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    “The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    “The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

    Peckish Alphabetics: *The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye* (ca. 1793–1796)
    Books / 
    Communication

    Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)

    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)
    Books / 
    Food, Science & Medicine

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

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

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

    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)

    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)

    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)

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s *Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium* (1705)
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    Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

    The Age of Impoliteness: *Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners* (1774 edition)
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    Customs & Culture

    The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

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

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

    “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)

    My Body is a ~~Temple~~ Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s *Ma’aseh Tuviyah* (1708)
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    Architecture, Science & Medicine

    My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

    Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
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    Customs & Culture

    Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

    Blights of the Bookish: *An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons* (1768)
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    Science & Medicine, Work

    Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

    Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)
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    Natural World, Science & Medicine, Animals & Beasts

    Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)

    *Dool-Hoff*: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
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    Wisdom, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

    *A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee* (1792)
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    Drugs, Food, Science & Medicine

    A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)

    A Bestiary of Loss
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    Animals & Beasts, Death, Natural World

    A Bestiary of Loss

    A Pantomime and Masquerade: *Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London* (1716)
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    Humour & Satire, Travel & Exploration

    A Pantomime and Masquerade: Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)

    Etteilla’s *Livre de Thot* Tarot (ca. 1789)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    Etteilla’s Livre de Thot Tarot (ca. 1789)

    Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s *A Pickle for the Knowing Ones* (1848)
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    People

    Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)