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    Shells and other Marine Life from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (1734)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Shells and other Marine Life from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (1734)

    Bird Gods (1898)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Bird Gods (1898)

    Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats (1894)
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    Animals & Beasts, Sport & Exercise

    Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats (1894)

    The Hare of Inaba (1892)
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    Animals & Beasts, Politics, Religion, Myth & Legend

    The Hare of Inaba (1892)

    In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit
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    Animals & Beasts

    In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit

    The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog (1819)
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    Animals & Beasts

    The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog (1819)

    Photographs of a Falling Cat (1894)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Photographs of a Falling Cat (1894)

    The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

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

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

    Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

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

    Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)

    Mister Fox (1870)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Mister Fox (1870)

    The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler
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    Animals & Beasts, Landscapes, Natural World

    The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler

    Arent van Bolten’s Grotesques
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    Animals & Beasts

    Arent van Bolten’s Grotesques

    Rainbow-coloured Beasts from 15th-Century Book of Hours
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    Animals & Beasts

    Rainbow-coloured Beasts from 15th-Century Book of Hours

    Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)
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    Animals & Beasts, People, Humour & Satire

    Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)

    Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, People

    Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)

    Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)

    A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program
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    Animals & Beasts, People, Landscapes

    A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program

    The Belly of a Horse (1820)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    The Belly of a Horse (1820)

    The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)
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    Animals & Beasts

    The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)

    How I Killed the Tiger (1902)
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    Animals & Beasts, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    How I Killed the Tiger (1902)

    *The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents* (1658)
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    Animals & Beasts

    The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)