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    The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's *Collection of Various Clothing Styles* (1562)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Fashion, Travel & Exploration

    The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s *Christmas Garland* (1912)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
    Images / 
    War, Geometry & Diagrams

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

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

    *Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
    Books / 
    Language

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

    *A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Language, Victorian

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

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

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

    *Specimens of Fancy Turning* (1869)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

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

    The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

    My Body is a ~~Temple~~ Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s *Ma’aseh Tuviyah* (1708)
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    Architecture, Science & Medicine

    My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

    Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of *Utsuro-bune*
    Images / 
    The 'Other', Technology, Strange Phenomena

    Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
    Film / 
    Emotion and Expression, The Arts

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Classical World

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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    Customs & Culture, The Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    *Punctuation Personified* (1824)
    Books / 
    Design & Typography, Language

    Punctuation Personified (1824)

    *Shy Guy* (1947)
    Film / 
    Customs & Culture, Wisdom

    Shy Guy (1947)

    *Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth* (1833)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine

    Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

    Blights of the Bookish: *An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons* (1768)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine, Work

    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)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

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

    “March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)
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    Humour & Satire, Politics, Technology

    “March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

    Law and Ordure: *Scatalogic Rites of All Nations* (1891)
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    Customs & Culture, Food, Religion, Myth & Legend

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