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    A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
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    Astronomy & Space, Science & Medicine, Death, Natural World, Wisdom

    A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

    The Cat’s *Maew*: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Wisdom

    The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

    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)

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

    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)

    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)

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

    Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: *A Book of Sundial Mottoes* (1903)
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    Death, Design & Typography, Wisdom

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

    *Shy Guy* (1947)
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    Customs & Culture, Wisdom

    Shy Guy (1947)

    *Dool-Hoff*: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
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    Wisdom, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

    A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)
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    Ghosts & Occult, Wisdom

    A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)

    Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems
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    Wisdom

    Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems

    First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
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    First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

    Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
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    Science & Medicine, Religion, Myth & Legend, Wisdom

    Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

    Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)
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    Animals & Beasts, Wisdom

    Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

    Micromégas by Voltaire (1752)
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    Wisdom, Astronomy & Space, The Future

    Micromégas by Voltaire (1752)

    The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)
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    The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)

    Illustrations from an Italian Book of Proverbs (1718)
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    Illustrations from an Italian Book of Proverbs (1718)

    The Athenian Oracle (1820)
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    The Athenian Oracle (1820)

    The Dream-God, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep (1873)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Wisdom, Strange Phenomena, Drugs

    The Dream-God, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep (1873)

    17 Numbered Lists from History
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    Wisdom, Humour & Satire

    17 Numbered Lists from History

    A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)
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    Wisdom, Humour & Satire

    A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)

    Life and Death Contrasted (ca. 1770)
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    Wisdom, Death

    Life and Death Contrasted (ca. 1770)

    The Little Book of Love
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    Wisdom, Love & Lust

    The Little Book of Love

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