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Twentieth-century French artist’s books from the staggering Koopman Collection: …more

“Specimen portrait banners” from Julian Montague‘s installation Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed: …more
1968 Romanian Labor safety posters, courtesy of graphicfront.ro: …more

Illustrations by Aazarnoush Ebraahemiroushan for The Star of Manners and Letters (Iran, 1986). …more

Psychedelic art by teenage drug patients in 1970s West Germany: …more

Josef Váchal‘s illustrations for poems by Otokar Březina: …more

Diagrams and illustrations by Tom Lewis for the CRM textbooks Life and Health (1972) and Developmental Psychology Today (1971): …more

Illustrations by Rudolf Mates for A Forest Story by Josef Kozisek (Czechoslovakia, 1929): …more

Cover graphics from a book flea market in Lviv, Ukraine, courtesy of Ali at kuriosas: …more

Jean-Michel Folon’s illustrations of “L’acte reflexe et l’acte volontaire” (Le Livre de Sante, v.8, 1967): …more

Images from the artist book À mes yeux distendus by Chloé Poizat: …more

Selections from A Handful of Surprises by Anne Heathers and Estéban Frances (1961) …more

Illustrations by BEN for a satirical adaptation of Don Quixote, published in Le Rire (France, 1939): …more

Works for children by the Czech artist Josef Lada (1887 – 1957): …more

All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967): …more

A group of Flemish woodcuts from De Moderne Vlaamse Houtsnijkunst (1927), via F.A. Bernett Books (the book has now sold, unfortunately not to me): …more

Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Katya in Toy City, 1973: …more

Illustrations by Jan Kubicek for Broukalo si deset brouků by Oldřich Syrovátka (1974, Prague): …more

Illustrations by Nell Witters for Minnie, the Little Fish Who Lived in a Shoe by Ethel Clere Chamberlin (1931): …more

Illustrations by Gennady Yepifanov (Г. Епифанова) for Pushkin’s Queen of Spades, 1966: …more