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    “On This Desolate Island”: *Sodomy Punish’d* (1726)
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    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Love & Lust

    “On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

    Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's *My Lady Nicotine* (1896)
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    Drugs, Humour & Satire

    Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
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    Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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    Stories, Death

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

    *Shores of the Polar Sea* (1878)
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    Travel & Exploration

    Shores of the Polar Sea (1878)

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
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    Love & Lust

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

    “A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: *A True and Wonderful Narrative* (1763)
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    Strange Phenomena, Politics

    “A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: A True and Wonderful Narrative (1763)

    Resurrection on Repeat: *Rules and Orders of the Humane Society* (1787)
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    Death, Science & Medicine, Technology

    Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

    *Odd Showers* (1870)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Strange Phenomena

    Odd Showers (1870)

    A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s *A Most Certaine and True Relation* (1639)
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    Science & Medicine

    A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s A Most Certaine and True Relation (1639)

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
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    Strange Phenomena

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

    The Story of Napoleon’s Death Mask (1915)
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    Death

    The Story of Napoleon’s Death Mask (1915)

    Twenty-eight Years of Co-partnership at Guise (1908)
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    Politics, Work

    Twenty-eight Years of Co-partnership at Guise (1908)

    John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)
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    Death, Crime & Law

    John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)

    First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
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    Science & Medicine

    First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

    The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)
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    Death, Crime & Law

    The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

    Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)
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    Travel & Exploration

    Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)

    The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883
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    The Future

    The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883

    Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
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    Communication

    Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons

    Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)
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    Travel & Exploration

    Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)

    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
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    People, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

    What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? (1863)
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    Politics

    What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? (1863)

    Airopaidia (1786) — the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion
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    Maps, Travel & Exploration, Technology

    Airopaidia (1786) — the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)