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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)

The Age of Impoliteness: *Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners* (1774 edition)
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The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

*Clear Shadows* (1867)
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Customs & Culture

Clear Shadows (1867)

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)
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Travel & Exploration, Customs & Culture

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

*Books Fatal to Their Authors* (1895)
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Death, Customs & Culture

Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895)

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)

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
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Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
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Customs & Culture

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

*A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
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Customs & Culture, Communication

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

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