Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine

The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)

Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)

Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century

Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)

A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)

Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa (1858)

Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)

Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript

Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)

Mister Fox (1870)

Sartorial Foresight: Future Dictates of Fashion (1893)

Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

The Nitrous Oxide Experiments of Humphry Davy

The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage

The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)

Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)

The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)

Selection from Wellcome Library’s release of 100k openly licensed images