Optical Toys (1833, 1893)
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Two sets of optical illusion discs: eleven “Phenakistoscope” discs from McLean’s Optical Illusions, by Thomas McLean (London, 1833), and four “Zoopraxiscope” discs by Eadweard Muybridge (San Francisco, 1893).
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Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
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| Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum (original title: Atalanta Fugiens), by Michael Maier. Frankfurt: George Heinrich Oehrling, 1617. |
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The Great Barrier Reef (1893)
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The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: its products and potentialities, by W. Saville-Kent. London: W.H. Allen, 1893.
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Cephalopods of Naples (1896)
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I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica): monografia, by Giuseppe Jatta. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1896.
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Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts (1858)
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Fac-similes of the miniatures & ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish manuscripts, by John Obadiah Westwood and William Robert Tymms. London: B. Quaritch, 1858.
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Scottish Tartans (1900)
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The Scottish clans and their tartans. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, ca. 1900.
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Dell’elixir vitae (1624)
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Dell’elixir vit&230; (Elixir of Life), by Fra Donato d’Eremita di Rocca d’Evandro dell’Ordine di San Domenico. Napoli: Secondino Roncagliolo, 1624.
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Indian Ferns (1887)
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Album of Indian ferns, by C.E. Baynes. London: William Day, 1887.
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Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
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Kunstformen der Natur, by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel. Leipzig & Vienna; Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904.