NEW ESSAY — Dobrota Pucherová on René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences (1783), the first Slovak novel, partially banned upon publication and translated into English for the first time this year — https://t.co/g2pEEcEh7B

Page from The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog (1819). More here: https://t.co/TNoqBZSK56

Image from an 18th-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the #Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. More here: https://t.co/DpbsWNSm4H

Illuminations by Evrard d'Espinque for a circa 1480 French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' 13th-century De Proprietatibus Rerum. More marvellous maps from the manuscript here: https://t.co/d4hoiYJRHs

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://t.co/i6JTyrcxgS

“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀ ⠀ From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — https://t.co/h9B6uKqC9U https://t.co/qC5t6CNuyk

Sowing Man, a 1927 engraving by Dutch artist Bernard Essers. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://t.co/P4S1N46hE8

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869) — three essays by John Davenport (1789–1877) on phallicism, anaphrodisia, and various forms of love potion: https://t.co/X7rLmnglon

The Sorceress by Jan van de Velde II (1626). A young sorceress mid-conjure with a motley crew of demonic “familiars”, one of which is sporting two pipes from his bum, both streaming with powders in elegant arcs: https://t.co/qOXWy97p15

Title page to children's book by Sarah Josepha Hale, the US poet of "Mary had a Little Lamb" fame. Read it here: https://t.co/OXsxvnOLs6

One of a set of three mushroom illustrations on our online shop: https://t.co/u9bZjkkYcx From M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des champignons: comestibles, suspects et vénéneux (1827): https://t.co/lkSWs3ojum

The American Librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to “the library of the future” in 1983, where the librarians wear slippers and a “little car” delivers books to your desk. Dreams might still come true... https://t.co/woscP1S3kj

#SundayReads: @kirstamb on the 19th-century Swiss artist Gottfried Mind, who was labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, but also the “The Raphael of Cats” due to his profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form: https://t.co/B2W1n4SxGv #cats

Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://t.co/YhZgNGsWsH #otd

Before we're even passed the title page of this 1825 manual on astrology and the occult, we encounter an instance of the dark arts at work — this second edition has been cunningly labelled the “seventh” to make it look like a runaway success: https://t.co/O1mFTYQDo0

.@miriamkp on what led a 1920s Brooklyn surgeon to remove the veins from a day-old infant, mount them on a board, and film them being pumped with air: https://t.co/iIjd2SjOAx

Listen to a series of recordings made by the ethnographer James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself — https://t.co/WAl4XvJjnE

Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: https://t.co/4PAYS1zS2q

Replace these “wireless telegraphs” with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision of "isolating technology" from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be from today: https://t.co/8rz2gRp2fX

A man stares out over the fertile olive groves of Gaza, ca. 1911. One of 125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919, we gathered from the collections of @librarycongress and others: https://t.co/cbrVuX2sL1

A small pamphlet (in the Roycroft series “Little journeys to the homes of great musicians”) on the life of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, who was born #onthisday in 1813. Read it here: https://t.co/SoiitAbK7h #otd