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    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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    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)
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    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)
    Books

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

    The Philosophy of Beards (1854)
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    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)

    Autographs for Freedom (1853)
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    Politics

    Autographs for Freedom (1853)

    “Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)
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    Death

    “Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)

    Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)
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    Music & Arts, Humour & Satire

    Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)

    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
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    People, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

    The Pioneer ov Simplified Speling, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1912)
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    Communication

    The Pioneer ov Simplified Speling, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1912)

    A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
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    Customs & Culture

    A Traveler from Altruria (1894)

    Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Love & Lust

    Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)

    Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)
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    Animals & Beasts, Colonialism & the 'Other', Emotion & Expression

    Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)

    Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)
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    Love & Lust

    Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)

    Francis Bacon on Gardens (1902)
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    Natural World

    Francis Bacon on Gardens (1902)

    Is Man a Free Agent? The Law of Suggestion (1902)
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    Is Man a Free Agent? The Law of Suggestion (1902)

    The Dream-God, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep (1873)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Wisdom, Strange Phenomena, Drugs

    The Dream-God, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep (1873)

    George Wither’s Emblem Book (1635)
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    Wisdom

    George Wither’s Emblem Book (1635)

    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)