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    “Plantscapes” from Kerner von Marilaun’s Pflanzenleben (1887)
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    Natural World

    “Plantscapes” from Kerner von Marilaun’s Pflanzenleben (1887)

    Flowers of the Sky
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    Astronomy & Space

    Flowers of the Sky

    The Art of Swimming (1587)
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    Sport & Exercise

    The Art of Swimming (1587)

    Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
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    Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)

    Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images
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    Music & Arts

    Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

    High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910)
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    Science & Medicine

    High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910)

    Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)
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    Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture, Technology

    Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

    Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)
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    Architecture

    Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)

    The Prophecy of the Popes (15th Century)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    The Prophecy of the Popes (15th Century)

    The Physiognomy of Hands (1917)
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    Science & Medicine, Emotion & Expression

    The Physiognomy of Hands (1917)

    Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000
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    The Future

    Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

    An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)
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    Design & Typography

    An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)

    Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript

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

    Life and Death Contrasted (ca. 1770)

    Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)

    Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance (1922)
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    People, Politics

    Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance (1922)

    Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library
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    Maps

    Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

    The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage
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    Love & Lust

    The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage

    The Tibetan Book of Proportions
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend, Geometry & Diagrams

    The Tibetan Book of Proportions

    Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)
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    Science & Medicine, People, Emotion & Expression

    Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)

    The Little Book of Love
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    Wisdom, Love & Lust

    The Little Book of Love

    Arent van Bolten’s Grotesques
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    Animals & Beasts

    Arent van Bolten’s Grotesques