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    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
    Books / 
    Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: *A Book of Sundial Mottoes* (1903)
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    Death, Design & Typography, Wisdom

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

    Many-Colored Misdirection: *Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom* (1909)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

    *Frost Flowers on the Windows* (1899)
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    Natural World, Strange Phenomena, Ghosts & Occult

    Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)

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

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

    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)

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

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

    Imaging Inscape: *The Human Soul* (1913)
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    Ghosts & Occult, Technology, Strange Phenomena, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)

    Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s *The Letter H* (1880)
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    Victorian, Language

    Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s The Letter H (1880)

    Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s *Letter on the Blind* (1749)
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    Customs & Culture

    Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)

    On *Sprezzatura*: Baldassare Castiglione’s *The Book of the Courtier* (1528)
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    Customs & Culture

    On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1528)

    The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Maps

    The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
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    Space

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

    Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879)
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    Drugs

    Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879)

    Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)
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    Victorian, Customs & Culture

    Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)

    Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)
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    Ghosts & Occult, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

    First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” (1852)
    Books / 
    Politics

    First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” (1852)

    Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)
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    Death

    Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

    George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)
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    Natural World

    George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

    The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Geometry & Diagrams

    The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)

    The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)
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    Sex

    The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)

    The Philosophy of Beards (1854)
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    Victorian, Fashion, Customs & Culture

    The Philosophy of Beards (1854)

    First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
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    Wisdom

    First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

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