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    NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res
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    Animals & Beasts, Technology

    NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res

    Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)
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    Science & Medicine

    Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

    Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica
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    Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica

    16th-Century Pattern Book for Scribes
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    Design & Typography

    16th-Century Pattern Book for Scribes

    The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema (1863)
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    Travel & Exploration

    The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema (1863)

    16th-Century Ornament Prints
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    Design & Typography, Architecture

    16th-Century Ornament Prints

    The Art of Dreams
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    People, Religion, Myth & Legend, Strange Phenomena

    The Art of Dreams

    America, a Personification (ca. 1590)
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    People, Politics, Customs & Culture

    America, a Personification (ca. 1590)

    Hoefnagel’s Guide to Constructing the Letters (ca. 1595)
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    Design & Typography

    Hoefnagel’s Guide to Constructing the Letters (ca. 1595)

    A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585)
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    People, Fashion

    A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585)

    Flowers of the Sky
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    Astronomy & Space

    Flowers of the Sky

    The Art of Swimming (1587)
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    Sport & Exercise

    The Art of Swimming (1587)

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

    Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century
    Books / 
    Communication

    Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century

    Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)
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    People

    Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)

    That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Wisdom

    That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)

    Salome with John The Baptist’s Head at the Rijksmuseum
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    Salome with John The Baptist’s Head at the Rijksmuseum

    Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)
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    People, Fashion, Customs & Culture

    Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)

    The Heart in Art
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    Maps

    The Heart in Art

    Jehan Cousin’s *Livre de Pourtraiture* (1608)
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    Geometry & Diagrams

    Jehan Cousin’s Livre de Pourtraiture (1608)

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Death

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    Diary Days from Christmas Past
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    People, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Diary Days from Christmas Past

    “I Reunite Architecture and Perspective”: Hirschvogel’s *Geometria* (1543)
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    Geometry & Diagrams

    “I Reunite Architecture and Perspective”: Hirschvogel’s Geometria (1543)