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    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the *Divina Commedia* (1855/1872)
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    Music & Arts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

    Karel Čapek’s *Letters from England* (1925)
    Books / 
    Travel & Exploration

    Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)

    Christoph Jamnitzer’s *Neuw Grotteßken Buch* (1610)
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    Design & Typography

    Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

    *Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs* (1869)
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    Love & Lust, Science & Medicine

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

    Anton Seder’s *The Animal in Decorative Art* (1896)
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    Animals & Beasts, Design & Typography

    Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s *Book of Were-Wolves* (1865)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Ghosts & Occult

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

    Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ *Lapponia* (1682)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

    Vanity of Vanities: *Fool’s Cap Map of the World* (ca. 1585)
    Images / 
    Maps, Humour & Satire

    Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s *Les Malheurs des immortels* (1922)
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    Music & Arts

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

    “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s *Impending Revolution* (1872)
    Books / 
    Politics, People

    “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)

    A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

    A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

    Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s *Briefe and True Report* (1590)
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    Customs & Culture, Colonialism & the 'Other', Travel & Exploration

    Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

    Edwin D. Babbitt’s *Principles of Light and Color* (1878)
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    Science & Medicine

    Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

    Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

    Luigi Cornaro’s *Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life* (1722 edition)
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    Food, Science & Medicine

    Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)

    *Antiquities of Mexico* (1831–48)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
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    Natural World, Politics

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

    *The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity* (1901 edition)
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    Customs & Culture, Love & Lust

    The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ *Lonesome* (1928)
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    Love & Lust

    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

    Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
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    Drugs, Design & Typography, Food

    Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s *Book of Monsters* (1914)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)