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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)

    Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s *Peruvian Art in the School* (1926)
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    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

    Charles Davy’s *Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing* (1772)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

    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)

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

    Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s *Plain Home Talk* (1896 edition)
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    Customs & Culture, Science & Medicine, Wisdom

    Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

    *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)

    Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s *Twelve Proverbs* (1558)
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    Wisdom, Customs & Culture

    Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)

    Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s *Nanook of the North* (1922)
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    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

    Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Fashion

    Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)

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

    Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

    Happy Together: *The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales* (1921)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s *391* Review (1917–1924)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
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    Customs & Culture

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

    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)

    Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s *Briefe and True Report* (1590)
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    Customs & Culture, Colonialism & the 'Other', Travel & Exploration

    Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

    *Antiquities of Mexico* (1831–48)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

    *The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity* (1901 edition)
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    Customs & Culture, Love & Lust

    The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

    “On This Desolate Island”: *Sodomy Punish’d* (1726)
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    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Love & Lust

    “On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

    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)

    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
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    Architecture, Customs & Culture, Landscapes, People

    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

    *Flemish Proverbs* by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)
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    Wisdom, Customs & Culture

    Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)