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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

illustrations for Amédée Guillemin's encyclopedia make science beautiful ...
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Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for the ‘Little Napoleon of Showmanship’ Billy Rose’s Autobiography

Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for the ‘Little Napoleon of Showmanship’ Billy Rose’s Autobiography

Billy Rose was huge. He was the go-to-guy. He was a hustler, a mover, the man who got things done. He bought the Ziegfeld Follies, ran a string of hip nightclubs. He was at the heart of the action. ...
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Incredible Illustrations From ‘Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (1936)

Incredible Illustrations From ‘Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (1936)

Highlights from Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (Electrical Protection in 132 Pictures) by Viennese physician Stefan Jellinek (1878-1968) ...
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24 Great Photos From ‘Physical Training for Business Men’ (1917)

24 Great Photos From ‘Physical Training for Business Men’ (1917)

Writer H. Irving Hancock's keep fit regime will cure your physical slovenliness and transform you into a success ...
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Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ...
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The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : A Book of 15th Century Sex Scenes

The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : A Book of 15th Century Sex Scenes

Pictorial highlights from bawdy tales from the court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ...
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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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Adolf Hoffmeister’s Fantastic Illustrations for Around The World In Eighty Days

Adolf Hoffmeister’s Fantastic Illustrations for Around The World In Eighty Days

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real” - Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days ...
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Poems of the Pillow :  An Illustrated Book of Erotic Sex (1788)

Poems of the Pillow : An Illustrated Book of Erotic Sex (1788)

Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro's 12 illustrations of sexually explicit shunga pictures published in 1788 ...
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Illustrations from A 1000-Year-Old Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants

Illustrations from A 1000-Year-Old Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants

The entire 1000-year-old Cotton MS Vitellius C III is now online - featuring extraordinary illustrations of plants with descriptions of ailments the plant can be used to treat, where they can be found and how to prepare the medicine. ...
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Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Illustrations of full-length masked and elaborate costumed figures from a riotous German parade ...
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Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano is a forerunner of later Renaissance artist-engineers like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Leonardo da Vinci ...
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