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Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)

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True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography (2015)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani's Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855)

"Here I Gather All the Friends" Machiavelli and Emergence of the Private Study

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Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards

Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585)

A Man and the Crowd (1928)

A Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (Ca. 1869)

Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity (1901 Edition)

Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)

Diagraming sentences in the 19th century

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech

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