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"Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis" is a spell book published by Johann Scheible in 1849.

Maurice Sendak’s Little-Known and Lovely Posters Celebrating Books and the Joy of Reading.

"Panem et circenses" ("Bread and circuses", "Pan y circo")
Map of Spain and Portugal, L. Lancaster, 19th century.

Political Cartoon of John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism, grabbing land on every continent, 1888.

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Edward Henry Сorbould, Scene from Goethe's Faust, 1852.

The Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs & Anecdotes of Remarkable & Eccentric Persons in All Ages & Countries,1788

"Englishmen in November, Frenchmen in November". Thomas Rowlandson, 1788.
Metropolitan Museum of Art

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” ― Harold Howe.
📷Andy Bagley.

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) Swedish novelist who in 1909 became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posts the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.