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Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Russia from 1890 to 1907. The ...
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The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

  New York City's grid system is not an exact science. Streets are not equally ...
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The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

  I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published ...
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How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

How To Make A Peep Show And Other Ways To Dress Shop Windows (1899)

Illustrations from Nearly Three Hundred Ways To Dress Shop Windows by James Marriot, published in ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Strange Writing Ball

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Strange Writing Ball

When Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was in failing health he found reading and writing for longer ...
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Buy Prints Celestial Illustrations from Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy – 1849-1850

Celestial Illustrations from Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy – 1849-1850

A wonderful book to help us better understand heavens ...
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16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Writes To His Grandfather About Curing His Compulsive Masturbation At The Brothel

  Marcel Proust was an onanist of no little enthusiasm. His father thought that too much ...
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Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

Mardi Gras Floats of 1896: The Mystic Krewe of Comus’ Visions of Other Worlds

  In 1857, six New Orleans businessmen formed the city's first Mardi Gras krewe – ...
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Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

  In a box marked “private”, portrait photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944) ...
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Buy Prints Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Drawings ‘Representing The Most Interesting Celestial Objects and Phenomena’

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Drawings ‘Representing The Most Interesting Celestial Objects and Phenomena’

Étienne Trouvelot's astronomical illustrations is the wonder of 19th-century cosmic art ...
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Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames Of The States According To An Odd 1884 Map

Nicknames of the states according to a map produced in 1884 by livestock company H.W. ...
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At Home With The Satans: 3D Visions Of Hell (1875)

At Home With The Satans: 3D Visions Of Hell (1875)

In 1875 François Benjamin Lamiche and Adolphe Block presented their 3D interactive visions of what ...
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