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    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Sport & Exercise

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

    George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)

    A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s *Les Pigeons* (1811)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

    Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Food

    Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

    Alfred G. Mayer’s *On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies* (1897)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

    Anton Seder’s *The Animal in Decorative Art* (1896)
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    Animals & Beasts, Design & Typography

    Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s *Book of Were-Wolves* (1865)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Ghosts & Occult

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

    A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

    A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

    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)

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s *Book of Monsters* (1914)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)

    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

    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)

    Tom Seidmann-Freud’s *Book of Hare Stories* (1924)
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    Animals & Beasts, Stories, Wisdom

    Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

    Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
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    Animals & Beasts, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s *Millions of Cats* (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

    As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in *Steamboat Willie* (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)

    The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's *Collection of Various Clothing Styles* (1562)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Fashion, Travel & Exploration

    The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

    Charles H. Bennett’s *Shadows* (ca. 1856)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

    “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)

    *The Comic Natural History of the Human Race* (1851)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)