1805) by Edward Donovan. #NationalLearnAboutButterfliesDay | Museums Victoria

Come and see our rare book collection 📜 Did you know we have around 250,000 rare books spanning the 14th and 21st centuries, and anyone can request to view them in our Archives and Special Collections? Learn more about the collection here → unimelb.me/3VdILfl Details of the books shown in this video: 1. The banksias, Celia E. Rosser and Alexander S. George, London: Academic Press, 1988, Rare Books Collection, University of Melbourne 2. La divina commedia, Dante Alighieri, Florence, 1883, Rare B