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    True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s *Thirty Years a Detective* (1884)
    Books / 
    Crime & Law

    True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

    Karel Čapek’s *Letters from England* (1925)
    Books / 
    Travel & Exploration

    Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)

    *Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs* (1869)
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    Love & Lust, Science & Medicine

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s *Book of Were-Wolves* (1865)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Ghosts & Occult

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

    “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s *Impending Revolution* (1872)
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    Politics, People

    “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)

    Edwin D. Babbitt’s *Principles of Light and Color* (1878)
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    Science & Medicine

    Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

    Luigi Cornaro’s *Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life* (1722 edition)
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    Food, Science & Medicine

    Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)

    *The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity* (1901 edition)
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    Customs & Culture, Love & Lust

    The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

    “A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s *The Learned Maid* (1659)
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    Politics

    “A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
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    Communication

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

    “On This Desolate Island”: *Sodomy Punish’d* (1726)
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    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Love & Lust

    “On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

    Mayday, Mayday: *Capital and Labor* (1907)
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    Politics, Work

    Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

    Edith Wharton’s *Italian Villas and their Gardens* (1904)
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    Landscapes, Design & Typography

    Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

    The Age of Impoliteness: *Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners* (1774 edition)
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    Customs & Culture

    The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

    *Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
    Books / 
    Communication

    Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

    *A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

    George Washington Williams’ *History of the Negro Race in America* (1882–83)
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    Customs & Culture, War

    George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
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    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
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    Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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    Stories, Death

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

    *Indian Sign Talk* (1893)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    Indian Sign Talk (1893)

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: *A Book of Sundial Mottoes* (1903)
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    Death, Design & Typography, Wisdom

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)