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    Charles Butler’s *The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees* (1634 edition)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Politics

    Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

    *Sea Monsters Unmasked* and *Sea Fables Explained* by Henry Lee (1883)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

    *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)

    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)

    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)

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s *Millions of Cats* (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

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

    *The Comic Natural History of the Human Race* (1851)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

    Many-Colored Misdirection: *Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom* (1909)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

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

    *Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales* (1922)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)

    Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1857–1915)
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    Animals & Beasts, Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1857–1915)

    *Odd Showers* (1870)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Strange Phenomena

    Odd Showers (1870)

    William Baillie-Grohman’s *Sport in Art* (1913)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Sport & Exercise

    William Baillie-Grohman’s Sport in Art (1913)

    The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)
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    Animals & Beasts, Emotion & Expression

    The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)

    Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)

    Anecdotes of Animals (1905)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Anecdotes of Animals (1905)

    Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age

    Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)
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    Animals & Beasts, Politics, Humour & Satire

    Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
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    Animals & Beasts, Death

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

    Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)
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    Animals & Beasts, Colonialism & the 'Other', Emotion & Expression

    Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)

    Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848)

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

    Bird Gods (1898)

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

    The Hare of Inaba (1892)

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

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