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    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

    Anthropomorphic Maps of Europe at War (1870/1914)
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    Politics, Maps, War

    Anthropomorphic Maps of Europe at War (1870/1914)

    Selection from Wellcome Library’s release of 100k openly licensed images
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    Science & Medicine

    Selection from Wellcome Library’s release of 100k openly licensed images

    Scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain (1788)
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    Politics

    Scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain (1788)

    Rainbow-coloured Beasts from 15th-Century Book of Hours
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    Animals & Beasts

    Rainbow-coloured Beasts from 15th-Century Book of Hours

    The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million
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    The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million

    Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)
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    Animals & Beasts, People, Humour & Satire

    Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)

    Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)
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    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

    Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, People

    Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)