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    The Anatomy of Drunkenness (1834)
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    Science & Medicine

    The Anatomy of Drunkenness (1834)

    Flowers of the Sky
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    Astronomy & Space

    Flowers of the Sky

    The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)

    Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine
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    Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine

    The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

    The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)

    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

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)
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    Crime & Law

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

    Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)
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    Humour & Satire

    Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)

    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)

    A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)
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    Astronomy & Space, The Future

    A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)

    Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century
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    Communication

    Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century

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

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

    A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)
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    Science & Medicine, Death

    A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)

    Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa (1858)
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    Travel & Exploration

    Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa (1858)

    Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000
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    The Future

    Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

    The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)

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

    Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript

    Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)
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    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

    Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)

    Mister Fox (1870)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Mister Fox (1870)

    Sartorial Foresight: *Future Dictates of Fashion* (1893)
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    Fashion, The Future

    Sartorial Foresight: Future Dictates of Fashion (1893)

    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 Nitrous Oxide Experiments of Humphry Davy
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    Science & Medicine

    The Nitrous Oxide Experiments of Humphry Davy

    The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage
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    Love & Lust

    The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage

    The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)
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    Travel & Exploration

    The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)