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A copy of an autograph Joseph Addison letter, listed for sale in the Maggs Brother’s catalog of 1931:

Wondering what to do with your holiday time this year? Wonder no more!

All right, yes, it is for the summer and it is from 1908 but some of it probably still applies!

From a late nineteenth century catalog offering “articles à l’usage spécial des pharmaciens”:

Looking for something seasonal for this week, I put in ‘turkey’ and found this beautifully illustrated guide to The costume of Turkey. Not what I had in mind, certainly, but probably even better!

From Arnold Lang’s 1896 Text-book of comparative anatomy:

Front page of an 1899 edition of Gazette des hôpitaux civils et militaires de l’Empire Ottoman:

Check out The second edition of the Scotch doctor. To which is added, a wonderful relation of De Franco’s ghost. With a Full account of what pass’d between the Apparition and the said Doctor, on Sunday last at Two in the Morning from 1720:

The title page from the first of four volumes of the Recopilacion de leyes de los reynos de las Indias, republished in 1973.

The cover of the October 26, 1935 issue of Chemist and Druggist.

Plate I from S L MacGregor Mathers’s 1889 edition of The Key of Solomon.