Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

queries

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

“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

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

Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

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

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

Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

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

George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Indian Sign Talk (1893)

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

Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)