Pandora's Boxes

Beware, once these Pandora's Boxes are opened, the contents come into their own lives and it requires a great deal to remove oneself from the borderline hysterical/ecstatic state of endless perusal (provided that you are also part of this group of bibliophiles, vintage aficionados, aesthetes with an addictive personality, and ardent devotees to all the artistic or visual delights).

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Flickr: The Commons
Mortimer Rare Book Exhibitions, at the Smith College Libraries & Collections
Staley+Wise Gallery: The Collection

Baika jô = The plum blossom album. (1808);
Artist: Okada, Baikan, 1773-1849

Ehon (Picture Books): The Artist and the Book in Japan
More than 1,000 images encompassing 1,200 years of Japanese book art, including Buddhist sutras, painted manuscripts, portraits, landscapes, calligraphic verse, and photographic books, with related drawings and woodblock prints. [From: NYPL Digital Gallery]

Smörkullen at Gullmarsberg at Gullmarsfjorden (Gullmar Fjord).
Smörkullen på Gullmarsberg vid Gullmarsfjorden.
Parish (socken): Skredsvik
Province (landskap): Bohuslän
Municipality (kommun): Uddevalla
County (län): Västra Götaland
Photograph by: Carl Curman/ Date: 1880s/ Format: Albumen print
Persistent URL; Read more about the photo database (in English)
From The Swedish National Heritage Board's photostream, at Flickr: The Commons.

View on the Tokaido beyond Odowara, Hakoni Mountains in the distance ([187-]).
Photographer: Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
From: Asia and the Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs, NYPL Digital Gallery.

Matsushima Inland Sea (Three View) (189-?)
From: Album of photographs of Japan, NYPL Digital Gallery.

Chrysanthemum (189-?)
From: Album of photographs of Japan, NYPL Digital Gallery.

A Forest (187-?-188-?)
From: Album of photographs of Japan, NYPL Digital Gallery.

[Habitus Foeminarum Sinensium.] (1667);
alternative name: China monumentis
Author: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
From: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qua sacris qua profanis,... [NYPL Digital Gallery]