From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham's "Indications of Spring" (1789)

The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: Or, a Treatise on Politeness (1774 Edition)

The substantiality of spirit: Georgiana Houghton's pictures from the other side

Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn's Java-Album (1854)

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective

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

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot's Arctic Photographs (Ca. 1881)

Clear Shadows (1867)

The Early History of the Channel Tunnel

Books fatal to their authors (1895)

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The First Costume Book: 1562

Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes

The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures

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

Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

Cliché-Verre and Friendship in 19th-Century France

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

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

Behold the Nebulous Smear: al-Sūfī's Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Origins

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

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

Marked by Stars – Agrippa's Occult Philosophy

Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

Pantographia: 1799 specimen book of all the known alphabets

Charles H. Bennett's Shadows (ca. 1856)

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860)

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