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Dr. Stephen Maturin, physician to the Duke of Clarence, was incongruously a ship’s surgeon in the Royal Navy, as well as a classicist and a naturalist, a secret agent, and a member of the Royal Society. His groundbreaking work on sailors’ diseases…

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US Navy bell-bottom fall-front trousers with the required thirteen buttons. Traditional Army leggings (puttees) with awkward lacing.

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Professor Fremont’s area of study is war. Her book concerns the role of clothing, especially badly designed clothing, in getting men killed on the battlefield. It can be anything from the red coats of the Redcoats to the trouser fly buttons of the…

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John Drinkwater explores the relationship between house architecture and the realm of Faërie. The house he builds for his wife has many different facades, each serving as a customer model. Thus the house’s interior is architected in surprising ways,…

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Astrological chart with pari-mutuel wagering tickets, all of which presumably represent successful bets for the unknown owner of the booklet.

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This 1928 booklet, apparently published by a race-course, attempted to prove that the order of finish in a race can be determined by calculating the influence of the planets on the colors of the jockey’s silks, typically understood as:

Aries: …

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Being an account of the studies of the Lifemanship and the Lifewomanship of the Garden and the Gardening Life.

Includes:
By the Garden Balk
The Uses of Harrowing
The Geranium Gambit
Trowel-upmanship
Winning the Winter Garden
The…

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Whiffle’s fine work on the care of the pig has been a standard work for so many years that it has become an institution. In addition to the universally valued advice on porcine nutrition, housing, and medication, this book has famously provided a…

Used as a sales sample when seeking commissions for a woodstove from the Monetti company.

...e penso a quel poltrone d’un vecchio caminetto ingannatore
che vive in ozio come un gran signor!
La Bohème – Act 1

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This is the book that Rodolfo [in La Bohème] has promised to edit for his uncle’s business in return for enough money to live on while working on the book, plus one hundred crowns on completion, with an advance of fifty francs. The chapters on…
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