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

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (Ca. 650–1927)

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

Professor Megalow's Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian literature

Tom Seidmann-Freud's Book of Hare Stories (1924)

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908)

The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau's Trench Art (Ca. 1917)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

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)

Happy Public Domain Day

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