May 1, 2012
I can’t figure out what happened here. Guesses? Ostensibly, the front cover of Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Inquiries Into Very Many Received Tenants, and Commonly Presumed Truths by Sir Thomas Browne (1658). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.

I can’t figure out what happened here. Guesses?

Ostensibly, the front cover of Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Inquiries Into Very Many Received Tenants, and Commonly Presumed Truths by Sir Thomas Browne (1658). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.

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August 12, 2011
Image of front cover, heavily filtered (?). From p.531 of The Works of Lord Byron, pt.12 by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1843).  [Here] Note: If you want to hazard a guess as to how this image was produced (or what it is an image of), by all means, do. —kcw

Image of front cover, heavily filtered (?).

From p.531 of The Works of Lord Byron, pt.12 by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1843).  [Here]

Note: If you want to hazard a guess as to how this image was produced (or what it is an image of), by all means, do. —kcw

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