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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Neẓāmī: Khamseh illustration
Gutenberg Bible
Title page for Regiomontanus's Calendarium (1476).
Two-page spread from the Aldine Press's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499).
Two-page spread from Geoffroy Tory's Book of Hours (1531).
Black-and-white print of an engraved trading card by Robert Clee, 18th century.
Two-page spread from Jean de La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers (1762), printed by Joseph Gerard Barbou and illustrated by Charles Eisen.
Two-page spread from Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, a book containing three works by Virgil, printed by Pierre l'aîné Didot, 1798.
Poster for the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, 1854.
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