Sex, Religion, and Politics: The Heterogeneous Library of John Bigelow

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  Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, Gentiluomo Fiorentino

  A book from 1745 in Italian printed by Stamperia all' insegna di Apollo in Firenze.
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  The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States

  A 1864 book published by JB Lippincott & Co. in Philadelphia.
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  The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

  A dual German-English translation from Frankfurt in 1868.
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  The Apocrypha: Greek and English, in Parallel Columns

  A dual Greek-English translation from S. Bagster and Sons in 1871.
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  Rhetorum Collegii Porcensis Inclytae Academiae Lovaniensis Orationes: In Tres Partes Secundum Tria Causarum Seu Orationum Genera Distributae

  From 1656, printed by J. Kalcoven in Cologne. In Latin.
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  The Gospel According to Matthew Translated into the Cherokee Language and Compared with the Translation of George Lowrey and David Brown

  Printed in Cherokee by John F. Wheeler in New Echota in 1832.
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  The Comprehensive Bible

  John Bigelow's personal bible with hand-written notes. Published by Samuel Bagster in 1827.
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  Side angle of the Bigelow library display case
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  Overhead right side of the Bigelow library display case
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  Far left side of the Bigelow library display case
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  Middle section of the Bigelow library display case
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  Saint Domingue: Manuscrit Curieux sur les Moeurs et les Usages des Colonies

  A circa 1700 hand-written manuscript detailing French colony slavery in Saint Domingue. Satin Domingue would gain independence from the French in 1804 and become what is now Haiti.
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  La Vie Mahomed Avec Des Reflexions sur la Religion Mahometane, & les Coutumes des Musulmans

  A 1731 book written in French published by Chez Pierre Humbert in Amsterdam.
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  The Sexes Here and Hereafter

  Published in 1869 by James Spires in London.
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  The Sayings of Poor Richard: The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin

  Published by the Knickerbocker Press in New York in 1890.
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  Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains: Illustrations of the Rise and Development of the Phallic Idea (Sex Worship) and its Embodiment in Works of Nature and Art

  Printed privately in London in 1889.
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  The Little Tea Book

  Printed in 1903 by The Crow Press in New York.
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  Phallism: A Description of the Worship of the Lingam-Yoni in Various Parts of the World, and in Different Ages: With an Account of Ancient & Modern Crosses Particularly of the Crux Ansata (or Handled Cross), and Other Symbols Connected with the Mysteries of Sex Worship

  Privately printed in London in 1892.
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  Maximiliano y Carlota al trono de México. Documentos relativos y narración del viaje de nuestros soberanos de Miramar á Veracruz y del recibimiento que se les hizo en este ultimo puerto y en las ciudades de Cordoba, Orizava, Puebla y Mexico

  Written in Spanish, this book from 1864 was printed by JM Andrade y F Escalante in Mexico.
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  The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen

  Printed in 1895 by Brentano's in Philadelphia.