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    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s *Christmas Garland* (1912)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

    Coney Island at Night (1905)
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    Architecture, Technology

    Coney Island at Night (1905)

    Modernity in the Rainforest: *Man and his Desire* (1917)
    Books / 
    The Arts, Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
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    Customs & Culture

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
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    War, Geometry & Diagrams

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

    Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)
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    Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)
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    Death, Fashion

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)
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    Architecture, Landscapes

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

    *Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
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    Language

    Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
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    Politics, Myth & Legend, War

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

    Charles H. Bennett’s *Shadows* (ca. 1856)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

    *A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
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    Customs & Culture, Language, Victorian

    A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

    Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s *Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars* (ca. 1430)
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    Science & Medicine, Space

    Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

    *A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)
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    Natural World, The Arts

    A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

    George Washington Williams’ *History of the Negro Race in America* (1882–83)
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    Customs & Culture, War

    George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

    *The Works of Mars* (1671)
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    Architecture, War

    The Works of Mars (1671)

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)
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    Design & Typography, Novelty, Victorian

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
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    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

    Hokusai’s *Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China* (1836)
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    War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
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    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

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