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    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)

    “A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s *The Learned Maid* (1659)
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    Politics

    “A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
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    Communication

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

    Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for *Nos Invisibles* (1907)
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    Death, Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

    Looking Backward: Images of *Rückenfiguren* (ca. 1497–1925)
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    Landscapes, Music & Arts

    Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

    The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)
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    Love & Lust

    The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
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    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

    “On This Desolate Island”: *Sodomy Punish’d* (1726)
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    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Love & Lust

    “On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

    Chromatic Aberrations: *The Toll of the Sea* (1922)
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    Love & Lust, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

    Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Drugs, Natural World, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

    The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)
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    Death, Science & Medicine

    The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

    *The Little Journal of Rejects* (1896)
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    Design & Typography, Humour & Satire, Music & Arts

    The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)

    Mayday, Mayday: *Capital and Labor* (1907)
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    Politics, Work

    Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
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    Architecture, Customs & Culture, Landscapes, People

    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
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    Music & Arts, Landscapes

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)

    Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s *Occult Chemistry* (1908)
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    Science & Medicine, Ghosts & Occult

    Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)

    Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
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    Strange Phenomena, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

    Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s *Weird Islands* (1921)
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    Stories, Travel & Exploration

    Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)

    Edith Wharton’s *Italian Villas and their Gardens* (1904)
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    Landscapes, Design & Typography

    Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ *Passio Verbigenae* (ca. 1580)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
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    Design & Typography, Natural World, Music & Arts, War

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)