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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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Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Tommy Titop is, to quote Stephen Ellcock, a ‘little thug who drowns kittens, pesters puppies and decimates the lesser creation; he gets his comeuppance in a series of dreams in which the roles of tormentor and tormented are reversed as in The World Upside Down.’ Tommy is the star or The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop, Published by Myra & Son, London, 1893. ...
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Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

"Colors are light’s suffering and joy" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
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