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Trade cards showing the comet of 1882 and a Puck cover for 1910 -The Heavenly Porter
General Winfield Scott is pictured as The Great War Comet of 1861 in this Vanity Fair illustration. An original 1557 page with hand-colored woodcuts from Lycosthenes’ rare Book of Omens and Portents. One of the most unusual and beautifully illustrated books of the Renaissance showing medieval superstition with a comet, plague, & a fireball. Lycosthenes [Conrad Wolffhart] Omens and Portents from Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon Basel, Switzerland, Henricpeteri, 1557.
Comet Postcards from 1910
A group of political cartoons and "Oh little one, if you were the Earth, I would be the comet".
