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  Aquinas: 'Summa theologica, pars prima'

  Image of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica, pars prima (1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata, Venice)

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  Aquinas: 'Summa theologica, pars prima'

  Image of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica, pars prima (1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata, Venice)

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  Aquinas: 'Summa theologica, pars prima'

  Image of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica, pars prima (1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata, Venice)

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  Aquinas: 'Summa theologica, pars prima'

  Image of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica, pars prima (1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata, Venice)

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  Austen: 'Pride and Prejudice'

  Image of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813; one of only five copies in the original boards)

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  Beethoven: 'Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67'

  Image of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (1809; first edition of full score)

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  Beethoven: 'Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67'

  Image of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (1809; first edition of full score)

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  Beethoven: 'Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67'

  Image of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (1809; first edition of full score)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'

  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)

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  Book of the Dead

  Image of the Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth By Day of the priestess Ta-er-pet (the Papyrus MacGregor) (late 1st century BC; 23 feet, 6 inches long, divided into nine sections; includes a unique chart of images depicting 75 protective amulets)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)

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  Chaucer: 'Canterbury Tales'

  Image of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (ca. 1492, London; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan)

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  Chaucer: 'Canterbury Tales'

  Image of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (ca. 1492, London; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan)

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  Chaucer: 'Canterbury Tales'

  Image of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (ca. 1492, London; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan)

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  Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'

  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)

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  Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'

  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)

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  Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'

  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)

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  Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'

  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)

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  Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'

  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'

  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)

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  Curie: 'Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances'

  Image of presentation copy of Marie Curie’s 1903 thesis, “Recherches sur les substances radioactives” (“Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances”)

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  Curie: 'Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances'

  Image of presentation copy of Marie Curie’s 1903 thesis, “Recherches sur les substances radioactives” (“Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances”)

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  Curie: 'Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances'

  Image of presentation copy of Marie Curie’s 1903 thesis, “Recherches sur les substances radioactives” (“Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances”)

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  Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'

  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)

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  Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'

  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)

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  Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'

  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)

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  Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'

  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)

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  Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'

  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)

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  Darwin: 'On the Origin of Species'

  Image of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859, London; first edition; presentation copy)

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  Darwin: 'On the Origin of Species'

  Image of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859, London; first edition; presentation copy)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'

  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)

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  Dostoevsky: 'Brothers Karamazov'

  Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Bratya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov) (1881, St. Petersburg; first edition)

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  Dostoevsky: 'Brothers Karamazov'

  Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Bratya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov) (1881, St. Petersburg; first edition)

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  Einstein: 'The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity'

  Image of Albert Einstein’s Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity) (1916; first edition; presentation issue).

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  Einstein: 'The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity'

  Image of Albert Einstein’s Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity) (1916; first edition; presentation issue).

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  Ellison: 'Invisible Man'

  Image of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952; first edition; presentation copy).

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  Ellison: 'Invisible Man'

  Image of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952; first edition; presentation copy).

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'

  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)

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  Frank: 'Het Achterhuis'

  Image of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl) (1947, Amsterdam; first edition in Dutch)

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  Frank: 'Het Achterhuis'

  Image of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl) (1947, Amsterdam; first edition in Dutch)

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  Frank: 'The Diary of a Young Girl'

  Image of Anne Frank’s Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1952, New York; first edition printed in the United States)

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  Freud: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'

  Image of Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) (1900, Leipzig; first edition; presentation copy)

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  Freud: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'

  Image of Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) (1900, Leipzig; first edition; presentation copy)

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  Freud: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'

  Image of Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) (1900, Leipzig; first edition; presentation copy)

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  Galileo: 'Starry Messenger'

  Image of Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (1610; one of only two known copies of earliest issue of the first edition)

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  Galileo: 'Starry Messenger'

  Image of Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (1610; one of only two known copies of earliest issue of the first edition)

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  Galileo: 'Starry Messenger'

  Image of Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (1610; one of only two known copies of earliest issue of the first edition)

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  Goethe: 'Faust'

  Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1790, Leipzig; first edition)

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  Goethe: 'Faust'

  Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1790, Leipzig; first edition)

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  Goethe: 'Faust'

  Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1790, Leipzig; first edition)

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  Hippocrates: 'The Hippocratic Corpus'

  Image of Hippocrates’s Octoginta volumina (The Hippocratic Corpus) (1525, Rome; first edition of the first complete Latin edition)

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  Hippocrates: 'The Hippocratic Corpus'

  Image of Hippocrates’s Octoginta volumina (The Hippocratic Corpus) (1525, Rome; first edition of the first complete Latin edition)

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  Homer: 'Works in Greek'

  Image of Homer’s Works in Greek (1488, Florence; editio princeps; bookplates of Labouchère and Duke of Sussex)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  Kepler: 'New Astronomy'

  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)

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  La Biblia (Spanish Bible)

  Image of La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible) (1569, Basel; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible)

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  La Biblia (Spanish Bible)

  Image of La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible) (1569, Basel; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible)

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  La Biblia (Spanish Bible)

  Image of La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible) (1569, Basel; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible)

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  La Biblia (Spanish Bible)

  Image of La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible) (1569, Basel; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'

  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)

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  Linnaeus: 'A General System of Nature'

  Image of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature) (1735, Leiden; first edition)

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  Linnaeus: 'A General System of Nature'

  Image of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature) (1735, Leiden; first edition)

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  Linnaeus: 'A General System of Nature'

  Image of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature) (1735, Leiden; first edition)

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  Linnaeus: 'A General System of Nature'

  Image of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature) (1735, Leiden; first edition)

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  Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life

  Image of the Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life (early 8th century, China; scroll from the Dunhuang caves; written in the Tibetan language)

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  Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life

  Image of the Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life (early 8th century, China; scroll from the Dunhuang caves; written in the Tibetan language)

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  Maimonides: 'The Guide of the Perplexed'

  Image of Moses Maimonides’s Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed) (ca. 1469, possibly Rome; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon)

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  Maimonides: 'The Guide of the Perplexed'

  Image of Moses Maimonides’s Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed) (ca. 1469, possibly Rome; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon)

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  Malcolm X: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'

  Image of the original typed draft of Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1963; written with Alex Haley)

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  Malcolm X: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'

  Image of the original typed draft of Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1963; written with Alex Haley)

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  Marx: 'Das Kapital'

  Image of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) (1867, Hamburg; volume 1, first edition).

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'

  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)

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  Newton: 'Opticks'

  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)

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  Newton: 'Opticks'

  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)

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  Newton: 'Opticks'

  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)

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  Newton: 'Opticks'

  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)

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  Newton: 'Opticks'

  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)

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  O'Connor: 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

  Image of Flannery O'Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find (ca. 1955; first edition)

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  O'Connor: 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

  Image of Flannery O'Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find (ca. 1955; first edition)

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  Pascal: 'Pensées'

  Image of Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (1670, Paris; first edition)

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  Pascal: 'Pensées'

  Image of Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (1670, Paris; first edition)

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  Pascal: 'Pensées'

  Image of Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (1670, Paris; first edition)

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  Polyglot Bible: Psalter

  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)

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  Polyglot Bible: Psalter

  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)

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  Polyglot Bible: Psalter

  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)

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  Polyglot Bible: Psalter

  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)

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  Polyglot Bible: Psalter

  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'

  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)

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  Qur'an

  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)

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  Qur'an

  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)

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  Qur'an

  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)

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  Qur'an

  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)

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  Qur'an

  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)

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  Remarque: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

  Image of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (first edition, 1929)

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  Remarque: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

  Image of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (corrected galley proofs in author’s hand, 1928)

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  Remarque: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

  Image of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (corrected galley proofs in author’s hand, 1928)

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  Remarque: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

  Image of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (first edition, 1929)

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  Shakespeare: 'Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies'

  Image of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1632; Second Folio)

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  Shakespeare: 'Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies'

  Image of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1632; Second Folio)

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  Shakespeare: 'Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies'

  Image of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1632; Second Folio)

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  Shakespeare: 'Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies'

  Image of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1632; Second Folio)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'

  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)

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  Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first British edition, 1884; first American edition, 1885)

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  Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first American edition, 1885)

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  Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first British edition, 1884)

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  Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first British edition, 1884; first American edition, 1885)

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  Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first British edition, 1884; first American edition, 1885)

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  Wheatley: 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'

  Image of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773, London; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead)

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  Wheatley: 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'

  Image of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773, London; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead)

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  Wollstonecraft: 'A Vindication on the Rights of Woman'

  Image of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792; first edition; original publisher boards)

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  Wollstonecraft: 'A Vindication on the Rights of Woman'

  Image of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792; first edition; original publisher boards)

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  Wollstonecraft: 'A Vindication on the Rights of Woman'

  Image of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792; first edition; original publisher boards)

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  Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own'

  Image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929; first trade edition; presentation copy)

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  Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own'

  Image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929; first trade edition; presentation copy)

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  Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own'

  Image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929; first trade edition; presentation copy)

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  Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own'

  Image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929; first trade edition; presentation copy)

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  Zevach Pesach

  Image of a Zevach Pesach (1505, Constantinople; first edition of Abrabanel's commentary; earliest obtainable edition)

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  Zevach Pesach

  Image of a Zevach Pesach (1505, Constantinople; first edition of Abrabanel's commentary; earliest obtainable edition)