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    *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)

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
    Books / 
    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)
    Books / 
    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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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Wisdom

    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)
    Books / 
    Novelty, People

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

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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    Customs & Culture, Novelty, Politics, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

    Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s *Campi Phlegraei* (1776–79)
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    Landscapes, Science & Medicine

    Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
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    Sex

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

    A Vanishing Nova: *Uranographia Britannica* (ca. 1749)
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    Science & Medicine, Space

    A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

    Knowledge by the Pound: *The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread* (1768)
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    Language

    Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)

    Judith Sargent Murray’s *On the Equality of the Sexes* (1790)
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    Politics, Sex

    Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

    Resurrection on Repeat: *Rules and Orders of the Humane Society* (1787)
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    Death, Science & Medicine, Technology

    Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
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    Customs & Culture, Language, Religion

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

    Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Emotion and Expression

    Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
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    Customs & Culture, Sport

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

    *Clavis Artis* by “Zoroaster”
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    Animals & Beasts, Ghosts & Occult, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
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    Strange Phenomena, Novelty

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

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