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    Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Colonialism & the ‘Other’, Travel & Exploration

    Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

    Bernard Sleigh’s *Anciente Mappe of Fairyland* (ca. 1920 edition)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Maps, Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts, Travel & Exploration, Wisdom, Education

    Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

    Gilded Fish: Illustrations from *Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine* (1780)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

    Charles Butler’s *The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees* (1634 edition)
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    Animals & Beasts, Politics

    Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

    *Sea Monsters Unmasked* and *Sea Fables Explained* by Henry Lee (1883)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

    Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s *Katzensymphonie* (1868)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

    Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: *The Cameraman’s Revenge* (1912)
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    Animals & Beasts, Love & Lust, Technology

    Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
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    Animals & Beasts, Music & Arts, Natural World

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

    *The Mermaid “at Home!”* (1809)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World

    The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

    *Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times* (1926)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

    José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880�–1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena, Science & Medicine

    José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

    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)