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‘An Experience of Wasted Energies and Baffled Thoughts’: A Study Of Insanity (1870)

‘An Experience of Wasted Energies and Baffled Thoughts’: A Study Of Insanity (1870)

  On the Writing of the Insane - "An experience of wasted energies and baffled thoughts" ...
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The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819), written by "a ...
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The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a ...
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Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

In A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart - Exhibiting its internal communications, and the ...
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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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