Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs which would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with wave and rip…more
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs which would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with wave and rip…more
Colourful compendium of 37 nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840….more
Compilation of some of the best conversational witticisms of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, and Lord Byron, and…more
The pages of this unique book have had pasted onto them a collection of cut out emblems featured in such juvenile literature….more
Encyclopaedic survey of sexual knowledge exploring topics ranging from spiritual love to wild love, traditional marriage to foot fetish, erotic painting to morning …more
A vision of the world hundred years in the future, in which societies have been transformed into Quakerly perfection….more
Wirt Sikes, US consul to Cardiff from 1876 to 1883, describes the mythology and traditions of Wales, a land steeped in folklore….more
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the book produced after the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft took her infant daughte…more
English translation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nachtstücke published in 1816, a collection of supernatural horror short stories including his classic The Sandman….more
Eccentric Victorian book arguing a strong case for the universal wearing of a beard – that essential symbol of manly distinction since ancient times….more
Twenty-two letters written by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) to bards, poets, and novelists from Homer to Rabelais to Austen….more
A collection of fifteenth-century erotica from the Middle East, translated with a lengthy opening essay by the anonymous English Bohemian….more
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